Canadian Painting in the 30s


Walter J. Phillips, York Boat on Lake Winnipeg, 1930
"An innovative stude of the period, this exhibition documents the development of Canadian modermist painting, from the nationalism of early schools of landscape painting to the intternational trends 1940s."
Canadian Painting in the Thirties

Paul Beliveau


Les Humanites CCLVXXXIII, 2007
Stricoff Fine Art - "Recognized for his expertise drawing, engraving and painting he has since then had more than sixty solo exhibitions across Canada and the United States."
**Paul Beliveau

Koichiro Kurita


Joshua Tree, 2003
"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, Joseph Bellows

Ted Berrigan


Alex Katz - Ted Berrigan, 1967
Wikipedia - "A telling reflection on the era that produced it, The Sonnets beautifully weaves together traditional elements of the Shakespearean sonnet form with the disjunctive structure and cadence of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Berrigan's own literary innovations and personal expreiences."
Wikipedia, epc, PENNSOUND

Fairfield Porter


July,1971
Wikipedia - "Fairfield Porter (June 10, 1907 - September 18, 1975) was an American painter and art critic. He was the brother of photographer Eliot Porter and the brother-in-law of federal Reclamation Commissioner Michael W. Straus."
Wikipedia, Watercolor Artists, Parrish

White Flower Farm


"Included are classic Trumpets in shades of yellow, gold, cream, and white; Large Cups and Small Cups in great variety with petals and ruffled cups; members of the delicate and graceful Poeticus class; some Split-coronas; fragrant Jonquilla hybids holding smaller flowers; and Tazetta hybrids bearing clusters of sweet flowers on each stalk."
White Flower Farm

Pina Bausch


Cafe Muller
Wikipedia - "...Pina Bausch (born July 27, 1940 in Solingen, Germany) is a modern dance choreographer and a leading influence in the development of the Tanztheater style of dance."
Wikipedia, Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts, Ballet Magazine, npr, Video

Sheela Gowda


Collateral, 2007
Steidl - "Sheela Gowda's art resides within a space between the local and the global. Her sculpltural installations are comprised of such simple materials as cow dung and ash, but each piece is undeniably monumental in its scale and content."
Stiedl

Gerard Cambon


Judy A. Saslow Gallery - "Gerard Cambon is a self-taught artist living and working in Paris creating evocative constructions composed primarily of found materials."
Judy A. Saslow Gallery, Gerard Cambon

The Clash


Wikipedia - "The Clash were an English punk rock band, active from 1976 to 1986, part of the original wave of UK punk. Along with punk rock, they experimented with reggae, funk, rap, dub, rock and roll and rockabilly."
Wikipedia, Don J Whistance's, The Clash, Wikipeda - Joe Strummer, YouTube, (1), (2), (3),

Fazal Sheikh


Afghan Images, 1998
"Fazal Sheikh is an artist-activist who uses photography to create a sustained portrait of different communities around the world, addressing their beliefs and traditions, as well as their political economic problems."
Fazal Sheikh, Utata Tribal Photography

Chrysler Building


"The building is clad in white brick and dark gray brickwork is used as horizontal decoration to enhance the window rows."
Chrysler Building, 1930-1931

Rudy Burckhardt


Street Dance
New York University grey Art Gallery - "Before World War II, American art was generally considered provinciial and unsophisticated. Artists in New York worked in isolation, in spartan conditions, without public recognition. Paris, which had been cented of the art world since the nineteeth century, still reigned."
New York University, "Rudy Burckhardt - An Afternoon in Astoria", artcritical.com, Smithsonian: Archives of American Art, Rudy Burkhardt's Maine

Carole Pierce


Water Cloud
"The painting of Carole Pierce resuit from a lifelong fascination with the sky. They have the appearance of landscape, but the artist concerns herself, not with the solidity of the land, but the elusiveness of mist, shadow and light."
Donnna Seager Gallery, Carole Pierce Artist Studio

May 1968 in France


Wikipedia - "May 1968 is the name given to a series of student protests and a general strike that caused the eventual collapse of the De Gaulle government in France. The vast majority of the protesters espoused left-wing causes, but the established leftist political institutions and labor unions distanced themselves from the movement."
Wikipedia, Paris May-June 1968, Guardian, Guy Debord -Wikipedia, Bureau of Public Secrets, Situationist International Online, Demand the Impossible!

