Pierre Bonnard: The Late Interiors

La fenetre
The Metropolitan Museum of Art - "The first exhibition to focus entirely on the radiant late interiors and still lifes of Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947), the 80 paintings, drawings, and watercolors on display date from the artist’s later years, when he centered his painting activity in his pink stucco house overlooking the Mediterranean in the village of Le Cannet."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wikipedia

Richard & Mimi Fariña

"Richard's playing inspired a whole generation of dulcimer players, and Mimi, who was 19 when the album was recorded, developed a beautifully expressive, winsome style on the guitar that complemented Richard's dulcimer perfectly."
Richard & Mimi Fariña, YouTube, (1), (2), Rhapsody

Mark Ruwedel

Kettle Valley #21
Mark Ruwedel - "I am interested in revealing the narratives contained within the landscape and am most attracted to places where the land reveals itself as being both an agent of geological processes and a field of human endeavor."
MoCP, artnet, Mark Ruwedel

The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989

Guggenheim - "This exhibition traces how Asian art, literature, and philosophy were transmitted and transformed within American cultural and intellectual currents, influencing the articulation of new visual and conceptual languages."
Guggenheim, NYT

Theatre of Eternal Music / Dream Syndicate.

La monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Jon Hassell, Lee Konitz, David Rosenboom
Wikipedia - "The Theatre of Eternal Music, sometimes later known as The Dream Syndicate, was a mid-sixties musical group formed by LaMonte Young that focused on experimental drone music."
Wikipedia, (1), last.fm, SteveWynn, The Dream Syndicate

Ballet Russes

Ballet Russes, Matisse.
Wikipedia - "Many of its dancers originated from the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg. Younger dancers were trained in Paris, within the community of exiles after the Russian Revolution of 1917. The company featured and premiered now-famous (and sometimes infamous) works by the great choreographers Marius Petipa, Michel Fokine, Bronislava Nijinska, Leonide Massine, Vaslav Nijinsky, and a young George Balanchine at the start of his career."
Wikipedia, NYT

Radical Graphics

"The purpose of this website is to provide activists, radicals, revolutionaries, and otherwise left-leaning individuals, who are working to put together flyers, pamphlets, zines, propaganda etc., with high resolution graphics."
Radical Graphics

Red Grooms

"Extra! Extra! Read All About It!", 2003
Wikipedia - "Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life."
Wikipedia, PBS, artnet, Marlborough

Germán Herrera

"Trained as a photographer and musician; his work explores the emotional landscape that surrounds him."
Germán Herrera, CPW

Stiff Little Fingers

Wikipedia - "Stiff Little Fingers are a punk band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 1977. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star (named after the Deep Purple song), doing rock covers, until they discovered punk."
Wikipedia, Stiff Little Fingers, YouTube, (1)

Post card

Wikipedia - "A postcard or post card is a rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an envelope and at a lower rate than a letter. Stamp collectors distinguish between postcards (which require a stamp) and postal cards (which have the postage pre-printed on them)."
Wikipedia, POSTCARDY, Chicago Postcard Museum, W - Main Page

One in 8 Million: Stories From the City

New York Times - "New York is a city of characters. On the subway and in its streets, from the intensity of Midtown to the intimacy of neighborhood blocks, is a 305-square-mile parade of people with something to say. One in 8 Million is a new collection of a few of their passions and problems, relationships and routines, vocations and obsessions. A new story will be added weekly."
NYT

Robin Hood

Wikipedia - "Robin Hood is an archetypal figure in English folklore, whose story originates from medieval times but who remains significant in popular culture where he is known for robbing the rich to give to the poor and fighting against injustice and tyranny."
Wikipedia, Uni. of Rochester, Under the Greenwood Tree

Mikhail Tal

Wikipedia - "Immediately after he lost his title back to Botvinnik, Tal won the 1961 Bled supertournament, ahead of a star-studded field which included Fischer, Petrosian, Keres, Gligorić, Efim Geller, and Miguel Najdorf."
Wikipedia, chessgames.com, ChessBase

Robert Christgau

Wikipedia - "Christgau names Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Chuck Berry, The Beatles, and the New York Dolls as his top five artists of all time. In music critic circles, he was an early supporter of hip hop and the riot grrrl movements, along with other music styles."
Wikipedia, Robert Christgau, VOICE

Louvre

Wikipedia - "The Louvre Museum ... located in Paris, a historic monument, and a national museum of France. It is a central landmark, located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (neighbourhood). Nearly 35,000 objects from the 6th millennium BC to the 19th century AD are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet)."
Wikipedia, Louvre

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)