Tehching Hsieh

The wooden cell
"Tehching Hsieh is a pioneer of Performance Art. He has been called a 'master' by Marina Abramovic and appears in almost every book written on the subject. He did six extraordinary one-year performances."
The Brooklyn Rail, Tehching Hsieh, readingroom, Wikipedia

John Baeder

Bell's Pond Diner, 1990
"Various facets of life become vehicles for liberating the soul. When I was 5 years old, I began travelling each summer with my parents and sister to South Bend, Indiana, which provided the stimulus of visual ecstasy."
John Baeder, Google, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, artnet

Reverend Gary Davis

Wikipedia - "Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis, (April 30, 1896 – May 5, 1972) was a blues and gospel singer and guitarist."
Wikipedia, Reverend Gary Davis, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Bing Wright

Fly Disaster 5, 1995
"Not since the Northwest School dominated the region in the 1940s and 1950s has a major artist been as indebted to the region's gray light and moist air."
seattlepi, Bing Wright, James Harris Gallery

National Museum of African Art

Nigerian Relief Carving

"The sounds that make up the diverse music of Africa are now yours to explore. Radio Africa streams, at no charge, complete tracks from the collections of Smithsonian Global Sound."
Radio Africa , National Museum of African Art

Sarah Beddington

Crossing, 2008
"Sarah Beddington is a British artist who works with painting, video and installation. While much of her video work depicts non-domestic, publicly accessible spaces, she does not attempt to exoticize or glamorize them."
in absentia, Sarah Beddington, ARTCAT

King Arthur

King Arthur on a French tapestry
Wikipedia - "King Arthur is a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century. The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of folklore and literary invention, and his historical existence is debated and disputed by modern historians."
Wikipedia, History & Legend, King Arthur, Rochester

Brooklyn Revealed

"By clicking on the interactive maps displayed on the site, visitors can learn historic details about various Brooklyn neighborhoods. More details are on the Society’s press release, following the jump."
Brooklyn Revealed, NYPL Digital Gallery

Alexander Sokurov

Wikipedia - "Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov ... (b. June 14, 1951, Podorwikha, Irkutsk Oblast) is a Russian filmmaker from St Petersburg who has been hailed as successor to renowned director Andrei Tarkovsky."
Wikipedia, IMDb, The Spiritual Worlds of Alexander Sokurov, YouTube, (1)

Stephen Shore

Sunset drive-in, Texas, 1972
Wikipedia - "Stephen Shore (born 1947 in New York City) is an American photographer known for his deadpan images of banal scenes and objects in the United States, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography."
Wikipedia, Stephen Shore, Fine Art Photography

Street art

Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, Barcelona, Spain.
Wikipedia - "Street art is any art developed in public spaces — that is, 'in the streets' — though the term usually refers to art of an illicit nature, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives. The term can include traditional graffiti artwork, stencil graffiti, sticker art, wheatpasting and street poster art, video projection, art intervention, guerrilla art, flash mobbing and street installations."
Wikipedia, Street poster art, Wooster Collective, Mark Jenkins, W - Graffiti, Art Crimes, Art of Graffiti, W - Mural, W - Urban exploration

Orbiting Frog

"On Science and Religion"

"Orbiting Frog is run by Robert Simpson who is currently studying for his PhD in Star Formation at Cardiff University in the UK. ... So far his thesis looks to consist of a mis-mash of the initial mass function, 3D data visualisation and science communication. We can only live in hope. If you don’t know what any of those are, you’re not alone."
Orbiting Frog

The Jam

Wikipedia - "The Jam were an English rock band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. While they shared the 'angry young men' outlook and fast tempos of their punk rock contemporaries, The Jam wore neatly tailored suits rather than ripped clothes and incorporated a number of mainstream 1960s rock influences rather than rejecting them, placing them at the forefront of the mod revival movement."
Wikipedia, Google, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

George Brecht

Solo for Violin, 1967
Wikipedia - "George Brecht (born George MacDiarmid, August 27, 1926 – December 5, 2008) was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil."
Wikipedia, Something About Fluxus, Sequenza 21/, Fluxus & Happening, YouTune, (1)

Susan Hiller

Work in Progress, 1980
"Susan Hiller has lived and worked in London since the early 1970's, when she first became known for an innovative artistic practice including group participation works such as Dream Mapping (1974)..."
Susan Hiller, Online Events, Experimental Art Foundation

The Web Gallery of Art

The Wedding Dance in a Barn, Pieter Brueghel the Younger
"The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries. It was started in 1996 as a topical site of the Renaissance art, originated in the Italian city-states of the 14th century and spread to other countries in the 15th and 16th centuries."
The Web Gallery of Art

Camilo José Vergara

Wikipedia - "Camilo José Vergara (born 1944) is a Chilean-born, New York-based writer, photographer and documentarian. He was born in Santiago, Chile. Vergara has been compared to Jacob Riis for his photographic documentation of American slums and decaying urban environments."
Wikipedia, Invincible Cities, NYT, Slate

Marvin Gaye

Wikipedia - "Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.,[1] better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

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