Jane and Louise Wilson
The Silence is Twice as Fast Backwards !, 2008
"Continuing to investigate the realms of subliminal experience, Jane and Louise Wilson will present thier sound installation 'The Silence is Twice as Fast Backwards'."
303 gallery
"Continuing to investigate the realms of subliminal experience, Jane and Louise Wilson will present thier sound installation 'The Silence is Twice as Fast Backwards'."
303 gallery
Hans Weigand
Garten der Luste (Garden of Eathly Delights), 2006
"A glance at the printed lying around in Hans Weigand's Vienna studio gives a first hint of the elements that make up his visual world."
Arndt & Partner
"A glance at the printed lying around in Hans Weigand's Vienna studio gives a first hint of the elements that make up his visual world."
Arndt & Partner
Slavery by Another Name
Slavery by Another Name - "With no means to pay theae ostensible 'debts,' prisoners were sold as forced laborers to coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries and farm plantations."
Slavery by Another Name
Bob Wills
Texas Playboys - "Truly, it was the middle of nowhere, the unlikely little Texas town of Turkey that folk, country, cowboy, jazz and blues began to mix together in the mind of a young man who would lead the way in a sound we now call Western Swing."
Texas Playboys, Bob Wills, Wikipedia, Famous Texans, YouTube, (1), (2),
Texas Playboys, Bob Wills, Wikipedia, Famous Texans, YouTube, (1), (2),
Kurt Jooss
Wikipedia - "Kurt Jooss (12 January 1901, Wasseralfingen, Germany - 22 May 1979, Heilbronn, West Germany) was a Germany modern dancer choreographer mixing classical ballet with theatre;..."
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
The Next City
"An interior stair in the Frosilo's building in Copenhagen, designed by the Rotterdam architecture group MVRDV."
NYT
NYT
Eve Arnold
Marilyn Manroe
Wikipedia - "Eve Arnold (born April 21, 1912) is an American photojournalist and was the first female member of the Magnum Photos agency (in 1951, becoming a full member in 1957)."
Wikipedia, Magnum, Wired for Books
Wikipedia - "Eve Arnold (born April 21, 1912) is an American photojournalist and was the first female member of the Magnum Photos agency (in 1951, becoming a full member in 1957)."
Wikipedia, Magnum, Wired for Books
Eileen Myles
"Eileen Myles has written thousands of poems since she gave her first reading at CBGB's in 1974. Bust magazine calls her 'the rock star of modern poetry' and The New York Times says she's 'a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant garde.'"
Eileen Myles, Eileen Myles - (1), epc buffalo, Wikipedia
Eileen Myles, Eileen Myles - (1), epc buffalo, Wikipedia
1968/2008: The Culture of Collage
"PAVEL ZOUBOK GALLERY is pleased to announce 1968/2008: The Culture of Collage, a group exhibition of collage and assemblage works from the year 1968 and from the present day."
Paver Zoubok, (1)
Paver Zoubok, (1)
Pere Lachaise Cemetery
Wikipedia - "Various prominent left-wing leaders are buried in the vicinity, where a monument was also erected honouring the French Brigadists (volunteers in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War)."
Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Eastern Standard: Western Artists in China
"A rising superpower, China has captured the world's attention as well as that of an array of international artists and fimmakers."
MASS MoCA
MASS MoCA
Richard Misrach
Untitled 1132-04 [Flippers], 2004
"For more thirty years, the American photographer Richard Misrach (b. 1949) has made provocative work that addresses contemporary society's relationship to nature, especially the American West."
National Gallery of Art
"For more thirty years, the American photographer Richard Misrach (b. 1949) has made provocative work that addresses contemporary society's relationship to nature, especially the American West."
National Gallery of Art
Plains Indian Ledger Art
Rosebud School Album
"This site is dedicated to presenting and preserving Plains Indian 'Ledger' art, drawings on paper, from the late 19th century for research and enjoyment."
Plains Indian Ledian Art
Plains Indian Ledian Art
Fritz Kahn's Body Machines
The workings of the nervous system
"For thousands of years human beings have have used metaphors as ways of understanding the body. We talk about our 'ear drums', or our 'mind's eye'."
British Library - Learning Bodies of Knowledge
"For thousands of years human beings have have used metaphors as ways of understanding the body. We talk about our 'ear drums', or our 'mind's eye'."
British Library - Learning Bodies of Knowledge
Central Park
Calvert Vaux, 1864
Jerry Shriver - "That was in 1856. Eventually, when all of the political wrangling, land grabbing, swamp dredging, bench building, tree planting and grass seeding was done, the result was 843-acre Central Park, the nation's first designed urban park."
NYC Architecture
Jerry Shriver - "That was in 1856. Eventually, when all of the political wrangling, land grabbing, swamp dredging, bench building, tree planting and grass seeding was done, the result was 843-acre Central Park, the nation's first designed urban park."
NYC Architecture
Giuseppe Vasi's Grand Tour
"Vasi's Grand Tour places the work of these two masters in their cultural context: 18th century Rome and the Age of the Grand Tour examining the cartographic and artistic legacy that they inherited."
The Getty Foundation - University of Oregon
The Getty Foundation - University of Oregon
W. S. Merwin
Wikipedia - "Merwin made a name for himself as an anti-war poet during the 1960's. Later, he would evolve toward mythological themes and develop a unique prosody characterized by indirect narration and the absence of punctuation. In the 80's and 90's, Merwin's interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology also influenced his writing."
Wikipedia, Academy of American Poets, Modern American Poetry, Poet Seers
Wikipedia, Academy of American Poets, Modern American Poetry, Poet Seers
Ilkka Halso
"Since last ten years I have been working with subjects concerning science illustration and methods of Natural history reschears."
Museum of Nature
Museum of Nature
Ed van der Elsken
"Ed van der Elsken was born in Amsterdam in 1925. He lives and works in Paris from 1950 to 1954. ... During his many travels, he makes reports in colour for the monthly magazine Avenue."
Ed van der Elsken
Ed van der Elsken
Julian Schnabel
Wikipedia - "His application included slides of his work sandwiched between two pieces of bread, he was promptly accepted. Struggling in the art world, Schnabel worked a short-order cook and frequented Max's Kansas City, a restaurant-nightclub, while he worked on his art."
Wikipedia, Lenin Imports, YouTube, (1)
Wikipedia, Lenin Imports, 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
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
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
Wikipedia, RollingStone
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
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
"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
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
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
"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
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
MOCA
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