Jean Cocteau

Wikipedia - "Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright and filmmaker."
Wikipedia, Jean Cocteau, Jean Cocteau Page, YouTube: (1), (3), (4)

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record

"The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record amasses over 1,200 images documenting the history of the Atlantic slave trade and the lives of slaves and former slaves in the Americas."
George Mason University, World History Sources

Alwin Nikolais

Wikipedia - "Alwin Nikolais (November 25, 1910 in Southington, Connecticut – May 8, 1993) was an American choreographer. Nikolais studied piano at an early age and began his performing career as an organist accompanying silent films. As a young artist, he gained skills in scenic design, acting, puppetry and music composition."
Wikipedia, PBS, Kennedy Center, YouTube, (1), (2)

Gillian Welch

Wikipedia - "Gillian Welch (born October 2, 1967 in New York City) is a singer-songwriter whose musical style combines elements of bluegrass, neotraditional country, Americana, old-time string band music, and folk into a rustic style that she dubs 'American Primitive'."
Wikipedia, Gillian Welch, Rhapsody, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

Constellations of Words

Caelum
"This study is based on the belief that each constellation has its own unique clusters of related concepts, and that the etymology of the names and associated key words will express their essential meaning."
Constellations of Words

Christian Faur

"The things that inspire me to create, I find, are buried deep within the structures and systems that form the underpinning of our natural world. My studies in the natural sciences have made me aware of these hidden layers of complexity present in even the simplest objects."
Christian Faur, Sherrie Gallerie, lines and colors

Joanne Kyger

Wikipedia - "Joanne Kyger (born November 19, 1934) is an American poet. Her poetry is influenced by her practice of Zen Buddhism and her ties to the poets of Black Mountain, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the Beat generation."
Wikipedia, EPC, Ten New Lovely Unpublished Poems, Literary History

Jonathan Horowitz

"The connection between pop and war iconography is spelled out even more bluntly in a video projected in the adjacent room, next to a fully equipped Coke and/or Pepsi Machine."
frieze, Jonathan Horowitz, P.S.1 - MoMA

Elizabeth Peyton

Earl's Court, 1997
"'Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton' is the first survey of Elizabeth Peyton's work in an American institution. The survey will include more than 100 works made over the past fifteen years."
New Museum, (1), Walker Art Center, Wikipedia, artnet, gusto

Lost London

Queen's Head Inn Yard.Borough.1880
MetaFilter - "User El_Greco of the SkyscaperCity Forum presents 'Lost London', an absolutely stunning photographic thread of old London architecture."
MetaFilter, British Library

Feodor Vasilyev

Wet Meadow, 1872
Wikipedia - "Feodor Alexandrovich Vasilyev ... was a Russian landscape painter who introduced the lyrical landscape style in Russian art."
Wikipedia, Olga's Gallery

Ian and Sylvia

Wikipedia - "Ian and Sylvia Tyson, CM, were a Canadian folk music duo who performed and recorded from the early 1960s through the early 1970s."
Wikipedia, Wilson & Alroy's, Ian and Sylvia Tyson, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Sound sculpture

Wikipedia - "Sound sculpture (related to sound art and sound installation) is an intermedia and time based artform in which sculpture or any kind of art object produces sound, or the reverse (in the sense that sound is manipulated in such a way as to create a sculptural as opposed to temporal form or mass)."
Wikipedia, Kinetic Sound Sculptures, resoundings.org, Cranbrook Art Museum, YouTune, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

Patrick Shanahan

A Momentary Presence
"Patrick Shanahan's photographs of Britain and Europe investigate the contemporary cultural landscape, offering a seductive and unsettling re-imaging of modern urban environments."
Patrick Shanahan

Edvard Munch

Between Clock and Bed, Self Portrait, 1940/42
"Who was the man behind The Scream and other iconic images of modern anxiety and despair? Two potent myths continue to define our understanding of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch: first, that he was mentally unstable, as these images suggest, and second, that the main influence on his distinctive style were his French and German contemporaries and not his fellow Scandinavians."
The Art Institute of Chicago, NYT, Wikipedia, Edvard Munch - The Dance of Life Site, Edvard Munch Biography

