The music was lively and pleasant, but, frankly, it went right past me.
He was seated wearing a cap and playing a mandolin with a group, the “East River String Band,” who’s blonde singer and one of the musicians I immediately recognized from covers R. Crumb on left-handed mandolin(!), appropriately on the far left, performing with the East River String Band, at the Opening, David Zwirner Gallery, West 19th Street, January 12, 2017. As I made my way through the gallery to the rear, large room. While I was walking the streets of Chelsea to the opening of this show, admittedly with Crumb on my mind, I found it quite hard not to see his influence in the work of a number of shows I passed by Artists who’s work has nothing to do with comics or graphic novels and even in the flared pants snd chunky shoes women seem fond of these days. While Crumb’s work remains under-appreciated by the Fine Art world, in my opinion 1, his influence has barely begun to be seriously considered 2.Īrriving, I walked in to a good sized crowd…and live music. The late Art Critic Robert Hughes called him “the Brueghel of our time.” Even that lofty observation barely scratches the surface of R. Over the years, his work has begun to be more fully appreciated beyond the world of Comics. Bursting on the world’s awareness like a supernova in 1967, when he was there are the genesis ( sorry) of what would come to be called “Underground Comics,” a genre of which he soon became the de-facto figurehead of, and, for many, it’s most important Artist. Crumb’s work occupies a unique place somewhere between what’s been traditionally the so-called “low-brow” world of comics and “Fine Art,” that’s been hard won. Adapted from The New Yorker’s Macover called “Opening Night.” I couldn’t resist. My Apologies to Artist Carter Goodrich, and the great editor Francoise Mouly (a friend of R. The Nighthawk At The Opening (Artist’s conception, cause I generally don’t attend them). I’m not one to attend Art Openings unless an Artist I’m interested in is making an appearance. In fact, If I’m not careful, this will become a Photography Blog very soon!) and have a look see, anyway. I tried in vain to find out if he would be appearing at the opening for the show co-starring his wife of FORTY YEARS (in 2018), Aline Kominsky-Crumb, “Drawn Together,” on January 12, then decided to take a chance and swing by David Zwirner Gallery (most recently the scene of “ William Eggleston- The Democratic Forest,” which pretty much turned my entire life upside down, launching my free-fall into a bottomless pit of research into Contemporary Photography. The chance to see the Artist himself, rarer still. Unfortunately, the chances to see a number of original works by R. Of course, his work predates that by a further 35 years, and today I still find all of it compelling. (This is, also, my NoteWorthy Show for January, 2017.) Remember The Light- On The Passing of Wayne ShorterĬategories Categories Terms, Privacy & Copyright Information.NoteWorthy Art Books- Rod Penner: Paintings, 1987-2022.Edward Hopper’s Impressions of New York.Edward Hopper: The Last Traditionalist Faces Change.*-from "Deacon Blues" by Steely Dan's Donald Fagen & Walter Becker, published by Universal Music Publishing Group Search NighthawkNYC Here- Search for: Recent Posts And, be sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on anything you'll wake up tomorrow and wish you hadn't. "Sensations that stagger the mind."*īut? I'm not going to stop there, so hold on to your stool, and let's see what the night brings.
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Anyway.Art and Music are my twin passions, and have been for a very long time. I named this site NighthawkNYC in homage to Hopper’s immortal Painting, and that figure that no one ever talks about. As much as any work of Art I've ever seen is. Well, that figure, sitting with his back to us is. I felt like I was standing next to my soul. Here, I’m standing in front of the REAL Nighthawks, Edward Hopper's Timeless Masterpiece from 1942, at the "old" Whitney Museum during the Hopper Drawing Show in 2013. Welcome to my site. Here I am as you'll find me most times- out somewhere in NYC, listening to Music and looking at Art. Good evening! I'm Kenn Sava, the Denizen of.
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