Eastern Standard: Western Artists in China
"A rising superpower, China has captured the world's attention as well as that of an array of international artists and fimmakers."
MASS MoCA
MASS MoCA
Richard Misrach
Untitled 1132-04 [Flippers], 2004
"For more thirty years, the American photographer Richard Misrach (b. 1949) has made provocative work that addresses contemporary society's relationship to nature, especially the American West."
National Gallery of Art
"For more thirty years, the American photographer Richard Misrach (b. 1949) has made provocative work that addresses contemporary society's relationship to nature, especially the American West."
National Gallery of Art
Plains Indian Ledger Art
Rosebud School Album
"This site is dedicated to presenting and preserving Plains Indian 'Ledger' art, drawings on paper, from the late 19th century for research and enjoyment."
Plains Indian Ledian Art
Plains Indian Ledian Art
Fritz Kahn's Body Machines
The workings of the nervous system
"For thousands of years human beings have have used metaphors as ways of understanding the body. We talk about our 'ear drums', or our 'mind's eye'."
British Library - Learning Bodies of Knowledge
"For thousands of years human beings have have used metaphors as ways of understanding the body. We talk about our 'ear drums', or our 'mind's eye'."
British Library - Learning Bodies of Knowledge
Central Park
Calvert Vaux, 1864
Jerry Shriver - "That was in 1856. Eventually, when all of the political wrangling, land grabbing, swamp dredging, bench building, tree planting and grass seeding was done, the result was 843-acre Central Park, the nation's first designed urban park."
NYC Architecture
Jerry Shriver - "That was in 1856. Eventually, when all of the political wrangling, land grabbing, swamp dredging, bench building, tree planting and grass seeding was done, the result was 843-acre Central Park, the nation's first designed urban park."
NYC Architecture
Giuseppe Vasi's Grand Tour
"Vasi's Grand Tour places the work of these two masters in their cultural context: 18th century Rome and the Age of the Grand Tour examining the cartographic and artistic legacy that they inherited."
The Getty Foundation - University of Oregon
The Getty Foundation - University of Oregon
W. S. Merwin
Wikipedia - "Merwin made a name for himself as an anti-war poet during the 1960's. Later, he would evolve toward mythological themes and develop a unique prosody characterized by indirect narration and the absence of punctuation. In the 80's and 90's, Merwin's interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology also influenced his writing."
Wikipedia, Academy of American Poets, Modern American Poetry, Poet Seers
Wikipedia, Academy of American Poets, Modern American Poetry, Poet Seers
Ilkka Halso
"Since last ten years I have been working with subjects concerning science illustration and methods of Natural history reschears."
Museum of Nature
Museum of Nature
Ed van der Elsken
"Ed van der Elsken was born in Amsterdam in 1925. He lives and works in Paris from 1950 to 1954. ... During his many travels, he makes reports in colour for the monthly magazine Avenue."
Ed van der Elsken
Ed van der Elsken
Julian Schnabel
Wikipedia - "His application included slides of his work sandwiched between two pieces of bread, he was promptly accepted. Struggling in the art world, Schnabel worked a short-order cook and frequented Max's Kansas City, a restaurant-nightclub, while he worked on his art."
Wikipedia, Lenin Imports, YouTube, (1)
Wikipedia, Lenin Imports, YouTube, (1)
The Luso-Hispanic New World
Veracruz
NYPL Digital Gallery - "The books whose images make up this disital presentation offer a rich sampling of the extraordinary variety pictorial holdings on Latin America from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."
NYPL Digital Gallery
NYPL Digital Gallery - "The books whose images make up this disital presentation offer a rich sampling of the extraordinary variety pictorial holdings on Latin America from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."
NYPL Digital Gallery
Suzanna Treister
"Primarily a painter through the 1980s, Treister was a pioneer in the digital / new media / web beb based field from the beginning of the 1990s, developing fictional worlds and international collaborative organisations."
Suzanna Treister
Suzanna Treister
Gang of Four
Wikipedia - "They play a stripped-down mix of punk rock, with strong elements of funk music, minimalism and dub reggae and an emphasis on the social and political ills in society."
