Judith Supine

Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 2008
"We love this fresh piece by amazingly talented, neon color loving collage artist Judith Supine (Juxtapoz #90). Taking advantage of his NYC habitat, Supine braved mud and water to install this green baby in Central Park."
JUXTAPOZ, flickr, STREETSY, YouTube

Aníbal Troilo

Wikipedia - "Aníbal Troilo (July 11, 1914 - May 18, 1975) was an Argentine tango musician. Anibal Troilo is widely thought of by tango listeners as the defining bandoneon player of his generation. His orquesta tipica was among the most preferred by social dancers during the golden age of tango (1940-1955), but he shifted to a concert sound by the late 1950s."
Wikipedia, Todo Tango, Aníbal Troilo Biography, ToTANGO, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Skin & Bones: Tattoos in the Life of the American Sailor

L.M. Brown, a sailor, tattooed by Owen Jenson. c. 1943
"This original exhibit, researched and created by Curator Craig Bruns and Seaport staff, will feature traditional and modern tattooing tools, flash (tattoo design samples) and other tattoo-related art, historic photographs and artifacts, a recreation of an old-time 'tattoo parlor,' and a mini-documentary of the recorded personal stories of tattooed sailors."
Independence Seaport Museum, NYT

John Adams

Wikipedia - "John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism."
Wikipedia, John Adams, MySpace, NYT

Archival Sound Recorings

"Use our interactive maps to find recordings of regional accents and dialects, wildlife and environmental sounds, and selected world and traditional music. This is a beta service. Some recordings may not yet be assigned to the correct locations."
British Library

John Heartfield

Wikipedia - "John Heartfield (19 June 1891–26 April 1968) is the anglicized name of the German photomontage artist Helmut Herzfeld. He chose to call himself Heartfield in 1916, to criticize the rabid nationalism and anti-British sentiment prevalent in Germany during World War I."
Wikipedia, Google, Towson U., Cut and Paste, The Getty

Florian Maier-Aichen

Untitled, 2005
"The sceneries range from a sprawling sunny California coast lined with crimson treetops taken with infra-red film, to an aerial view of bicyclists racing through hills in the Tour de France, to a black and white seascape with an illusory appearance of a painting that is an albumen print, a practice almost no longer used in photography."
Saatchi, 303Gallery

A Parallel Presence: National Association of Women Artists, 1889-2009

"A Parallel Presence features work by 55 artists including Theresa Bernstein, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Blanche Lazzell, Dorothy Dehner, Louise Nevelson, June Wayne, Pat Adams, Faith Ringgold, Idelle Weber and Martha Walker."
UBS, NYT

Alexandre Farto

Wooster - "One of the most rewarding things about doing the Wooster site for almost five years now is that we can begin to track various artist's development and progression as they grow older and get more experience."
Wooster, Vhils, AlexandreFartoAkaVhils, vhils - Flick

Cut-up technique

Wikipedia - "The cut-up technique (also called fishbowling or découpage) is an aleatory literary technique or genre in which a text is cut up at random and rearranged to create a new text."
Wikipedia, William S. Burroughs and Cut-up, the lazarus corporation, The Cut-up Technique, The Cut-up Laboratory

Dusty Springfield

Wikipedia - "Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, OBE (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), known as Dusty Springfield, was a leading pop singer and entertainer. Of the female British pop artists of the 1960s, she made one of the biggest impressions on the U.S. market. Owing to her distinctive sensual sound, she was one of the most notable white soul artists."
Wikipedia, Dusty Springfield, last.fm, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, WOMAN of REPUTE, last.fm, (1), (2), (3), (4)

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