Winding the Maypole


Barbara Marlow Irwin - "In celebration of my birthday, I collect post cards of chidren winding the Maypole. Here are some examples."
Barbara Marlow Irwin

Thierry de Mey, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker


"Thierry De Mey, born in 1956, is a composer and filmmaker. ... He has often been more than a composer for the choreographers Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus and his sister Michele Anne De Mey, offering his precious collaboration in the invention of 'formal strategies' - to use a favourite expression of his." Hannah Dennison.
One Flat Thing, reproduced, Wikipedia, Walker Art Center, Rosas, Jessica Rychewaert Table Music by Thierry De Mey

Gertrude Kasebier


The Clarence White Family "Sunshine in the House", 1913
Lee Gallery - "Gertrude Kasebier, while studying painting in her late thirties, shifted her interests to photography. With a minimum of professional training, she decided to become a portrait photographer and opened a studio in 1897."
Lee Gallery, Charles Isaacs Photographs Inc.

Selenography


Wikipedia - "Selenography is the study of the surface and physical features of the Moon. Historically, the principal concern of selenographists was the mapping and naming of the lunar maria, craters, mountain ranges, and other various features." BibliOdyssey.
Selenography, Linda Hall: Johann Leonard Rost

Jordan Wolfson


Still Life with Flowers II, 2008
"My painting occurs in relation to presence - the presence in a room, in between things, in open spen space, in light."
Jordan Wolfsom

Alexey Titarenko


"Alexey Titarnko was born in St. Petersburg in 1962. Since 2005 he has lived and worked in both his beloved native city and in New York."
Alexey Titarenko

Elena Kalis


*17
"Living with my family in a small island community in The Bahamas, life strongly influenced by the flow of nature and a freedom of the senses."
Elena Kalis, PBase

Kamil Vojnar


"Presented here is selection from my recent wotk. It's photographs, printed on thin Japanese paper, mounted to canvas or printed on heavy Epson, Ultrasmooth Fine Art Paper, painted on lightly with oils and varnished and wax."
Kamil Vojnar, Photo Arts

Cosmic Collisions Galore

Hubble Site - "Astronomy textbooks typically present galaxies as staid, solitary, and majestic island worlds of glittering stars."
Hubble Site

DigiCam


Edwin Armstrong
"A word about dates. When known, the earliest applicable date is shown. This is usually the date of introduction, announcement, or when the camera first appeareed at one of the various technical shows."
DigiCam

Tim Mitchard


"These are the Sea Forts, that were used to defend London in World War Two. They are off the North Kent coast in the Thames Estuary."
flickr, The Utatan

'Charlie Rose' by Samuel Beckett

Andrew Filippone Jr. - "Something has happened to PBS favorite 'Charlie Rose'. The erudite conersations and sober intellectualism have been replaced by an absurd world where illogic, inane dialogues, and open hostility rule."
YouTube

The Lighthouse Directory


"The Lighthouse Directory is research and study concerning lighthouses and efforts to preserve those lighthouses."
University of North Carolina

Eduardo Paolozzi


See Them? A Baby's Life is not all Sunshine, 1972
The Independent Group - "His particular perspective was influenced by his childhood experiences of technology and the populer. Growing up above his parents' ice-cream shop and experiencing the culture of the street and the cinema."
The Independent Group, Flowers, artnet

Kenward Elmslie


Wikipedia - "Kenward Gray Elmslie (born April 27, 1929) is an American writer, performer, editor and publisher associated with the New York School of poetry."
Kenward Elmslie, PENNSOUND, Jacket #7, Wikipedia

Lou Reed


Plazza Della Repubblica
Wikipedia - "Lou Reed (born March 2, 1942) is an influential American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. He first came to prominence as the guitarist and principal singer-songwriter of The Velvet Underground (1965-1973)."
Wikipedia, (1), Lou Reed, Rolling Stone, (1), YouTube, Video results

Katherine Gulla


hyde park - "Natural and artificial light causes an ever-changing array of shadows and reflections. These images are part of our environment."
hyde park, Gallery Kayafas, Danforth Museum of Art

Robert Gardner: Borroro male beauty


"August 23rd 1978 - We stopped momentarily this aftenoon to discuss in which direction to go. We were trying to find the camp of a man who is presently accompanying us."
Luminous Lint

Luis Gonzalez Palma


No Querla Hablar de esos Anos
"In Guatemata, Luis Gonzalez Palma (born 1957, Guatemala) studied archition, painting, and cinematography, in addition to photography."
Throckmorton Fine Art, Lisa Sette Gallery, Light and darkness...

Hugo Bastidas


Las Madonnas, 1996
"The approach behind the artwork is firstly visual and secondly conceptual. I apply paint to the surfacewith quick even short strokes that build and amonunt to the image."
Hugo Xavier Bastidas, Boreas, artnet