Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons
One of the most important American artists today.
The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons
The Melt Goes on Forever chronicles the singular career of the elusive African-American art star David Hammons from Watts rebellion era ’60s L.A. to global art world prominence today. Hammons’ category-defying practice – rooted in a deep critique of American society and the elite art world – is in the words of one art critic “an invitation to confront the fissures between races.”
Genre
Documentary,
Art & Artists,
African-American Experience
Web Site
Runtime
101
Language
English
Director
Harold Crooks,
Judd Tully
Producer
Judd Tully
Writer(s)
Harold Crooks
FEATURED REVIEW
Wesley Morris, The New York Times
The title feels crucial to the aim of this movie, a sly, toasty, piquant consideration of Hammons’s conceptual art, the way it mocks and eludes easy ownership. Which is to say: the way his art is aware of — the way it’s often about — the stakes for Black people navigating the straits of the market.
Played at
Monica Film Center 6.02.23 - 6.08.23
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