Shepard Fairey

"Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15, 1970) is a contemporary artist, graphic designer, and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He first became known for his 'André the Giant Has a Posse' sticker campaign. His work became more widely known in the 2008 United States Presidential Election, specifically his Barack Obama 'HOPE' poster."
Wikipedia, OBEY, Google, YouTube, (1)

Stuart Shils

Walls, in Sun and Shadow, 2006
"Shils’s small, exquisitely simple works evoke their poetic atmosphere and emotion through virtuoso paint handling. Though specific in light and atmosphere to the locales in which he paints, Shils sees his work as an extended metaphor, a highly compressed meditation on form and light."
Hackett-Freedman, Stuart Shils, artnet, YouTube

Kristen Morgin

Piano Forte, 2004
"Working with unfired clay, Kristen Morgin can, as if by magic, create facsimiles of objects found in both nature and culture. Whether they are teacups or carousel horses, her works have the patina of great age and are fractured into many pieces."
G:CLASS, artnet, Wattis

Propaganda

"State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda reveals how the Nazi Party used modern techniques as well as new technologies and carefully crafted messages to sway millions with its vision for a new Germany."
Propaganda, Source Watch

The Essence of Line

"Welcome to this database of nineteenth-century French drawings. From revealing preparatory sketches to exquisite finished watercolors, more than 900 works by artists such as Eugéne Delacroix, Honoré Daumier, Paul Cézanne, and Edgar Degas illuminate the range of French art over the course of a century of innovation."
The Essence of Line

Neu!

Wikipedia - "Though the band had minimal commercial success during its existence, Neu! are retrospectively considered one of the founding fathers of Krautrock and a significant influence on artists including PiL, Joy Division, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Stereolab, Gary Numan, Ultravox, Simple Minds, and much of the current electronic music scene."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Visual Journalist

"Welcome to Visual Journalist. The blog is broken into 5 categories: 1) From the Creators 2) Visual Focus 3) Triple T 4) For Your Viewing Pleasure 5) The India Experience... See the about section under pages at the top for more category detail..."
Visual Journalist

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)