Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

Botticelli, The Banquet in the Pinewoods
Met Museum - "This exhibition explores the various exceptional objects creates to celebrate love and marriage in the Italian Renaissance."
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

Silent Night

Wikipedia - "Silent Night (Stille Night, heilige Nacht) is a popular Christmas carol."
Wikipedia, another 120 languages, English (Sinead O'Connor), German, Irish (Enya), Arapaho (Jana Mashonnee), Russian, Norwegian, Spanish (Gloria Estefan). Simon & Garfunkel, Bing Crosby, Stevie Nicks, Johnny Cash and Friends, Tammy Wynette, Cats. Merry Xmas ... twoleftfeet.

Six Degrees of Barack Obama

TIME - "Though he never appeared in Footloose, Barack Obama does have connections to every one of his Person of the Year predecessors, from initial Charles Lindbergh (1927) to inanimats like the Personal Compoter (1982) and the Earth (1988)."
TIME, Wikipedia, Cafe Press

Robert Bresson

Wikipedia - "Robert Bresson .. (September 25, 1901 - December 18, 1999) was a French film diretor known for his spiritual, ascetic style."
Wikiipedia, Robert Bresson, senses of cinema

Theo Ellsworth

"Theo Ellsworth is a self-taught artist living in Portland, Oregon. He writes and draws comics, makes art zings, draws constantly, and on occasion, teaches workshops."
Art Capacity

Year by Year 1930-1931

James Van Der Zee (1886-1983), Evening Attire
"After World War I, architects in Europe and the US were full of new ideas. They now thought of buildings not only only as prototypes for the future of architecture but also as an integral part of their surroundings, whether rural, suburban, or urban."
Art of the 20th Century

cabaio/stencilsysem

Wooster Collective - cabaio/stencitsysem

Man Ray

Spanish Hands
Wikipedia - "Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal."
Wikipedia, artnet, Art Minimal & Conceptual Only, PBS

Art and China's Revolution

Asia Society - "The exhibition brings together large-scale oil paintings, ink paintings, sculptures, drawings and artist sketchbooks, woodblock prints, posters, and objects from everyday life, many never before shown in the United States."
Art and China's Revolution, The Brooklyn Rail

Auguste Rodin

The Kiss
Wikipedia - "Auguste Rodin (born Francois-Auguste-Rene Rodin; 12 November 1840- 17 November 1917) was a French artist, most famous as a sculptor. He was the preeminent French sculptor of his time, and remains one of the few sculptors widely recognized outside the visual arts community."
Wikipedia, Rodin, Rodin Museum

Pentangle

Wikipedia - "Pentangle is British folk rock (or folk-jazz) band. The original band was active in the late 1960s and early 1970s; its successor has been active since the early 1980s."
Wikipedia, MySpace, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Akhetaten

Dynasty XVIII
"Descending the Nile, as we follow its flow from south to north, we leave Thebes behind. After adimiring the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, the sanctuaries of Osiris at Abydos, the Coptic monasteries at Sohag, we arrive at Tell el Amarna, on the east bank of the Nile."
Tell El-Amarna, Capital of the Disk, MFA, The Lost City of the Pharaohs

Pearl Primus

The Negro Speaks of Rivers, 1944
flickr - "American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and teached whose performance work drew on the African American experience and on her research in Africa and the Caribbean."
flickr, Wikipedia, PBS

Alfred Sisley

Lane near a Small Town, 1864

WebMuseum - "By the time, however, he had started to frequent the Cafe Guerbois, and was becoming more deeply influenced by the notions which were creating Impressionism."
WebMuseum, Wikipedia, Sisley

Jean Tinguely

Baluba III

Wikipedia - "He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics."
Wikipedia, Museum Tinguely, YouTube, (1), (2)

FC Barcelona

Wikipedia - "There is often a fierce rivalry between the two strongest teams in a national league, and this is particularly the case in La Liga, where the game beween FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF is known El Clasico. From the start the clubs were seen as representatives of two rival countries in Spain, Catalonia and Castile, as well as of the two cities themselves."
Wikipedia, FC Barcelona

L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E

Arthur Tress
Wikipedia - "The Language poets (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, after the magazine that bears that name) are an avant garde group or tendency in United States poetry that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s."
Wikipedia, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine

Eric Aho

White Turn in the River
Peter Campion - "Aho dwells in the borderland between self and world, and he attends to its shifting weather with a fierce subtlety."
Eric Aho, Tory Folliard Gallery, artnet

David Lynch

Wikipedia - "David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American director, screenwriter, producer, painter, cartoonist, composer, video and performance artist."
Wikipedia, David Lynch, YouTube, (1)

Mike & Doug Starn

Structure of Thought 15, 2001-2004
"Mike and Doug Starn, American artists and identical twins, were born in New Jersey in 1961. Working collaboratively in photography since age thirteen, they continue to defy categorization by effectively combining traditionally separate disciplines such as sculpture, painting, video, and installation."
mike + doug starn, artnet

Susan Weil

Wooden Tree, 2005
Wikipedia - "Susan Weil (born in New York, 1930) is American artist best known for experimental three-dimensional paintings, which combine figurative illustration with explorations of movement and space."
Wikipedia, ARTINFO

World Chess Championship 1972

Wikipedia - "The World Chess Championship 1972 match between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky in Laugardalsholl, Reykjavik, Iceland, has been dubbed the Match of the Century."
Wikipedia, chessgames.com, YouTube, (1)

Angela Drury

Passage
"Growing up in New Orleans has given Angela an eye for architectual and cultural detail and she has traveled the world focusing her camera on the detais often overlooked by others."
Angela Drury Pictures, Angela Drury Photography

The B-52's

Wikipedia - "The B-52's originated as a New Wave rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1976. The band's name comes from a particular beehive hairdo resembling the nose cone the airplane of the same name."
Wikipedia, last.fm, Rolling Stone, YouTube, (1)

Jo Freeman

Jo Freeman - "I've been collecting buttons since 1964 when my local pusher enticed me with freebies until I was hooked. My passion has waxed and waned with time, so I now have somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 different buttons - a paltry number to the serions collector, who usually loses count at 20,000."
Jo Freeman

Season 4

"Visually captivating and intriguing, contemporary art is admired and appreciated by many in museums and galleries. Yet few are given access to the creative processes behind the work - the inspirations and ideas that translate into compelling finished objects."
Art:21

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