Yankee Hanger

by Mark Handforth

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Governors Island - Governors Island - Liggett Terrace

Com­mis­sioned in 2013 as part of the project, Side­walk Island, Mark Hand­forth’s Yan­kee Hang­er is sit­ed a short walk from Yan­kee Pier in Liggett Ter­race. This play­ful, snaking sculp­ture invites vis­i­tors to sit on, walk through, and engage with it as it wist­ful­ly tow­ers above the landscape.

Gov­er­nors Island Arts presents its pro­gram with the vision­ary sup­port of the Ford Foun­da­tion, as well the Mel­lon Foun­da­tion, the Cha­ri­na Endow­ment Fund, Don­ald R. Mullen Fam­i­ly Foun­da­tion, Stavros Niar­chos Foun­da­tion, Bloomberg Phil­an­thropies, The Gottes­man Fund, Don­ald A. Pels Char­i­ta­ble Trust, the Nation­al Endow­ment for the Arts, and the New York State Coun­cil on the Arts with the sup­port of the Office of the Gov­er­nor and the New York State Legislature.