Wikipedia, RollingStone
Wikipedia, RollingStone
Harold Lloyd
Flapjax at Midnite - "The opening shots of 1920s New York City are wonderful, then you get a zany high-speed Harold Lloyd blazing down the avenues, and that's fun to watch, but the real killer is the horse-drawn trolley absolutely tearing-ass through lower Manhattan, full gallop. Ends badly."
YouTube
YouTube
Brad Durham
"The language of my work is about the dialogue between the sacred and the corporeal. It is about observation, remembering; about seeing into the worlds that lie beyond passive awareness - seeing forms as beautiful metaphors for what might be called a Goethean 'passage'."
Brad Durham
Joakim Eskitdsen
Vicok at the Road to Eger, Hevesaranyos
"The Roma Journeys - Between 2000 and 2006 I together with writer Cia Rinne undertook travels in seven different countries with a view to gaining an insight into the life of the Roma and the conditions they face."
Joakim Eskitdsen
"The Roma Journeys - Between 2000 and 2006 I together with writer Cia Rinne undertook travels in seven different countries with a view to gaining an insight into the life of the Roma and the conditions they face."
Joakim Eskitdsen
Frank Gehry
Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao, Spain
Wikipedia - "The warped forms of Frank Gehry's structures are classified sometimes as being of the deconstructivist, or 'DeCon' school of postmodernist architecture, whether or not he consciously holds such inclinations."
Wikipedia, Henry Art Gallery
Wikipedia - "The warped forms of Frank Gehry's structures are classified sometimes as being of the deconstructivist, or 'DeCon' school of postmodernist architecture, whether or not he consciously holds such inclinations."
Wikipedia, Henry Art Gallery
Mercedes Lawry
"Mercedes Lawry lives in Seattle. ... Her poems have appeared, among other places, in Alaska Quartely Review, Bloomsbury Review, Caliban, Indiana Review, Left Bank, New Virginia Review, Poet Lore, Poetry, Seattle Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Switched-On Gutenberg."
Mudlark Poster No. 6 (1997 and 2001), Drunken Boat, Arabesques Press, Acorn, Weber, Avatar Review, The 2River View, Crab Creek Review, Verse Daily, Square Lake, Stone Table Review
Mudlark Poster No. 6 (1997 and 2001), Drunken Boat, Arabesques Press, Acorn, Weber, Avatar Review, The 2River View, Crab Creek Review, Verse Daily, Square Lake, Stone Table Review
Morgan Brig
He Came To Appreciate Guidance In All It's Forms
"Inspired by the mysteries of life, Morgan Brig's copper and enamel works are both playful and contemplative. Her three dimensional wall sculptures are typically conceived in words by the writings in her journal."
Patricia Rovzar
"Inspired by the mysteries of life, Morgan Brig's copper and enamel works are both playful and contemplative. Her three dimensional wall sculptures are typically conceived in words by the writings in her journal."
Patricia Rovzar
Jiri Kolar
Wikipedia - "Jiri Kolar (September 24, 1914, Protivin - August 11, 2002, Prague) was a Czech poet, writer, painter and translator. His work was divided between literary and visual art."
Wikipedia, Jiri Kolar, Guardian, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wikipedia, Jiri Kolar, Guardian, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas
"Black Panthers: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas traces the graphic art made by Emory Douglas while he worked as minister of culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until its discontinuation in the early 1980s."
MOCA
MOCA
Subhankar Banerjee
Sea Ice On Beaufort Sea and Beaufort Lagoon, 2006
"Subhankar Banerjee's current project began in 2000 as a study of the ecological and cultural diversity of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge in all four seasons."
Subhankar Banerjee
"Subhankar Banerjee's current project began in 2000 as a study of the ecological and cultural diversity of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge in all four seasons."
Subhankar Banerjee
Patsy Cline
Wikipedia - "Patsy Cline (b. Virginia Patterson Hensley, September 8, 1932 - March 5, 1963) was an American country music singer, who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville Sound in the early 1960s."
