Underground comix

Wikipedia - "Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence."
Wikipedia, Cal Poly, Lambiek, Sir Real Comix

Keith Tyson

MC4, 1999
Wikipedia - "Keith Tyson’s work can be characterised as an artistic exploration of some of the basic mysteries of human experience.(b. August 23, 1969) is a British Turner Prize-winning artist. He works in a wide range of media, including painting, drawing and installation, and he is noted equally for his painting series, such as Nature Paintings (2005 - 2008), and his large-scale sculptures and installations such as Large Field Array (2005). Keith Tyson’s work can be characterised as an artistic exploration of some of the basic mysteries of human experience."
Wikipedia, Keith Tyson, Contemporary Art Daily

Mel Bochner

Fool, 2007
Wikipedia - "Mel Bochner (born 1940) is an American conceptual artist."
Wikipedia, artnet, Mel Bochner, Google

Monopoly

Wikipedia - "Monopoly is a board game published by Parker Brothers, a subsidiary of Hasbro. The game is named after the economic concept of monopoly, the domination of a market by a single entity."
Wikipedia

Hilary Harnischfeger

Untitled, 2007
"Right now Hilary Harnischfeger’s intriguingly intricate yet powerfully physical paintings are showing. Or maybe they’re bas-reliefs: Harnischfeger layers paper and carves it up, creating works that are at once sculptural, geological, and psychological. It’s like seeing where mosaic, stone carving, landscape painting, watercolor, and microscopic life come together."
NYMag, Rachel Uffner Gallery, Google

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Wikipedia - "The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an American country-folk-rock band that has existed in various forms since its founding in Long Beach, California in 1966. The group's membership has had at least a dozen changes over the years, including a period from 1976 to 1981 when the band performed and recorded as The Dirt Band."
Wikipedia, W - Will the Circle Be Unbroken, W - Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), WAYN

Latinbeat 2009

José Luis Torres Leiva, The Sky, the Earth and the Rain, Chile
"Now in its 12th year, Latinbeat tracks the flourishing and vital filmography of Latin America with 21 films from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay, most in their New York premieres."
Film Society of Lincoln Center

Wooden Ship Model

HMS Victory
"Model Ship Master pursues only one simple goal: to make finest wooden boat models. As a direct result of our focus, many of our boat models are equal to and, in many cases, exceed the standards of models found in many museums today. The level of accuracy in each of our model boat is achieved through painstaking scholarly research. It is this detail that distinguishes our boat models from other builders."
Model Ship Master, Handcrafted Model Ships, Best Scale Models, Google, (1)

HubbleSite

"Spectacular color pictures of stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae and more. Get wallpaper for your computer, print your own Hubble images or watch videos. Catch the best of Hubble's extensive portfolio in Gallery."
HubbleSite, (1), YouTube, viddler

Doonesbury

Wikipedia - "Doonesbury is a comic strip by Garry Trudeau that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, now a middle-aged, remarried father."
Wikipedia, Doonesbury, (1)

Celtic art

The hound of Cuchulainn
Wikipedia - "Celtic art is a 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

Hannah Starkey

"Using actors within carefully considered settings, Hannah Starkey’s photographs reconstruct scenes from everyday life with the concentrated stylisation of film. Starkey’s images picture women engaged in regular routines such as loitering in the street, sitting in cafes, or passively shopping."
Saatchi Gallery, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, artnet

Raoul Hausmann

ABCD
Wikipedia - "Raoul Hausmann (July 12, 1886 – February 1, 1971) was an Austrian artist and writer. One of the key figures in Berlin Dada, his experimental photographic collages, sound poetry and institutional critiques would have a profound influence on the European Avant-Garde in the aftermath of World War I."
Wikipedia, art Directory, CUT & PASTE, Google

Arvo Pärt

Wikipedia - "Arvo Pärt (born 11 September 1935, in Paide, Järva County, Estonia ...)is an Estonian classical composer. Pärt works in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabulation and hypnotic repetitions influenced by the intellectual counterpoint elements of European jazz, and is generally placed within European-American classical post-modernism."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2),

The University of Trash

"The University of Trash is an experiment in alternative architecture, urbanism, and pedagogy taking place in SculptureCenter's main space. Drawing from utopian ideals and radical urban projects undertaken since the 1960s, the artists will create an installation that functions as a temporary, makeshift University - hosting courses, lectures, presentations, and workshops."
Sculpture Center, Voice

Arts of the Ming Dynasty: China’s Age of Brilliance

After Xie Huan, Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden, Ming dynasty, ca. 1437
"Drawn entirely from the extensive resources of the Metropolitan Museum, this exhibition presents the rich diversity of art created under China’s Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Its seventy paintings and calligraphies chronicle the parallel evolutions of the courtly and the scholar-amateur traditions."
Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1), NYT

Run-D.M.C.

