Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

Monument To A Lost Civilization (1999-2000)
"After Russia's most famous artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov fled the oppression of the Soviet Union, they never thought they would return — until they were offered the chance to exhibit their work at the Hermitage, Russia's greatest museum."
PBS, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Sean Kelly Gallery, Public Art Fund

Raine Bedsole

"Boats, left in trees with the ragged remains of possessions dangling from the branches, tell the story of hurricane Katrina's storm surge and aftermath here on the Gulf Coast. All too often this is becoming a familiar sight in coastal areas around the world."
Raine Bedsole, Gallery Bienvenu

Hüsker Dü

Wikipedia - "Hüsker Dü was an American punk rock band formed in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota in 1979. The band's continual members were guitarist Bob Mould, bassist Greg Norton, and drummer Grant Hart."
Wikipedia, Hüsker Dü Database, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Duane Hanson

Young shopper, 1973
Wikipedia - "Duane Hanson (January 17, 1925–January 6, 1996) was an American artist based in South Florida, a sculptor known for his lifecast realistic works of people, cast in various materials, including polyester resin, fiberglass, Bondo and bronze. His work is often associated with the Pop Art movement, as well as hyperrealism."
Wikipedia, Saatchi, Duane Hanson - Oglethorpe University Museum, Duane Hanson

Washington Square Park

Wikipedia - "Washington Square Park is one of the best-known of New York City's 1,700 public parks. At 9.75 acres (39,500 m2), it is a landmark in the Manhattan neighborhood of Greenwich Village, as well as a meeting place and center for cultural activity."
Wikipedia, New York Architecture Images, Google

Rosalie Gascoigne

Southerly Buster, 1995
Wikipedia - "Rosalie Gascoigne (1917–1999) was a New Zealander-Australian sculptor. She showed at the Venice Biennale in 1982, becoming the first female artist to represent Australia there. In 1994 she was awarded the Order of Australia for her services to the arts."
Wikipedia, roslyn oxley9 gallery, one+one=thr33

In Bb 2.0

"In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls. The videos can be played simultaneously -- the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders."
In Bb 2.0

Skygazing

Wikipedia - "Skygazing as labeled gazing at the sky for pleasure or with an astronomical interest. Amateur astronomy observations are generally accomplished with the w:naked eye or with basic optical aids."
Wikipedia

Sigmar Polke

The goat wagon, 1992
"Sigmar Polke (born February 13, 1941) is a German painter and photographer."
Wikipedia, Tate, artnet, Getty

Julio De Caro

"After starting in the second decade of the 20th century, close to the great creators of the period -Eduardo Arolas, Roberto Firpo and others-, who had changed the early tango and after being influenced by the leading pioneers of melody construction of the genre-such as Juan Carlos Cobián and Enrique Delfino-, the violinist Julio De Caro established with his sextet, as from 1924, a new and far-reaching style."
Todo Tango, YouTube, (1), last.fm

Calligraphy Qalam

"Welcome to Calligraphy Qalam—we’re glad you’re here. On this website you'll find a variety of interactive tools and information to help you learn more about calligraphy in the Arab, Ottoman and Persian traditions."
Calligraphy Qalam

The KLF

Wikipedia - "The KLF, also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (which was often abbreviated to The JAMs), The Timelords and other names, were one of the seminal bands from the British acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s."
Wikipedia, KLF Online, Kopyright Liberation Front, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Braco Dimitrijevic

"Braco Dimitrijevic, one of the pioneers of conceptual art, had his first one-man exhibition at the age of 10. In 1963 he made his first conceptual work, The Flag of the World, in which he replaced a national flag with an alternative sign. It marked the beginning of his artistic interventions into urban landscapes."
Braco Dimitrijevic, Slought

León Ferrari and Mira Schendel

Mira Schendel, 1972
"León Ferrari (Argentine, b. 1920) and Mira Schendel (Brazilian, b. Switzerland, 1919–1988) are considered among the most significant artists working in Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century."
MoMA, (1). León Ferrari and Mira Schendel at MoMA.

La Monte Young

Wikipedia - "Young is generally recognized as the first minimalist composer, and one of the four most celebrated leaders of the minimalist school, along with Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass, despite having little in common formally with Glass or Reich. Young is also probably the least heard and least well-known of the major minimalist composers."
Wikipedia, MELA Foundation, Kyle Gann, last.fm, American Mavericks, YouTube, Henry Flynt - (1), (2), (3), La Monte Young - YouTube

Eugène Delacroix

La liberté guidant le peuple, 1830
Wikipedia - "Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement."
Wikipedia, WebMuseum, Eugène Delacroix

John Stezaker

"John Stezaker’s work re-examines the various relationships to the photographic image: as documentation of truth, purveyor of memory, and symbol of modern culture."
The Saatchi Gallery, The approach, Friedrich Petzel

African Head Charge

Wikipedia - "African Head Charge is a dub reggae ensemble active since the early 1980s. The group was formed by drummer Bonjo Iyanbinghi Noah, and featured a revolving cast of members, including, at times, Prisoner, Crocodile, Junior Moses, Sunny Akpan, Skip McDonald, and Jah Wobble. The group released most of its albums on Adrian Sherwood's label, On-U Sound."
Wikipedia, ON U Sound, (1), last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2)

