Kim Lyons has organized a small group of poets as “Friends of Basil King” to do something to focus some attention on King’s extraordinary output of visual art. They in turn have gathered some 20 others willing to serve as … Read More
Yes, it’s January 9, 2012. Show’s over. Now begin – deKooning’s women get him out of the closet but do you notice that these violent creatures all sit, sit quite still. They don’t move head, hand or leg. Eyes and … Read More
Two web publications in one month from what may someday be my memoir book … long in progress. Memoir is a tricky calling at best.All memory is fiction, remade in the moment of the cognitive process, and much fiction the … Read More
Was it only this past summer that Andrei Codrescu was wondering where on earth are the people who object? Why isn’t anyone out on street, carrying a sign, why isn’t anyone saying anything? It’s about three months since then. That’s … Read More
Eva Hesse: 1936–1970 Her life time. The paintings currently on view at Brooklyn Museum – from now until January 6 – were done in just part of one year. They are the last paintings she ever made. She then went … Read More
There are a few of Basil’s baseball paintings on the Art page, main website. “Pastorale” turns up in several of his poems… In the late 1970s, when Basil’s studio was on Hudson Avenue just up from the Con Edison plant … Read More
Basil’s collection of 22 Learning to Draw sections is available now from Skylight Press. More comments to come, for sure!