The elusive Hammons, now 79, is sometimes called the Thomas Pynchon of the art world.
The documentary, by Judd Tully (a contributor to The Art Newspaper) and Harold Crooks, surveys Hammons’s artmaking over six decades, with appearances and disappearances of works of art, but mostly disappearances by the artist himself.
The film ends with the legacy today of one such snowball. A woman who thought she was helping a homeless man bought one and put it in her freezer in Queens. The snowballs were objects in a performance.
The new documentary The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art and Times of David Hammons begins with a memory of Hammons selling snowballs on the pavement outside the Cooper Union in the winter of 1983.
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