With an artist so famous and an output so immense (his name now towers over 5th Avenue in a new collaboration with Uniqlo and Warhol), KAWS has been quite interested in giving his work space to breathe. His installations, especially in recent years, has given his version of POP a lot of room to be walked around, considered, understood and, at times, re-imagined. I’ve been lucky to interview KAWS and understand that he’s thinking about what iconography does to us, but also, how to situate pop-culture into new contexts to test what it is we thought of fine art in the first place. KAWS: TIME OFF at the Parrish Art Museum, timed with his wife, Julia Chiang’s own show at the museum, is about giving his icons a chance to be considered together, with space to wander in-between and around each sculpture and to see his paintings come to life in a sparse environment. —Evan Pricco
