Luis Meléndez

"Luis Meléndez (1715–1780) is now recognized as the premier still-life painter in 18th-century Spain, indeed one of the greatest in all of Europe, though his reputation had long been eclipsed by the achievements of his Spanish contemporary, Francisco Goya."
NGA, Wikipedia, NYT

René Magritte

The lovers
Wikipedia - "René François Ghislain Magritte (21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images. His intended goal for his work was to challenge the observer's preconditioned perceptions of reality and force the viewer to become hypersensitive to their surroundings."
Wikipedia, Magritte, Google

Musique concrète

Wikipedia - "Musique concrète (French for 'concrete music' or 'real music'), is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sonorities derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical" (melody, harmony, rhythm, metre and so on). The theoretical underpinnings of the aesthetic were developed by Pierre Schaeffer, beginning in the late 1940s."
Wikipedia, art and culture

Bootsy Collins

Wikipedia - "William 'Bootsy' Collins (born October 26, 1951 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a funk bassist, singer, and songwriter. Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk."
Wikipedia, last.fm, My Space, Bootsy Collins Homepage, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

John Riddy

"His subject matter is broad – ranging from the unassuming domestic interior to images of Renaissance or Modernist architecture and the specific qualities of certain city spaces. Time, atmosphere, spatial illusion and cultural histories are compressed and extended in pictures that aim to defeat our expectations of photographic descriptions."
Frith Street Gallery, V&A, Google

Alberto Contador - Tour de France

"The 96th Tour de France will be contested over 2,174 miles, a grueling test of endurance and strategy. Follow the New York Times's coverage of the race on this map, updated during the Tour with articles, photos and multimedia."
NYT, (1), Guardian - Tour de France, Lance Armstrong

James D. Griffioen

Wikipedia - "James D. Griffioen, born February 4, 1977, is an American writer and photographer who resides in Detroit, Michigan. He is the main contributor to the blog Sweet Juniper."
Wikipedia, James D. Griffioen

Kiki Smith

"Kiki Smith was born in 1954 in Nuremberg, Germany. The daughter of American sculptor Tony Smith, Kiki Smith grew up in New Jersey. As a young girl, one of Smith’s first experiences with art was helping her father make cardboard models for his geometric sculptures."
pbs, Wikipedia, MoMA, YouTube, veoh

Country Joe and the Fish

Wikipedia - "Country Joe and the Fish was a rock band most widely known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1966 to 1971."
Wikipedia, Well, rhapsody, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2)

Milky Way

Wikipedia - "The Milky Way, or simply the Galaxy, is the galaxy in which the Solar System is located. It is a barred spiral galaxy that is part of the Local Group of galaxies. It is one of billions of galaxies in the observable universe."
Wikipedia, University of California, San Diego, The Milky Way System,

Bruce Nauman

One Hundred Fish Fountain
Wikipedia - "Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance."
Wikipedia, PBS, Video Data Bank

Lillian Bassman

"In 1940 Lillian Bassman, who was then a fashion illustrator, joined Brodovitch’s classes at the New School for Social Research on a scholarship. After just a few weeks Brodovitch suggested she switch from fashion drawing to graphic design, and by the end of the year he made her his apprentice at Harper’s Bazaar."
Michael Hoppen Gallery, Staley Wise

Miami Vice

Wikipedia - "Miami Vice is an American television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The show became noted for its heavy integration of music and visual effects to tell a story. The series starred Don Johnson and Phillip Michael Thomas as two Metro-Dade Police detectives working undercover in Miami."
Wikipedia, Wikipedia - 1, IMDb, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Song Dong, Zhao Xiang Yuan

Waste Not, 2005
"The current Projects series at the Museum of Modern Art features the work of Beijing-based artist Song Dong in collaboration with his recently deceased mother, Zhao Xiang Yuan."
The Brooklyn RailZ, flickr, Whitehot Magazine

The Oblique Strategies

"The Oblique Strategies are a deck of cards. Up until 1996, they were quite easy to describe. They measured about 2-3/4" x 3-3/4". They came in a small black box which said 'OBLIQUE STRATEGIES' on one of the top's long sides and 'BRIAN ENO/PETER SCHMIDT' on the other side."
The Oblique Strategies, Wikipedia, enoweb, (1), Stoney's Web Site

Paris Walking Tours

Jardin des Plantes, Palace of the Luxembourg, Panthéon, Cathedral of Notre Dame, The Islands of the Seine, Street Markets, Louvre Museum, Musée d'Orsay, Père Lachaise, Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation, Eiffel Tower...
Paris Walking Tours, (1)

The Undertones

Wikipedia - "The Undertones are a Northern Irish punk rock/power pop band formed in Derry in 1975. The original line-up released four studio albums — The Undertones (1979), Hypnotised (1980), Positive Touch (1981), and The Sin of Pride (1983) — before disbanding in 1983."
Wikipedia, The Undertones, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2)

Doodlers Anonymous

Lisa Currie
"Doodlers Anonymous was founded to celebrate our addiction, and like any other, we're hooked. The need to draw, sketch, and doodle is constant. We doodle on almost anything we can find — pencil in a moleskine, marker on a napkin, ink on a torn receipt, sharpie on concrete. And we do it habitually — while on hold, in a meeting, during class, or while we should be sleeping."
Doodlers Anonymous

Rembrandt in Southern California

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 or 1607-1669), The rape of Europa, 1632.
"Rembrandt in Southern California is a virtual exhibition of 14 paintings by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669) on view in five Southern California museums. This collaborative presentation offers a unique guide to exploring these significant holdings and provides information and suggested connections and points of comparison for each work."
Rembrandt in Southern California

The Art of BR1 in Turin, Italy

Wooster Collective - "My project deals with the representation of Muslim women and their social condition. I was been studying and dealing with this theme for years. As you can imagine, here in Turin, my posters are seen as an ambiguous subject. Some people mislead and rip them, while others love them. I would like to make people know that there is nothing strange with this particular subject: Muslim women are equal if compared to Western women."
Wooster Collective, flickr

Shindig!

