Charles Gaines, Airplane Crash Clock, investigates the cultural fascination with disasters every 7.5 minutes. It is currently on view in our Collection galleries. "The American Manifest: Moving Chains goes on view Oct. 15. Set on the waterfront esplanade, the 100-foot-long, walk-through steel structure clad in wood is topped by massive motor-operated steel chains... a balsa-wood model city with a toy airplane set up to dive at intervals into the piece, where a rotating panel would reveal a crash scene. The work was jolting. As a “kinetic sculpture,” he said, it was a precursor to Moving Chains" - Siddhartha Mitter, “On Governors Island, a Machine That Jolts History,” for The New York Times (@nytimes) We are open Thursday through Sunday from 10 AM - 4 PM. Follow the link in our bio to reserve your tickets today. [#CharlesGaines, Airplane Crash Clock, 1997/2007. mixed media and electronics, approximately 9 x 13 x 5 ft. #MCASDCollection Photography: @pablosnaps1]