Henry Hudson, 1570-1611

"No one knows what happened to Henry Hudson and his shipmates after the mutinous crew aboard Discovery lost sight of them on that cold morning. They were never found by subsequent rescue missions, nor was any trace found to identify them as having survived in that harsh land."
Ian Chadwick

The Schoolhouse

"The Schoolhouse nurtures each child's natural love of learning and helps each to assume responsibility for learning and proceed at his/her own pace. Our goal is to lead chidren to discover the rewards found in the process of active inquiry and respectful, cooperative work with others."
The Schoolhouse

Ron Hicks

Once Upon a Time
"Ron Hicks' works have been characterized as a blend of representational art and impressionism. Some critics have compared them to paintings by Rembrandt and Daumier."
Ron Hicks

Jasmina Danow

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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),