We love the ever-expanding use of digital tools, especially in the arts and humanities. Not only for what we learn about specific artists, ...

Middle Earth found itself embroiled this week in the American debt ceiling and budget negotiations, as the Wall Street Journal labeled the ...

We're melting like votive candles here in New York City, smothered by record-setting heat and humidity along with the rest of the Northe...

We saw the final Potter movie last night, and were as moved, thrilled and delighted by it as we were by the previous films and all the books...

"You're out of the woods, You're out of the dark, You're out of the night. Step into the sun, Step into the light. Keep...

[Hans Hoffman, Indian Summer , 1959] [David Gates, Color Run Riot , set to "Invisible Colors" by Russ Malone, posted May, 2011]...

The Way from the fields we know to the Border has re-opened: Holly Black and Ellen Kushner have edited a new volume of tales, poems and ...

Gil Scott-Heron died May 27th, just 62 years old. I grew up on his music, his poetry, his philosophy: "The Revolution Will Not Be ...

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...