Trove in the studio
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
NEWS: Far from the Centers of Ambition
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
NEWS: Screenings of “Basil King:MIRAGE”
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
NEWS: New Haven Screening
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: “Basil King: MIRAGE” to play in New Haven
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
Old Fence, New Fence
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
A Book Cover Brag
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
Death and the Green Man
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