Paul Klee, Castle and Sun  (1928) The lobster emerges just long enough from the bottom of the bay to converse with the canary. ...

Study of Cats and Other Animals c. 1513 Look carefully, there among the cats. Da Vinci thought hard about dragons--he pondered ...

Kianja Strobert Untitled , 2011  ( Mixed media on paper;  30 × 22 in.; Collection of Zach Feuer ) Kianja Strobert evokes the dee...

© Cy Twombly Cy Twombly,  Untitled , 1970. Pencil, plywood, color pencil, oil paint, wax crayon and Scotch Tape Most mornings-...

Sometimes words wrack me with their power-- I could fall down and drown in them. This week I collided with Melville's poem "The...

Virgil speaks much of bees ("little Romans" he calls them, for their diligence and loyalty) but says nothing at all about wasps-...

Late summer yields to early autumn here in New York City.  Before the leaves fall, while the haze still obscures our towers and wreathes ...

Harald Sohlberg, Flower Meadow In The North (1905) We're going to take a break for the summer, after five unbroken years (322 ...

[Poster by Luba Lukova , copyrighted to Ms.Lukova; displayed here solely for non-commercial purposes of commentary.] In the kaleidoscopi...

Contemporary art and design flooded NYC this week, with Frieze and a dozen-odd smaller art fairs now rivaling the Armory Show week in Ma...

Miro is one of my touchstones...or perhaps more like a spring bubbling exuberantly from the rock. The painting above I have never seen ...

Kevin Young 's poetry inspires with a quirky minimalism and a sly swerving of the senses. Best of all, he pulls language into a fres...

The lobster and the canary are too busy at present to do more than point to beauty and wonder that inspires them, such as Dragon & Cloud...

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The lobster & canary last wrote about Lucille Clifton upon the sad occasion of her death:   click here . Yesterday, at Poets Hous...

The wisest statement I read this week is a singularly compelling and important point that astrophysicist & public intellectual Neil d...

Frank Stella, from his Scarlatti Kirkpatrick series (2006--ongoing) All images copyright to the artist and/or his representative(s)...

Su Blackwell, Out Of Narnia (2009) (Blackwell holds the copyright; image used here solely for purposes of commentary, i.e., non-comme...

Giving ourselves another breather, after the long-form interview with Sandra Kasturi. The European Space Agency is preparing to launch...

Question 4.   “Palelemon sunstreaks”...echoes of the “thick Teutonic languages, the languages of augurs” (as you put it in “Augury”).   Si...

Another lovely treat for and from Lobster & Canary , to start our 2014:  an interview with poet Sandra Kasturi about her latest col...

The Chinese moon rover Jade Rabbit ( Yutu , in Mandarin) was reactivated last week, having been set on "dormant" for a month a...

Question Four :  One of the most compelling features of your Felix novels is the close reading of urban space, the concrete descriptions of ...