Please note a few key program changes: the film begins promptly at 5:15. The reading of King’s writings at 3:20 will feature Joe Elliot, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, Martha King, Mitch Highfill and Michael Mann. The basic plan is unchanged: “Basil’s Arc – The … Read More
Downstairs in the Metropolitan’s very modern Lehman donut there is a fascinating exhibition of early Egyptian art. It traces what scholars currently deduce about the evolution of that art as revealed by “predynastic” finds from 4,400 BC (roughly six thousand … Read More
The Friends of Basil King will present “Basil’s Arc – The Paintings and Poetics of Basil King” at Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue at Second Street, New York City, on Saturday, September 22, 2012, from 12 noon to 6 … Read More
Keith Haring (American, 1958–1990) Untitled, 1982. Sumi ink on paper. 107 x 208 in. (271.8 x 528.3 cm) Collection Keith Haring Foundation. © Keith Haring Foundation The Keith Haring show now up at The Brooklyn Museum seems almost exclusively to be … Read More
Oh Arcimboldo, who brings portraits of George Bellows, Hubert Selby, Charles Darwin, Gustave Courbet, Joan Mitchell, Agnes Martin, D.H. Lawrence, David Hockney, Edward Hopper, Fielding Dawson, Gene Swenson,Amiri Baraka, Eva Hesse, Nicholas Poussin, and Norman Rockwell out into view, one following after … Read More
Six circles of his work at the Guggenheim. On those damned tilted floors, and those whimjammy alcoves courting vertigo! Still another occasion to curse Frank Lloyd Wright, who hated any art but architecture. Or really to despise the Guggenheims for … Read More
The movie making upended us both more than we expected. Like moving studio or household to a new place…many old corners get excavated. It’s supposed to be cleansing – a chance to toss out detritus – and it is until … Read More
Poet Kimberly Lyons initiated this idea—and the whole is now a project of Kim’s small press, Lunar Chandelier. Here’s the official announcement: Lunar Chandelier Press is proud to present Basil’s Arc on September 22, 2012, in New York City – … Read More