Machu Picchu

Wikipedia - "It was built around the year 1460, but abandoned as an official site for the Inca rulers a hundred years later, at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire."
Wikipedia, Destination: Machu Picchu

The Rite of Spring

Pina Bausch
Wikipedia - "The Rite of Spring, commonly referred to by its original French title, Le Sacre de printemps ... is a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, which was first performed in 1913." BAM, 1984.
Wikipedia, YouTube: Pina Bausch, Bejart, Partie (1970), Marie Chiounard, Vittorio Biagi, Amazon Dance Company, Fantasia 1940

Mimmo Rotella

The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construciion - "Abstract expressionist in composition and appearance, one is reminded in these particular works from the 1950's/60's of the dynamics and color harmonies in the painting of Clifford Still."
Collage Museum, ARAS, artnet

Hector Zazou

MySpace - "Strange rock, neo-classical composition, world music (from Africa to Central Asia), string quartets, pieces for wind instruments, voices or synthesizers, Hector Zazou has a surprise waiting with each new record, showing his passion for the most unexpected mixes."
MySpace, Wikipedia, last.fm

Hannah Hoch

Pretty Maiden, 1920

Wikipedia - "Hannah Hoch (November 1, 1889-May 31, 1978) was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage."
Wikipedia, Cut & Paste, Gallery of Photomontages

Phil Ochs

Remembering Phil Ochs - "On April 9, 1976 my brother, Phil Ochs, ended his life by hanging himself. He was 35 years old. He had written over 100 songs, and had traveled to many countres. He suffered from manic-depression and had beed experiencing a long term writer's block."
Phil Ochs Biography, Wikipedia, Ochs Archives, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2)

Sophie Calle

Wikipedia - "Sophie Calle (born 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. Her work frequently human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy."
Wikipedia, Guggenheim, DARE, Sophie Calle, YouTube

Rider-Waite-Smith

Internet Sacred Text Archive - "The best known Tarol deck is the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. There are hundreds of others, but the images of the RWS Tarot are the ones which are instantly recognizable."
Internet Sacred Text Archive, Wikipedia

Fluxus

Claes Oldenburg, False Food Selection, 1966
Dick Higgins - "Fluxus means change amoge other things. The Fluxus of 1992 is not the Fluxus of 1962 and if it prettends to be - then it is fake. The real Fluxus moves out from its old center into many directions, and the paths are not easy to recognize without lining up new pieces, middle pieces and old pieces together."
Fluxus Portal, Wikipedia, ArtLex on the Fluxus Movement, Colophon, YouTube

Giuseppe Penone

Respirate l'ombra, 1999
Wikipedia - "Giuseppe Penone (born April 3, 1947, Garessio, Italy) is one of the most important Italian artists. Penone started started working professionally 1968 in the Garessio forest near where he was born."
Wikipedia, Tate Online, artnet

Twin Peaks

Wikipedia - "Twin Peaks is a television serial drama that follows the investigation of the brutal murder of popular, respected teenager and homecoming queer, Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), headed by Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan)."
Wikipedia, CBS, A Guide To Twin Peaks, Glastonberry Grove, Music from Twin Peaks

Joel Sternfeld

The Getty - "Joel Sternfeld is well known for large-format color photographs that extend the tradition of chronicling roadside America initiated by Walker Evans in the 1930s."
The Getty, Luhring Augusting, NPR, Friend of the High Line, Wikipedia

Martha Rosler

Cleaning The Drapes (from Bringing the War Home), 1969-72
"Rosler works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, and writes criticism."
Martha Rosler, Wikipedia

Christian Marclay

Wikipedia - "Christian Marclay (born 1955) is a visual artist and composer based in New York. Marclay's work explores connections beween sound, photography, video, film."
Wikipedia, White Cube, Perfect Sound Forever, artnet, CCS Bard, YouTube, (1), last.fm

Talking Heads

Wikipedia - "The avant-garde musical style of Talking Heads combined elements of punk rock, new wave, pop, funk, world music and art rock."
Wikipedia, Talking Heads, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

William Corbett

Wikipedia - "William Corbett ('Bill') (born 1942) is an American poet, essayist, editor, and educator."
Wikipedia, PENNSOUND, Rain Taxi, Woodland Pattern, Just the Thing by James Schuyler, William Corbett, beeMP3, AllBookstores, The Phoenix

Guillermo Kuitca

Cover
Tate Collection - "Maps and beds are important motifs in the work of Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitcu, bringing together ideas of landscape and private space."
Tate Collection, Wikipedia, Guillermo Kuitca

Sun Ra

Wikipedia - "Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, legal name Le Sony'r Ra; born May 22, 1914 in Birmingham, Alabama - May 30, 1993 in Birmingham, Alabama) was a jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his 'cosmic philosophy', musical compositions and performances."
Wikipedia, El Ra Records, YouTube, (1), (2),

Kwang-Young Chun

Kim Foster Gallery - "Chun's artwork refiects his intense involvement with both Western art and the rich heritage of his homeland."
Kim Foster Gallery, artnet, ArtScope

Lou Harrison

Wikipedia - "Harrison is particularly noted for incorporating elements of the music of non-Western cultures into his work, with a number of pieces featuring traditional Indonesian gamelan instruments, and several more featuring versions of the them made out of tin cans and other materials."
Wikipedia, Sound Circus, Lou Harrison

Liverpool F.C.

Fernando Torres
Wikipedia - "Liverpool play in the Premier League, and are the most successful club in the history of English football, having won more trophies than any other English club."
Wikipedia, Liverpool FC, YouTube: Fernando Torres top 10 goals, YouTube: Torres Song, YouTube: Gerry the Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone

Milton Resnick

Mound
Wikipedia - "Milton Resnick (January 7, 1917 - March 12, 2004) was a major abstract expressionist painter and teacher known for his mystical, abstract and figurative paintings."
Wikipedia, artnet, Milton Resnick Was an AbEx Pioneer

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