Wikipedia - "Run-D.M.C. was an influential hip hop group from Hollis, in the Queens borough of New York City. Founded by Joseph 'DJ Run' Simmons, Darryl 'D.M.C.' McDaniels, and Jason 'Jam-Master Jay' Mizell, the group is arguably one of the most influential acts in the history of hip hop."
Wikipedia, Run-D.M.C., YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Emma Livingston

"I began this series of Tree Portraits in January 2008. This particular selection of trees is taken in one area (barrio) of Buenos Aires. It is an ongoing project which I am extending into other parts of Buenos Aires, and which I then intend to take to other cities in Argentina and beyond."
lens culture, emma livingston

The Pictures Generation: 1974-1984

"This is the first major museum exhibition to focus exclusively on 'The Pictures Generation.' Educated in the self-reflexive and critical principles of Minimal and Conceptual art, this tightly knit group of artists brought those lessons to bear on a return to recognizable imagery, exploring how images shape our perceptions of ourselves and the world."
Metropolitan Museum, On the Seawall, Manner Of Man

Alexandre Farto (aka Vhils)

"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 Collective, AlexandreFarto

Monhegan Island

Wikipedia - "Monhegan is a plantation on an island of the same name in Lincoln County, Maine, United States, about 12 nautical miles (22 km) off the coast. The population was 75 at the 2000 census. ... The island is accessible by mailboat ferry (no automobiles) from Boothbay Harbor, New Harbor and Port Clyde."
Wikipedia, Monhegan, Monhegan Art Collector, Monhegan Island Light, Monhegan Welcome, NYT

66th Venice International Film Festival

"Starting 2nd September, 22 filmmakers run for the prestigious Golden Lion award for best film. The line-up includes great masters such as Jacques Rivette and Werner Herzog, up until the new generation represented by Fatih Akin and Vimukhti Jayasundara."
66th Venice International Film Festival, Wikipedia, NYT - Festival Stresses Its Italian Accent

Gerry & The Pacemakers

Wikipedia - "Gerry & The Pacemakers were a British rock and roll group during the 1960s. In common with The Beatles, they came from Liverpool and were managed by Brian Epstein. They are most remembered for being the first act to reach number one in the UK Singles Chart with their first three single releases."
Wikipedia, Geocities, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Investigating Bellini's Feast of the Gods

"Around 1512, the Duke of Ferrara commissioned Giovanni Bellini to paint this masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, which now hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Dosso Dossi subsequently decorated a gallery for the Duke, and, in 1522, painted over half of Bellini's canvas. Seven years later, Titian repainted the Feast of the Gods again. What did the earlier versions look like? How much of each artist's work do we see today? What motivated these unprecedented changes?"
Investigating Bellini's Feast of the Gods

Soul Train

Wikipedia - "Soul Train is a syndicated, music-related television program. In its 35-year history, the show primarily featured performances by rhythm and blues, soul, and hip hop artists, although jazz musicians and gospel singers have also appeared."
Wikipedia, mbc, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

Protest song

Wikipedia - "A protest song is a song which is associated with a movement for social change and hence part of the broader category of topical songs (or songs connected to current events). It may be folk, classical, or commercial in genre. Among social movements that have an associated body of songs are the abolition movement, women's suffrage, the labor movement, civil rights, the anti-war movement, the feminist movement, and Environmentalism."
Wikipedia

The Maltese Falcon

"When Warner Brothers green-lit the 1941 movie The Maltese Falcon, they were placing their bets on a first-time director (John Huston) and an unproven leading man (Humphrey Bogart). Yeah, we can laugh about it now. But what the studio did feel certain about at the time was the material, Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 detective novel… because they had already filmed it twice."
The Realm of Ryan, YouTube

Pre-Khomeini Iran

"In light of the protests in Iran over the recent presidential election, Magnum takes a look at Iran from 1950-79, before the revolution in which Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi was overthrown in a movement led by Shiite cleric Ruhollah Khomeini."
State, Wikipedia, Iran Chamber

steephill

"Also check out the stage profiles and maps, timetables, race preview, team rosters to enhance your viewing pleasure."
steephill

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

Wikipedia - "Joseph Saddler (born January 1, 1958 in Bridgetown, Barbados[1]) better known as Grandmaster Flash, is an American hip hop musician and DJ; one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing."
Wikipedia, W - 1, Grandmaster Flash, MySpace, joystiq, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Quebec City

Wikipedia - "The narrowing of the Saint Lawrence River approximate to Quebec City and Lévis, on the opposite bank, provided the name given to the city, Kébec, an Algonquin word meaning 'where the river narrows'. Founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain, Quebec City is one of the oldest cities in North America. The ramparts surrounding Old Quebec (Vieux-Québec) are the only remaining fortified city walls."
Wikipedia, YouTube, (1)

Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity

Oskar Schlemmer. Bauhaus Stairway. 1932
"This survey is MoMA’s first major exhibition since 1938 on the subject of this famous and influential school of avant-garde art. Founded in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus brought together artists, architects, and designers in an extraordinary conversation about the nature of art in the age of technology."
MoMA, dexigner

The Gleaners and I

"The Gleaners and I takes its title, and some of its inspiration, from an 1867 painting by Jean-Francois Millet that shows three women in a wheat field, stooping to pick up sheaves and kernels left behind after the harvest."
NYT, theauteurs, Combustible Celluloid, amazon, YouTube

Burning Man

"Trying to explain what Burning Man is to someone who has never been to the event is a bit like trying to explain what a particular color looks like to someone who is blind. In this section you will find the peripheral definitions of what the event is as a whole, but to truly understand this event, one must participate."
Burning Man, Wikipedia, Google, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

Ai Weiwei

Wikipedia - "Ai Weiwei ... born in 1957 in Beijing, is a leading Chinese artist, curator, architectural designer, cultural and social commentator."
Wikipedia, YouTube, St. Paul Street Gallery, flickr