New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show
Chrysanthemum and Brushwood Fence, early 19th century, Edo (Tokugawa) Period (1615-1868).
NYT - "The annual spring extravaganza known as Asia Week is under way, but like so much else it’s been downsized. The New York International Asian Art Fair is no more, leaving collectors and browsers with just one centralized marketplace: the New York Arts of Pacific Asia Show, in a new home across from the Empire State Building."
NYT, Asian Art Dealery
Louise Nevelson
Wikipedia - "Louise Berliawsky Nevelson (born Leah Berliawsky, September 23, 1899, Kiev, Czarist Russia - d. April 17, 1988, New York, New York) was a Ukrainian-born American artist."
Louise Nevelson, artnet, Louise Nevelson Foundation, The Jewish Museum
Louise Nevelson, artnet, Louise Nevelson Foundation, The Jewish Museum
Josef Hoflehner
Frozen Trees
"Josef Hoflehner was born in 1955 in Wels, Austria when the country was still under allied occupation. He grew up in a family where the camera was used so rarely that as many as three Christmas holidays would be captured on one roll of film."
Michael Hoppen Gallery, Josef Hoflehner, artnet
Lucie Debelkova
"Why photograph? For me it's simply an extension of the natural impulse to explore the larger world. Photography is a great self learning process that has no borders. It should be far more than the simple act of recording a lasting memory. In a way, it is about tempting our imagination to create an outer image. In essence, it is an art form and a way of expression."
Lucie Debelkova
Lucie Debelkova
IN MOTION: The African-American Migration Experience
"New societies, new peoples, and new communities usually originate in acts of migration. Someone or ones decide to move from one place to another. They choose a new destination and sever their ties with their traditional community or society as they set out in search of new opportunities, new challenges, new lives, and new life worlds."
IN MOTION: The African-American Migration
Dada
Wikipedia - "Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works."
Wikipedia, ArtLex on Dada, DaDa Online, International Dada Archive, NGA-DADA
Wikipedia, ArtLex on Dada, DaDa Online, International Dada Archive, NGA-DADA
Miru Kim
"Miru Kim is a New York-based artist who has explored various urban ruins such as abandoned subway stations, tunnels, sewers, catacombs, factories, hospitals, and shipyards."
Miru Kim, Miru Kim: Naked City Spleen, YouTube, Google
The Zine Library
ZineLibrary+ - "Welcome to ZineLibrary.info. Here you will find hundreds of radical zines ready to print. You can also upload zines to the site (zines with file sizes bigger than 7mb can be uploaded to http://indymedia.org and linked here). Feel free to comment and contribute."
ZineLibrary+, IPRC Library, Barnard College Library, Papercut Zine Library
Terracotta Army
Wikipedia - "The Terracotta Army (... literally 'soldier and horse funerary statues') are the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang the First Emperor of China. The terracotta figures, dating from 210 BCE.., were discovered in 1974 by several local farmers near Xi'an, Shanxi province, China near the Mausouleum of the First Qin Emperor."
Wikipedia, Museum of Qin Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses, Terracotta Warriors Museum, Google
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
"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
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