Wikipedia, Patsy Cline: Honky Tonk Angel, Patst Cline: The Lady, The Legend, MySpaceTv, YouTube
Wikipedia, Patsy Cline: Honky Tonk Angel, Patst Cline: The Lady, The Legend, MySpaceTv, YouTube
Judy Pfaff
Drop in the Bucket
art21 - "Balancing intense planning with improvisational decision-makings, Pfaff creates exuberent, sprawling sculptures and installations that weave landscape, architecture, art in color into a tense yet organic whole."
art21, Judy Pfaff
art21 - "Balancing intense planning with improvisational decision-makings, Pfaff creates exuberent, sprawling sculptures and installations that weave landscape, architecture, art in color into a tense yet organic whole."
art21, Judy Pfaff
Twyla Tharp
Wikipedia - "Twyla Tharp (born July 1, 1941) is a leading American dancer and choreographer. She has won Emmy and Tony awards, and currently works as a choreographer in New York City."
Wikipedia, Twyla Tharp, YouTube, (1), (2)
Wikipedia, Twyla Tharp, YouTube, (1), (2)
Kerik Koukus
Tunnel and Gates
Photographers Gallery - "His photographs are often subtle and thoughtful and are seldom dramatic. He frequently shoots in fog or very low light, giving many of his images an ethereal quality."
Photographers Gallery
Photographers Gallery - "His photographs are often subtle and thoughtful and are seldom dramatic. He frequently shoots in fog or very low light, giving many of his images an ethereal quality."
Photographers Gallery
Marcel Proust
Wikipedia - "Valentin Louis Georges Eugene Marcel Proust ... (July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922) was a French novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of A la recherche du temps perdu (in English, In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven parts from 1913 to 1927."
Wikipedia, The New York Society Library, Marcel Proust's Search For Lost Time, New York Times, Marcel Proust: Ephemera Site, The University of Adelaide Library, Proust Said That, Mari's Proust Pages, Carleton, Cemetery Entrance Gates
Wikipedia, The New York Society Library, Marcel Proust's Search For Lost Time, New York Times, Marcel Proust: Ephemera Site, The University of Adelaide Library, Proust Said That, Mari's Proust Pages, Carleton, Cemetery Entrance Gates
The Wing Luke Asian Museum
Letter Cloud, Erin Shie Palmer
"The Wing Luke Asian Museum engages the Asian Pacific American communities and the public in exploring issues related to the culture, art and history of Asian Pacific Americans."
The Wing Luke Asian Museum, New York Times, YouTube, (1)
"The Wing Luke Asian Museum engages the Asian Pacific American communities and the public in exploring issues related to the culture, art and history of Asian Pacific Americans."
The Wing Luke Asian Museum, New York Times, YouTube, (1)
Laura Letinsky
Greg Fallis - "Letinsky had abandoned her practice of photographing people in public places. For the next six years she photographed couples in intimate settings, private settings, usually their homes. She wanted to explore the way the romantic expectations raised by popular shape private perceptions of love."
Utata Tribal Photography, Stephen Bulger Gallery
Utata Tribal Photography, Stephen Bulger Gallery
The Prayer Book of Claude de France
The Morgan Library & Museum - "The book's miniature scenes are painted in a range of soft purples, mauves, and roses in tiny, sometimes almost invisible brushstrokes."
Morgan Library
Morgan Library
Nancy Scheinman
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Burnished with Soft Autumn Glare, 2006
"She layers time. Like medieval artists she boxes a related sub-text of narratives within the space of the main image. Physially her pieces are interwoven with her own chronnology, collaging parts of earlier images, etching and drawings to the new."
Nancy Scheinman, Heineman Myers
Nancy Scheinman, Heineman Myers
Africana Collections
Cote d'Ivore, 1959
"The oral narrative, whether epic poetry, folktale, or recitation of a historic event, may be presented by by a storyteller, with dramatic emphasis and artistic skill before a live audience."
The Library of Congess
"The oral narrative, whether epic poetry, folktale, or recitation of a historic event, may be presented by by a storyteller, with dramatic emphasis and artistic skill before a live audience."
The Library of Congess
U. Utah Phillips
"Described by himself as the Golden Voice of the Great Southwest, he is described by others as a true eclectic, archivist, historian, activist, philosopher, hobo, tramp, member of the IWW, and just about everything in between."