Wikipedia - "Shindig! is an American music variety show which aired on the ABC TV from September 16, 1964 to January 8, 1966. The show was hosted by Jimmy O'Neill, a disc jockey in Los Angeles at the time, who also created the show along with his wife Sharon Sheeley and production executive Art Stolnitz."
Wikipedia

Mungo Thomson

"Thomson pairs a distinctly West Coast conceptual sensibility with an interest in cosmology, mysticism, and reception. In Thomson’s diverse art—ranging from films and sound works to publications, drawings, and photographic wall murals—simple processes of inversion and transformation are joined with an expansive sense of space and context."
John Connelly, Whitney, artnet

Alfred Hitchcock

Wikipedia - "Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British filmmaker and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in his native United Kingdom in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood."
Wikipedia, Hitchcock, IMDb, senses of cinema, PBS, YouTube, (1)

Barbara Probst

"In Barbara Probst’s Exposure #39, two photographs depict the same woman at exactly the same moment but in very different ways. On one side, a color image captures her as she strides through a bucolic, alpine landscape. On the other, a black-and-white picture reveals the color photograph to be an illusion: the woman is actually on the rooftop of a New York skyscraper, moving in front of a backdrop depicting an idyllic mountain scene."
MoCP, Barbara Probst, Wikipedia, artnet

O Holy Cow! The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto

"As a longtime play-by-play announcer for the Yankees, Mr. Rizzuto embodies the divided, sometimes wandering attention, the ebbing and flowing alertness, the genial state of all-but-suspended consciousness that have made the sound of broadcast baseball a beloved national pacifier."
NYT, Cosmic Baseball Association

African American music

Wikipedia - "African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music and musical genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African Americans, who have long constituted a large ethnic minority of the population of the United States."
Wikipedia

Joan Mitchell

City Landscape
Wikipedia - "Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 - October 30, 1992) was a ‘Second Generation’ Abstract Expressionist painter. Along with Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan, and Helen Frankenthaler she was one of her era's few female painters to gain critical and public acclaim. Her paintings and editioned prints can be seen in major museums and collections across America and Europe."
Wikipedia, Joan Mitchell, artnet

The Band

Wikipedia - "The Band was a rock group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999. The original group (1967-1976) consisted of four Canadians: Robbie Robertson (guitar, piano, vocals); Richard Manuel (piano, harmonica, drums, saxophone, organ, vocals); Garth Hudson (organ, piano, clavinet, accordion, synthesizer, saxophone); and Rick Danko (bass guitar, violin, trombone, vocals), and one American, Levon Helm (drums, mandolin, guitar, bass guitar, vocals)."
Wikipedia, Google, The Band, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8)

Sigmar Polke

Klassenzimmer, 1995
Wikipedia - "Polke's creative output during this time of enormous social, cultural, and artistic changes in Germany and elsewhere, demonstrate most vividly his imagination, sardonic wit, and subversive approach in his drawings, watercolors, and gouaches produced during the 1960s and 1970's."
Wikipedia, Getty, artnet

Yves Klein

Wikipedia - "Yves Klein (28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist and is considered an important figure in post-war European art. New York critics of Klein's time classify him as neo-Dada, but other critics, such as Thomas McEvilley in an essay submitted to Artforum in 1982, have since classified Klein as an early, though 'enigmatic,' Post-Modernist."
Wikipedia, Yves Klein, Google, YouTube, Dailymotion

Celtic art

Wikipedia - "Celtic art is art associated with various people known as Celts; those who spoke the Celtic languages in Europe from pre-history through to the modern period, as well as the art of ancient people whose language is unknown, but where cultural and stylistic similarities suggest they are related to Celts."
Wikipedia

New York School

Wikipedia - "The New York School (synonymous with abstract expressionist painting) was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s, 1960s in New York City.(synonymous with abstract expressionist painting) was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s, 1960s in New York City."
Wikipedia

Sin & Salvation

The Afterglow in Egypt
"This exhibition interprets Hunt's work in a new light, revealing an artist who grappled with the issues of the day. Sometimes gritty, never conventional, Hunt's art addressed the conflicts between East and West, the crisis of faith in the age of Darwin, the evolving role of women in society, and the complex relationship between the sexes."
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Susan Rothenberg

Red Studio, 2002-2003
art:21 - "Her early work—large acrylic, figurative paintings—came to prominence in the 1970s New York art world, a time and place almost completely dominated and defined by Minimalist aesthetics and theories. The first body of work for which she became known centered on life-sized images of horses. Glyph-like and iconic, these images are not so much abstracted as pared down to their most essential elements."
PBS, Wikipedia, artnet

The Beau Brummels

Wikipedia - "The Beau Brummels were a successful 1960s American rock band, formed in San Francisco in 1963."
Wikipedia, YouTube, Dailymotion