Jindrich Stysky

1934
"This—the inaugural exhibition of Ubu Gallery—consisted of a rare group of photographs by the Czech avant-garde artist, Jindrich Styrsky (1899-1942). These photographs were the basis for the artist’s surrealist masterpiece, On the Needles of These Days, published clandestinely in 1941 with original photographs and more widely in 1945 with gravure reproductions."
Ubu Gallery

Mister Peabody

"Peabody appeared in these segments alongside 'his boy' Sherman (in a twist on the 'boy and his dog' cliché). Peabody, who was a genius, decided to adopt Sherman so he'd have some company in his life. Sherman's personality was that of a naive but fairly bright, energetic young boy. They both wore black, over-sized horn-rimmed glasses."
Wikipedia

Harry Crosby

Wikipedia - "Harry Crosby (June 4, 1898 – December 10, 1929) was an American heir, bon vivant, poet, and for some, an exemplar of the Lost Generation in American literature."
Wikipedia, Modern American Poetry, Literary Kicks, Cosmic Baseball Assoiation, Fascicle - Issue03

Milky Way Transit Authority

"Urban transit maps are wonderful tools: they are guides to traveling, they serve as mechanisms for distilling and abstracting a city down to a set of linkages and interconnections, and they are beautiful."
Milky Way Transit Authority

Elizalice's Art

Brooklyn 10
Brooklyn Art Project

Guillaume Zuili

Victory Day (Moscow 3), 2000
"For a few years now, Guillaume Zuili is exploring urban universes. In Black and white, using the double exposure process, he is drawing the portrait of Paris, Berlin and Moscow that reveals the layers of time and history of those cities."
Agence, Guillaume Zuili

Still-Life Painting in Northern Europe, 1600-1800

A Basket of Flowers, Jan Brueghel the Younger (Flemish, 1601-1678)
"Still-life painting as an independent genre or specialty first flourished in the Netherlands during the early 1600s, although German and French painters (for example, Georg Flegel and Sebastien Stoskopff...) were also early participants in the development, and less continuous traditions of Italian and Spanish still-life painting date from the same period."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Laura Blau

"Reconsidering the truth of my remembered reality, through objects and documentation remaining accessible over the years, was a driving force for this body of works. The process began while sorting through drawers, shelves and closets in my parents’ house, uncovering forgotten matter, fragments of my past, proof that I was there, with these possessions, at various stages of my life."
Laura Blau

Solidarity

Wikipedia - "Solidarity ... is a Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard, and originally led by Lech Wałęsa."
Wikipedia, BBC

Robin Rhode

Stone Flag
Wikipedia - "Working predominantly with everyday material like charcoal, chalk and paint, Rhode started out creating performances that are based on his own drawings of objects that he interacts with. He expanded and refined this practice into creating photography sequences and digital animations."
Wikipedia, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Walker Art, Toxel

Alberto Korda

"Korda had two main passions in life: his photography which the world saw, and his passion for women which his friends and colleagues saw. Korda also loved fashion – mainly because of the beautiful models, however fashion photography was not a custom at that time in Cuba, so Korda began his photography career taking photos for advertisements."
Alberto Korda, Wikipedia, ArtScene

Sicilian Defence

Miguel Najdorf
Wikipedia - "The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 c5. The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4."
Wikipedia, W - Najdorf Variation, W - Dragon Variation

Grolier Poetry Bookshop

Wikipedia - "The Grolier Poetry Bookshop ('Grolier's') is an independent bookstore on Plympton Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Although founded as a 'fine-arts' bookstore, its focus today is solely poetry."
Wikipedia, W - Elsa Dorfman, The Poetry Porch

The Internet Bird Collection

Slate-crowned Antpitta
Ferran Gil - "This will give access to uploading videos and photos (sound recordings will come soon)! As we are still in beta, some functionalities are not as good as they will be, so please be patient and let us know if you find any problems."
IBC

Film noir

Wikipedia - "Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s."
Wikipedia, Wikipedia (1), Film Noir: Foundation, Film noir Studies, The Criterion Collection, Crime Culture, Film Noir and Neo-Noir

Debbie Fleming Caffery

Darius Himes - "Mexico is a misunderstood land steeped in paradoxes. The depth of culture and richness of family and landscape is lost under a cloak of poverty and modern economic distress, breeding misunderstandings and stereotypes that are rarely questioned."
Debbie Fleming Caffery

John Everett Millais

Ophelia, 1852
Wikipedia - "Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood."
Wikipedia

Zineb Sedira

Self Portraits or the Trinity (2000)
"How to negotiate different worlds is the overriding question in Zineb Sedira’s work, worlds that collide and conflict. It is precisely her Algerian heritage and her experience of living in London and France that gives Zineb’s work insight into these different worlds."
Zineb Sedira, 24 Hour Museum

Johann Fournier

Johann Fournier

Early Twentieth-Century Russian Drama

Natalia Goncharova, 1881-1962
"There have been only a handful of periods in world cultural history when the theater was the leading form-Athens of the 5th century BC, Elizabethan England, and Russia/the Soviet Union from the 1890s to the 1930s."
Northwestern University Dept. of Slavic Languages and Liberatures

Kurt Kuenne

IMDb - "Kurt Kuenne is an award-winning filmmaker and composer of both fiction and documentary films. He grew up in Silicon Valley, where he began making films as soon as he was old enough to pick up a camera."
IMDb, Dear Zachary, YouTube, (1), veoh

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