Saturday, January 5, 2008

Beauty as an acceptable aesthetic criterion

Morning Traffic, Midtown, Manhattan 2000 Michael Kenna

Gallery Hopper is back (taunting those of us not in or near New York) with a January Gallery crawl. I appreciate the opportunity for a virtual crawl.

Robert Mann Gallery is showing 39 pieces of new work by Michael Kenna. The site carries a review by William Meyers of The New York Sun that begins, "Michael Kenna takes beautiful photographs; this is not meant pejoratively. " I love that. I also love that none of the pieces is greater than 9.25 inches on the longest side. Small beautiful photographs? What a rebel.

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