MTA: Arts for Transit

Felipe Galindo, 231st Street, Magic Realism in Kingsbridge, 2008
"MTA Arts for Transit commissions public art that is seen by hundreds of thousands of city-dwellers as well as national and international visitors who use the New York City Transit, Metro-North Railroad, Long Island Rail Road, and Bridges & Tunnels."
Arts for Transit

Sam Cooke

Wikipedia - "Sam Cooke (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964) was an American gospel, R&B, soul, and pop singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. He is considered to be one of the pioneers and founders of soul music."
Wikipedia, Google, Sam Cooke, Daily Motion, LiveVideo, You Tube, (1), (2)

The Story of India

Arches of Agra Fort
PBS - "The world's largest democracy and a rising economic giant, India is now as well known across the globe for its mastery of computer technology as it is for its many-armed gods and its famous spiritual traditions. But India is also the world's most ancient surviving civilization, with unbroken continuity back into prehistory."
PBS, Wikipedia, BBC

Mary Heebner

Folio #2
Wikipedia - "Mary Heebner (b. April 19, 1951 in Los Angeles, California) is an artist known for paintings — especially abstract landscape paintings — artist books and paper making."
Wikipedia, Mary Heebner

Ralph Albert Blakelock

Wikipedia - "Blakelock's early landscapes have their genesis in the style of the Hudson River school of painters. In time, he developed a more subjective and intimate style."
Wikipedia, artnet

Glenn Branca

Wikipedia - "Glenn Branca (born October 6, 1948 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is a highly-influential avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternate tuned guitars, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series."
Wikipedia, glenn branca, You Tube, (1), (2)

Mal Smart

a few photo's by / Mal, vfxy, ONEXPOSURE

Rainer Gross

Berman Twins
ART in AMERICA, April 2005, Michael Amy - "You can brush, trowel, press, throw, squirt, drip or pour paint onto a canvas, or stain it with diluted medium. It has all been done. Rainer Gross makes paint adhere to the support in yet another way in order to arriving at compelling abstract compositions."
Rainer Gross, artnet

François Truffaut

Wikipedia - "François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was an influential filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave; and remains an icon of the French film industry. In a film career lasting just over a quarter of a century, he was also a screenwriter, producer or actor in over twenty-five films."
Wikipedia, IMDb, senses of cinema

Gustave Caillebotte

Les raboteurs parquet, 1875
Wikipedia - "Gustave Caillebotte (19 August 1848–21 February 1894), was a French painter, member and patron of the group of artists known as Impressionists, though he painted in a much more realistic manner than many other artists in the group. Caillebotte was noted for his early interest in photography as an artform."
Wikipedia

Einstürzende Neubauten

Wikipedia - "The band is often classified as industrial music. One of their 'trademarks' is the use of custom-built instruments, predominantly made out of scrap metal and building tools, and noises, in addition to standard musical instruments. Neubauten has always experimented with sounds, originally in noise music and recently in very diverse styles."
Wikipedia, Einstürzende Neubauten

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