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Higher Goals. In the 1980s, Hammons' work became grander in scale and more public; often including large installations, sculpture, and street performances or actions. Working in the context of the urban and social landscape, Higher Goals continued Hammons' exploration of racially charged symbols, but brought the work into the urban environment.
- American
- July 24, 1943
- Springfield, Illinois
Higher Goals (1986) by Hammons, David Public Art Fund. In a labor-intensive process, Hammons nailed more than 10,000 bottle caps onto the surface of each pole to create distinctive diamond,...
Dec 2, 2019 · “Higher Goals,” a basketball net at the top of a fifty-five-foot pole that was decorated with hundreds of bottle caps, went up on an empty lot in Harlem in 1983.
MAKE IT FUNNY: THE ART OF DAVID HAMMONS. By Manthia Diawara. DAVID HAMMONS’ ART PROVOKES EXTREME REACTIONS. Some consider him a genius, a high priest of postmodernism; others dismiss him as arrogant and overrated, even a charlatan. Hammons himself is notorious for trapping people into hating him.
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May 25, 2021 · Hammons has culled hair from Harlem barbershops for use in a number of works, and for one of his most famous pieces, Higher Goals (1986), he nailed bottle caps to Harlem basketball hoops too...
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THE MELT GOES ON FOREVER chronicles the singular career of the elusive African-American art star David Hammon... IN THEATERS MAY 5. ON AMAZON & APPLE TV July 4.
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Jan 28, 2024 · Hammons has created a number of important public art installations throughout his career, including Higher Goals, How Do Ya Like Me Now?, and Day’s End. Higher Goals was created in 1986, and installed in Cadman Plaza Park in Brooklyn.
