Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava A strange year in Art in NYC ended a few weeks ago. A year that saw one of Manhattan’s “Big 5” museums (MoMA) close for four months, including the entire summer, while it remodeled, then reopen to mixed reviews (mine among them), while another one (The Whitney) faced an Artist […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava “I bring together the materials I find around me. I gather them to try and create immersive experiences that occupy rooms, that occupy walls, landscapes, buildings, but ultimately I want them to occupy memory.” Sarah Sze, TED Talk. In the 4 1/2 years of NHNYC I’ve never yet called […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava (except *) Part 3 of a series… In January, 1983, Henry Geldzahler asked Jean-Michel Basquiat- “Is there anger in your work now? He replied, “It’s about 80% anger1.” The Brant Foundation’s Jean-Michel Basquiat was the largest show of the five going on in NYC this year featuring the work […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava This is Part 2 of my series on the five Jean-Michel Basquiat related shows going on in NYC in 2019. Part 1 is below, or here. Jean-Michel Basquiat, the first exhibition at The Brant Foundation’s new East Village location is a NoteWorthy show because it is a major, museum-quality […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava (except *) Part 1 of a series. It’s hard to believe that not even 40 years have passed since Jean-Michel Basquiat burst upon the Art scene, (after his career as part of the legendary graffiti duo SAMO©), when the month long The Times Square Show opened 39 years ago on June 1, […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava (except *) Note- Robert Frank has been mentioned in many of my pieces over the past 3 years of my “deep-dive” into Modern & Contemporary Photography, a realm that he had a seminal role in creating with the publication of The Americans. When the sad news came that he had […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava. Works by Fred Cray Photographed by Fred Cray. Maybe this has happened to you? There you are, minding your own business, possibly looking through a book in a bookstore. And all of a sudden, you see this- “What’s this Photo doing in here? Is this part of the book? Did […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava (*unless otherwise credited) “So you should always have a product that’s not just ‘you.’ An actress should count up her plays and movies and a model should count up her photographs and a writer should count up his words and an artist should count up his pictures so you […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava Fame is a fickle thing. It finds some accidentally, it’s unwanted by others who receive it, heaped ad nauseam on a select few while the rest of the world asks “Huh?” And, it eludes still others that the quality of their work would say deserves greater attention. I’m sure […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava (*unless otherwise credited) When Jack Whitten left us, far too soon, this past January 20th, his hard earned, long-time-coming place among the most important and innovative Painters of his time was assured. This was most recently brought home for me in Spring, 2017 with the excellent Jack Whitten at Hauser & […]