Jim Crow

You Don't Have to Ride Jim Crow -"Warned by Southern friends that they would be taking their lives into their hande if they attempted interracial travel through the Deep South, they limited their trip to the Upper South only."
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, American RadioWorks, Wikipedia, You Don't Have to Ride Jim Crow, African American Odyssey, PBS,

Brian Eno

Wikipedia - "Brian Eno ... (born on 15 May 1948, in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England), with full name Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, is an English electronic musician, music theorist and record producer. As a solo artist, he is best known as the father of modern ambient music."
Wikipedia, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Brian Eno Home, In Motion Magazine, The Oblique Strategies, NNDB, Rolling Stone, YouTube

Weekend Explorer

"Weekend Explorer is a series of walking tours through areas of New York, in which John Strausbaugh, guided by neighborhood denizens and historians, seeks out still-visible traces of the city's layers of history."
NYTimes

Danica Bakic

El Dorado
Gandy Gallery - "The Gandy Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Danica Dakic (born in 1962 in Sarajevo, lives in Dusseldorf and Sarajevo) in Slovakia."
Gandy Gallery

Sonia Abian Rose

Annunciation in Block 11, Auschwitz
Documenta Kassel - "Furniture stores our things and makes our life easier. It is close to us, part of our private sphere, removed from the gaze of others and from external laws."
Documenta Kassel, Universes in Universe, 1

Anselm Kiefer

Jerusalem, 1985-86
Wikipedia - "Anselm Kiefer (born March 8, 1945, Donaueschingen) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials like straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac."
Wikipedia, White Cube, Marian Goodman Gallery, Met Museum

Gram Parsons

Wikipedia - "In a story that has taken on legendary stature, Parsons' body disappeared from the Los Angeles International Airport, where it was being readied to be shipped to Louisiana for burial. Prior to his death, Parson steted that he wanted his body cremated at Joshua Tree and has ashes spread over Cap Rock, a prominent natural feature there."
Wikipedia, Gram Parsons Home, Rolling Stone, The Gram Parsons Project, Byrd Watcher, Gram Parsons Story, Video results

Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Shane Lavalette - "A beautiful, surprising image from Tonatiuh Ambrosetti's Wolfschanze series."
Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

White Cube

Wikipedia - "White Cube is one of the most prominent contemporary commercial art galleries in the world. It is based in Hoxton Square in the East End of London."
Wikipedia, White Cube

Ancient Near Eastern Seals & Tablets

Goats Before a Shrine, Mesopotamia (ca. 3500-2900 BC)
The Morgan Library & Museum - "They were carved in great detail with simple tools on semiprecious stones. These engraved objects provide a continuous artistic and chronological sequence of more than three thousand years."
The Morgan Library Museum

Edmund Teske

Chicago/Pianola Roll, 1938-1940

The Getty - "Edmund Teske credited a grammar school teacher with inspiring his interest in photography. He received his first box camera around 1920."
The Getty, BNET

Shooshie Sulaiman

Kean Wong - "Shooshie's is visbly happier as the diaries' contents, which tell of her friend's experiences in the late 1970s, can now be better understood as her visitors browse the hand-made books, conjuring up memories through touch, smell and textual readings."
Universes in Universe, 1

John Ruskin

The Garden of San Miniato near Florence, 1845
Wikipedia - "John Ruskin (8 February - 1819 - 20 January 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an autyor, poet and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwarian eras."
Wikipedia, Ruskin Collection, Ruskin Museum

Carnatic music

15/16th Century
Wikipedia - "Its classical tradition is from the southren part of the Indian subcontinent, and its area roughly corresponds to the four modern states of South India: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Karala, and Tamil Nadu."
Wikipedia, Answers, Carnatic Corner, Carnatic Classical Music

Kim Gordon

"KS Art annouces come acrss an exhibition of new abstract watercolors by Kim Gordon. Painted on translucent rice paper these ethereal images recall faces of audience members from the perspective of the performer."
Kerry Schuss / KS Art

Desiree Palmen

"This is the work of Dutch artist Desiree Palmen. The first thing I want to know is, how does she do this? It takes hours to paint each full-body, canvas-white suit."
Desiree Palmen

Ahlam Shibli

Arab-al-shaih, 2007
Wikipedia - "Her artistic medium is photography. Her work explores the life of the Bedouin. Adrian Seale describes as 'unsentimental and undramatic ... extremely moving'."
Wikipedia, Max Wigram Gallery, Universes in Universe

Margaret Mead

"As an anthropologist, the adult Margaret Mead sought to apply the principles anthrology and the social sciences to social problems and issues, such as world hunger, childhood education, and mental health."
Library of Congress

