Around Day’s End: Downtown New York, 1970–1986 Exhibition Graphics
Anticipating the completion of David Hammons’s Day’s End, a major public artwork located in Hudson River Park, the Whitney presented a selection of works from the Museum’s collection that explored downtown New York as site, history, and memory. Central to this presentation is Gordon Matta-Clark’s Day’s End, the innovative project that inspired Hammons’s sculpture. On view from September 3—November 1, 2020, the exhibition’s graphics played with notions of influence and provocation by allowing the title and subtitle to indent into the introductory text as that text continues to flow around it. Photograph by Ron Amstutz. From left to right: David Hammons, Day’s End, 2014; Gordon Matta-Clark, Day’s End, 1975.
