John Cassavetes

Wikipedia - "John Nicholas Cassavetes (December 9, 1929 - February 3, 1989) was an American actor, screenwriter, and director. He is considered a pioneer of American independent film."
Wikipedia, The John Cassavetes Pages, PBS, Criterion Collection, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), 100 Faces of John Cassavetes - A Tribute (YouTube)

Islamic Art

Jar, Turkey, Iznik, early sixteenth century

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art - "Islamic art is perhaps the most accessible manifestation of a complex civilization that often seems enigmatic to outsiders."
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Tellus Audio Cassette Magazing

Wikipedia - "Launched from the Lower East Side, Manhattan in 1983 as a subscription only bimonththly publication, the Tellus cassette series took full advantage of the popular medium to promote cutting-edge downtown music, documenting the New York scene and advancing experimental composers of the time - the first 2 issues being devoted to NY artsits from the downtown no wave scene."
Wikipedia, UbuWeb: Sound

Liset Castillo

Black & White Art Gallery - "The exhibition, consisting of a new photographic series and a sculptural installation, documents the construction of a fictitous city, a utopian microcosm where particular aspects of different cultures converge and fuse in the universal experience of creation and destruction."
Black & White Art Gallery

Rhee, Ki Bong

"The exhibition will feature his most painting as well as installation works that continue with the artistic and philosophical exploration of the ambigous and frail nature of human condition."
Kukje Gallery, ZKM I Museum of Contemporary Art, Kukje Gallery - 1,

Kiki Smith

Wikipedia - "Kiki Smith (born January 18, 1954, in Nuremberg, Germany) is an American artist classified as a feminist artist, a movement with beginnings in the twentieth century."
Wikipedia, MoMA, art:21

k.d. lang

"The result is perhaps lang's most confident and revealing work, with gorgeous arrangements featuring string and guitars; disilled lyrics that come across as intimate reveries; and warm, understated, and often very sexy vocal performances."
k.d. lang, Wikipedia, WBR, MySpace, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Latifa Echakhch

Erratum 2004

"Latifa Echakhch creates sculptures and installations that explore the visual and architectural codes of identity."
Tate Modern, blip.tv, Le Showroom

Albert Kahn

"In 1909 the millionaire French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn embarked on an ambitious project to create a colour photographic record of, and for, the peoples of the world."
Albert Kahn, Wikipedia

Edgar Degas

Ballet Rehearsal, !873
Met Museum - "Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was an outspoken proponent of a new sensibility. He and his contemporaries, known as the Impressionists, organized independent exhibitions in which they showed their controversial work."
Met Museum, Wikipedia, Expo-Shop

Birds

Wikipedia - "Many birds actively defend a territory from others of the same species during the breeding season; maintenance of territories protecs the food source for their chicks."
Wikipedia, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, National Geographic

Bill Viola

The Crossing, 1996
Wikipedia - "Bill Viola (born America, 1951) is a contemporary video artist. With a career spanning 35 years his significant contribution to the genre of video art is today widely acknowledged on the international stage."
Wikipedia, Bill Viola, James Cohan Gallery, Google, YouTube, (1), (2)

Duan Jianghua

Monument No.1, 2007
"Duan Jianghua's expressionist-style painting struggle with the ramifications of power; power worshiped, pursued, lost, redeemed. Duan's violent and stong strokes, dark and dense, question the space between man and his surroundings, the present and past, things plundered and revered."
Chelsea Art Galleries, artnet

Chuck Close

Wikipedia - "Chuck Thomas Close (born July 5, 1940, Monroe, Washington) is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. Though a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he has continued to paint and produce work which remains sought after by museums and collectores."
Wikipedia, Chuck Close, Pace Prints, Washington U., Google

Yigal Ozeri

Priscilla with vines, 2007
"A charismatic aspect of both the temperament of Yigal Ozeri is his undisguised delight in the power paint and a robust affection for the painterly surface, proportion and atmosphere."
Skot Foreman Fine Art, Mike Weiss Gallery

Wilco

Rolling Stone - "It's about four o'clock on a Monday afternoon, and Jeff Tweedy of Wilco is getting ready to play an incredibly intimate one-off gig."
Rolling Stone, WILCO WORLD, Wikipedia, Gumbo Pages, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Lucy R. Lippard

Strange Weather 1, 2005. Joy Garnett
"In New York's art circles and on hundreds of Web sites, Lucy Lippard '54 is regarded as a popular feminist, art critic, theorist, author and political activist."
Andover, Wikipedia

