Joseph Cornell

Untitled (Tilly Losch), 1935-38

Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination - "Joseph Cornell is one of America's most innovative modern artists, known for his distinctive box sculptures, collages and evperimental films that continue to influence many artists, writers, poets, filmmakers and designers."
Joseph Cornell: Navigating The Imagination, Joseph Cornell. Shadowplay ... Eterniday

Arcadia & Anarchy

Angelo Morbelli, For Eighty Cents!, 1895.

Guggenheim Museum - "The Italian Divisionists - so called for the painting technique they employed, namely the 'division' of color via individualized brushstrokes - were active in Italy during the 1890s and early 1900s." Vivien Greene, Associate Curator.

Arcadia & Anarchy

Castland

Castle of Hunaudaye

Penetrate in the universe of the castles and the French patrimony. "This site is dedicated to all fans of castles, of patrimony and vesties. New sites and articles will be at your disposal according the evolution of our researches."
Castle

Jack Spicer

3o January, 1925 - 17 August, 1965. The Collected Books of Jack Spicer, "The Practice of Outside", an essay by Robin Blaser - "At first this was short and simple - about Jack. But that became a reduction which every twist and turn of the work denied - a biography without the world poet earned or a split between the man and the work which drank him up and left him behind."
EPC/Spicer, PENNSOUND

Alexander Palace Time Machine

The Home of the Last Tsar: Romanov and Russian History - "The Time Machine is the world's most popular website for Russian and Romanov history with more than a million visitors each month. - Bob Atchison."
Alexander Palace Time Machine

The Changing Face of Childhood

Dulwich Picture Gallery - "The writing of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau and painters such as Gainsborough and Thomas Lawrence, changed the perception of childhood forever. They were portrayed as individuals in their own right and not just little grown-ups. These videos, presented by Ian Dejardin, Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery, chart the change in portraiture of children during this important time in history."
British Children's portraits and their influence in Europe

Alek Lindus

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SplashHalls Painted Poet Art Gallery. Photographs by Artist Photographer Alek Lindus from the shoreline of Greece.

Alek Lindus

Daniel Essig

Sculptural Books. "Daniel Essig creates wooden covered art books and book based sculptures. Using a fourth-century binding style known as Ethiopian style Coptic, he creates mixed-media book structures that incorporate unusural woods, handmade paper, found objects, fossils, and mica."
Daniel Essig

Heinrich Harder 1858-1935

Great Auk

"The Wonderful Paleo Art of Heinrich Harder - There are not many public details of Harder's life to find. Searching the intenet and public libraries will bring just a few bits. Using the references below, here is what I've been able to sketch out."

Harder

William Bailey

Migianella Still Life with Pitcher

"It took time - too much time - for the magnitude of Diebenkorn's achievement to be fully recognized in New York. For entirely figurative artists, of course, it was harder still."
The Artchive

Cara Barer: Photgrapher

Secret

Cara Barer - "I arrive at some of my images by chance. Others, through experimentation. Without these two elements, my work would not flow easily from one idea to the next. "
Cara Barer

Alexandra Boulat

VII Photo. Modest: Women in Middle East, Alexandra Boulat. "A compilation of work throughout an incredible career that features an unprecedented look at the lives of women in the Middle East."
VII

South America, 1600-1800 A.D.

Kero Caved in the Form of a Head, 17th-18th century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - woven textiles, keros, missionary activities, Manila Galleons, sculpture, Rococo fashions recently arrived from Europe.
Peruvian, Lima, Cuaco, Andean, Inka...

Veronika Kellndorfer

Christopher Grimes Gallery - "Kellndorfer began her studies in Vienna and continued them at the Hochschule de Kunste in Berlin from 1984 to 1990. Originally through painting and then through photography, she has been concerned with the ephemeral nature of architecture and space."
Veronika Kellndorfer

Cemeteries

Angel, St. Michele

"Burza-snieta.... Il Cimitero Monumentale, Verone. St. Michele, Venice. Pere-Lachise Cemetery. Cemeterie. Angels. Kensal Green. The Russian Cemetery. Crossbones Burial Ground."
flickr

1900 Paris Exhibition

"Paris Photo Collection - This is a collection of approximately 200 fantastic antique photographs of Paris at the turn of the century, the vast majority taken at the 1900 Paris exposition universelle, world fair."

1900 Paris Exhibition

Musicolog

Eleni Karaindrou, Zbigniew Preisner, Arvo Part, David Darling, Astor Piazzolla, Erkan Ogur, Anouar Brahem Brahem, Jan Garbarek, John Surman, Dino Saluzzi, John Tavener.
Contemporary Composers

Trainscape....

Ahmed Abdalla

"For this show, twelve New England artists/artist teams have been invited to create new works installation art - miniature worlds traversed and connected by a fully operational O-scale model railroad! The fourteen emerging and rose to this challenge have produced a spectacular array of fully-imagined world that involve a wide range of issues, including history, poetry, philosophy, geography, abstraction, figuration, scale, architecture, and humor."

