Ostia

Ethereal winged figures dance
NYT - "The ruins of Ostia, an ancient Roman port, have never captured the public imagination in the same way as those of Pompeii, perhaps because Ostia met with a less cataclysmic fate."
New York Times, Wikimedia

Olivia Parker

A Book of Knowledge, 2000
"In 1982, while sitting on the floor of the library at Philadelphia College of Art, I discovered a remarkable book, Signs of Life, that opened my eyes to the wonder of photography and its amazing capabilities."
Edelman Gallery, Joseph Bellows, Olivia Parker

Inverted Jenny

Wikipedia - "The (C3a) Inverted Jenny (or Jenny Invert) is a United States postage stamp first issued on May 10 1918 in which the image of the Curtiss JN-4 airplane in the center of the design was accidentally printed upside-down; it is probably the most famous error in American philately."
Wikipedia

Gavin Bryars

Micheal Ondaatje - "The music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit and is deeply moving. He is one of the few composer who can put slapstick and primal emotion alongside each other."
Gavin Bryary, Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2)

Bill Fontana

Panoramic Echoes
"These days, the birds singing in New York City's Madison Square Park sound hyperreal. The air is filled with their exotic arias that seem to descend from the sky in waves, somehow loud enough to supplant the din of nearby traffic with the beauty of birdsong."
Resoundings.org, Wikipedia, UC Berkeley Art, L & S Online America

Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730-2008

"The Continuing Curve: 2008 - Rococo's most significant later interpretation occurred internationally from about 1880 to 1915, when designers found inspiration in the natural flow of the rococo aesthetic for a new design concept known as Art Nouveau."
Rococo

Federico Garcia Lorca

Wikipedia - "Federico Garcia Lorca (5 June 1898 - 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet and dramatist, remembered as a painter, pianist, and composer. An emblematic member of the Generation of '27, he was killed by Nationalist partisans at the age of 38 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War."
Wikipedia, Federico Garcia Lorca, Imagi-nation

Gregory Crewdson

Wikipedia - "Gregory Crewdson (born September 26, 1962) is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged, surreal scenes of American homes and neighborhoods."
Wikipedia, Luhring Augustine, Gagosian Gallery

Dag Alveng

Summer Light, 2000
Robert Adams - "Artists don't take vacations. Their work is their pleasure. Dag Alveng's report of his summer days on an island is therefore not the record of an escape but an embrace."
Dag Alveng

Pet Shop Boys

Wikipedia - "Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasionally guitat, and Chris Lowe on keyboards ossasionally on vocals."
Wikipedia, petshopboys, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Classics Illustrated

Wikipedia - "Classics Illustrated is a comic book series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Iliad. Created by Albert Kanter, the series began publication in 1941 and finished its first run in 1971, producing 169 issues."
Classics Illustrated, Classics Illustrated Comic Books, Classics Central

Meryl Truett

Angel Box

"Found images in mysterious Bonaventure Cemetery, found images along the highways and byways, and found images in the ever present landscape."
Meryl Truett

Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor

Dust / The Beginning of the 21st Century - "Dust, 2005-2007. In the filmed performance, the artists trace, with sticks and string, the outline of the church Vacaresti in Bucharet, demolished by the communist regime in 1986."
Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, NY ART BEAT

Awesome Abandoned Theater

Sattler Theater
WebUrbanist - "Many of these abandoned cinemas are in a sense being recycled into apartments, office buiding, and for some even haunted houses."
WebUrbanist

Charles Ives

Wikipedia "Charles Edward Ives (October 20, 1874 - May 19, 1954) was an American composer of modernist classical music. He is widely regarded as one of the first American classical composers of international for many."
Wikipedia, The Charles Ives Society, Inc., Classical Notes, MySpace, A Charles Ives Website, PBS, YouTube, (1), (2)

Art and Empire: Treasures From Assyria

The Palaces of Nimrud Restored, John Murray, 1853

"From the ninth to the seventh centuries BC, the Assyrians were the dominanant power in the ancient Near East, controlling all of present-day Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, as well as large parts of Israel, Egypt, Turkey, and Iran."
mfa

Ingmar Bergman

Wikipedia - "He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakeds of moders cinema."
Wikipedia, IMDb, Bergmanorama, senses of cinema, YouTube, (1), (2)

