Allora & Calzadilla

"Collaborating since 1995, Allora & Calzadilla approach visual art as a set of experiments that test whether ideas such as authorship, nationality, borders, and democracy adequately describe today’s increasingly global and consumerist society. Their hybridized works—often a unique mix of sculpture, photography, performance, sound and video—explore the physical and conceptual act of mark making and its survival through traces."
Art:21, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, The Renaissance Society

Italian Neorealism

Roma: città aperta (Open City, 1946)
Wikipedia - "Italian neorealism is a style of film characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors. Italian neorealist films mostly contend with the difficult economical and moral conditions of post-World War II Italy, reflecting the changes in the Italian psyche and the conditions of everyday life: poverty and desperation."
Wikipedia, GREEN CINE, the neorealism, NeoWeb, The Criterion Collection

Robert Desnos

Wikipedia - "Robert Desnos (4 July 1900-8 June 1945), was a French surrealist poet who played a key role in the surrealistic movement of his day."
Wikipedia , poets.org, The Voice of Robert Desnos, Poets, The American Poetry Review

Kutluğ Ataman

Küba 2004
Wikipedia - "Kutluğ Ataman (born 1961 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish contemporary artist and filmmaker, whose pieces in photography and video art have won him much critical praise."
Wikipedia, Tate, artnet, BBC

New Order

Wikipedia - "New Order was the flagship band for Factory Records, and their minimalist album sleeves and non-image reflected the label's aesthetic of doing whatever the relevant parties wanted to do, including New Order not wanting to put singles onto the albums."
Wikipedia, neworderonine, MySpace, VH1, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Captured Emotions

The Getty - "This exhibition tells the extraordinary story of a small group of artists who changed the course of art history. In the decades after the deaths of the great Renaissance masters, such as Raphael and Michelangelo, the art of painting was thought to have gone into steep decline."
The Getty

Mr Talion

Street art New York "buy my street art"
"This is a complete archive of all Mr Talion's photostream."
flickr

David Behrman

"David Behrman has been active as a composer and artist since the 1960s. Over the years he has made sound and multimedia installations for gallery spaces as well as musical compositions for performance in concerts."
Lovely Artist, (1), Wikipedia, Perfect Sound Forever, Rhapsody

Newton & Helen Mayer Harrison

Four Works on the Culture of Extraction
greenmuseum.org - "The Harrison's concept of art embraces a breathtaking range of disciplines. They are historians, diplomats, ecologists, investigators, emissaries and art activists. Their work involves proposing solutions and involves not only public discussion, but extensive mapping and documentation of these proposals in an art context."
greenmuseum.org, Ronald Feldman, Two Lines of Sight and An Unexpected Connection

Jean-Baptiste Huynh

Diaporama Irlande 3
Camera Work - "Huynhs square photographs convey a pure and irrational atmosphere with great clarity and strength."
Camera Work, artnet, Moscow House of Photography

The Rape of Europa

"The Rape of Europa tells the epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of Europe’s art treasures during the Third Reich and the Second World War. In a journey through seven countries, the film takes the audience into the violent whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that threatened to wipe out the artistic heritage of Europe."
The Rape of Europa, PBS, YouTube

Wallace Berman

"Wallace Berman (February 18, 1926 -February 18, 1976) was an American West Coast visual /assemblage artist."
Wikipedia, Wallace Berman 1926-1976, Andy Brumer, artnet, Google

P22 Music Text Composition Generator

"The idea was basic and simple-every letter of the alphabet was assigned to a note on a scale. This would allow for any text to be converted into musical notation. The idea was rejected by the John Cage Trust, however the John Cage Silence font based on his famous 4'33" composition was accepted and continues to be offered for sale to this day. An earlier project based on the work of Marcel Duchamp was also influential in the evolution of this project."
P22 Music Text Composition Generator

Bicycle kick

Wikipedia - "A bicycle kick, chalaca, chilena or overhead kick is a move in football (soccer), which is made by throwing the body up into the air, making a shearing movement with the legs to get one leg high overhead to reach the ball (in original head height), which gets kicked backward over the player's head."
Wikipedia, Soccer Traing, Bicycle Kick

Lutz Dammbeck

Versuchsanordnung II
"In 1982, the Leipzig painter and filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck began working on his 'Hercules' projekt. The script for an experimental film was submitted to the Dresdener Studio für Trickfilm (Dresden Cartoon Studio) and unalterably rejected in 1984."
Madia Art Net

Charles Darwin

Wikipedia - "The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and much of the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory."
Wikipedia, Lucid Cafe, BBC, BBC - 1, BBC - Darwin's twin track: 'Evolution and emancipation'

Robert Kelly

Wikipedia - "Robert Kelly (born September 24, 1935) is an American poet associated with the deep image group."
Wikipedia, Poetry Foundation, EPC, poets.org, JACKET#6, CONJUNCTIONS: A Web Exclusive, Earthlink