Utah Phillips, Wikipedia, You Tube, (1)
Utah Phillips, Wikipedia, You Tube, (1)
Richard Barnes
"He looks at architecture as artifact and, placing it within the context of archaeology, challenges our conceptions of the way we inhabit and represent the built environment."
Richard Barnes
Richard Barnes
Janis Joplin
"Janis broke with local social traditions during the tense days of racial integration, standing up for the rights of African Americans whose segregated status in her hometown seared her youthful ideals. ... Discovering an inborn talent to belt the blues, Janis began copying the styles of Bessie Smith, Odetta and Leadbelly."
The Official Janis Joplin Site, Wikipedia, Janis Joplin, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)
The Official Janis Joplin Site, Wikipedia, Janis Joplin, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)
Michael Arcega
"Michael Arcega is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and installations. His art, though visual, revolves largely around language."
Michael Arcega, KQED: arts & Culture
Michael Arcega, KQED: arts & Culture
Dorothea Lang
Wikipedia - "Lange's photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profounly influenced the development of documentary photography."
Wikipedia, Oakland Museum of CA, Women Come to the Front
Wikipedia, Oakland Museum of CA, Women Come to the Front
Merce Cunningham
Wikipedia - "Cunningham was born in Centralia, Washington, and received his first formal dance and theater at the Corninh School (now Cornish College of the Arts) in Seattle,. From 1939 to 1945, he was a soloist in the company of Martha Graham. He presented his first New York solo concert with John Cage in April 1944."
Wikipedia, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, pbs, YouTube
Wikipedia, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, pbs, YouTube
Julio Larraz
"Julio Larraz was born in Havana, Cuba, on 12 March 1944. The son of a newspaper publisher, he began to draw at a very early age. In 1961 his parents moved to Miami, Florida, taking the whole family with them."
Julio Larraz
Julio Larraz
O. Winston Link
"The last of the N&W's steam locomotives was taken out of service in May 1960, and Winston returned to New York, where he continued his work as a commercial photographer."
Link, Wikipedia, Carolina Arts, artnet
Link, Wikipedia, Carolina Arts, artnet
Chinese Poems
"This site presents Chinese, pinyin and English texts of poems by some of the greatest Chinese poets. Most of the featured authors are from the Tang dynasty, when culture in China was at its peak, but writers from other periods are also included."
Chinese Poems
Chinese Poems
Edible Flowers
French Rose
"Roses are a group of herbaceous shrubs found in temperate regions throughout both both hemispheres. All the Roses of the Antipodes, South Africa and the temperate parts of South America have been carried there by cultivation."
Edible Flowers
"Roses are a group of herbaceous shrubs found in temperate regions throughout both both hemispheres. All the Roses of the Antipodes, South Africa and the temperate parts of South America have been carried there by cultivation."
Edible Flowers
Cornell Capa
The Hand of John F. Kennedy California, 1960
Wikipedia - "Cornell Capa (April 14, 1918 - May 23, 2008) was a Hungarian-American photographer, member of Magnum Photos, and photo curator, and the younger brother of photo-journalist and war photographer Robert Capa."
Wikipedia, SKJosefsberg Studio
Wikipedia - "Cornell Capa (April 14, 1918 - May 23, 2008) was a Hungarian-American photographer, member of Magnum Photos, and photo curator, and the younger brother of photo-journalist and war photographer Robert Capa."
Wikipedia, SKJosefsberg Studio
Paul Celan
Wikipedia - "Paul Celan (...November 23, 1920 - approximatelly April 20, 1970) was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel, one of the major poets of the post-World War II era."
Wikipedia, Poets.org, Force of Light, Art of Europe
Wikipedia, Poets.org, Force of Light, Art of Europe
Virginia Rodrigues
"Like so many Brazilian girls of humble origin, she had to help support his family by working as washerwoman, cleaning woman, manicurist, and cook."
Virginia Rodrigues, FeileAfrica, Wikipedia
Virginia Rodrigues, FeileAfrica, Wikipedia
John Berger
"John Berger is a storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwrier, dramatist and critic, whose body of work embodies his concern for, in Geoff Dyer's words, 'the enduring mystery of great art and the lived experience of the oppressed.'"
John Berner, Wikipedia
John Berner, Wikipedia
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