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) A BookMarks Special. A reader writes, […]
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 Part 2 of my look at Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure also […]
This site is Free & Ad-Free! If you find this piece worthwhile, please donate to support it & independent Art writing. Thank you. Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava Show Seen- William Klein: YES @ ICP William Klein, who passed away at 94 on September 10th, was a big name for so long, creating legendary and […]
Louise Bourgeois: Paintings is now over. If you missed it, this is one of the few places you can still see a bit of it. If you appreciate that, please donate to support it. Thank you. Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava Show Seen: Louise Bourgeois: Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art In spite […]
A Message From Kenn Sava… I started NighthawkNYC.com on July 15, 2015 to bring more attention to Artists, Art & books that I feel more people should know about, and to share my passion for it all with people all over the world. I’m gratified that readership has grown continuously these past 7 years. Frankly, […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava (*unless otherwise credited) “I can hear the nation cry You will set the world babe You will set the world on fire You will set it on fire”* The late David Bowie was, along with everything else he was, a passionate Art collector. As far as I know, he […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava (except *) Art in NYC, 2021, Part 1- Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Or is it Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg? Who came first? Mr. Johns said, Mr. Rauschenberg “was the first person I knew who was a real artist (i.e. a working artist)1.” At the time, Jasper Johns […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava After seeing innumerable shows of Art that doesn’t speak to me, seemingly from out of the blue, comes a John Chamberlain show that feels like a pipe cleaner going from ear to ear, right through my brain. It’s happened three times thus far, actually. First, in 2012, when John […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava Almost every piece I read on Robert Frank begins the same way. Take the 14,999 word obituary The New York Times published after Mr. Frank passed away at 94 on September 9th, 2019 for example. The body of their piece begins- “Robert Frank, one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century…” […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava There is, sadly, no shortage of brilliant younger masters who left us far before their time. The tragedy endures but their Art prevails, and in the end, assumes a life of its own. In Contemporary Art, perhaps no one known to me seemed to do more as an Artist, […]