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: Recent Martha King prose available!
Two free and online. One not! 2013 – “Seventy Years Ago in the South”- Big Bridge 17 – 2013 – “True Stories from Lynchburg,” – Blaze Vox, Spring “A Wedding” in print in Skidrow Penthouse magazine, 2013 (To order, for … 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
BUGS! make a plate remarkable
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
A Recognition: David Rattray
Eileen Myles, along with Robert Dewhurst and the people at Leo Koenig Gallery, presented “A Recognition” for David Rattray at the Koenig Gallery and the Poetry Project. On the 20th anniversary of David’s death (at age 57). An occasion to … Read More