Gordon Matta-Clark

Wikipedia - "Gordon Matta-Clark (June 22, 1943 - August 27, 1978) was an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He is famous for his 'building cuts,' a series of works in abandoned buildings in which he variously removed sections of floors, ceilings, and walls."
Wikipedia, QMA, Artcyclopedia, artnet, David Zwirner

Robert Duncan, 1919-1988

Michael Palmer - "Let's begin with the thought that Duncan, in his poetics, embodies a series of paradoxes that at once reflect upon the antecedent poetics of what he called his 'modernist masters'."
Modern American Poetry, Wikipedia, MLA Guidelines, Robert Duncan, epc, Poetry Foundation, PENNSOUND

Virginia Rose Kane

"A unique melding of collage and papercutting, these delicate works are an artisic expression of the earths eternal mysteries that provide the viewer an opportunity to discover art and nature anew."
Viginia Rose Kane

Alexander Palace

A Labour Day Loyalty Demonstration at the Hotel Astoria
Bob Atchison - "Our Russian history websites and online books present a wide array of subjects relating to Royalty, Art, the Revolution ane the Romanov Dynasty. "
Alexander Palace

Johannes Vermeer

Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665-67
Wikipedia - "Vermeer produced transparent colours by applying paint onto the canvas in loosely granular layers, a technique called pointellie (not te be confused with pointillism). No drawing have been securely attributed to Vermeer, and his painting offer few clues to preparatory methods."
Essential Vermeer, Wikipedia, Met Museum, National Gallery of Art

E.J. Peiker

Julia Butterfly
"I have also expanded my love for landscape photography and am now heavily engaged in creating artistic landscape images of North America's great scenic wonders."
E.J. Peiker

Fernando Pessoa

Wikipedia - "Fernando Antonio Norueira Pessoa ... (b. June 13, 1888 in Lisbon, Portugal - d. November 30, 1935 in the same city) was a poet and writer. The critic Harold Bloom referred to his in the book The Western Canon as the most representative poet of the twentieth century, along with Pablo Neruda."
Pessoa Trunk, Wikipedia, Wikimeria, Fernando Pessoa, Academy of American Poets, Google, Condalmo

Chuck Close

Roy II, 1994
"American artist Chuck Close his been a leading figure in contemporary art since the early 1970s. Bestknown for the monumental heads he has painted in thousands of tiny airbrush bursts, thumbprints, or looping multi-color brushstrokes, Close has developed a formal analysis and methodological reconfiguration of the human face that have radically changed the definition of modern portraiture."
Chuck Close, Chuck Close 1, Wikipedia, Image results, Video results

Meridith McNeal

"I am an intention based and content driven artist. My work is about memory and the cultural, physical and social history of a place or individuals. The ideas I set out to convey me to manifest work to best tell a particular story."
Meridith McNeal

Hana Purkrabkova

She in combing out, 2005
"She is a unique person in the field of Czech figurative sculpture. Her typical material is raw fire-clay with pating or fine colour tones, as well as in bronz sculptures."
Hana Purkrabkova

Trading Places

"Asia used to be known as 'The East Indies'. Pepper, spices, medicinal drugs, aromatic woods, perfumes and silks were rare commodities in Europe, and therefore valuable."
The British Library

Astronomischer Bilder-Atlas

Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology - "Astronomischer Bilder-Atlas is a collection of engraved plates published sometime around 1870 by W. Nitzschike of Stuttgart, Germany. They are a German translation of a set first published in England by James Reynolds in 1850."
Linda Hall

Steve Reich

"From his early taped speech pieces It's Gonna Rain (1965), and Come Out (1966) to his and video artist Beryl Korot's digital video opera Three Tales (2002), Mr. Reich has embracer not only aspects of Western Classical music, but the structures, harmonies, and rhythms of non-Western and American vernaculal music, particularly jazz."
Steve Reich, Wikipedia, New England Conservatory, Whitney, NPR-1, NPR-2, Video results, YouTube-1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Abandoned Places

"You can find a set of photographs from my trips to the abandened and forgotten. There are some best interesting information about the objects and most importent informations from its history. Abandened factories, forgotten cemeteries, ruins, closed hospitals, old palaces and residences..."
Chris

Neil Young

Rock and Roll - "Neil Young is one of rock and roll's greatest songwriters and performers. In a career that extends back to his mid-Sixties roots as a coffeehouse folkie in his native Canada, this principled and unpredictable maverick has pursued an often winding course across the rock and roll landscape."
Rock and Roll, Wikipedia, Neil Young, MSN, YouTube

Phillip Estlund

Orange Crush, 2007

Born, 1974, Athens, Greece.
GAVLAK

Barbara Kruger

The Art History Archive - "American conceptual/pop artist Barbara Kruger was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1945 and left there in 1964 to attend Syracuse University. Early on she developed an inerest in graphic design, portrt, writing and attended poetry readings."
The Art History Archive, Barbara Kruger, Whitney Museum of American Art, Wikipedia, U. Michigan, art:21, Image results

