Considering Art Podcast: Basil King painter and poet
Bob Chaundy host of Considering Art Podcast interviews Basil King
https://consideringart.com/2024/10/14/considering-art-podcast-basil-king-painter-and-poet/… Read More
Basil King, Russian Novel 2023 Drawing Series: In a new Video
May 2024: Don Yorty sets King’s Russian Novel drawings to music in a beautiful new video. Yorty writes: “Basil King sketched forty-three faces with charcoal, and as he sketched them, he began to call them his Russian Novel. When Basil introduced … Read More
Basil King’s Illuminations
February 2024: Announcing a wonderful new video just completed by Don Yorty of Basil King’s 2001 series Rimbaud Illuminations. View Don Yorty’s blog post here. View the video directly here. Don Yorty writes “The Illuminations were drawn in 37 days. Basil had … Read More
New videos of Basil King reading now available
From the launch of There Are No Ghosts There Are Portraits at the Five Myles Gallery in Brooklyn – Basil reads Part Two of this recent book, September 2022. [29 minutes]. Click here to purchase the book. For Don Yorty’s wonderful blog [donyorty.com] – Basil … Read More
January 2023 – New Publication: In Delacroix’s Garden by Basil King and Yuko Otomo
Yuko Otomo and Basil King compared how captured they and their respective partners — the late Steve Dalachinsky and Martha King — were by their separate visits to Delacroix’s house, garden, and studio tucked in a cul-de-sac on the Left Bank … Read More
Basil King, Kimberly Lyons and Floy Krouchi at the Record Shop – Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 7:30pm
On Tuesday, October 11th, Basil King will read from his most recent book There Are No Ghosts, There Are Portraits, co-published by Pinsapo Press and Lost & Found less than a month ago. Kimberly Lyons will also read poems & Floy Krouchi, who just arrived from Paris and … Read More
New Book Launch
JOIN US New Book Launch: There Are No Ghosts There Are Portraits, Basil King September 2022 Co-published by Pinsapo Press and Lost & Found CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. Friday, September 23, 2022 at 7PM FiveMyles Gallery 558 St Johns Place, … Read More
AFTER THOUGHT paintings & poems Basil King (2022)
This latest collection, published by Granary Books, stems from a recent series of paintings that postdate King’s 2019 project, “Looking for the Green Man.” After producing these fifty portrait variations, King “wanted to do something quiet, possibly beautiful, a place of meditation.”
This book is 11 x 15 in., bound in lavender cloth over boards with Mylar dust jacket by Judith Ivry. The 16 page spreads feature a poem and a facing painting, and are printed on Hahnemühle paper by Jason Walz. This is from an edition of 20 copies, numbered and signed by King.… Read More