Seton Melvin serves as the director of the brain donor program at Mount Sinai Hospital. A lover of art, Seton Melvin is a member of the Director’s Council of the Whitney Museum.
The Whitney Museum has partnered with the Hudson River Park Trust to create a permanent public art project that will be placed in Hudson River Park. The project will feature David Hammons’ “Day’s End,” which is inspired by the 1975 artwork of Gordon Matta-Clark.
Day’s End will be an open structure that offers a place for exploring the waterfront. The artwork will be affixed to the south shore of the Gansevoort Peninsula and will extend over the water. The artwork’s evanescent and ethereal effects will change because of the time of day and weather conditions.
Hammons’ artwork is expected to be opened to the public by the fall of 2020. As opening day approaches, the Whitney Museum will present an exhibition related to Matta-Clark’s project called “Around Day’s End: Downtown New York, 1970-1986.” The Whitney Museum will also produce interpretive materials, podcast series, and videos that will explore the history of the waterfront before the opening of Day’s End.
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