Trouser Press

"Trouser Press, online here since August 2002, began with the contents of all five Trouser Press Record Guides, those highly opinionated review books of alternative rock. Thanks to many fine contributors, the site now includes loads of new and updated entries — more than 3,000 in all."
Trouser Press

Landscape art

The Harvesters, Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Wikipedia - "Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of the work. Sky is almost always included in the view, and weather is often an element of the composition. Detailed landscapes as a distinct subject are not found in all artistic traditions, and develop when there is already a sophisticated tradition of representing other subjects."
Wikipedia

Fairfield Porter

Morning Landscape
"Fairfield Porter was the most important American realist painter from 1949 until his death in 1975. Not coincidentally, these were the years when Porter lived in Southampton, and in 1979, his estate recognized the bond between the artist and the Museum by donating some 250 works to the Parrish collection."
Parrish Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, watercolor artists, Teleported into Fairfield Porter's Southampton studio at Parrish Hall

Havana, Cuba 1930s

"A tour of the city of Havana, Cuba in the 1930s filmed by Andre de la Varre."
Travelingo

Disco

Wikipedia - "Disco is a genre of dance music whose popularity peaked during the middle to late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Disco was a reaction by New York City's gays as well as black and Latino heterosexuals against both the domination of rock music and the demonetization of dance music by the counterculture during this period."
Wikipedia, Best Disco Songs of the 1970s & 1980s, The Disco History, YouTube: The Trammps - Disco Inferno, Boogie wonderland - Earth Wind and Fire, The Commodores - Brick House, Chic - Good Times, Sister Sledge - We Are Family, KC & The Sunshine Band - Shake Your Booty (Shake, Shake, Shake), I Feel Love - Donna Summer, Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive

The Real Paper

Wikipedia - "The Real Paper was a Boston alternative weekly newspaper that ran from August 2, 1972, to June 18, 1981, often devoting space to counterculture issues of the early 1970s. The offices were located on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts."
Wikipedia, Jon Landau – “Growing Young With Rock and Roll” (1974)

Sugar Minott

Wikipedia - "Sugar Minott (born Lincoln Barrington Minott, 25 May 1956, Kingston) is a Jamaican reggae singer, producer and sound-system operator."
Wikipedia, Sugar Minott, MySpace, Root Archives, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

Black Mountain poets

Wikipedia - "The Black Mountain poets, sometimes called projectivist poets, were a group of mid 20th century American avant-garde or postmodern poets centered on Black Mountain College."
Wikipedia, A Brief Guide to the Black Mountain School, University of Virginia

Hurdy gurdy

Wikipedia - "The hurdy gurdy or hurdy-gurdy (also known as a wheel fiddle) is a stringed musical instrument that produces sound by a crank-turned rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to a violin. Melodies are played on a keyboard that presses tangents (small wedges, usually made of wood) against one or more of the strings to change their pitch. Like most other acoustic string instruments, it has a soundboard to make the vibration of the strings audible."
Wikipedia, Google, YouTube

Performance art

Chris Burden
Wikipedia - "Performance art is art in which the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work. It can happen anywhere, at any time, or for any length of time. Performance art can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body and a relationship between performer and audience. It is opposed to painting or sculpture, for example, where an object constitutes the work."
Wikipedia, FADO Performance Art Centre, Performance art, Cleveland Performance Art Festival Collection, amazon

The Four Tops

Wikipedia - "The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet, whose repertoire has included doo-wop, jazz, soul music, R&B, disco, adult contemporary, hard rock, and showtunes. Founded in Detroit, Michigan as The Four Aims, lead singer Levi Stubbs (born Levi Stubbles, a cousin of Jackie Wilson and brother of The Falcons' Joe Stubbs), and groupmates Abdul 'Duke' Fakir, Renaldo 'Obie' Benson and Lawrence Payton remained together for over four decades, having gone from 1953 until 1997 without a single change in personnel."
Wikipedia, The Four Tops, last.fm, YouTube - Baby I Need Your Lovin', It's The Same Old Song, Bernadette, And the Lonely, Reach Out(I'll Be There), Reach Out(I'll Be There)-acapella

