Written by Kenn Sava. Photographs by Harry Gruyaert. Harry Gruyaert is a mystery to me. I wonder…HOW does he get such miraculous, beautifully atmospheric Photographs, over and over, again? It doesn’t matter what time of day, or night it is. What the weather is, or even what’s going on. And, he’s been doing it for going […]
“‘History,’ Stephen said, ‘is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.’” James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 2. A typewriter sits almost alone on the floor of a gallery on the Guggenheim Museum’s 5th floor. I stood opposite it for a few minutes over multiple visits, considering the installation of this gallery and watching other […]
Special Exhibitions have become a welcome part of The Photography Show/AIPAD, and 2018 proved no different. Particularly innovative was “All Power: Legacies of the Black Panther Party,” a show inspired by the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party branch in Seattle, Washington, terrifically curated by Michelle Dunn-Marsh, Executive Director of Photographic […]
“MIRANDA: O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in’t! PROSPERO: ‘Tis new to thee.” (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 5, Scene 1) The International world of Chinese Art is a dichotomy, it seems to me. On the one hand you have record […]
“I am a traveler of both time and space To be where I have been And sit with elders of the gentle race This world has seldom seen Who talk of days for which they sit and wait When all will be revealed”* In all the years I’ve been going to MoMA, which pre-dates the […]
On October 6th the NYC Art world was permanently changed with the opening of the monumental “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World” at the Guggenheim. Filling all 6 floors of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Rotunda and spilling over into two of the side galleries, it was as close to encyclopedic as any show […]
Tim was a miraculous being. “I’m Blessed,” he always replied when I asked him how he was. Indeed, he was. Certainly, now, too. Rarely in Art History, if ever, has there been an Artist who gave of himself so completely to his students that he put their names on the work they created and considered […]
It was a year of discovery. A year where I discovered some great Artists I previously hadn’t known, finally caught up with some I knew about but hadn’t gotten to see much of their work, and got lost exploring some remarkable Retrospectives- for Raymond Pettibon and Robert Rauschenberg, both accompanied by memorable satellite shows. Most of […]
A few weeks back, I walked across West 22nd Street after visiting Gary Hume’s show, “Mum” at Matthew Marks, lost in the whirlwind of emotions, past and present, it elicited, barely cognizant of the traffic, weather, or time. Luckily, Thanksgiving week in NYC tends to be on the quiet side. As I crossed the street, […]
Written & Photographed by Kenn Sava (*-unless otherwise credited) While I’ve spent much of this year exploring the world of Photography, my focus has largely been on the period beginning with Robert Frank’s universally revered book The Americans, 1958. Most of those I’ve encountered work in fairly “traditional” realms- “Find a subject and shoot it.” […]