The Old, Weird America

Steven Jenkins - "Filmmaker, musician, painter, mystic and string collector — Harry Smith wore many hats during his long, eventful life as a key figure of underground culture through the latter half of the 20th century."
San Francisco International Film Festival, THE OLD, WEIRD AMERICA

Neues Museum

Wikipedia - "The Neues Museum (New Museum), located north of (behind) the Altes Museum (Old Museum) on Berlin's Museum Island, was built between 1843 and 1855 according to plans by Friedrich August Stüler, a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel."
Wikipedia, Spiegel Online, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, NYT

Brian Rutenberg

Cherry Grove 4, 2007-2008
Forum Gallery - "Brian Rutenberg was born in South Carolina in 1965. Currently living and working in New York City, this abstract landscape painter is a recent addition to Forum Gallery’s roster."
Forum Gallery, artnet, Toomey Tourell

Tim Hardin

Wikipedia - "Timothy James Hardin (23 December 1941 – 29 December 1980) was an American folk musician and composer. He is best remembered for writing the top 40 hits 'If I Were a Carpenter' covered by Bobby Darin and 'Reason to Believe' covered by Rod Stewart, as well as his own uneven recording career."
Wikipedia, Tim Hardin, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Ralph Albert Blakelock

Day is Done (Landscape with Indian Canoe) - 1880s
Wikipedia - "Blakelock's early landscapes have their genesis in the style of the Hudson River school of painters. In time, he developed a more subjective and intimate style. His favorite themes were those depicting the wilderness and solitude; evocative and emotional paintings of illuminated moments in nature, of moonlit landscapes and twilight hours and Indian camps in the solitude of nature."
Wikipedia, artnet

Gardens of the Mughal Empire

Shalimar Gardens
"It is a great pleasure for me to introduce you to the first interactive Web site on the Gardens of the Mughals, an Islamic dynasty that ruled between 1526 and 1858 in territories now divided among Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, and northern India."
Smithsonian Institution, Wikipedia

Jerome Rothenberg

Wikipedia - "Jerome Rothenberg (born 1931) is an internationally known American poet, translator and anthologist who is noted for his work in ethnopoetics and poetry performance."
EPC, Jacket 16, PENNSOUND

Cheryl Ann Thomas

Relic, 2006
"Coiling is a way of hand-building a pot using “snakes” of clay. Its history includes Pre-Columbian pottery and West African pottery. Most Neolithic cultures also used this method of making for large storage jars. However, this technique is still used by contemporary ceramic artists."
Frank Lloyd, del Mano Gallery, artnet

Alvin Lucier

Wikipedia - "Alvin Lucier (born May 14, 1931) is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. ... Much of his work is influenced by science and explores the physical properties of sound itself: resonance of spaces, phase interference between closely-tuned pitches, and the transmission of sound through physical media."
Wikipedia, Alvin Lucier, Lovely Artist, last.fm

The Quilt Index

Nine Patch Doll Quilt
"The Quilt Index is a growing research and reference tool designed to provide unprecedented access to information and images about quilts held in private and public hands."
The Quilt Index, (1)

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