October 9: Images from our first day London – A rest before readings, talks, and screening of “Basil King:MIRAGE” to come in Canterbury and at Kent University on the 10th and 11th. A rest we thought, in a modest chain … Read More
In the studio: canvases await sizing…coat after coat. The way work is done. And on a work table, these: I wouldn’t call it “cleaning up” the studio…Baz would never. But he was rearranging things with an eye to … Read More
Writings about Black Mountain College and it’s influence– from both Martha and Basil King– are included in a book-length tribute to Black Mountain College, Far From the Centers of Ambition, edited by Lee Ann Brown, and just published by Lorimer … Read More
Two free and online. One not! 2013 – “Seventy Years Ago in the South”- Big Bridge 17 – 2013 – “True Stories from Lynchburg,” – Blaze Vox, Spring “A Wedding” in print in Skidrow Penthouse magazine, 2013 (To order, for … Read More
Screenings of the film, scheduled to date: October 10, 2013: Kent University, Canterbury, UK October 17, 2013: Sussex University, Brighton, UK October 22, 2013: Oxford Brookes School of Arts, Oxford University, Oxford, UK January 9, 2014: Asheville Museum, Asheville, NC … Read More
Two words: quiet and intense. Martha read from memoir about moving to New York in 1957—and finding a place where Baz could paint and they could live for $50 a month. Down at the bottom of Manhattan Island, a block … Read More
NEWS: June 19, 2013. Mark Lamoureux and Rachel Chatalbash are hosting a screening of the film, “Basil King: MIRAGE” and the video of the conversation between Basil and George Quasha, “Art is Not Natural,” at 7:30 PM in their … Read More
The old fence was OLD. At least 35 years old…put up by Bob Wulbricht, a student of Baz’s from Thomas Jefferson College back in the late 1970s. Lanky, thoughtful, introverted Bob…printmaker, painter. Bob most of all loved his dog. But … Read More