In honor of Gordon Matta-Clark's birthday, let's look back at his artwork Day's End (1975) and how this piece inspired artist David Hammons to create a public art installation outside the Whitney. Opened to the public in 2021, Hammons's Day's End reflects the exact location and dimensions of the Pier 52 shed used in Matta-Clark's intervention. Check out the full video here: https://youtu.be/uecdwXKuUco — Video: SandenWolff. Artwork © 2021 David Hammons | Whitney Museum of American Art

Exceptional Works: Gordon Matta-Clark is now live: zwrnr.art/EWGMC23 This Exceptional Work features the artist’s Splitting (1974). Splitting represents one of Matta-Clark’s most well-known “building cuts,” in which the artist, along with several friends, laboriously sliced open an abandoned 2-story house that was slated for demolition in Englewood, New Jersey. “Matta-Clark … evolved into a kind of urban land artist who used his skills to reshape and transform architecture into an art of structur