Baedeker

Wikipedia - "The guides, often referred as simply 'Baedekers' (sometimes the term is used about similar works from other publishers, or in reference to any kind of guide), contain important introductions, descriptions of buildings, of museum collections, etc., written by the best specialists, and are frequently revised in order to be up to date. For the convenience of travellers, they are in a handy format and in small print."
Wikipedia, Old Guide Books, Baedeker

Stanko Abadžic

Curiosity, Prague, 2000
"Stanko Abadžic (1952-) is a photojournalist who shows a wide range of genre and themes within his work. Undoubtedly, this is because after his amateur beginnings, he achieved professional maturity working with the press."
Luminous Lint, PhotoCentral

Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard

"This exhibition will focus on a collection of 9,000 picture postcards amassed and classified by the American photographer Walker Evans (1903–1975), now part of the Metropolitan’s Walker Evans Archive."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5B4

Maria Levitsky

"Maria Levitsky is a New York based artist whose work takes a slanted forensic approach to architectural environments through photography and installation.Her area of specialization is photographic explorations of empty industrial buildings which are about to undergo some kind of transformation."
Maria Levitsky

John Zorn

Wikipedia - "John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in Queens, New York City) is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn's recorded output is prolific with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer, or producer."
Wikipedia, MySpace, The Unofficial John Zorn Homepage, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)

Morris Louis

Point of Tranquility (1959-60)
Wikipedia - "Morris Louis (Morris Louis Bernstein) (November 28, 1912 - September 7, 1962) is a United States abstract expressionist painter, one of the many such painters to emerge in the 1950s."
Wikipedia, Google, Morris Louis Portfolio

Fritz Fabert

Conscientions - "Fritz Fabert's Archäologie der Arbeit [Archeology of Work] presents 'relics' from closed down businesses and hospitals. It's such a simple idea, it works so well, and it's such a fine alternative to giving the world yet another series of abandoned buildings (seriously, we've had more than enough of those!)."
Conscientions, THE F BLOG, GINGERANDCLOVE, ALTphotos, Fritz Fabert

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)