Vernon Fisher

Water Music, 2007
"These layered compositions begin with a magnified section of a colonial map of central-Western Africa upon which the artist paints any number of images referencing pop culture (a pixelized Mickey Mouse makes an appearance), war, stereotypical icons of Africa (elephants, monkeys, Tarzan), or death."
Charles Cowles Gallery

Cesar Vallejo

Wikipedia - "Cesar Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (March 16, 1892 - April 15, 1938) was a Peruvian poet. Although he published only three books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century."
Wikipedia, Academy of American Poets, Ten Poems translated by Clayton Eshleman, Cesar Vallejo: the Poet, the Militant, the Communist, Open Letters, Shearsman, Oldpoetry

Elizabeth Magill

Parlous Land
Wikipedia - "Apparent influences are the glens and coastline of Northern Ireland, where she spent most of her chidhood, but the emptiness of the landscapes themselves is generally tempered by empty houses, electricity pyons, and the like, giving a sense of absence of absence of human life and wistful isolation."
Elizabeth Magill, PEER, Osborne Samuel

Great Baltimore Fire of 1904

"Sunday Morning, 11 am - On Sunday February 7th, 1904 most of Baltimore was looking forward to a quiet Sunday afternoon."
Baltimore on fire, Wikipedia

Veronika Anita Teuber

"Stimulated through literature, I learned to see not only through my eyes but also through thoughts. The two ways of seeing, physical and mental, complete the power of perception."
Veronika Anita Teuber

Nadine Gordimer

Wikipedia - "Nadine Gordimer (born 20 November 1923) is a South African writer, political activist and Nobel Prize in literature laureate. Her writing has long dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa."
Wikipedia, Nobel, British Council, Salon, NYT

Zofia Kulik

All the Missiles Are One Missile, 1993
Maryla Sitkowska, Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw - "Since 1987 she has been working and exhibiting individually. She uses a self-developed technique known as 'multiple exposure black and white photography', the end result of which are large format, collage-type composition."
culture.pl, Cineview, Polish Culture, Image results

Roxy Paine

Conjoined, 2007

Eleanor Heartney - "Rising from a patch of green within the urban grid, Roxy Paine's metal trees and boulders have the unsetting character of industrial artifacts masquerading as natural phenomena."
James Cohan Gallery

David Goldblatt

ArtThrob by Sean O'Toole - "David Goldblatt's unerrring photographic recods of South African life have concentrated on landscape and structure, people and context. His output is predominantly rooted in that most turbulent of times, high apartheid."
ArtThrob, Stevenson, Wikipedia, MOMA

Robert Ashley

Photo by Joanne Savio, 2006
"Robert Ashley, a distinguished figure in American contemporary music, holds an international reputation for his work in new forms of opera and multi-disciplinary projects."
Robert Ashley, Wikipedia, PENNSOUND

David Alfaro Siqueiros

Wikipedia - "David Alfaro Siqueiros (Dec. 29, 1896 in Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico - Jan. 6, 1974 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico) was a social realist painter (muralist), and also a Stalinist, known for large murals in fresco that established the 'Mexican Mural Renaissance' together with work by Diego Rivera, Orozco, and others."
Wikipedia, Artcyclopedia, Image results

Stanko Abadzic

Forgotten Bicycle, 1998
Alan Griffiths - "These black and white photographs show every day life in the Czech capital of Prague, a city that Stanko loves deeply."
Abadzic

Karl Doyle

Mother Child - Mongolia

"Karl Doyle's unique vision and affinity for diverse cultures is rooted in an early fascination with nomadic gypsies in his birthplace of Ireland - a group whose individuality and exotic visual appeal serve as one of the artist's earliest and most profound memories."
Obsolete

Ron Padgett

Photo by Ulla Montan
"Beginning in the mid-1960s the Padgetts visited Kenward Elmslie and Joe Brainard at the former's house in northern Vermont each summer for fifteen years. Then they constructod their own abode nearby."
Ron Padgett, Poets.org, PENNSOUND

Astor Piazzolla

piazzolla.org - "Astor Pantaleleon Piazzolla was born on March 11, 1921 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, only child of Vicente 'Nomino' Piazzolla and Asunta Mainetti. In 1925, the family relocates to New York City until 1939 with a brief return to Mar del Plata in 1930."
Piazzolla, Wikipedia, Todo Tango, Musicolog, Sterns Music, ToTANGO, Video

Creating French Culture

Pierre Bersuire, Decades, after 1480
"Throughout French history the powerful have sought to harness culture to their own ends. They understood that the representation of power - what today we call 'image' - is form of power itself."
Library of Congress Exhibitions

Patrick Winfield

"This view is from a ridge overlooking the forest floor and lake below. The white snow on the lake and the forest floor is so amazing unifies the whole piece."
Patrick Winfield