NEWS – Outside / Inside by Martha King has a publisher! Martha King’s memoir Outside/Inside (just outside the art world’s inside) will be available from Blaze VOX Books in October 2018. For a preview of the book, see Eileen Tabios’ … Read More
To celebrate the legacy of Black Mountain College, the Turchin Center for Visual Arts at Appalachian State University has mounted a show called “Creative Democracy.” It’ll be on view until June 2, 2018. (See previous post, “Basil King in new … Read More
The online magazine Talisman has just posted issue #46 with a substantial section of critical responses to Basil King’s art and poetry…which a number of the commentators have so rightly considered together. Go www.talismanmag.net to read and … Read More
Creative Democracy: The Legacy of Black Mountain College – Art and artifacts by people who were students at the now legendary North Carolina art school (1933-1956) Exhibition opens: Friday, January 12, 2018 Exhibition Celebration: Friday, March 2, 2018 (6:00pm -10:00pm) Exhibition ends: Saturday, June … Read More
Fifty pages of my memoir Outside Inside — expertly excerpted and condensed by Brigid Hughes — is featured in issue 22 of A Public Space. With many photographs. Issue 22 –print or digital— or an annual subscription — can be ordered here: http://apublicspace.org/magazine While … Read More
Just got (unrequested) a look back at 2015 from Facebook, hitting not much of much interest. Thus am prodded to do my own. February – Baz reads at the Dia Foundation with the wonderfully multi-talented multi-named Pam Dick (Mina, Gregoire, et … Read More
My esteemed China-scholar sister Charlotte Furth solved the question I asked last year. Who is this wildman, who currently lives in an empty fireplace in our bedroom? We know how he got into our possession – a purchase by our grandparents, … Read More
We are still at the same address, same website (www.basilking.net), same Flickr site for Basil King art. But a move is a move, whether cross-country or just from upstairs to downstairs. We have moved within our house, up to down, to top … Read More