"Created with thin washes overlaying thick paint sufaces, the colors and forms in Danowski's panels are compressed and charged, drawing energy from the confinement of the small, square supports."
Spanierman Modern
Spanierman Modern
Isadora Duncan
Wikipedia - "Barefoot, dressed in clinging scarves and faux-Grecian tunics, she created a primitivist style of improvisational dance to counter the rigid styles of the time. She was inspired by the classics, especially Greek myth. She rejected traditional ballet steps to stress improvisation, emotion, and the human."
Wikipedia, Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco, B. John Zavrel, YouTube
Wikipedia, Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco, B. John Zavrel, YouTube
Arundhati Roy
"Arundhati Roy (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, activist and a world citizen. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel The God of Small Things."
Arundhati Roy, Wikipedia, Salon, Anniina's Arundhati Roy, YouTube, Video
Arundhati Roy, Wikipedia, Salon, Anniina's Arundhati Roy, YouTube, Video
Peter Hutton
Wikipedia - "Peter Hutton (born 1944 in Detroit, Michigan) is an experimental filmmaker, known primarily for his silent cinematic portraits of cities and landscapes around the world."
Wikipedia, Canyon Cinema, REDCAT, Study of a River, My Space, My Space - 1
Wikipedia, Canyon Cinema, REDCAT, Study of a River, My Space, My Space - 1
Penny Black
Wikipedia - "The Penny Black, the world's first adhesive postage stamp of a public system, was issued by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 May 1840, for use from 6 May."
Wikipedia, Penny Black Stamp, The Penny Black Project
Wikipedia, Penny Black Stamp, The Penny Black Project
Janis Avotins
Conversation - "People, places, focus, artists, short interesting conversations, the weather, music, an empty museum (never been in one), gossip and generosity."
Conversation, IBID Projects, Video
Conversation, IBID Projects, Video
Robert Rauschenberg
Bowery Parade (Borealis), 1989
Wikipedia - "Rauschenberg is perhaps most famous for his 'Combines' of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovations. While the Combines are both painting and sculpture, Rauschenberg has also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking, and performance."
Wikipedia, pbs, National Gallery of Art, Greg Kucera Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wikipedia, pbs, National Gallery of Art, Greg Kucera Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Berend Strik
DJ, 2008
"The images are chosen from photographs the artist has taken on his travels through Africa, documenting the people, architecture and post-colonial landscapes of the continent."
Tilton Gallery
"The images are chosen from photographs the artist has taken on his travels through Africa, documenting the people, architecture and post-colonial landscapes of the continent."
Tilton Gallery
Dinh Q. Le
Untitied (from The Hill of Poisonous Trees Series), 2008
The Penal Colony - "Dinh Q. Le had been working for over a decade with issues of politics, memory and history, and he continues this exploration with The Penal Colony."
PPOW
The Penal Colony - "Dinh Q. Le had been working for over a decade with issues of politics, memory and history, and he continues this exploration with The Penal Colony."
PPOW
Near East Collections
"Essentially geographic designations imposed upon this vital part of the world by the European West, each of these names both obscures within that region's manifold achievements and promotes as many enduring stereotypes of its inhabitants as the number of the rivers flowing through it."
The Library of Congress
The Library of Congress
Pizzi Cannella
Luna o luna nuova, 2006-2007
"After initially working in mixed media, Cannella adopted painting. Beginning in the mid-1980s, he begun a series of works that set objects (dresses, stools, beds, doors, cathedrals) against unspecified, non-desript backgrounds."
Barbara Mathes Gallery
"After initially working in mixed media, Cannella adopted painting. Beginning in the mid-1980s, he begun a series of works that set objects (dresses, stools, beds, doors, cathedrals) against unspecified, non-desript backgrounds."
Barbara Mathes Gallery
Bound for Glory: 1939-1943
Marion Post Wolcott. Melrose, Louisiana, June 1940.