Trainscape: Installation Art for Model Railroads, DeCordova

Exhibitions

Mariano Otero

Tango 1900, Old Buenos Aires, Sandra Sue, Carlos Gardel, Crsitina Bergoglio, Tango al Norte, Women dancing together, Caminito tango temple, The 1920s, Ana Portnoy, Mariano Otero, Saura's Tango...
Exhibitions, El Tango

An Inconvenient Truth

"Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced."
An Inconvenient Truth

Robert Smithson

Photographed by George Steinmetz, September 2002

"His complex ideas took root in many forms: drawings, projects and proposals, sculpture, earthworks, films and critical. Smithson's provocative and seminal works, made in the mid-sixties to early seventies, redefined the language of sculpture."
Robert Smithson

Humument

"Welcome to the new website of A HUMUMENT, the renowned illustred book by Britsh artist Tom Phillips. ... A HUMUMENT is eternally a work in progress. Tom Phillips started his treatment of W.H. Mallock's Victorian novel in the mid sixties and an initial complete version was privately published by the Tetrad Press in 1970."
Tom Phillips

Librophiliac Love Letter...

Curious Expeditions - "Everyone has some kind of place that makes them feel transported to a magical realm. For some people it's castles with their noble history and crumbling towers. For others it's abandoned factories, ivy choked, a sense of foreboding around every corner."
Curious Expeditions, Prague

Yapruder's photos

"Electric shaver case thumb piano with street sweeper bristle tines. Piezo and 1/4" jack."

flickr

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

"Running Fence, 5.5 meters (eighteen feet) high, 40 kilometers (twenty-four and half miles) long, extending East-West near Freeway 101, north of San Francisco, on the private properties of fifty-nine ranchers, following rolling hills and dropping down to the Pacific Ocean at Bodega Bay, was completed on September 10, 1976."
Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Vito Drago

SW4 OHY, 2002

"Vito Drago is an Italian-born artist who studied firstly in Milan and then at Central St. Martin's School of Art, London. His work reflects his obsession with the materiality of books."

Vito Drago, VD, England & Co.

WaveHill

"A publc garden & cultural center". Holiday at Wave Hill. Blooming in November, This Week. Bronx, NY.
WaveHill

Abeiardo Morell: Photographs

Recent Work, Theater, Camera Obscure, Book, Alice in Wondreland, Gardner Museum, Money, Other, Childhood Series, Early Work, Photograms. Abelardo Morell, A Book of Books, A Camera in a Room...
Abelardo Morell

Leslie Fry

"The images in my art inspired by basic human needs: shelter, food, clothing, work, and intimacy. They take the form of the human body, human artifacts and architecture, and vegetable and animal life. In my sculpture, prints, and drawings, the nutural world connects with the human-made world. Reality and fantasy meld..."
Leslie Fry

Women Come to the Front

Library of Congress - "The women featured in this exhibit were chosen because of the strength and variety of their collections in the Library of Congress. Like their colleagues, the women followed various paths to their wartime assignments."
Women Come to the Front

Alaska Native Collections

Smithsonian Institution - Haida, Tsimshian, Lingit, Sugpiaq, Unangan, Yupik, Athabascan, Northeast Siberian, St. Lawrence Island Yupik, Inupiaq.
Sharing Knowledge

Paul Bowles

"The official Web side for Paul Bowles, expatriate writer, composer and traveler who lived in Tangier, Morocco for 52 years. ... Table of Contents include: Paul Bowles biography and Paul Bowles, composer, a two-part bibliography of Paul Bowles' works (poetry, novels, short stories, published books, travel writings and translations of Moroccan writers, storytellers and other authors), music scores available and catalogue of musical works, films and documentaries, music sound clips, memoirs, interviews, a Paul Bowles chronology and galleries of photographs."
Paul Bowles

Robert Ferrandini

Gallery NAGA - "Robert Ferrandini is one of the most admired painters working in New England. For over twenty-five years he has been celebrates for his haunted and glorious landscapes, which incorporate imagers culled from art history, film, literature, and popular culture. ... Since a 2001 stroke that depived him of the use of his right hand, Ferrandini has painted with his left hand, primarily in watercolor, producing increasingly complex works, unpopulated invented landscapes and seascapes suffused with broad ranges of color, exuberant mark making, and a rapturous glorying in visual phenomena."
Robert Ferrandini

Vintage Images

Lisa Cook

art-e-zine - "A resources page of vintage images collected through our swap 6 for 6 different cards. A big thank you to all who found some really useful images to use in our artwork. If you want to use them you are very welcome."
Vintage Images

Wikisky.Org

"To Survive in the Universe - 'I don't think the humen race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.' The SKY-MAP.ORG authors completely share these concerns of Stephen Hawking. The only words we could add are that the greatest threat to the human race is the human race itself."
Wikisky