The Falling Man

Esquire - "The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are out most intimate connection to the horror of that day." (September 2003)
Esquire - Tom Junod, Seeing the Horror

Damaged Romanticism

Shipbreaking No. 12, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Edward Burtynsky
"Suffering, tragedy, and misunderstanding form the soil out of which the works in Damaged Romanticism sping, makind a place, as they grow, for hope."
Blaffer Gallery

Tom Rapp

Wikipedia - "One Nation Underground was the debut album by American psychedelic folk group Pearls Before Swing. It was released on the ESP-Disk label in 1967."
Wikipedia, Wikipedia - 1, Wikipedia - 2, Tom Rapp, MySpace, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Jacques Villegle

Tate - "Jazzmen is made from a section of posters and advertisements stripped from the rue de Tolbiac in Paris. Villegle starter making works using torn posters in the late 1940s and again in the 1960s."
Tate, Modernism, artnet

David Maisel

Library of Dust

"For more than twenty years, David Maisel has chronicled the tensions between nature and culture in his large-scaled photogras of environmentally impacted landscapes."
David Maisel, Walk the Walk

Kay Hassan

ARTTHROB - "This recycling, the rawness and roughness of technique, the free form of the constructions unbounded by rectilinear framing and adhered directly onto the wallseems wholly appropriate for these depictions of a shifling society."
ARTTHROB

Wang Guangyi

Materialist's Art, 2006

"The dramatically outlined figures brandishing red book gospel, set against flat planes of colour, are rendered in a style specific to Chinese government issue posters of the late 60s and early 70s."
Wang Guangyi

Leandro Katz

Installation, 1995
"Tania: Masks and Trophies - Photographic blow ups installation of the five identities abopted by Haydee Tamara Bunke, also known as Tania, La Guerrillera, the only woman who fought together with Ernesto Che Guevara in Bolivia."
Leandro Katz

Joseph Byrd

Wikipedia - "His lengthy career in a wide variety of experimental and other music genres is matched by few, if any, American composer-arrangers and music educators."
Wikipedia, Renewable Music, YouTube, (1), (2)

1998 FIFA World Cup

FIFA - "The home of tournament founder Jules Rimet, France enjoyed an unforgettable summer as its footballers finally tasted FIFA World Cup glory, Zinedine Zidane leading Les Bleus to victory over Brazil in the Final."
FIFA, Wikipedia, YouTube

Anne Packard

Atlantic Beach

"Feverish with color and dancing brushstokes, the painting hold a tension between passion and ruthless. Over at Arden Gallery, Anne Packard's landscapes, inspired by the view of Provincetown Harbor from the window of her home, are ethereal and soft."
Addison Gallery

Susan Meiselas

A refugee family lives on the side of the road in Kurdistan, 1991
"Since the 1970s, question of ethics raised by documentary practice have been central to debates in photography."
Susan Meiselas, The Museum at ICP

The Collages John Ashbery

Poisson d'Avril
New York Times - "A couple of them date from his college years in the 1940s. Most are from the 1970s and were recently rediscovered tucked away in a shoebox."
New York Times, artnet

Aaron Douglas

"In paintings, murals, and book illustrations, Dougls produced and had a lasting impact on American art history and the nation's cultural heritage."
Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist, Spencer Museum of Art, Wikipedia, Harlem: 1900-1940

Leonard Cohen

"Sex, spirituality, religion, power - he has relentlessly examined the largest issues in human lives, always with a full appreciation of how elusive answers can be to the vexing questions he raises."
Leonard Cohen, Wikipedia, The Leonard Cohen Files, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Patricia Johanson

Patricia Johanson - "These multi-function landscapes have always appealed to me because they are not only beautiful and useful, but also productive and life supporting."
Land Views, greemuseum.org, Patricia Johanson

Radical America

"A digital edition of Radical America, a product of the campus-based New Left of the late 1960s, specifically the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), but the magazing long outlived its seedbed."
Brown University Library Center for Digital Initiatives

Raoul Dufy

La Plage de Sainte-Adresse

"Raoul Dufy experimented with color even before the first Fauve exhibition in 1905. He did not exhibit with Henri Matisse and his group of Fauves at the first show, but he was excited by their creative use of color and drawing."
WebExhibity, artnet