David Hammons: Bliz-Aard Ball Sale Civil & Human Rights her two dads

her two dads

Now only their bones remain

the choices they made

first appearing in the nineteenth century

as unrestrained as the appetites

David Hammons: Bliz-Aard Ball Sale Civil & Human Rights her two dadsDrawing on unpublished documents and oral histories, an illustrated examination of an iconic artwork of an artist who has made a lifework of tactical evasion. One wintry day in 1983, alongside other street sellers in the East Village, David Hammons peddled snowballs of various sizes. He had neatly laid them out in graduated rows and spent the day acting as obliging salesman. He called the evanescent and unannounced street action Bliz aard Ball Sale,