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David Hammons, Pray for America, 1969

“I feel it is my moral obligation as a black artist to try to graphically document what I feel socially,” David Hammons said in 1969, one year before he made this haunting double self-portrait which appears in 'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,' copublished by D.A.P. and @tate as well as on the cover of 'The Soul of a Nation Reader,' published by @gregoryrmiller ⁠ ⁠ Titled “Black First, America Second” (1970), this body print and silkscreen on paper presents one version of the self that “clings to the stars of the national flag,” according to 'Soul of a Nation' originating curators Mark Godfrey and Zoé Whitley, “while the other self appears almost painfully cleaved by its stripes… [It] is an image both timely and resolutely of its time.” ⁠ ⁠ #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #davidhammons #blackfirstamericasecond @vampirefriendly @markgodfrey1973 #soulofanationreader #soulofanation @zoe.whitley⁠ #blackpower #blackart https://www.instagram.com/p/Co2sldMpjqJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#tbt Forty years ago this month, our #MessagesToThePublic series brought David Hammons to @timessquarenyc. Four years later, we would work with the artist again to present his iconic "Higher Goals” @cadmanplazapark. 📷 "Messages to the Public," July 1982. Courtesy Jane Dickson. @janeinpeepland "Higher Goals," 1986. Photos by Pinkney Herbert and Jennifer Secor #DavidHammons https://www.instagram.com/p/CftyjKwOnUe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

In this Harlem barbershop performance, #DavidHammons created his Rock Head series of sculpture. Hammons glued hair swept from a Harlem barbershop floor to boulders found in Harlem - which were then given a haircut by the same barber. Photocopy print of the artist's artwork. Private New York collection; acquired directly from the artist. / via @swanngalleries https://www.instagram.com/p/CeRywY4Nwrr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

https://publicdelivery.org/david-hammons-snowball/

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/96094

David Hammons, Pissed Off, 1981 (2 of 4 archival pigment prints by Dawoud Bey, printed 2019, documenting David Hammons’ performance)

#dream and #reality #nba #basketball #davidhammons (à Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQoXuLerPEs/?utm_medium=tumblr