Good evening, My thanks to the Andy Warhol Foundation for my selecting me as a Finalist for their Arts Writers Award out of 500 they said they considered across all the Arts. It’s one of the most prestigious awards in Art writing. While I wasn’t one of the 27 winners, after eight years and 4 […]
This site is Free & Ad-Free! If you find this piece worthwhile, please donate via PayPal to support it & independent Art writing. You can also support it by buying Art & books! Details at the end. Thank you. Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava (*- unless otherwise credited) “What becomes a legend?” someone used […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava. In honor of its 7th Anniversary, July 15, 2022, I decided to take a look back at Year Seven of NighthawkNYC.com, my most challenging year yet. During Year 7- -The galleries that survived (alongside the countless galleries, stores, restaurants and businesses that didn’t) reopened, with restrictions, after the covid […]
Written, and with a Photograph, by Kenn Sava I’ll never forget the first time I heard Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” in full effect. I was with a date on the (uncharacteristically) not-packed-for-a-moment dance floor of the legendary NYC club, Area, in 1991 when its opening guitar chords were suddenly overwhelmed by Dave Grohl’s drums […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava Three years in to my “deep dive” into the world of Modern & Contemporary Photography and PhotoBooks, I find myself at a crossroads. I’ve seen thousands of books, hundreds of Photography shows. I’ve answered most of the questions I had going into this exploration about Photography and its place […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava (except *) MoMA and I go a long way back. It’ll be 40 years next year. I first went to The Museum of Modern Art in 1980 for their incomparable Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective that took over the whole museum. I was on the road with a band at the […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava (*with Photos and Video by Josh Kern) Shyness is an affliction that affects millions- around 7% of the U.S. population. For those who’ve dealt with it, it can, at times, feel like you’re living in a glass box while life in the world goes on outside. But, shyness isn’t […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava (*except as credited) Another day. Another chance to look at PhotoBooks, to see life, and the world, through someone else’s eyes, to learn something and just maybe have a revelation. I look at A LOT of PhotoBooks (and Art Books). Nary a day passes that I don’t see one/some […]