Natalia Goncharova, 1881-1962 "There have been only a handful of periods in world cultural history when the theater was the leading form-Athens of the 5th century BC, Elizabethan England, and Russia/the Soviet Union from the 1890s to the 1930s." Northwestern University Dept. of Slavic Languages and Liberatures
IMDb - "Kurt Kuenne is an award-winning filmmaker and composer of both fiction and documentary films. He grew up in Silicon Valley, where he began making films as soon as he was old enough to pick up a camera." IMDb, Dear Zachary, YouTube, (1), veoh
aiu: a yoko ono - "By the mid-1960s Yoko Ono was an established figure in the underground art scene; she had begun performing musical pieces, presented events with a loosely affiliated group of artists who worked under the name Fluxus, published a book of instructional poems entitled Grapefruit (e.g. "Hammer a nail in the center of a piece of glass. Send a fragment to an arbitrary address."), and was making films." aiu: a yoko ono, Wikipedia, IK!, SFMOMA, MySpace, YouTube, (1), (2)
Development "My quilted wall hangings consist of layers of the following techniques: appliqué, reverse appliqué, piecing, natural and synthetic dyeing, needle-felting, hand printing, and a variety of embroidery stitches. There is an overall balance between hand and machine work." Leah Evans
"Dazzling six-part series telling the full story of African music, from the desert blues of the Sahara to the dance music of the Congo." BBC, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
Classical Landscape with Figures and Sculpture, Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 1788 "This exhibition focuses on the practice of painting sur le motif—in nature—as it developed in Europe during the late 1700s and early 1800s." The Getty
"The ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna (or simply Amarna) was the short-lived capital built by the ‘heretic’ Pharaoh Akhenaten and abandoned shortly after his death (c. 1332 BCE). It was here that he pursued his vision of a society dedicated to the cult of one god, the power of the sun (the Aten)." Amarna Project
"I am an artist that values, above all, the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically. I make art that makes me question, that derives its power from being vulnerable to interpretation, that is intuitive, that is beautiful." April Gornik
Woman and girl by a brook - c. 1910. Corbet. "The subject of these lectures focused on the autochromes of Charles Corbet, Paul Sano and Alfonse Van Besten." Three Belgian Autochromists
Directed by Anna Linsel, Germany, 2006. "Before choreographer Pina Bausch and her Tanz-theater Wuppertal were known around the world, her new, unusual and body language ill-received." Germany... UBU
Roger Bartlett Mosaic Binding "Begun energetically by Pierpont Morgan himself before the turn of the twentieth century, the collection has grown to over 1,000 volumes." The Morgan Library & Museum
"Designed by the Chicago architect Daniel Burnham, known for his skyscraper, this steel-framed terra-cotta and stone-clad skyscaper represents this developers' first (and ultimately unsuccessful) attempt to create a new business center north of Wall Street." New York Architecture
Wikipedia - "Clare Veronica Hope Leighton (1899-1989) was an English/American artist, writer and illustrator, best known for her wood engravings." Wikipedia, Artwork, Paramour Fine Arts
"Liza Lou is an art whose work combines visonary, conceptual, traditional and vernacular approaches to create a new kind of scuptural experience." Deitch
The Summer You Turned Into a Butterfly "The journeys are soul searching. I never view a piece of art by Florin and walk away unchanged. I've had a conversation. We've exchanged important ideas. His works of art make me think more carefully about the work of living." artspan
"The life cycle of a wave is measured in seconds, and because of that each painting is not an image of a particular wave, but a cumulative image of waves observed over several days in various conditions." Alex Kanevsky
Wikipedia - "...synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the blues experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm and blues into a form of funky, secular testifying." Wikipedia, Google, Otis Redding, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)
William Hulme Hooper, The Months among the Tants of the Tuski, 1853 "In 1818, the British began infatuation with the Arctic. It started innocently enough, with the Admiralty trying to find an outlet for naval officers and seamen who had been idled by the end of the Napoleonic wars." A Victorian Romance
White Cube - "Runa Islam makes film and video installations that use overlapping layers of narrative to explore notions to truth and fiction, subjectivity and authorship." White Cube, Tate, Wikipedia
Guardian - "Wading through the sentimental seasonal schlock online, we fell on this moody, gritty little yuletide masterpiece for blessed relief." Guardian - (1), (2)
Botticelli, The Banquet in the Pinewoods Met Museum - "This exhibition explores the various exceptional objects creates to celebrate love and marriage in the Italian Renaissance." Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
TIME - "Though he never appeared in Footloose, Barack Obama does have connections to every one of his Person of the Year predecessors, from initial Charles Lindbergh (1927) to inanimats like the Personal Compoter (1982) and the Earth (1988)." TIME, Wikipedia, Cafe Press
Wikipedia - "Robert Bresson .. (September 25, 1901 - December 18, 1999) was a French film diretor known for his spiritual, ascetic style." Wikiipedia, Robert Bresson, senses of cinema
"Theo Ellsworth is a self-taught artist living in Portland, Oregon. He writes and draws comics, makes art zings, draws constantly, and on occasion, teaches workshops." Art Capacity
