George Clinton

Wikipedia - "George Clinton (born July 22, 1941) is an American musician and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and was a solo funk artist as of 1981. He has been called one of the most important innovators of funk music, next to James Brown and Sly Stone."
Wikipedia, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

Huma Mulji

Wikipedia - "Huma Mulji (born 1970) is an artist based in Lahore. Mulji was born in Karachi. Her sculpture and photography discuss identity through the metaphor of travel and the freedom it affords for self-exploration."
Wikipedia, Huma Mulji

Pelé

Wikipedia - "Edison (Edson) Arantes do Nascimento,... (born 23 October 1940), best known by his nickname Pelé is a Brazilian former football player, rated by many as the greatest footballer of all time."
Wikipedia, FIFA, The TIME 100, YouTube, (1)

Gloomy Sunday

Wikipedia - "'Gloomy Sunday' (from Hungarian 'Szomorú vasárnap', ...) is a song written by László Jávor and set to music in 1933 by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress, in which the singer mourns the untimely death of a lover and contemplates suicide."
Wikipedia, Gloomy Sunday, YouTube, Diamanda Galas, Sarah McLachlan, Ray Charles, Bjork, Paul Robeson, Kronos Quartet, Edvin Marton

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Wikipedia - "Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best known for A Coney Island of the Mind (New York: New Directions, 1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of over 1 million copies."
Wikipedia, Poets, YouTube

Julee Cruise

Wikipedia - "Julee Cruise (born 1 December 1956, in Creston, Iowa) is an American singer, and actress. With a distinctive, airy voice, Cruise has recorded three albums, but is probably best known for the lead vocal on 'Falling,' the theme song for the cult U.S. television series Twin Peaks."
Wikipedia, MySpace, Julee Cruise, YouTube

Martha Graham

"The Martha Graham Dance Company, founded by Martha Graham in 1926, is the oldest, most celebrated modern dance company in the world. It presents the classic Graham repertory and new choreography in its home city of New York and on tour, featuring an international roster of today's most talented dance artists."
Center of Contemporary Dance, Wikipedia, PBS, YouTube

Mike Chisholm

Pentagonal Pool
"Mike Chisholm was born in 1954 in Stevenage New Town (thirty miles north of London, England). He began a serious involvement with photography about fifteen years ago, building on an interest in printmaking. He is also interested in designing and making books and CDs."
Mike Chisholm

Robert Capa

Wikipedia - "Robert Capa (Budapest, October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was born Andre Friedmann. A self-proclaimed 'photo-journalist,' he was a 20th century combat photographer who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War."
Wikipedia, PBS

José Clemente Orozco

La Trinchera
Wikipedia- "José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican social realist painter, who specialized in bold murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros, and others."
Wikipedia, PBS, WFU

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto - "I'm a habitual self-interlocutor. Around the time I started photographing at the Natural History Museum, one evening I had a near-hallucinatory vision."
Hiroshi Sugimoto

Barack Obama

"The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents."
NYTimes, Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address, MySpace, CNN, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, BBC

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity."
American Rhetoric, (1), Martin Luther King, Jr., Research & Education Institute, Martin Luther King, Jr., MLK Online, NYTimes. Democracy Now!

Vik Muniz

Wikipedia - "Vik Muniz made two detailed replicas of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa: one out of jelly and the other out of peanut butter. He has also worked in sugar, wire, thread, and Bosco Chocolate Syrup, out of which he produced a recreation of Leonardo's Last Supper."
Wikipedia, Vik Muniz, artnet, PBS

Charles Olson

Wikipedia - "Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970), was an important 2nd generation American modernist poet who was a crucial link between earlier figures like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, a rubric which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance."
Wikipedia, EPC, Modern American Poetry, The Charles Olson Research Collection, Other Poets, Looking For Oneself, YouTube, Polis Is This

Feminist movement

"The feminist movement (also known as the Women's Movement or Women's Liberation) is a series of campaigns on issues such as reproductive rights (sometimes including abortion), domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, sexual harassment, and sexual violence."
Wikipedia, Wikipedia - 1, CWLU, Encycloperia of Chicago, Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement

Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943

Buster Ezell
"'Now What a Time': Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 consists of approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia."
The Library of Congress

Leaves of Gold

"Illuminated manuscripts are hand-produced books that include drawn, painted, and gilded decoration on pages made of vellum, a specially prepared and polished animal skin."
Leaves of Gold

Hard Format

Silent Room, Skoltz Kolgen
"However, Hard Format isn’t intended to become a dusty museum devoted exclusively to past glories, though there’ll certainly be some of that, we also want to highlight the brilliant new design work being produced right now."
Hard Format

Tadashi Kawamata

Catedral de Cadeiras, Ville de Reims France 2007
"Kawamata's works are ingenious simulations of urban situations - roads, bridges, passages, 'private' spaces - they are unreal, unrealistic and non-functional objects. The artist relates to the urban chaos of modern cities which is invisible at first glance because it is hidden behind rational, planned structures."
Tadashi Kawamata, Tadashi Kawamata - 1, YouTube, (1)

Elger Esser

Cutting Wharf I, 2007
"They seem to be more related to the earliest photography in their romantic static's. Theses in faded yellow dipped landscapes, mostly taken in France and Italy, are in strange kind of transition; all the details are correct, nothing has been retouched, but still everything seems to be unreal and remote."
Elger Esser

Mail art

Wikipedia - "Mail artists typically exchange ephemera in the form of illustrated letters, zines, rubberstamped, decorated or illustrated envelopes, artist trading cards, postcards, artistamps, faux postage, mail-interviews, naked mail, friendship books, decos, and three-dimensional objects. An amorphous international mail art network, involving thousands of participants in over fifty countries, evolved between the 1950s and the 1990s. It was influenced by other movements, including Dada and Fluxus."
Wikipedia, U. Texas, Mail Art Postcard Exhibition, R., Mail Art To And From Dan Waber, P22 Mail Art, mailart

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