More new art from Baz

   The Birds Arrive, which started November/December 2013 and is  continuing…There are now 24 images. All © Basil King, 2013-14. Pigeons in Delacroix’s Garden!   Nine of ten new works on paper, from this spring.  All © Basil King, 2014. A new … Read More

Basil’s Brain

Because Basil’s right-side weakness is getting worse, I persuaded him to see a neurologist. His first neurology visit since teenage episodes of seizures that stopped well before he went to Black Mountain in the 50s. And well before there even … Read More

Wall of Birds

Pushing spring, despite all! There are now twenty-one views of pigeons in Delacroix’s Garden in Basil King’s studio.  Winter-spring 2013-2014. Visit     http://www.flickr.com/photos/67642740@N08/sets/72157639449256424/ He’s now moving on to a new series “Visiting Delacroix’s Garden” with…images to come. Enjoy!

Comments on Amiri Baraka

  Above, Amiri and Baz at the Poetry Project, February 17, 2013.  Below, LeRoi and Baz and Gil Sorrentino,  May,  1963, excerpt from Learning to Draw, A History, Basil King, Skylight Press, 2011: It was crowded in McSorley’s. All the bartenders … Read More

The Pigeons of Winter 2013

Baz has been moving across and back from abstract to figures again. There will be pigeon paintings on canvas this winter. For a look at numbers 1 to 8, copy this link into your browser: http://www.flickr.com/photos/67642740@N08/sets/72157639449256424/show/with/11782313344/ These eight are all … Read More

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