James Van Der Zee (1886-1983), Evening Attire "After World War I, architects in Europe and the US were full of new ideas. They now thought of buildings not only only as prototypes for the future of architecture but also as an integral part of their surroundings, whether rural, suburban, or urban." Art of the 20th Century
Spanish Hands Wikipedia - "Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal." Wikipedia, artnet, Art Minimal & Conceptual Only, PBS
Asia Society - "The exhibition brings together large-scale oil paintings, ink paintings, sculptures, drawings and artist sketchbooks, woodblock prints, posters, and objects from everyday life, many never before shown in the United States." Art and China's Revolution, The Brooklyn Rail
The Kiss Wikipedia - "Auguste Rodin (born Francois-Auguste-Rene Rodin; 12 November 1840- 17 November 1917) was a French artist, most famous as a sculptor. He was the preeminent French sculptor of his time, and remains one of the few sculptors widely recognized outside the visual arts community." Wikipedia, Rodin, Rodin Museum
Wikipedia - "Pentangle is British folk rock (or folk-jazz) band. The original band was active in the late 1960s and early 1970s; its successor has been active since the early 1980s." Wikipedia, MySpace, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)
Dynasty XVIII "Descending the Nile, as we follow its flow from south to north, we leave Thebes behind. After adimiring the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, the sanctuaries of Osiris at Abydos, the Coptic monasteries at Sohag, we arrive at Tell el Amarna, on the east bank of the Nile." Tell El-Amarna, Capital of the Disk, MFA, The Lost City of the Pharaohs
The Negro Speaks of Rivers, 1944 flickr - "American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and teached whose performance work drew on the African American experience and on her research in Africa and the Caribbean." flickr, Wikipedia, PBS
WebMuseum - "By the time, however, he had started to frequent the Cafe Guerbois, and was becoming more deeply influenced by the notions which were creating Impressionism." WebMuseum, Wikipedia, Sisley
Wikipedia - "He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics." Wikipedia, Museum Tinguely, YouTube, (1), (2)
Wikipedia - "There is often a fierce rivalry between the two strongest teams in a national league, and this is particularly the case in La Liga, where the game beween FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF is known El Clasico. From the start the clubs were seen as representatives of two rival countries in Spain, Catalonia and Castile, as well as of the two cities themselves." Wikipedia, FC Barcelona
Arthur Tress Wikipedia - "The Language poets (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, after the magazine that bears that name) are an avant garde group or tendency in United States poetry that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s." Wikipedia, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine
White Turn in the River Peter Campion - "Aho dwells in the borderland between self and world, and he attends to its shifting weather with a fierce subtlety." Eric Aho, Tory Folliard Gallery, artnet
Wikipedia - "David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American director, screenwriter, producer, painter, cartoonist, composer, video and performance artist." Wikipedia, David Lynch, YouTube, (1)
Structure of Thought 15, 2001-2004 "Mike and Doug Starn, American artists and identical twins, were born in New Jersey in 1961. Working collaboratively in photography since age thirteen, they continue to defy categorization by effectively combining traditionally separate disciplines such as sculpture, painting, video, and installation." mike + doug starn, artnet
Wooden Tree, 2005 Wikipedia - "Susan Weil (born in New York, 1930) is American artist best known for experimental three-dimensional paintings, which combine figurative illustration with explorations of movement and space." Wikipedia, ARTINFO
Wikipedia - "The World Chess Championship 1972 match between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky in Laugardalsholl, Reykjavik, Iceland, has been dubbed the Match of the Century." Wikipedia, chessgames.com, YouTube, (1)
Passage "Growing up in New Orleans has given Angela an eye for architectual and cultural detail and she has traveled the world focusing her camera on the detais often overlooked by others." Angela Drury Pictures, Angela Drury Photography
Wikipedia - "The B-52's originated as a New Wave rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1976. The band's name comes from a particular beehive hairdo resembling the nose cone the airplane of the same name." Wikipedia, last.fm, Rolling Stone, YouTube, (1)
Jo Freeman - "I've been collecting buttons since 1964 when my local pusher enticed me with freebies until I was hooked. My passion has waxed and waned with time, so I now have somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 different buttons - a paltry number to the serions collector, who usually loses count at 20,000." Jo Freeman
"Visually captivating and intriguing, contemporary art is admired and appreciated by many in museums and galleries. Yet few are given access to the creative processes behind the work - the inspirations and ideas that translate into compelling finished objects." Art:21
Ethereal winged figures dance NYT - "The ruins of Ostia, an ancient Roman port, have never captured the public imagination in the same way as those of Pompeii, perhaps because Ostia met with a less cataclysmic fate." New York Times, Wikimedia
A Book of Knowledge, 2000 "In 1982, while sitting on the floor of the library at Philadelphia College of Art, I discovered a remarkable book, Signs of Life, that opened my eyes to the wonder of photography and its amazing capabilities." Edelman Gallery, Joseph Bellows, Olivia Parker