I took a job on the Oakland waterfront, working for a dingy clothing-import business called Regal Apparel.
Waterfront works are the specialty of George Trakas, a veteran land art practitioner who also created a dock on the Hudson for Dia:Beacon.
It's time for our nation's ports to go back to using America's first line of defense: the longshore workers who understand how the waterfront works and are the first to see when something is amiss.
But the ILWU frets that if data-processing replaces waterfront clerical work, it will lose control of it and, eventually, lose power.The dockers are facing a challenge common to many other American unions.
Dundee Waterfront said work will begin on the £45m V&A Museum, the new £14m Dundee Railway Station and the £30m Riverside flats development.
Gifford pretended not to notice industrial plants and quarries on the hills, although his own painting career depended on financing from the waterfront iron works in Hudson, N.Y., belonging to his father, Elihu and built on rocks at the foot of Mount Merino.
Olympic Sculpture Park | A "beautiful public outdoor park along the waterfront with works by some of my favorite artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Richard Serra, Claes Oldenburg, Ellsworth Kelly, Louise Nevelson and Alexander Calder".
Despite reports of its passage, the working waterfront is actually still working, if not exactly thriving, these days, and its populace - in Hawaiian shirts, khakis, high heels and patterned summer dresses - came out to celebrate the life of one of its own while, at the same time, putting to rest the exaggerated rumors of its demise.
"So you've got a working waterfront where the only work it's doing is entertaining people.
Admittedly, Davis works an exceedingly narrow waterfront; yet she works it well, with a spirited intensity that belies the essentially pointillist nature of her art.