Lost Cities

"As a kid, when I first came across the 'lost cities,' I was mesmerized. A whole city lost? Lost? I've seen many lost cities since then but have lost none of my fascination for them. I am in Lattakia to visit anothar - the nearby ruins of Ugarit, the 2nd millennium BCE city credited with the first and only invention of the alphabet." - The Lost City of Ugant
Shunya

Literary Stamps

Vladimir Mayakovsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Lord Byron, Pierre Corneille, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Rene Descartes, Ruben Dario, L.N. Tolstoi, Ivan S. Turgenev, Victor-Marie Hugo, Emile Zola, Karel Capek, Romain Rolland, Rachel Carson, John Muir, Margaret Mead, Ayn Rand, Frederick Douglass.
Literary Stamps

Undercity

Steve Duncar - "I'm photographer and urban historian based in Brooklyn, NY. I'm particularly fascinated by underground infrastructure and environments, as well as all of the forgotten, invisible, and abandoned places that exist in cities."
Steve Duncar

Andrew Stevovich

Petals on a Bough

"Clark Gallery presents new painting and a selection of prints and drawings by renowned American painter Andrew Stevovich. Through his formal composition, precise line structure, and vivid color palette, Stevovich draws attention to an unarticulated psychological tension existing between the figures in his paintings."
Andrew Stevovich

Hille Perl

"Musician, gamba-played, has played music as long as she can think. For her, music is the foremost of communication between human beings, more precise and intense and unmistakable than language, of greater emotional significance than any other experience besides love."
Hille Perl

Raul Belinchon

Stalls Project - "I believe that while theatres ars created with the purpose of theatrical representation they also embody different stages of history. It is not important whether the theatres are old or contemporary, whethre they are different shapes or styles; they are part of our history. They are alive and active and should be documented as historical monuments brought together in a global panorama."
Raul Belinchon

nuri bilge ceylan

Exhibition in Granada, Istanbul Exhibition, London Exhibition at the National Theatre, Thessaloniki Exhibition.
nuri bilge ceylan

Ubu Web

"The pioneers of concrete poetry could only dream of the now-standard tools used to make language move and morph, stream and scream, distributed worldwide instantaneously at little cost. Essentially, a gift economy, poetry is the perfect space to practice utopian politics."
Ubu Web

The Map of Humanity

SLG Publishing - "I absolutely love seeing offbeat projects that have been lovingly created with a lot of thought and painstaking detail. One example: The Map of Humanity, in which philosophy, cartography and the human condition meet."
The Map of Humanity

The Arts of Kashmir

"Kashmir has existed as a major artistic and intellectual center since the early centuries of the Common Era. The Kashmir Valley was a destination for both Buddhist and Hindu pilgrims and several esoterc strains of the two faiths, including Tantrism and Vajrayana Buddhism, were practiced throughout the region."
The Arts of Kashmir

Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945

"In the 1920s and 1930s, photography became an immense phenomenon across Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, and Poland. It fired the imagination of hundreds of provided a creative outlet for thousands of devoted amateurs, and became a symbol of modernity for millions through its use in magazines, newspapers, advertising, and books."
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945

Casa Frederick Catherwood

"One day in 1839, tw0 intrepid explorers - one English, Frederick Catherwood, and the other American, John Lloyd Stephens - climbed the crumlling steps of the pyramids in the Maya city of Copan. The pyramids had been overgrown by the jungle and their origins forgotten by the inhabitans of the region."
Casa Frederick Catherwood

Stephanie Valentin

STILLS GALLERY - "Stephanie Valentin's fascination as an artist lies with the dynamic and shifting relationship between the forces of nature and culture. Throughout her career she has shown an appreciation of the interconnectedness of all life forms and for the intricacy and diversity of the natural world." ETHER, FATHOM, POLLINATE, CHIASMA, MATERIA PRIMA.
Stephanie Valentin

Ann Hamilton

art:21 - "Ann Hamilton was born in 1956 in Lima, Ohio. ... While her degree is in sculpture, textiles and fabric have continued to be an important part of her work, which indudes installations, photographs, videos, performances, and objects."
art:21
phora

The Holy Forest

"Robin Blaser, one of the key North American poets of the postwar period, emerged from the 'Berkeley Renaissance' of the 1940s and 1950s as a central figure in that burgeoning literary scene. The Holy Forest, now spanning five decades, is Blaser's highly acclaimed lifelong serial." - University of California Press.
Robin Blaser.

Burning Man

Burning Man - "What is Burning Man? Trying to explain what Burning Man is to someone who has never been to the event is a bit like trying to explain what a particular color looks like to someone who is blind. In this section you will find the peripheral definitions of what the event is as a whole, but to truly understand this event, one must participate."

French Impressionists

Charley Parker - "As fond as I am of the French Impressionists. ... A little know counterpart to the French artists of the Barbizon school was a group of Italian painters in Florence and surrounding Tuscany called the Macchiaioli ... who were active around the same time."
CP
Macchiaioli in Tuscany, article from 800 Art Studio.
I Macchiaioli, article on In Italy Online.