Robert Ryman

Untitled (a Grey Drawing), 1962
Wikipedia - "Robert Ryman (born May 30, 1930) is an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. The majority of his works feature abstract expressionist-influenced brushwork in white or off-white paint on square canvas or metal surfaces."
Wikipedia, art:21, artnet, art:21 - blog

Yaohong

"Yaohong is a multi-hyphenate. He's a photographer-web designer-programmer-blogger-doodler who can crunch some serious spreadsheets."
Yaohong

Maggie Taylor

Wikipedia - "Maggie Taylor (born 1961 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an artist who works with digital images. She won the Santa Fe Center for Photography's Project Competition in 2004."
Wikipedia, Maggie Taylor, CENTER

Al Kooper

Wikipedia - "Al Kooper (born Alan Peter Kuperschmidt, February 5, 1944, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American songwriter, record producer and musician, probably best known for organizing the group Blood, Sweat & Tears, though he did not stay with the group long enough to share its popularity."
Wikipedia, Al Kooper, MOG, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Garry Kasparov

Wikipedia - "This broke the existing record of youngest World Champion, held for over 20 years by Mikhail Tal, who was 23 when he defeated Mikhail Botvinnik in 1960. Kasparov's win as Black in the 16th game has been recognized as one of the all-time masterpieces in chess history."
Wikipedia, chessgames, Garry Kasparov, BBC - Garry Kasparov jailed over rally

Enrique Martinez Celaya

Wikipedia - "Enrique Martínez Celaya is an artist whose work consists of paintings, sculpture, photography, poetry, and prose presented in contexts he calls 'environments.' ... Martínez Celaya uses the human figure in the landscape as a means to explore the nature of human experience and the search for meaning, which dwells in the transient world of time and memory, identity and displacement."
Wikipedia, Enrique Martinez Celaya, La Louver

Ancient Greek

"Athens is the symbol of freedom, art, and democracy in the conscience of the civilized world. The capital of Greece took its name from the goddess Athena, the goddess of wisdom and knowledge."
Ancient Greek, Wikpedia

Castro’s Cuba at 50

TIME - "It's good that the Cuban Revolution's 50th anniversary falls on Jan. 1. That's the day for New Year's resolutions, and it's time for Washington and Havana to make some big ones."
TIME, New York Times, CBS, Wikipedia

Harlem Renaissance

Wikipedia - "Centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the movement impacted urban centers throughout the United States. Across the cultural spectrum (literature, drama, music, visual art, dance) and also in the realm of social thought (sociology, historiography, philosophy), artists and intellectuals found new ways to explore the historical experiences of black America and the contemporary experiences of black life in the urban North."
Wikipedia, Harlem Renaissance, msn, John Carroll, A Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials

Laurie Lipton

"Laurie Lipton was born in New York. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honours). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France and has made her home in London since 1986."
Laurie Lipton, MySpace, beinArt

Joseph Beuys

Wikipedia - "He is most famous for his ritualistic public performances and his energetic championing of the healing potential of art and the power of a universal human creativity. As well as performances, Beuys produced sculptures, environments, vitrines, 450 prints and posters, and thousands of drawings."
Wikipedia, WAC, DIA, artnet

Emily Jacir

Wikipedia - "Jacir works in a variety of media including film, photography, installation, performance, video, writing and sound. She has exhibited extensively throughout the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East since 1994, holding solo exhibitions in places including New York, Los Angeles, Ramallah, Beirut, London and Linz."
Wikipedia, Visual Art, Alexander and Bonin, IMEU

The Living Theatre

"During the 1950's and early 1960's in New York, The Living Theatre pioneered the unconventional staging of poetic drama - the plays of American writers like Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Paul Goodman, Kenneth Rexroth and John Ashbery, as well as European writers rarely produced in America, including Cocteau, Lorca, Brecht and Pirandello."
The Living Theatre, Wikipedia, New York Surveillance Camera Players, YouTube, (1), (2)

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