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A video explores the destruction of Yankee Stadium, "The Cathedral of Baseball" built in 1923. The original stadium stands in the shadows of the new one, built in 2009 directly across the street. The controversial move was waged by the Steinbrenners and two New York Mayors, the new stadium described by residents and critics as an expensive "luxury" mall with corporate box seating attached. Inside the Bronx neighborhood are close up scenes of the collapsing upper decks, walls, and escalator towers, and ensuing reactions of the Bronx residents and fans. Shadow stadium records and reflects on the end of one era, and the beginning of another.

STEVEN DAY (born 1965 in Newport Beach, California) is a New York based artist who's paintings, photographs and video explore architecture and how people inhabit urban landscapes. Since his participation of the Emergency Room exhibition at PS1/MoMA in 2007, his artwork explores the boundaries between his own studio practice and the production of mass media imagery. Day received his MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1994. He was awarded the Sigma Delta Chi (SPJ) Award for photography in 2010, and the Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant or Film and Photography in 2009.