Meme

Wikipedia - "A meme ... is a unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. ... Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes, in that they self-replicate and respond to selective pressures. The British scientist Richard Dawkins coined the word 'meme' in The Selfish Gene (1976) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena."
Wikipedia

Iannis Xenakis

Wikipedia - "Iannis Xenakis ... (May 29, 1922 – February 4, 2001) was a Greek, naturalised French, composer, music theorist and architect. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers. Xenakis pioneered the use of mathematical models such as applications of set theory, varied use of stochastic processes, game theory, etc., in music, and was also an important influence on the development of electronic music."
Wikipedia, Iannis Xenakis, Google, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (3a). Iannis Xenakis Interview (1 of 3) , (2 of 3), (3 of 3)

Why preserve Van Gogh's palette?

Gustave Moreau
"Why preserve an artist’s palette? The daubs of raw pigment or the mixes left in position can be an intriguing index to the working method and the mind of the artist. And most, once the status of art had been elevated above the realms of mere craft, would paint themselves palette in hand."
Telegraph, Vermeer's Palette, Color Inspiration from the Masters of Painting, The Blue Lantern, Paintbox, Victorian Artist's Paint Box, Objects Page

Astor Piazzolla

"After this episode, Piazzolla returns to tango and to his instrument, the bandoneon. What was once a choice between the sophisticated music or tango, now would be sophisticated music and tango, but in the most efficient way: to work the structure of sophisticated music with the passion of the tango. In Paris, he composes and records a series of tangos with a string orchestra and he begins to play the bandoneon while standing up, he puts one leg on a chair, a trait that would characterize him on the music scene (Most bandoneonists play sitting down)."
Astor Piazzolla: Chronology of a Revolution, Wikipedia, YouTube - Muerte / Angel, Milonga del angel, Adios Nonino, Verano Porteño, Fracanapa, Lunfardo, Chin Chin, Tristezas de un doble A (Parte I), Tristezas de un doble A (Parte II), Buenos aires, Piazzolla & Bandoneon

Dennis Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010)

Wikipedia - "Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1955, and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). Over the next ten years, Hopper appeared frequently on television in guest roles, and by the end of the 1960s had played supporting roles in several films. He directed and starred in Easy Rider (1969), winning an award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer."
Wikipedia, NYT, Mubi, YouTube - Raw Video: a Bandaged Dennis Hopper Gets a Star, Actor Dennis Hopper, On Art, Drug Crazed Rant in Apocalypse Now, Dennis Hopper throws a fit, Dennis Hopper reads a poem on The Johnny Cash Show, Blue Velvet Straight to Hell Fucker, Easy Rider Marijuana and UFO's, Inside The Actor's Studio Dennis Hopper 1, (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)

T.J. Wilcox

Tragedy (Sissi at the Sala Terrena)
"Wilcox’s fascination with the interaction of different eras is encapsulated by an image of the remains of the swimming pool Adele incongruously installed outside the walls of the 900-year-old castle where the couple lived after they married in 1932. The water has completely disappeared -- all that is left is a perimeter of stones outlining a rectangle in the lush green grass. The Duchess recalls a small pavilion by the pool, filled with suntan lotion in rainy Ireland."
artnet, (1), frieze

The Roundhouse

Wikipedia - "Many of these were hosted and promoted by the Jeff Dexter. Others bands who played at the Roundhouse during this period included, Gass, The Rolling Stones,[Jeff Beck, Zoot Money's Dantalions Chariot, David Bowie, The Sinceros, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Incredible String Band, The Doors with Jefferson Airplane, The Clash, Elkie Brooks and Motörhead who appeared at the Roundhouse on July 20, 1975."
Wikipedia