Old Staten Island

"Were there really three airports here? Was the Staten Island Airport shut down each night to ensure no peril to the patons of the drive-in theater? Did rides and trolleys really exist on the South Beach - Midland Beach Boardwalk?"
Old Staten Island

Su Blackwell

"Paper has been used for communication since its invention, either between humans or in an attempt to communicate with the spirit world. I employ accessible medium and use irreversibe, destructive processes to reflect on the precariousness of the world we inhabit and the fragility of our life, dreams and ambitions."
Su Blackwell

Images of Asia

Gate where Pipe Line starts near. Dungagali.
"Images of Asia is images of the 50 countries of the world between the Suez Canal and the Sea of Japan. Nearly 60% of the world's population. Over 3.7 billion people order of population."
Images of Asia

David Maisel

Lake Project 10
"His large-scaled photographs show the physical impact on the land from industrial efforts such as mining, logging, water reclamation, and military testing. Because these sites are often remote and inaccessible, Maisel frequently works from an aerial perspective, thereby permitting images and photographic evidence that would be otherwise unattainable."
David Maisel

Sylvia Plath

Academy of American Poets - "Often, her work is singled out for the intense coupling of its violent or disturbed imagery and its playful use of alliteration and rhyme."
Academy of American Poets, Modern American Poetry, Wikipedia, My Sylvia Plath, Literary History, NPR, Stanford

Copernicus Films

"The films in this series are on subjects such as the Soviet and Russian poet Mayakovsky, the artist and photographer Alexander Rodchenko, Meyerhold and Russian Avant-garde architecture as well as other figures of the Russian Avant-garde." Michael Craig, Copenicussun.
Copernicus Films, YouTube

Koichiro Kurita

"The world of nature embraces, Terrasphere, Hydrosphere and Atmosphere. Each surface has a connecting border in mysterious ways. And in those expanses, all the things and phenomena including living things exist in time as independent entities."
Koichiro Kurita, John Stevenson

Provenance Research Project

Andre Derain - L'Estaque [Paysage a l'Estaque]. 1906.
"The Museum of Modern Art owns approximately 600 painting created before 1946 and acquired after 1932, that were or could have been in Continentel Europe during the Nazi era."
MOMA

Shadow play

Wikipedia - "Shadow play ... is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment using opaque, often articulated figures of an illuminated backdrop to create the illusion of moving images. It is popular in various cultures. At present, more than 20 countries are known to have shadow show troupes. The art form is sometimes called shadow puppetry or shadow theatre when shown under a grand presentation."
Wikipedia, Chinese, Turkey, Playing with Shadows, Greece, Oregon, Anaphoria, Wayang Kulit

Alex Katz

White Hat, 1990
Wikipedia - "Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figural artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints."
Wikipedia, Alex Katz, artnet

Keith Barrett

"This site represents my life as a politically and environmentally conscious artist. My art work explores the human relationship with landscape and the environment. I use a strong awareness of aesthetic to design form that successfully communicates its meaning."
Keith Barrett, GreenMuseum

Pharos

Pieter Brueghel II, 1564-1638. A Village Festival in honour ..., 1627
"Pharos, the lighthouse at Alexandria, was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Towering 440 feet above the harbour, it guided seafarers towards the Egyptian city, home to the great library and museum."
The Fitzwilliam Museum

Historic Colorado Photographs

Lake Loveland at Loveland, Colorado
"Over the last 25 years Art Source International has assumulated over 2000 original glass plates, negatives and original photographs of Colorado. The photographs date from around 1865 to 1940."
Art Souce Interntional

Francis Alys

Postmedia - "Francis Alys was born in 1959 in Antwerp, Belgium, and currently lives in Mexico City. ... When Faith Moves Mountains (2002), in which 500 people at Ventanilla, outside Lima, Peru, formed a single line at the foot of a giant sand dune and moved it four inches using shovels."
Postmedia, Hammer Museum, Carnegie International, DIA

The Empire That Was Russia

Pinkhus Karlinskii...Supervisor of Chemigov Floodgate, 1909
"The photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) offerr a vivid portrait of a lost world - the Russian Empire on the of World War I and the coming revolution."
Library of Congress

Pablo Neruda

Nobel Winners - "Chilean poet, diplomat, and politician who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. He was perhaps the most important Latin-American poet of the 20th century."
Wikipedia, Nobel Prizes, Winners, Elementary Odes, Mother Bird, Plagiarist, Books and Writers, Emory Unv.

Carleton E. Watkins, 1829-1916

Cape Horn, Columbia River, Oregon
The Getty - "At twenty-one, Carleton Watkins left New York and headed out to California to make his fortune. After working as a daguerreotype operator in San Jose, he established his own practice and soon made his first visit to the Yosemite Valley."
Carleton Watkins

Theoi Greek Mythology

Orpheus
"The site now contains more than 1,500 pages profiling the Greek gods and other characters from Greek mythology and 1,200 full sized pictures."
Theoi Greek Mythology