Gerhard Richter

Abstraktes Bild 2005
"Richter officially began painting in 1962. Here we give you access to his various works, ranging from oils on canvas to overpainted photographs, and including the historical reference of photographs, 'Atlas'."
Gerhard Richter, Wikipedia, SFMOMA

Kronos Quartet

"For more than 30 years, the Kronos Quartet—David Harrington, John Sherba (violins), Hank Dutt (viola) and Jeffrey Zeigler (cello)—has pursued a singular artistic vision, combining a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to expanding the range and context of the string quartet."
Kronos Quartet, Wikipedia, MySpace, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East

Ghost, Kader Attia
TimesOnline - "Now he has put together an exhibition of contemporary art from the Middle East which contains elements that could provoke dramatically hostile reactions from Muslim fundamentalist quarters."
The Saatchi Gallery

Nancy Graves

Rheo, 1975
Wikipedia - "Nancy Graves (December 23, 1939 – October 21, 1995) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and sometime-filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the moon."
Wikipedia, Nancy Graves Foundation, artnet

Daniel Pitin

Behind the House
"Daniel Pitin choses as the subject of his paintings film stills not for the story they tell but for the gestures and expressions of its protagonists - movement and gestures are what interest Pitin and more often than not these are pained and violent."
hunt kastner, artnews

American folk music revival

1952, Anthology of American Folk Music
Wikipedia - "The American folk music revival was a phenomenon in the United States in the 1950s to mid-1960s. Its roots went earlier, of course, since traditional folk music has thousands of years of history, and performers like Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, and Cisco Houston had enjoyed a limited general popularity in decades prior to the 1950s."
Wikipedia, The Field Recorders' Collective, npr, The 111 Greatest Acts of the Anglo-American
Folk Music Tradition

Brassaï

Wikipedia - "Brassaï (pseudonym of Gyula Halász) (9 September 1899 – 8 July 1984) was a Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker who rose to fame in France."
Wikipedia, Brassai, PROFOTOS

Visual Poetry Today

One Inch Square Text, Peter Finch
Geof Huth - "The child of both poetry and the visual arts, visual poetry has a double set of interests and its forms are myriad. Some visual poets continue to write traditional poems that require a certain visual context in which to properly mean—a context so important that it serves as a critical component of a unified text."
Poetry Foundation, Wikipedia, vispoets, derek beaulieu, EPC, Joel Lipman, (1), The New Post-literate, To be looked over, not to be overlooked

Spike Lee

IMDb - "Spike Lee was born Shelton Lee in 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. Lee came from a proud and intelligent background. His father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a school teacher. His mother dubbed him Spike, due to his tough nature."
IMDb, Wikipedia, Google

Jules Breton

Calling in the Gleaners
Rehs Galleries - "As one of the primary painters of peasant themes in the nineteenth century, and an artist strongly influenced by his own native traditions from northern France, Jules Breton’s reputation rivaled that of Eugène Delacroix or Jean-Dominique Ingres at the time of his death in 1906."
Rehs Galleries , Wikipedia, Google

Rail transport

Georgetown Loop Railroad 2. John Leyba
Wikipedia - "Rail transport is the conveyance of passengers and goods by means of wheeled vehicles running along railways or railroads. Rail transport is part of the logistics chain, which facilitates International trade and economic growth in most countries."
Wikipedia

Playing The Beatles Backwards

"23. Rain. You could tell a masterpiece like Revolver was just around the corner when a song as wondrous as 'Rain' was being released as a B-side. The Beatles were entering a phase where their songs remained accessible even as the experimentation inherent within them was becoming increasingly evident."
JB HOME

Katharina Sieverding

Transformer
P.S.1 MoMA - "Sieverding firmly believes that the responsibility of the artist is to act as a politically engaged being, absorbing, synthesizing, and commenting on the rapid advancement of our technology-driven age.
P.S.1, artnet, Art Facts Net

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

Wikipedia - "The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 ... was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the Stalinist government of Hungary and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956."
Wikipedia, The Library of Congress, 1956 Hungarian Revolution

Art Nouveau, 1890-1914

Riga
" Art Nouveau, 1890-1914, explores a new style in the visual arts and architecture that developed in Europe and North America at the end of the nineteenth century."
National Gallery of Art, Wikipedia, ArtLex, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rachel Whiteread

Place, (Village), 2006-08

Wikipedia - "She is probably best known for Ghost, a large plaster cast of the inside of a room in a Victorian house, and for her resin sculpture for the empty plinth in London's Trafalgar Square."
Wikipedia, Rachel Whiteread, Turner Prize, Gooogle

Winged Victory of Samothrace

Wikipedia - "The winged goddess of Victory standing on the prow of a ship overlooked the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of Samothrace. This monument was probably an ex-voto offered by the people of Rhodes in commemoration of a naval victory in the early second century BC."
Louvre, Wikipedia

Don McLean

Wikipedia - "Don McLean's most famous composition, 'American Pie', is a sprawling, impressionistic ballad inspired partly by the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. Richardson (The Big Bopper) in a plane crash in 1959."
Wikipedia, Google, Dailymotion