The grande dame of Surrealism, Leonora Carrington , died last week at age 94. One of modernism's greatest (if under appreciated) min...

Yesterday afternoon the Lobster & Canary visited dozens of artists in their open studios as part of the first-ever Long Island City Art...

It's international Design Week in Gotham, with shows large (the International Contemporary Furniture Fair and the National Stationery...

[ Robert M. Place "Caduceus" detail 2011] Lobster & Canary attended last night's thronged opening at The Observatory ...

"He asked me if in fact I had not found some of the movements of the puppets (especially the smaller ones) very graceful during their d...

All languages spring from the speech of our African ancestors. Two weeks ago, Quentin Atkinson of the University of Auckland published his...

As I have blogged before, the Interstitial Arts Foundation is on the move! (Full disclosure: I am a member of the IAF's Working Gro...

The lobster & canary encountered the worlds of J.T. Burke -- and had a chance to briefly meet the artist himself-- two weeks ago at Th...

Why don’t we feature food more centrally in speculative fiction? I do not mean mere descriptions of food, of which the genre abounds. H...

Rusty Schweickart came back from the Apollo 9 mission in 1969 with a profoundly altered sense of relationship with our planet. As he lat...

Lovecraft's prose is empurpled, histrionic, so over the top that it is therefore perfect for capturing what he sought to capture: the im...

First, the lobster and the canary thank all of you who sent comments about last week's posting (on fairy tales, film, and income inequal...

Fairy tale remakes, the old gods resurrected, the fabulistic and super-heroical in many shades and sizes have dominated American cin...

One of Lobster & Canary's favorite places is the " Fragonard Room " at the Frick Museum in NYC. ( Click here for t...

The Thames that housed the prison-hulk holding Magwitch, the Trave along which the fate of the Buddenbrooks unfolds, the Seine that bisects ...

I remember staring at the vistas painted by Tiepolo in the Residenz at Wurzburg, yearning to float up and join the jolly, sleek figures...

* Peering back to the Big Bang... Last week astronomers announced in Science that they have found what might be the oldest object ever o...

[The lobster & the canary will be moving their physical abode to Manhattan's Lower East Side this week, so may be a little delayed i...

Lobster & Canary heartily recommends to you the fantasy/science fiction extravaganza that is Arisia , a four-day, entirely fan-run conve...

Dear friends, I am thrilled to say that my artistic collaborator, the designer and woodcarver Deborah A. Mills (who is also my wife), app...

Lobster & Canary will be at Arisia in Boston this weekend. Arisia claims to be "New England's largest and most diverse scie...

1.1 million words...1.1 million words! That is the total English-language lexicon estimated last month by The Cultural Observatory at Ha...

Welcome to a new year, another revolution around the star that warms us, another 5.3 million intakes of breath, another 36.8 million heartb...

Our final post for 2010...another gleaning of reasons to be cheerful as we enter 2011. The Shahnameh (the Persian Book of Kings ), co...