Focus on this artwork and analyze the Reception.
Upon its unveiling in 2021, Critic Holland Cotter of The New York Times called the work "an immortalizing homage to Gordon Matta-Clark and art history" and suggested that it was "roomy enough to accommodate all the brilliant fragments of an incomparable career". At the same time, Kathleen Langjahr, writing for The Architect's Newspaper, said that Day's End failed to "live up to the impossible hopes of a previous generation". She also remained skeptical of the public character of the artwork saying that the installation, similarly to the neighboring Little Island at Pier 55, was "pitched as a 'gift' from the city’s wealthiest, for which we are expected to be grateful". In a review for Artforum, Peter L'Official recalled the rich queer history of Pier 52, once a prominent cruising site for gay men in the 1970s. He drew attention to the compelling connection between this storied location and Alvin Baltrop's evocative photographs, which capture the homosexual encounters of that era.
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