Day’s End New York Performances

On view at Whitney Exhibitions, *David Hammons: Day’s End* places a key stretch of the artist’s New York– and Los Angeles–based practice from the 1970s and 1980s inside a museum frame. Hammons is known for working with street materials, found objects, and the social codes that travel with them. Here, that era reads less like a sealed chapter and more like an argument about who gets represented in institutions. In New York, where Hammons’s work has long circulated through public space and rumor, the Whitney setting gives the work a different kind of pressure and visibility.