David Hammons signed this stick and gave it to Belgian curator/museum director Jan Hoet. Hoet’s family is selling it, on the claim that it represents both Hammons’ quasi-mystical African American tradition of making art from found objects, but also that it embodies Hammons’ and Hoet’s deep, longlasting friendship. It is one of at least three artworks Hoet got from Hammons, who he included in documenta in 1992.
image: David Hammons, Head Warmer, 1998, a 1-meter long stick, titled and signed, selling at Christie’s in Dec. 2024, tho this image is from an unsuccessful sale at Phillips in 2023.
In 2012 Francis Cape made an exhibition, Utopian Benches, of the benches made and used by utopian communities in the US since the 18th century. After carefully documenting the benches, he fabricated them in poplar hewed from near his upstate NY workshop. We Sit Together: Utopian Benches from The Shakers to The Separatists of Zoar illustrates each bench and explains its creation and use by its community.
images: Utopian Benches, 2012, installed at Arcadia University; the cover of We Sit Together, photographed by Andrew Russeth, who called it, “one of the great art books of this century.”
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