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
On behalf of the Friends of Basil King I’ve been researching the covers Basil King has done for poetry books, since 1959. Here is 2013. Burt Kimmelman’s book, Gradually the World, is not yet officially released – there will be a book … Read More
Why? Why? It’s always about choice unless it’s about obedience to a command, but that simply shifts the origin of the question over to another person. Why is this image chosen? Those three birds? The broken barrel (is it?)? … Read More
He used to be in my grandmother Aggie’s dining room. He sat in the dark on a heavy mahogany sideboard. There was enough light for me to see holes that lead inside. They frightened me, or he did. He was … Read More
Basil is looking for the Green Man across the globe…being of the opinion that our interfaces with nature are irritants across many cultures. Irritants that make oysters create pearls. Irritants that are never solved. Being of the opinion that no … Read More
Basil’s diptych “A Predella for the Green Man” (mixed media on two canvas panels, together measuring 42 inches high by 12 feet long) is complete. Process and progress from July 2012 to January 2013 was documented in photos by Sanjay … Read More
Filmmaker and poet Julian Semilian screened the film for his students in experimental film at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem). (The school’s ‘movie street’ is seen above.) He sent these comments: I can … Read More
The screening is this Friday, November 9, at 8:00pm, in the first festival showing of Nicole and Miles’ wonderful documentary. For folks near Beverly, Massachusetts, check out the details here: http://www.beverlyfilmfest.com/ The film has been entered in a number of … Read More