Several decades ago, I watched a Green Heron hunting in a half-strangled stream --dwindled to a thread at the bottom of a drainage ditch-- m...

Two quotes struck the lobster and canary this week: "As museums continue building mobile devices into more exhibits--the Museum of Fi...

"When I look back at the history of Hauser & Wirth over the past 17 years, I notice a pattern—we have almost always opened our gall...

---Carnival revelers in Lucerne, Switzerland, February 16th of this year. So another Mardi Gras has come and gone. ---Carniv...

John Jeremiah Sullivan writes in "My Debt to Ireland" (in this morning's New York Times Sunday Magazine ) about searching for...

Dan Beachy-Quick ... Nicole Kornher-Stace ... Sonya Taaffe ... Three writers, ranging in age from 29 to 39, who have moved beyond the ...

A passage in The Hobbit that I have been musing over, the one describing Bilbo's reaction at first seeing Smaug slumbering atop the tre...

The lobster and the canary share with you seven new (or at least new-ish) songs that we find ourselves listening to frequently at the moment...

Lobster & Canary welcomes the new year by celebrating the work of Helen Frankenthaler , who died December 27th at age 83. For an esp...

-- Melora Griffis , empty room (2010; acrylic, gouache, pastel on paper). --Griffis, blue sun (2010; acrylic, gouache, past...

Lobster & Canary was at the November 22nd book launch party at The Center for Fiction (NYC) for Delia Sherman 's The Freedom Maze ...

Shahzia Sikander 's current show at Sikkema, Jenkins (in NYC's Chelsea) includes a 10-minute animated video projected on a large wa...

Last month The Center for Fiction in midtown Manhattan presented a reading series as part of the NEA's Big Read (in partnership with A...

The Lobster and Canary hugely enjoyed participating in the Toronto SpecFic Colloquium on October 15th. Toronto has deep roots in speculati...

Many of Lobster & Canary 's favorite art galleries are in NYC's Chelsea, but we're excited by the blossoming of interesting ...

Yesterday, as the sun set and rain fell intermittently, the lobster and the canary had a rare treat: We got to visit the interior of the r...

A quick addendum to today's posting about Lorna Williams at DODGEgallery in NYC: The gallery kindly supplied these two images of Wil...

[Last week's post on feminist approaches to fairy tale and myth has been formally posted to the Toronto SpecFic Colloquium blog, with a...

Happy fall to you all, from the lobster & canary in NYC. We are presenting at the Toronto SpecFic Colloquium next month. Here is the ...

The fall arts season has begun here in New York City: the usual horn of plenty spilling out its wonders, far more offerings than any one of...

The fall arts season has begun here in New York City: the usual horn of plenty spilling out its wonders, far more offerings than any one of...

The lobster and the canary apologize to all patient readers for the long hiatus; we were taking a rest during August, but are back now. W...

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