The Map Room

Manitoba Historical Maps
"The Map Room is a blog about maps by Jonathan Crowe. It covers everything from collecting to the latest in geospatial technology from a generalist’s perspective."
The Map Room

C Press

"For more information about C Press, see Jed Birmingham’s articles on Time, Ted Berrigan, and Don’t Ever Get Famous. Andy Warhol provided the cover for issue four of C: A Journal of the Arts. Edwin Denby and Gerard Malanga appear on the silk-screened cover."
RealityStudio, Granary Books

Gary U.S. Bonds

Wikipedia - "Gary U.S. Bonds (born Gary Levone Anderson, June 6, 1939, Jacksonville, Florida) is an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer. He is also a prolific songwriter."
Wikipedia, YouTube, (1), (2)

Eight Poems by Pierre Reverdy - Tom Hibbard (trans.)

"The difficulty of Reverdy's poems limited his audience. He founded a short-lived review, Nord-Sud (1916; 'North-South'), to promote Cubism. After turning to Surrealism in the 1920s, hereturned to Cubist-inspired poetic techniques. Reverdy published Étoiles peintes (1921; 'Painted Stars'), Les Épaves du ciel (1924; 'Shipwrecks from Heaven'), and Flaques de verre (1929; 'Glass Puddles'). - Encyclopædia Britannica"
thepeoplesvoice

Conceptual art

H.R. Fricker
Wikipedia - "Conceptual art is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions."
Wikipedia, Conceptual art, Sentences on Conceptual Art - Sol Lewitt

Darren Almond

"Darren Almond’s diverse work, incorporating film, installation, sculpture and photography, deals with evocative meditations on time and duration as well as the themes of personal and historical memory."
White Cube, artnet, Tate

Koyaanisqatsi

Wikipedia - "Koyaanisqatsi (English pronunciation: /ˈkɔɪ.ɑːnɪsˈkɑːtsiː/ KOY-ah-nis-KAHT-see), also known as Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance, is a 1982 film directed by Godfrey Reggio with music composed by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke."
Wikipedia, YouTube, (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9)

Klaus Schulze

Wikipedia - "Klaus Schulze (born August 4, 1947) is a German electronic music composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried. He was briefly a member of the electronic bands Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel before launching a solo career consisting of more than 60 albums (more than 140 CDs) lasting over four decades."
Wikipedia, Klaus Schulze, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Railroad car

Pennsylvania Railroad Car
Wikipedia - "A railroad car or railway carriage is a vehicle on a rail transport system (railroad or railway) that is used for the carrying of cargo or passengers. Cars can be coupled together into a train and hauled by one or more locomotives. Passenger cars can be self propelled in which case they can be single or multiple units."
Wikipedia

Mitch Ryder

Wikipedia - "Ryder is noted for his gruff, wailing singing style, much influenced by Little Richard, and his dynamic stage performances, influenced by James Brown. As a teen, Ryder sang backup in a black soul group known as the Peps, but racial animosities interfered with his continued presence in the group."
Wikipedia, Mitch Ryder, YouTube - Devil With The Blue Dress, 1966, CC Rider, Rock & Roll

Bill Berkson

Wikipedia - "Bill Berkson is the author of sixteen books and pamphlets of poetry, including the collections Serenade, Fugue State, and a volume of his 1960s collaborations with Frank O'Hara, Hymns of St. Bridget & Other Writings. A selection of his criticism, The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings 1985-2003, appeared from Qua Books in 2004."
Wikipedia, Brooklyn Rail, twenty questions with Bill BERKSON, jacket # 5, SHAMPOO, Nowhere, PennSound

Hand Drawn Map Association

"We are happy to announce the HDMA has been asked to participate in an exhibition this fall at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery. The exhibition is curated by Katharine Harmon and will feature a variety of artists whose work maps the emotional landscape of New York City."
Hand Drawn Map Association

