Nicholas Bono Kennedy has captured a mood in Dinner Party (While the World Burns), on view at Hashimoto Contemporary. There is the overwhelming contemporality of it; the idea of living your life, or arranging a gathering in an attempt to foster kinship and joy in a time when the world’s dynamics are imploding. There is also something quite personal about being anxious, having anxiety of getting something right but also to host and perform for others. In his quiet and highly intricate still-lifes, Kennedy is letting us into his life as many of us are thinking of retreating.