Kennedy, Randy: - Randy Kennedy is an American writer. Born in Texas, he moved to New York City in 1991 and worked for twenty-five years as a staff member and writer for The New York Times, first as a city reporter and for many years covering the art world. For The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine he has written about many of the most prominent artists of the last 50 years, including John Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg, Nan Goldin, and Isa Genzken. A collection of his city columns, Subwayland: Adventures in the World Beneath New York, was published in 2004, and his first novel, Presidio, was published in August 2018. He is currently director of special projects for the international art gallery Hauser & Wirth. He lives in Brooklyn.