Alfred Sisley

Lane near a Small Town, 1864
Wikipedia - "Alfred Sisley (30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an English Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France. Sisley is recognized as perhaps the most consistent of the Impressionists, never deviating into figure painting or finding that the movement did not fulfill his artistic needs."
Wikipedia, Olga's Gallery, Alfred Sisley

Maya Deren

Wikipedia - "Maya Deren (April 29, 1917, Kiev – October 13, 1961, New York City), born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, poet, writer and photographer."
Wikipedia, senses of cinema. Maya Deren Forum, Google, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party

"Time lapse video of night sky as it passes over the 2009 Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas. The galactic core of Milky Way is brightly displayed. Images taken with 15mm fisheye lens."
vimeo

Cordy Ryman

Checker, 2008
"I work in two basic modes - one when I’m simply working in the studio without a specific process in mind. The process dictates its own direction and evolution. My goal is to create work that has its own life."
Lesley Gallery, artnet

David Van Tieghem

Wikipedia - "David Van Tieghem is an American composer, musician, percussionist, drummer, keyboardist, art performer, video artist and theater performer, notorious for his philosophy of applying any available object as a percussion instrument and his collaborations with Experimental rock artist Laurie Anderson."
Wikipedia, David Van Tieghem , MySpace, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), Dailymotion

Prague Astronomical Clock

"The Astronomical Clock on the Old Town Hall is one of the major sights of the city and many visitors mention it as one of the most outstanding things to see in Prague. It reveals the respectful regard that people of the past felt for the heavenly order."
Prague Astronomical Clock

Roberto Rossellini

Wikipedia - "Roberto Rossellini (May 8, 1906 – June 3, 1977) was an Italian film director. Rossellini was one of the most important directors of Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città aperta to the movement."
Wikipedia, IMDb, senses of cinema, BBC

Italian Models: Hébert and the Peasants of Latium

"Hébert's view of the peasant women with whom he once spent his daily life, has none of the sentimentality and nostalgia found in the works of Romantic painters, who saw them as primitive people, bypassed by civilisation. Nor were these village women mere extras in his scenes."
Musée d'Orsay

Throbbing Gristle

Wikipedia - "Throbbing Gristle is a British industrial music and visual arts group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions. The band consists of Genesis P-Orridge (bass, violin, vocals), Cosey Fanni Tutti (guitars, cornet), Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (tapes, found sounds, horns), and Chris Carter (synthesizer)."
Wikipedia, Throbbing Gristle, MySpape, last.fm, YouTube, (1)

Stonehenge

Wikipedia - "Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) west of Amesbury and 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones and sits at the centre of the densest complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds."
Wikipedia, Google, Earth Mysteries

Paul Éluard

Wikipedia - "Paul Éluard was the pen name of Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (14 December 1895 – 18 November 1952), a French poet who was one of the founders of the surrealist movement."
Wikipedia, PoemHunter, Books and Writers, Academy of American Poets

Robert Frank

Wikipedia - "Robert Frank (born November 9, 1924), born in Zürich, Switzerland, is an important figure in American photography and film."
Wikipedia, Vanity Fair, Google, Google, YouTube

Rosemary Laing

"These hauntingly beautiful images create poetic and resonant relationships between the landscape and changing notions of place, creating a powerful commentary on society and culture."
MCA, Tolarno Gallery, Art Right Now 2

Her Noise

"Her Noise was an exhibition which took place at South London Gallery in 2005 with satellite events at Tate Modern and Goethe-Institut, London. Her Noise gathered international artists who use sound to investigate social relations, inspire action or uncover hidden soundscapes."
UbuWeb, Culture 24, SLG

PdxHistory

"Our goal is to document and create a historical record of times past by sharing something inanimate with you and bringing it to life. History can tell us a story if we let the images speak. You will see a glimpse into life in the early days of Portland, and its surrounding communities."
PdxHistory

Mogadishu - A City Under Siege

"Nearly two years after Ethiopian forces led an armed intervention to oust Somalia's Islamic Courts Union from power, the impoverished country has seen some of the deadliest violence in its history."
VII

Architect Without Limits

"The extraordinary scope of his genius, which touched on every aspect of American life, makes him one of the most daunting figures of the 20th century. But to many he is still the vain, megalomaniacal architect, someone who trampled over his clients’ wishes, drained their bank accounts and left them with leaky roofs."
NYT, Guggenheim, Wikipedia

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)