Eileen Neff

"Using the camera, the computer, and the space of the studio, Eileen Neff poetically reconstructs moments experienced outside of it. Clouds move from outdoors to in. Windows appear as apertures onto completely other places. The landscape doubles but does not mirror itself."
ICA, Locks Gallery, out of the blue

Maya Lin, Storm King Wavefield 2007-2008

"Storm King Wavefield is a pastoral, mesmerizing work that encourages active viewer participation. Inspired by studies of naturally occurring wave formations, which Lin has abstracted, the sculpture evokes a tension between movement and stasis."
Storm King, NYT

Katharina Sieverding

Transformer, (installation/eight slide projections), 1973/1974
Wikipedia - "Sieverding's works consist of self-portraiture and most have an abstract quality. She uses the techniques of silhouette, contrast, and extreme close-up to make the photograph more revealing of herself."
Wikipedia, P.S.1 - MoMA, artnet, The Brooklyn Rail

Afrika Bambaataa

Wikipedia - "Afrika Bambaataa (born April 19, 1957) is an American DJ from the South Bronx, who was instrumental in the early development of hip hop throughout the 1980s."
Wikipedia, Zulu Nation, MySpace, Rolling Stone, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Jaromir Funke

Reflexy, 1931

"Influenced by Frantisek Drtikol, Jaromir Funke began exploring the intellectual and photographic possibilities of cubism, consructivism, and expressionism in 1919."
Museum of New Mexico, National Gallery of Art, artdaily

Stanley Kubrick

Wikipedia - "Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an influential American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and photographer, who, during most of the last 40 years of his career, lived in England. Kubrick is widely acknowledged as one of the most innovative directors in the history of cinema."
Wikipedia, IMDb, senses of cinema, The Kubrick Site, Charlie Rose - Google, YouTube

Ictineo

"Few Victorian inventions have the grace and charm of the Ictíneo, the series of two wooden submarines built by Narcís Monturiol i Estarrol in the second half of the nineteenth century. Unlike some of the better known early submarines from his contemporaries in Germany, France and the United States, the Catalan inventor managed to build submarines that operated flawlessly."
Low-tech Magazine

Alighiero Boetti

I verbi irregolari, 1989
Wikipedia - "Alighiero Boetti (also known as Alighiero e Boetti; December 16, 1940 – February 24, 1994) was an Italian conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera."
Wikipedia, artnet, Sperone Westwater

Giorno Poetry Systems

Wikipedia - "Founded in 1965, Giorno Poetry Systems was an American artist collective, record label, and non-profit organisation founded by poet and performance artist John Giorno with the direct aim to connect poetry and related art forms to a larger audience using innovative ideas, such as communication technology, audiovisual materials and techniques."
Wikipedia, UbuWeb, World Class Poetry Blog, Dial-A-Poem Enters the Internet Age (NYT), McGill Daily - Dial-a-poet: verses for the masses, About.com

Jon Gibson

"Jon Gibson (b. March 11, 1940; Los Angeles, California) is a flautist, saxophonist, and composer who uses other instruments from around the world in his performances and is known for his jazz and classical contributions."
last.fm, CD Reviews, Jon Gibson, (1), new music box

Cabaret Voltaire

Wikipedia - "Their earliest performances were dada-influenced performance art, but Cabaret Voltaire later developed into one of the most prolific and important groups to blend pop with dance music, techno, dub house and experimental electronic music."
Wikipedia, Cabaret Voltaire, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Albert Oehlen

Ohne Titel (das Ende von Zuhause), 1998
Patricia Ellis - "Proclaiming there's no viable role for painting today, Albert Oehlen's work focuses exclusively on exposing art's failures. Borrowing from the tropes of traditional abstract painting, Oehlen readily subverts art's lofty idealism."
The Saatchi Gallery, artnet, Google

Public Ad Campaign

"Some wonderful artists gave this city a wonderful gift: they took over about 120 billboards spread around donwntown Manhattan, painted them on white and replaced the advertisements they usually hold with art."
cronicasbarbaras.com

Marcel Duchamp

"L.H.O.O.Q., a cheap postcard-sized reproduction of the Mona Lisa,upon which Duchamp drew a mustache and a goatee. The 'readymade' done in 1919, is one of the most well known act of degrading a famous work of art."
Marcel Duchamp, Wikipedia, Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp, Google, YouTube, (1), (2)

Elizabeth Streb

Wikipedia - "Elizabeth Streb is a choreographer, performer, teacher, and innovator of contemporary dance throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."
Wikipedia, STREB, Art+Culture, YouTube, (1), (2)

Carlos Gardel

Wikipedia - "Carlos Gardel (11 December 1887 - 24 June 1935 Medellín, Colombia) is perhaps the most prominent figure in the history of tango. Although his birthplace is disputed between Argentina, Uruguay and France, he lived in Argentina from the age of two and acquired Argentine citizenship in 1923."
Wikipedia, Carlos Gardel - The King of Tango, last.fm, Todo Tango, YouTube, Google, Dailymotion

Waterlines

"We examine the history of Seattle through a focus on its shorelines: the natural and human forces that have shaped them, the ways they have been used and thought about by the people who have lived here, and how this historic understanding might influence urban-development decisions being made today."
The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture