Alvin Alley

Wikipedia - "When Ailey began creating dance, he drew upon his 'blood memories' of Texas, the blues, spirituals and gospel as inspiration, which resulted in the creation of his most popular and critically acclaimed work 'revelations'."
Wikipedia, YouTube, (1)

The Luso-Hispanic New World

Veracruz
NYPL Digital Gallery - "The books whose images make up this disital presentation offer a rich sampling of the extraordinary variety pictorial holdings on Latin America from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."
NYPL Digital Gallery

Suzanna Treister

"Primarily a painter through the 1980s, Treister was a pioneer in the digital / new media / web beb based field from the beginning of the 1990s, developing fictional worlds and international collaborative organisations."
Suzanna Treister

Gang of Four

Wikipedia - "They play a stripped-down mix of punk rock, with strong elements of funk music, minimalism and dub reggae and an emphasis on the social and political ills in society."
Wikipedia, RollingStone

Shirin Neshat

Wikipedia - "Shirin Neshat ... (born March 26, 1957 in Qazvin, Iran) is a contemporary visual artist who lives in New York. She is known primarily her work in film, video and photography."
Wikipedia, Gladstone Gallery, TIME, YouTube, (1), (2)

Harold Lloyd

Flapjax at Midnite - "The opening shots of 1920s New York City are wonderful, then you get a zany high-speed Harold Lloyd blazing down the avenues, and that's fun to watch, but the real killer is the horse-drawn trolley absolutely tearing-ass through lower Manhattan, full gallop. Ends badly."
YouTube

Brad Durham

"The language of my work is about the dialogue between the sacred and the corporeal. It is about observation, remembering; about seeing into the worlds that lie beyond passive awareness - seeing forms as beautiful metaphors for what might be called a Goethean 'passage'."
Brad Durham

Joakim Eskitdsen

Vicok at the Road to Eger, Hevesaranyos
"The Roma Journeys - Between 2000 and 2006 I together with writer Cia Rinne undertook travels in seven different countries with a view to gaining an insight into the life of the Roma and the conditions they face."
Joakim Eskitdsen

Frank Gehry

Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao, Spain
Wikipedia - "The warped forms of Frank Gehry's structures are classified sometimes as being of the deconstructivist, or 'DeCon' school of postmodernist architecture, whether or not he consciously holds such inclinations."
Wikipedia, Henry Art Gallery

Mercedes Lawry

"Mercedes Lawry lives in Seattle. ... Her poems have appeared, among other places, in Alaska Quartely Review, Bloomsbury Review, Caliban, Indiana Review, Left Bank, New Virginia Review, Poet Lore, Poetry, Seattle Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Switched-On Gutenberg."
Mudlark Poster No. 6 (1997 and 2001), Drunken Boat, Arabesques Press, Acorn, Weber, Avatar Review, The 2River View, Crab Creek Review, Verse Daily, Square Lake, Stone Table Review

Morgan Brig

He Came To Appreciate Guidance In All It's Forms
"Inspired by the mysteries of life, Morgan Brig's copper and enamel works are both playful and contemplative. Her three dimensional wall sculptures are typically conceived in words by the writings in her journal."
Patricia Rovzar

Jiri Kolar

Wikipedia - "Jiri Kolar (September 24, 1914, Protivin - August 11, 2002, Prague) was a Czech poet, writer, painter and translator. His work was divided between literary and visual art."
Wikipedia, Jiri Kolar, Guardian, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas

"Black Panthers: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas traces the graphic art made by Emory Douglas while he worked as minister of culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until its discontinuation in the early 1980s."
MOCA

Subhankar Banerjee

Sea Ice On Beaufort Sea and Beaufort Lagoon, 2006
"Subhankar Banerjee's current project began in 2000 as a study of the ecological and cultural diversity of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge in all four seasons."
Subhankar Banerjee

Patsy Cline

Wikipedia - "Patsy Cline (b. Virginia Patterson Hensley, September 8, 1932 - March 5, 1963) was an American country music singer, who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville Sound in the early 1960s."
Wikipedia, Patsy Cline: Honky Tonk Angel, Patst Cline: The Lady, The Legend, MySpaceTv, YouTube

Eleni Karaindrou

Musicolog - "Eleni Karaindrou was born in the mountain village of Teichio in central Greece and grew up in Athens where she studied piano and theory at the Hellenikon Odion."
Musicolog, IndaRock, NPR Music, YouTube

Judy Pfaff

Drop in the Bucket
art21 - "Balancing intense planning with improvisational decision-makings, Pfaff creates exuberent, sprawling sculptures and installations that weave landscape, architecture, art in color into a tense yet organic whole."
art21, Judy Pfaff

Twyla Tharp

Wikipedia - "Twyla Tharp (born July 1, 1941) is a leading American dancer and choreographer. She has won Emmy and Tony awards, and currently works as a choreographer in New York City."
Wikipedia, Twyla Tharp, YouTube, (1), (2)

Kerik Koukus

Tunnel and Gates
Photographers Gallery - "His photographs are often subtle and thoughtful and are seldom dramatic. He frequently shoots in fog or very low light, giving many of his images an ethereal quality."
Photographers Gallery

Bird

American Robin

Wikipedia - "Birds are social; they communicate using visual signals and through calls and songs, and participate in social behaviors inclding cooperative breeding and hunting, flocking, and mobbing of predators."
Wikipedia, Avibase, BIRDS.com, eNature

Marcel Proust

Wikipedia - "Valentin Louis Georges Eugene Marcel Proust ... (July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922) was a French novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of A la recherche du temps perdu (in English, In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven parts from 1913 to 1927."
Wikipedia, The New York Society Library, Marcel Proust's Search For Lost Time, New York Times, Marcel Proust: Ephemera Site, The University of Adelaide Library, Proust Said That, Mari's Proust Pages, Carleton, Cemetery Entrance Gates

The Wing Luke Asian Museum

Letter Cloud, Erin Shie Palmer
"The Wing Luke Asian Museum engages the Asian Pacific American communities and the public in exploring issues related to the culture, art and history of Asian Pacific Americans."
The Wing Luke Asian Museum, New York Times, YouTube, (1)

Laura Letinsky

Greg Fallis - "Letinsky had abandoned her practice of photographing people in public places. For the next six years she photographed couples in intimate settings, private settings, usually their homes. She wanted to explore the way the romantic expectations raised by popular shape private perceptions of love."
Utata Tribal Photography, Stephen Bulger Gallery

The Prayer Book of Claude de France

The Morgan Library & Museum - "The book's miniature scenes are painted in a range of soft purples, mauves, and roses in tiny, sometimes almost invisible brushstrokes."
Morgan Library

Nancy Scheinman

Burnished with Soft Autumn Glare, 2006

"She layers time. Like medieval artists she boxes a related sub-text of narratives within the space of the main image. Physially her pieces are interwoven with her own chronnology, collaging parts of earlier images, etching and drawings to the new."
Nancy Scheinman, Heineman Myers

Africana Collections

Cote d'Ivore, 1959
"The oral narrative, whether epic poetry, folktale, or recitation of a historic event, may be presented by by a storyteller, with dramatic emphasis and artistic skill before a live audience."
The Library of Congess

U. Utah Phillips

"Described by himself as the Golden Voice of the Great Southwest, he is described by others as a true eclectic, archivist, historian, activist, philosopher, hobo, tramp, member of the IWW, and just about everything in between."
Utah Phillips, Wikipedia, You Tube, (1)

Richard Barnes

"He looks at architecture as artifact and, placing it within the context of archaeology, challenges our conceptions of the way we inhabit and represent the built environment."
Richard Barnes

Janis Joplin

"Janis broke with local social traditions during the tense days of racial integration, standing up for the rights of African Americans whose segregated status in her hometown seared her youthful ideals. ... Discovering an inborn talent to belt the blues, Janis began copying the styles of Bessie Smith, Odetta and Leadbelly."
The Official Janis Joplin Site, Wikipedia, Janis Joplin, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Michael Arcega

"Michael Arcega is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and installations. His art, though visual, revolves largely around language."
Michael Arcega, KQED: arts & Culture

Dorothea Lang

Wikipedia - "Lange's photographs humanized the tragic consequences of the Great Depression and profounly influenced the development of documentary photography."
Wikipedia, Oakland Museum of CA, Women Come to the Front

Merce Cunningham

Wikipedia - "Cunningham was born in Centralia, Washington, and received his first formal dance and theater at the Corninh School (now Cornish College of the Arts) in Seattle,. From 1939 to 1945, he was a soloist in the company of Martha Graham. He presented his first New York solo concert with John Cage in April 1944."
Wikipedia, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, pbs, YouTube

Julio Larraz

"Julio Larraz was born in Havana, Cuba, on 12 March 1944. The son of a newspaper publisher, he began to draw at a very early age. In 1961 his parents moved to Miami, Florida, taking the whole family with them."
Julio Larraz

O. Winston Link

"The last of the N&W's steam locomotives was taken out of service in May 1960, and Winston returned to New York, where he continued his work as a commercial photographer."
Link, Wikipedia, Carolina Arts, artnet

Chinese Poems

"This site presents Chinese, pinyin and English texts of poems by some of the greatest Chinese poets. Most of the featured authors are from the Tang dynasty, when culture in China was at its peak, but writers from other periods are also included."
Chinese Poems