Bernini

Corpus, 1650
Wikpedia - "Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (December 7, 1598 - November 28, 1680) was a pre-eminent Baroque sculptor and architect of 17th Century Rome."
Wikipedia, Met Museum, Web Gallery of Art

Michelangelo Antonioni

senses of cinema - "The fims of Michelangelo Antonioni are aesthetically complex - critcally stimulating though elusive in meaning. They are ambiguous works that pose difficult questions and resist simple conclusions."
senses of cinema, Wikipedia, IMDb, Little Rabbit

Zhang Dali

Wikipedia - "Zhang Dali (born 1963, Harbin, China) is an artist based in Beijing. Zhang trained at Beijing Central Acadermy of Art & Design."
Wikipedia, artnet, The Saatchi Gallery

Michelle Stuart

anoka, 1985
"Her artwork consistently centers on themes in nature and Stuart often incorporates natural elements into her compositions such as beeswax, earth, fossils and plants."
Diane Villani, Michelle Stuart, BNET

Gary Snyder

Wikipedia - "Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist (frequently described as the 'poet laureate of Deep Ecology')."
Wikipedia, Morern American Poetry, poets.org, Gary Snyder Poems

Jennifer Steinkamp

Istanbul Modem - MUSAC
"Jennifer Steinkamp is an installation artist who with video and new media in order to explore ideas about architectural space, motion, and perception."
Steinkamp Artist Resume

Josef Koudelka

Magnum - "Invasion ... In August of 1968 the Warsaw Pact armies invaded Czechoslovakia with more than 5,000 tanks and hundreds of thousands of soldiers. The invasion followed Czech reforms that emphasized freedom of the press, consumer goods, and democracy."
Magnum

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

"Out of a dance vocabulary entirely designed to suit her own body the choreographer developed an idiom closely linked to specific performers."
Rosas, Wikipedia, Vlaams Theater Instituut, YouTube, (1)

Stan Drake

"Born in Brooklyn on November 9th, 1921, he worked for $1 a day on the back of a Dugan's Donut truck for spare cash when going to high school."
Stan Drake, Wikipedia, Wikipedia - 1

Popol Vuh

Wikipedia - "Popol Vuh was a German Krautrock band founded by pianist and keyboardist Florian Fricke in 1970 together with Holger Trulzsch (percussion) and Frank Fiedler (electronics)."
Wikipedia, Wikipedia - 1, last.fm, Popol Vuh, YouTube

Michael Eastman

Arenal, Cuba Series
Duane Reed Gallery - "The St. Louis native has traveled throughout Europe and Cuba to shoot his architectural and landscape photography."
Duane Reed Gallery

Charles Simonds

Floral Font (detail), 1989
VDB - "There he discovered an area of clay pits that had once provided the raw material foor some of Manhattan's older buildings."
VDB, UbuWeb, BNET

1970 FIFA World Cup

Wikipedia "The Brazilian team, featuring the likes of Pele (who was in his fourth and final World Cup), Carlos Alberto, Clodoaldo, Gerson, Jairzinho, Rivelino, and Tostao, is usually regaded as the greatest attacking World Cup team ever."
Wikipedia, Wikipedia - Pele, YouTube, (1)

Joseph Campbell

Wikipedia - "Joseph John Camphell (March 26, 1904 - October 30, 1987) was an American mythology professor, writer, and lecturer best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion."
Wikipedia, Wikipedia - 1, Joseph Campbell Foundation

Wire

Wikipedia - "Wire are arguably a definitive art punk or post-punk ensemble, mostly due to their richly detailed and atmospheric sound, often obscure lyrical themes and, to a lesser extent, their Situationist political stance."
Wikipedia, Pinkflag, Brainwashed, wireviews

Jean-Luc Godard

Wikipedia - "Many of Godard's films challenged the conventions of Hollywood cinema, and he was often considered the most extreme New Wave filmmaker. His films often expressed his political ideologies as well as his knowledge of film history."
Wikipedia, IMDb, Cinema=Godard=Cinema, senses of cinema, Godard, YouTube, (1)

Newgrange

Sacred Destinations - "Newgrange has been dated to about 3200 BC, during the Bronze Age. It is not known for whom the tomb was built, but it was clearly the burial of great tribal leaders."
Sacred Destinations, Wikipedia, Knowth, Newgrange

Olivier Messiaen

Wikipedia - "On the fall of France in 1940 Messiaen was made a prisoner of war, and while incarcerated he composed his Quatuor pour la fin du temps ('Quartet for the end of time') for the four available instruments, piano, violin, cello, and clarinet."
Wikipedia, YouTube, last.fm