DRAWING BOOK 7.3.24 - 11.14.24 A selection of drawings made from Wednesday July 3, 2024 to Thursday November 14, 2024 overlaid with an audio collage of field recordings, voice messages, and old family video. This is the drawing book I was working in when my mom died. Made in loving memory of my mother on Mother's Day 2026. Loretta Lynn Mitchell January 3, 1953 - August 28, 2024
See full 17 minute version on YouTube at link in bio.
Anki King is on YouTube!
The video features Anki King in conversation with Sutton Allen at The Lace Mill in Kingston, NY on Sunday March 8, 2026.
Anki's current exhibition, Then and Now, is up through next Sunday March 29. She'll be there in person on Saturday March 28 doing a live interview with William Corwin at 3 pm.
The exhibition features a body of work spanning more than a decade and brings together paintings, drawings, and, for the first time, a substantial presentation of ceramic sculptures developed over the past several years. Link to the video in bio above.
August 2, 2025 ❤️ Was a lovely rainy day in Norway with friends, family, and my Anki! Hope you all have someone you love to hug you tight tonight! And if you don't, then hugs to you from us! ❤️
The Brooklyn Review published an interview with John Yau today titled - To See Something You Haven't Yet Seen: A Conversation with John Yau by Madeleine Mara and Emily Shafer. I recommend reading if you're interested.
Thanks to Cary Whittier for the terrific photo of this 24x24” oil painting that I made of John in his kitchen in late 2025.
The Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway currently has an exhibition titled “LUDVIG KARSTEN RESTLESS” up through March 15, 2026 including over 70 paintings.
I’d never heard of Ludvig Karsten and was not familiar with the work. In anticipation of visiting the show for the first time in December, I felt excited about the prospect of entering an unfamiliar world of paintings made by a Norwegian artist born in 1876, who dedicated his adult life to painting, traveled extensively, and died after falling down a flight of stairs in October, 1926.
Walking into the first room, the zeitgeist of his era is immediately clear. He studied with Matisse and was friendly with Picasso among many other painters. The influence of French Impressionism, Post Impressionism, and early 20th Century painting by his contemporaries is abundantly present in his work. Though he was a lifelong student, he wasn’t only a student of his time. He made many transcriptions...
To read the rest, follow the link in my bio. Or find it on johnmitchellworld.com as the most recent blog post.
@munchmuseum #ludvigkarsten
From the archive - a favorite drawing of my son is this one made during his first guitar lesson on June 26, 2006 at The New York City Guitar School at 251 West 30th Street, 11th Floor, NY, NY at 4:30 pm. Signed "To Joey, One Love" by Keith Richards.
Saturday September 20, 2025 at 2 am
Anki asleep on the couch with Frank Auerbach talking on TV. I went to see 3 Malcolm X films with Frank Ford at Anthology Film Archives in the East Village earlier.
Brooklyn, NY
Pepper and Riff, 2017-18, Oil on Linen, 58 x 74"
On May 7, 2018, after over a year of Monday evening sessions, Pepper read aloud from an essay that she had written about her and Riff’s involvement with the making of this painting up to that point. It was great to hear such a thoughtful account of their experience in the studio.
“I LOVE WORDS WITH IMAGES” was printed onto the back of a poster with an image of the painting on the front in 2018 for the “Birthday Party” exhibition at Planthouse Gallery in NYC.
Now Pepper’s essay is available as a BLOG post titled “I LOVE WORDS WITH IMAGES” at