Shakespeare—Sonnet 138

Sofonisba Anguissola, Portrait of a Young Woman (ca. 1575)
"Listen to John Dowland’s Can She Excuse My Wrongs from the First Booke of Songes (1597) in a performance by Gérard Lesne and the Ensemble Orlando Gibbons, and then a guitar performance of his Melancholy Galliard and an Allemande by Jamie Andreas on a modern guitar"
Harpers

David Bowie, La La La Human Steps - "Look Back In Anger"

"Live in London with La La La Human Steps 1988"
YouTube

Leon McAuliffe

Wikipedia - "Leon McAuliffe (January 3, 1917–August 20, 1988), born William Leon McAuliffe, was an American Western swing musician from Houston, Texas. He is famous for his steel guitar solos with Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys, inspiring Wills's phrase, 'Take it away, Leon.'"
Wikipedia, Brad's Page of Steel, Legendary Steel Guitarist, YouTube, (1), (2)

Jockum Nordström

Wikipedia - "Jockum Nordström (born 1963) is a Swedish artist, best known for his vivid collages, but also for his drawings, paintings and work as an illustrator."
Wikipedia, artnet, YouTube

Gotham Art & Theater

"What does this have to do with art? Find out at Artists Space, where "Rip it Up and Start Again" can be seen until Feb. 20, 2010. Curated by an impressive assortment of presenters, including poet John Giorno, gallerist Mitchell Algus and fictional artist Claire Fontaine, this fascinating show brings together works by Burroughs, artist Ray Johnson, poet Charles Henri Ford, musician Arthur Russell and Philippe Thomas (who started a fictional public relations agency called readymades belong to everyone®). All of them shared an interest in collaboration, collage and breaking down the boundaries between visual, written and musical art."
artnet

The Famous Flames, T.A.M.I. Show - James Brown

Wikipedia - "The Famous Flames was an R&B vocal group founded by Bobby Byrd that performed with James Brown during the early years of his career. On recordings such as 'Please, Please, Please', 'Try Me', 'Think', 'I Don't Mind', 'Shout and Shimmy', 'Bewildered', 'Oh Baby, Don't You Weep', and 'I'll Go Crazy' the group's smooth backing harmonies contrasted strikingly with Brown's own rough, impassioned delivery, and their synchronized dance steps were a prominent visual feature of his live shows."
Wikipedia, W - T.A.M.I. Show, James Brown, The T.A.M.I. Show, (2), (3)

Nueva trova

Ruinas de la Casa de la Nueva Trova
Wikipedia - "Nueva trova is a movement in Cuban music that emerged around 1967/68 after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, and the consequent political and social changes. Nueva trova has its roots in the traditional trova, but differs from it because its content is, in the widest sense, political. It combines traditional folk music idioms with 'progressive' and often politicized lyrics."
Wikipedia, Cuban Trova. III Part. The Nueva Trova., At the Beginning, There Wasn't a Nueva Trova by Silvio Rodriguez, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), Cuba Son Guajira Nueva Trova - Video Dokumentation Mi Cuba Son

Festival de Cannes 2010

"Find out more in detail about the official Selection, Juries, Awards, programmes, events, and follow everything happening at the Festival through articles, photos and videos."
Festival de Cannes 2010, (1), Wikipedia, MUBI

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Ville-d'Avray: Entrance to the Wood
Wikipedia - "Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (July 17, 1796[1] – February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism."
Wikipedia, Artchive, Olga's Gallery, NGA

Prince Far I

Wikipedia - "Prince Far I (b. Michael James Williams, c.1944, Spanish Town, Jamaica, d. 15 September 1983, Kingston, Jamaica) was a reggae deejay, producer and a Rastafarian."
Wikipedia, My Space, Roots Archives, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Italian Renaissance

Gozzoli: Procession of the Kings (Medici Portraits)
Wikipedia - "The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe."
Wikipedia, WebMuseum, Famous Artists of Italy