"Bound for Glory: Amermica in Color is the first major exhibition of the little known color images taken by photographers of the Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information."
Library of Congress
"Bound for Glory: Amermica in Color is the first major exhibition of the little known color images taken by photographers of the Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information."
Library of Congress
Susan Burnstine
Bridge To Nowhere
"In Spring 2005, she started building her own homemade lenses and cameras, primarily made out of plastic, vintage camera parts and random household objects. The result of this creative endeavor can be viewed in her series, On Waking Dreams."
Susan Burnstine, On Waking Dreams
"In Spring 2005, she started building her own homemade lenses and cameras, primarily made out of plastic, vintage camera parts and random household objects. The result of this creative endeavor can be viewed in her series, On Waking Dreams."
Susan Burnstine, On Waking Dreams
Nedko Solakov
O.K Center for Contemporary Art - "Sprung from the artist's fertile imagination, the stories take shape in a unique artistic universe made of drawings, paintings, installations, videos and performances, in which he tackles personal as well as universal themes, using a strongly poetic yet critical approach often tinged with a fine sense of humour."
OK Centrum, Arndt & Partner, Nedko Solakov
OK Centrum, Arndt & Partner, Nedko Solakov
Grand Central Terminal
"Grand Central Terminal was built to house Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad network, consolidated in the late 19th century as New York Central."
New York Architecture
New York Architecture
Trisha Brown
"The Trisha Brown Dance Company has presented the work of its legendary artistic director for more than 35 years. Founded in 1970 when Trisha Brown branched out from the experimental Judson Dance Theater to work with her own group of dancers, TBDC offered its first performances at alternative sites in Manhattan's SoHo."
Trisha Brown Dance Company, Wikipeda, YouTube, (1)
Trisha Brown Dance Company, Wikipeda, YouTube, (1)
Slavery in America
L'Afrique, 1782
"The American slave trade was an international business. It began in Western Afica, where prisoners were taken for sale to European and American slave traders, and continued in permanent and impromptu slave markets in the United States, ultimately, conentrated in the South."
New York Life
"The American slave trade was an international business. It began in Western Afica, where prisoners were taken for sale to European and American slave traders, and continued in permanent and impromptu slave markets in the United States, ultimately, conentrated in the South."
New York Life
Arthur Rimbaud
Wikipedia - "As part of the decadent movement, his influence on modern literature, music and art has been enduring and pervasive."
Wikipedia, Arthur Rimbaud
Wikipedia, Arthur Rimbaud
Au Pairs
Wikipedia - "All these bands shared a strongly left wing social outlook, but the Au Pairs stood out due to their frontwoman, Lesley Woods, being an outspoken feminist and lesbian: the band were greatly influential in this respect on the riot grrrl movement a decade later."
Wikipedia, Au Pairs, New Wave Photos, mog, Rhapsody, YouTube, (1)
Wikipedia, Au Pairs, New Wave Photos, mog, Rhapsody, YouTube, (1)
Diego Rivera
Wikipedia - "Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 - November 24, 1957, born Diego Maria de la Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Asosta y Rodriguez in Guanajusato, Gto.) was a world-famous Mexican painter, an active communist, and husband Frida Kahlo."
Wikipedia, The Virtual Diego Rivera, Diego Rivera, pbs
Wikipedia, The Virtual Diego Rivera, Diego Rivera, pbs
Jacob Collins
"The Hudson River School for Landscape with build a new movement of American art, modeling itself after the artistic, social and spiritual values of the Hudson River School painters."
Jacob Collins
Jacob Collins
Gustave Le Gray
Beech Tree
The Getty - "Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884) is known as the most important French photographer of the nineteenth century because of his technical innovations in the still new medium of photography, his role as the teacher of other noted photographers, and the extraordinary imagination he brought to picture making."
The Getty, Gustave Le Gray - In Images
The Getty, Gustave Le Gray - In Images
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
"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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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),
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
"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
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
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
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