On Kawara Date Painting hat

On Kawara (1932–2014) was a Japanese conceptual artist who lived in New York City from 1965 until his death. His art typically involves marking time through de-aestheticized rituals and durational, performative works that collapse distinctions between art and labour—a primary example of the administrative or bureaucratic tendencies common to first-generation conceptualism.

Kawara's long series of "Date paintings" (the Today series) consist entirely of the date on which the painting was executed in simple white lettering set against a solid background. The date is always documented in the language and grammatical conventions of the country in which the painting is executed.

He did not create a painting every day, but some days he made two, even three. The paintings were produced meticulously over the course of many hours according to a series of steps that never varied. If a painting was not finished by midnight, he destroyed it. The quasi-mechanical element of his routine makes the production of each painting an exercise in meditation.

This hat bears a date for which Kawara was not able to complete a painting: the day of his death, July 10, 2014.

• 100% organic cotton
• Fabric weight: 8 oz/yd² (271 g/m²)
• 3/1 twill
• Unstructured
• 6 panel
• Matching sewn eyelets
• Self-fabric adjustable closure with a brass slider and hidden tuck-in
• OCS (Organic Content Standard) and GRS (Global Recycled Standard) certified
• Blank product sourced from China

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