Jean-Michel Basquiat, At 62

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 Show Seen: Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure King Pleasure is now a […]

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now You See It. Now You Can’t.

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 […]

Jean-Michel Basquiat, At 59

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 […]

Jean-Michel Basquiat At The Brant Foundation

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 […]

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now’s The Time

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, […]

NoteWorthy PhotoBooks, 2023: Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well

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 […]

Van Gogh’s Cypresses: Art From Hell

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) This new decade promptly brought with […]

NoteWorthy Art Books, 2023

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 Art books were one of my first passions. I was […]

NighthawkNYC.com Is 8! A Look Back…

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. As the world continued to emerge from the horrors of […]

Kenn Sava’s Desert Island Art Books

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, […]