October 10, 2013: A train from London to Canterbury where Elaine Randall and Ian Rose met us, stashed our heavy bags in their car, and took us over (in the rain) to The Good Shed –a marvelous combo of farmer’s … 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
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
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
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