Baz does Windows! This new series, called Windows, of mixed media on Stonehenge paper (all 40 inches x 26 inches ) and two diptych paintings (mixed media on canvas, combined dimensions 56 inches x 42 inches) testify to some variation … 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
Because Basil’s right-side weakness is getting worse, I persuaded him to see a neurologist. His first neurology visit since teenage episodes of seizures that stopped well before he went to Black Mountain in the 50s. And well before there even … 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!
Look out whippersnappers. An old man is coming, his brushes are loaded, and he’s got birds on the brain! There are many birds on view in his studio in Brooklyn, by invitation, this year. Use this link for … 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
Basil has loved Watteau as long as he can remember — so in 20013 a trip to Paris meant a chance to see “Gilles” in the Louvre. Two huge impediments: Who knew one needs to reserve tickets online weeks … Read More
October 17: Sussex University; October 24: Brookes Oxford First of all, Brookes Oxford is a new university in Oxford, not the ancient dreaming spires establishment. It was named in 1992 to honor its first principal … but was previously known … Read More