World Treasures of the LOC

The Burmese Buddhist World
"In Buddhist cosmology, deriving from Indian origins, the world is viewed as a system of of continents and oceans, either in rings (as in the center here) or floating detached in the ocean."
The Library of Congress

Tseng Kwong Chi

"A comprehensive survey Tseng's pioneering series of self portraits, this exhibition will feature over 90 large-scale, black-and-white photographs, some of which will be on view for the first time."
Paul Kasmin Gallery

Atul Dodiya

Mirage (full closed view), 2002
Documenta/Kassel - "The watercolours in this series are immense. It is almost as if they articulated a genre of their own. In the humid air of India, where they were painted, they dry only slowly."
Saffron Art, 1, Chemould, Faces Of India

Tula Telfair

There is Rarely Pleasure Without Seduction, or Seduction Without Illusion
"Forum gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Located at the Edge of a Momentary Convergence: New Landscape Paintings."
Tula Telfair

Explore the Collection

Africans Thrown Overboard from a Slave Ship, Brazil, ca. 1830s
"The images are arranged in eighteen categories. These categories serve as rough guides to the collection, but the categories are not mutually exclusive."
Virginia

Frida Kahlo

Wikipedia - "Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 - July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter, who has achieved great international popularity. She painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico as well as by European influences that inlude Realism, Symbolism, and Surrealism."
Wikipedia, Buch, PBS, Frida Kahlo, ArtCyclopedia

Michael Eastman

Courtyard, Barcelona
Linda Durham Contemporary Art - "Over the past thirty years, Michael Eastman has produced a body of fine-art photography on subjects ranging from European architecture to Midwestern storefronts."
Linda Durham

Vaclav Pajkrt

CGSociety - "Vaclav Pajkrt said this week he was humbled and surprised after hearing of the success of has image in this inaugural NVArt contest."
CGSocety, P:0/site

Felix Feneon

Wikipeda - "Felix Feneon (June 22, 1861 - February 29, 1944) was a French anarchist and art critic in Paris during the late 1800s."
Olga's Gallery, New York Review of Books, The Anarchist Encyclopedia, London Review, Wikipedia, The Sienese Shredder

Clayton Eshleman

"They moved there in the spring of 1962 and remained Kyoto until the fall of 1964. While in Kyoto, Eshleman began his apprenticeship to poetry: a translation of the 110 poems that Vallejo wrote in Paris between 1923 and 1938."
Clayton Eshleman, Wikipedia, epc, PENNSOUND

Georges Adeagbo

Synchronizing Archaeology - "Through his unique installations, Georges Adeagbo is able to investigate the mysteries underlying evolution and destiny of a person, a cite or a country."
Georges Adeagbo, Galerie im Taxspalalis, Caac Art, Frittelli Arte Contemporanea

Ibon Aranberri

Documenta/Kassel - "There are 46 framed aerial photography, commissioned by Aranberri from industrial photographers."
BAC-PIR, Documenta/Kassel, e-flux, Basel

Bernd Kleinhelsterkamp

"The photographys from the work BRASIL stand for my effort to produce abstract pictures through representational exposure. Picture without words. No context but a geographical."
BKL

Beth Dow

Meadow, Boboli Gardens
Minnesota State Arts Board - "These recent photography were taken in formal English and Italian gardens. The shape and mystery of these places are a natural draw for me as they offer glimpses of rich traditions of garden making."
Beth Dow

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