Julie Mehretu: Grey Area

Middle Grey, 2007
"Currently on display at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin is American artist Julie Mehretu’s suite of paintings Grey Area. It’s the fifteenth work within the Deutsche Guggenheim’s series of commissions that started in 1998 with James Rosenquist, followed by Andreas Slominski, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Lawrence Weiner, Jeff Koons, Rachel Whiteread, Bill Viola, Gerhard Richter, John Baldessari, William Kentridge, Hanne Darboven, Phoebe Washburn, Jeff Wall, Anish Kapoor, and now Julie Mehretu."
VTV, Artmag, White Cube

Error card

Wikipedia - "In the trading card collecting hobby, an error card is a card that shows incorrect information or some other unintended flaw. It can contain a mistake, such as a misspelling or a photo of someone other than the athlete named on the card. Depending on whether the manufacturer noticed the problem while the cards were still being produced, a card may exist in both correct and incorrect versions."
Wikipedia

Werner Herzog Reads Where's Waldo

"Uncompromising German film director Werner Herzog reads the children's classic Where's Waldo"
YouTube

Neil Young - Part 3

Wikipedia - "While Young had never been a stranger to eco-friendly lyrics, themes of environmentalist spirituality and activism became increasingly prominent in his work throughout the 1990s and 2000s, especially on Greendale and Living With War. The trend continued on 2007's Chrome Dreams II, with lyrics exploring Young's personal eco-spirituality."
Wikipedia, Harvest Moon, Winterlong, Prime Of Life, Sleeps With Angels, Mansion On The Hill, F!#*in Up, My Heart, From Hank to Hendrix. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Greendale, (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), (14), (15*), Love to Burn, Piece Of Crap, Downtown, The Believer, Milano, Sad Movies, Wille Nelson, Home Grown - Farm Aid 2009, Love And Only Love, When You Dance I Can Really Dance, It's a dream, The Painter, He Was The King, No Wonder (Prairie Wind), Grey Ridery, This Note's For You - NY 1989, Crime In The City, Love Art Blues, Mellow My Mind, Words

Pedro Costa

Wikipedia - "Pedro Costa (born 1959) is a Portuguese film director. He is acclaimed for using his ascetic style to depict the marginalised people in desperate living situations. Many of his films are set in a district of Lisbon inhabited by the socially disadvantaged and shot in a natural and low-key way that makes them resemble documentaries."
Wikipedia, Pedro Costa, Guardian - "Pedro Costa, the Samuel Beckett of cinema", Harvard Film Archive, New Yorker - "Lisbon Calling", strictly film school, MUBI, Criterion Collection - "Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa

Assemblage

Joseph Cornell
Wikipedia - "Assemblage is an artistic process in which a three-dimensional artistic composition is made from putting together found objects. The origin of the word (in its artistic sense) can be traced back to the early 1950s, when Jean Dubuffet created a series of collages of butterfly wings, which he titled assemblages d'empreintes."
Wikipedia, Google

Kon + Amir Present: The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Samples Of All Time

"These days, everyone loves hip-hop. But how much does the average fan really know about the building blocks that formed the foundation of the genre's entire sound? That's right, before it was all-808-everything, hip-hop used a secret (and sometimes not-so-secret) selection of classic soul, funk rock, and jazz records from the ’60s and ’70s to create their sound. From tiny, obscure snippets to instantly-recognizable loops, the sample-based producers of the late ’80s and early ’90s uncovered some truly classic musical gems that are still sought after and used today."
Kon + Amir Present: The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Samples Of All Time

Diplomacy

Wikipedia - "Diplomacy is a strategic board game created by Allan B. Calhamer in 1954 and released commercially in 1959. Its main distinctions from most board wargames are its negotiation phases (players spend much of their time forming and betraying alliances with other players) and the absence of dice or other game elements that produce random effects."
Wikipedia, Play Diplomacy Online, The Game of Diplomacy, (1), amazon

The American Breed

Wikipedia - "The American Breed was an American rock band that was formed in 1966 and disbanded in 1969."
Wikpedia, last.fm, YouTube