Yoko Ono

aiu: a yoko ono - "By the mid-1960s Yoko Ono was an established figure in the underground art scene; she had begun performing musical pieces, presented events with a loosely affiliated group of artists who worked under the name Fluxus, published a book of instructional poems entitled Grapefruit (e.g. "Hammer a nail in the center of a piece of glass. Send a fragment to an arbitrary address."), and was making films."
aiu: a yoko ono, Wikipedia, IK!, SFMOMA, MySpace, YouTube, (1), (2)

Leah Evans

Development
"My quilted wall hangings consist of layers of the following techniques: appliqué, reverse appliqué, piecing, natural and synthetic dyeing, needle-felting, hand printing, and a variety of embroidery stitches. There is an overall balance between hand and machine work."
Leah Evans

The African Rock 'N' Roll Years

"Dazzling six-part series telling the full story of African music, from the desert blues of the Sahara to the dance music of the Congo."
BBC, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

Painting in Nature around 1800

Classical Landscape with Figures and Sculpture, Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 1788
"This exhibition focuses on the practice of painting sur le motif—in nature—as it developed in Europe during the late 1700s and early 1800s."
The Getty

Amarna Project

"The ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna (or simply Amarna) was the short-lived capital built by the ‘heretic’ Pharaoh Akhenaten and abandoned shortly after his death (c. 1332 BCE). It was here that he pursued his vision of a society dedicated to the cult of one god, the power of the sun (the Aten)."
Amarna Project

April Gornik

"I am an artist that values, above all, the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically. I make art that makes me question, that derives its power from being vulnerable to interpretation, that is intuitive, that is beautiful."
April Gornik

Three Belgian Autochromists

Woman and girl by a brook - c. 1910. Corbet.
"The subject of these lectures focused on the autochromes of Charles Corbet, Paul Sano and Alfonse Van Besten."
Three Belgian Autochromists

UBU: Pina Bausch

Directed by Anna Linsel, Germany, 2006. "Before choreographer Pina Bausch and her Tanz-theater Wuppertal were known around the world, her new, unusual and body language ill-received." Germany...
UBU

Henry Cowell

Wikipedia - "Henry Cowell (March 11, 1897 - December 10, 1965) was an American composer, musical theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario."
Wikipedia, Subversive Prophet: Henry Cowell as Theorist and Critic, University Libraries Music Library

Protecting the Word: Bookbidings of the Morgan

Roger Bartlett Mosaic Binding
"Begun energetically by Pierpont Morgan himself before the turn of the twentieth century, the collection has grown to over 1,000 volumes."
The Morgan Library & Museum

White Nights: Russia After the Gulag

"Two years later, the Bolsheviks sentenced 70,000 men, women and children to corrective Labour Camps, as they were now called."
Donald Weber

The Flatiron Building

"Designed by the Chicago architect Daniel Burnham, known for his skyscraper, this steel-framed terra-cotta and stone-clad skyscaper represents this developers' first (and ultimately unsuccessful) attempt to create a new business center north of Wall Street."
New York Architecture

Christmas under Fire (1941)

"All of the fims available to view here are from the BFI National Archive - the world's largest and most diverse film and TV archive."
YouTube

Clare Leighton

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Wikipedia - "Clare Veronica Hope Leighton (1899-1989) was an English/American artist, writer and illustrator, best known for her wood engravings."
Wikipedia, Artwork, Paramour Fine Arts

Liza Lou

"Liza Lou is an art whose work combines visonary, conceptual, traditional and vernacular approaches to create a new kind of scuptural experience."
Deitch

Florin Ion Firimita

The Summer You Turned Into a Butterfly
"The journeys are soul searching. I never view a piece of art by Florin and walk away unchanged. I've had a conversation. We've exchanged important ideas. His works of art make me think more carefully about the work of living."
artspan

Alex Kanevsky

"The life cycle of a wave is measured in seconds, and because of that each painting is not an image of a particular wave, but a cumulative image of waves observed over several days in various conditions."
Alex Kanevsky

Otis Redding

Wikipedia - "...synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the blues experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm and blues into a form of funky, secular testifying."
Wikipedia, Google, Otis Redding, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

ICE: A Victorian Romance

William Hulme Hooper, The Months among the Tants of the Tuski, 1853
"In 1818, the British began infatuation with the Arctic. It started innocently enough, with the Admiralty trying to find an outlet for naval officers and seamen who had been idled by the end of the Napoleonic wars."
A Victorian Romance

Runa Islam

White Cube - "Runa Islam makes film and video installations that use overlapping layers of narrative to explore notions to truth and fiction, subjectivity and authorship."
White Cube, Tate, Wikipedia

William S. Burroughs's "The Junky's Christmas"

Guardian - "Wading through the sentimental seasonal schlock online, we fell on this moody, gritty little yuletide masterpiece for blessed relief."
Guardian - (1), (2)

Digital Snow Museum

Central Park, New York City, February 21, 1929.
Digital Snow Museum

Bernadette Mayer

Wikipedia - "Bernadette Mayer (born May 12, 1945) in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is a poet and prose writer."
Wikipedia, EPC, PENNSOUND

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