George Inness

Hazy Morning, Montclair, New Jersey, 1893
Wikipedia - "His work was influenced, in turn, by that of the old masters, the Hudson River school, the Barbizon school, and, finally, by the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg, whose spiritualism found vivid expression in the work of Inness' maturity. He is best known for these mature works that helped define the Tonalist movement."
Wikipedia, George Inness, artnet, George Inness Virtual Gallery

The Folkways Collection

Smithsonian - "This series of 24 one-hour programs explores the remarkable collection of music, spoken word, and sound recordings that make up Folkways Records (now at the Smithsonian as Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)."
The Folkways Collection

Can

Wikipedia - "Can were an experimental rock band formed in West Germany in 1968. One of the most important krautrock groups, Can' incorporated strong minimalist and world music influences."
wikipedia, godfathers of inde, Empty Can Band, YouTube, (1), (2)

Jan Fabre

"Jan Fabre (born 1958, Antwerp, Belgium) is a Belgian multidisciplinary artist, playwright, stage director, choreographer and designer."
Wikipedia, Antopology of a planet, MINDFOOD, Jan Fabre

Charles Baudelaire

"Charles Pierre Baudelaire ...(9 April 1821 - 31 August 1867) was a nineteenth century French poet, critic and translator. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Baudelaire's name has become a byword for literary and artistic decadence."
Wikipedia, poets.org, Charles Baudelaire, Huck Gutman

Wilfred Sätty

"San Francisco visual artist of the 60's and 70's. Here are Interviews, research, clues, events, along the last ten years . . . Here's the story of what happened to me when I met Satty... Two years after he was already physically dead."
Wilfred Sätty

Art From Both Sides of the Berlin Wall

"East German art, like much of what used to be East Germany itself, hasn’t fared altogether well here since the Wall fell. Twenty years on, victorious Westerners, at least those old enough to remember the country divided, still tend to look with contempt on what passed for culture under Communism, as if the two, culture and Communism, were mutually exclusive."
New York Times, Berlin Wall Art, Berlin Wall

Jimmie Durham

"Jimmie Durham is a Cherokee, born in Arkansas in 1940. He is a visual artist, and also a politcal activist for the American Indian Movement and an essayist."
Arte All'arte, Wikipedia, The Saatchi Gallery, Google

Edith Dekynt

"The work of Edith Dekynt deals more than anything else with the aesthetic act. Her research into phenomena is a search for a truth that exists in the invisible or nearly visible. In this way she approaches the infinite, absolute, and unreachable.[cold, dust, humidity, static electricity]." ARTFACTS.NET, Edith Dekynt

Zao Wou-ki

Composition 1965
"Zao Wou-ki, now 82, found his distinctive voice and vocabulary in his mid-thirties, having by that time lived in Paris for a decade."
Marlborough, Wikipedia

Vittorio De Sica

Wikipedia - "Vittorio De Sica (7 July 1901 or 1902–13 November 1974) was a critically acclaimed Italian neorealist director and actor."
Wikipedia, IMDb, strictly film school, YouTube

Double Dee and Steinski

Wikipedia - "Doug DiFranco ("Double Dee") and Steve Stein ("Steinski") were hip-hop producers who achieved notoriety in the early 1980s for a series of underground hip-hop sample-based collages known as the Lessons."
Wikipedia, Steinski, MySpace, last.fm, Steinski - What Does It All Mean?, NPR, Robert Christgau

Hans Op de Beeck

"He became known instantly with a model he created during his time at the Rijksakademie: a crossroads with traffic lights at night. This work is typical in its dealing with a recurring theme of his, that of alienation in modern life and the superficiality, monotony and miscommunication that accompanies it."
RONMANDOS, Hans Op de Beeck, frieze

David Tudor

Wikpedia - "David Eugene Tudor (January 20, 1926 – August 13, 1996) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music."
Wikipedia, David Tudor, The Getty, (1), Lovely, Sonic Memorial for David Tudor, eMusic, YouTube

Matchboxes from the Subcontinent

Matt Lee - "Collected during my time working from Bangalore, these matchboxes are the tangible memories of my various travels and experiences through India."
Matt Lee, Light of India, flickr

Soviet Army dance ensemble + Run DMC

kottke.org - "Here's the same thing mixed with Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice. Reminds me of the previously featured but still awesome video of Al Minns and Leon James doing the Charleston to Daft Punk."
Soviet Army dance ensemble + Run DMC

Sur le motif: Painting in Nature around 1800

Study of Clouds with a Sunset near Rome, Simon Alexandre-Clément Denis
The Getty - "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

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