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
Cleaning closet and old files, and here emerges a pamphlet with text on Basil’s art by Fielding Dawson, written twenty-five years ago. The pamphlet accompanied “Paintings from the Cards,” an exhibition of Basil King’s work at Steve Clay’s first New York … Read More
First, take your time. A large painting hangs dead center in the first room of this exhibit. Dimensions aren’t given on the wall sign, but the press kit lists 67” x 96”. This painting is central and all the … Read More
I’m one of 29 contributors to Wreckage of Reason II subtitled “Back to the Drawing Board.” (I appear in the original 2008 volume as well.) The editors say these stories “use different style and genres … to illustrate moments … Read More
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!
Prose Pros is me and Elinor Nauen. We’ve been presenting monthly prose readings for seven years! Our two readers for February are Jenny Allen (New Yorker columnist) and Nancy Giles (CBS-TV columnist). A first for us: both writers have outstanding … Read More
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
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