Ellen Gallagher

Skinatural
"Repetition and revision are central to Gallagher’s treatment of advertisements that she appropriates from popular magazines like 'Ebony,' 'Our World,' and 'Sepia' and uses in works like 'eXelento' (2004) and 'DeLuxe' (2004-05). Initially, Gallagher was drawn to the wig advertisements because of their grid-like structure."
PBS

Dance with Camera

Maya Deren
"Dance with Camera features art works in film, video, and photography that exemplify the ways dance has compelled artists to record bodies moving in space and time. The exhibition begins with films from the 1960s, a period when associations between dancers, filmmakers, musicians and visual artists flourished at Judson Dance Theater in downtown New York."
UbuWeb

The Knickerbockers

"In early 1966, the Knickerbockers hit the Top 20 with 'Lies,' the best and most accurate early Beatle imitation ever recorded; the lead vocals were a dead ringer for John Lennon and the whole production could have fit in snugly on the second side of A Hard Day's Night."
allmusic, Wikipedia, MySpace, YouTube

Cai Guo-Qiang - An Introduction

Wooster Collective

The Theoretical Girls

"The Theoretical Girls were previously known mainly as a footnote in rock history. A band better remembered for launching Glenn Branca’s career than for a scant musical output of one single in 1978, the Theoretical Girls shared with many other bands in the No Wave scene a tendency to dissolve quickly, leaving as little recorded legacy as is humanly possible from a working band (another good example being Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, whose entire works wouldn’t fill an entire LP)."
dustedmagazine, CD Universe, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Nele Azevedo

"This amazing installation of 1,000 melting men was done in collaboration with the WWF to highlight global warming. - cristinacristinacristina"
UNURTH, designboom, GreenMuze, Nele Azevedo

1969: The Year of Gay Liberation

"The year 1969 marked a major turning point in the politics of sexuality in America. Same-sex relationships were discreetly tolerated in 19th-century America in the form of romantic friendships, but the 20th century brought increasing legal and medical regulation of homosexuality, which was considered a dangerous illness."
NYPL, Wikipedia

Kurt Wenner

"Once known as Madonnari, Street Painters, Pavement artists, Chalk Artists, and Sidewalk Artists have designed impermanent or Ephemeral Art for centuries."
Kurt Wenner

Kahlo Trove: Fact or Fakery?

"In a back room tucked behind an antiques gallery in this cobblestone mountain town there is a shrine to the painter Frida Kahlo. A dozen paintings jostle for wall space. A trunk is open to show off folded huipiles, the traditional Oaxacan blouses that Kahlo favored. Loose-leaf binders hold copies of pages of notes scribbled at dawn and airmail letters never sent, filled with anger and passion for her husband, Diego Rivera, the muralist. The question is whether any of it was hers."
NYT

Martin Boyce

We Make Unsubstantial Territory
"The city surfaces in Martin Boyce’s work as both dream and physical presence. In the installation Our Love is Like the Earth, the Rain, the Trees and the Birth (2003), industrial materials like fluorescent strip lights and powder-coated steel, chain link fencing and ventilation grills are loosened from their quotidian roles to describe the signs and forms of a dreamlike urban landscape."
sodium dreams, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

The Golden Age of Comic Books

Wikipedia - "The Golden Age of Comic Books was a period in the history of American comic books, generally thought of as lasting from the late 1930s until the late 1940s. During this time, modern comic books were first published and enjoyed a surge of popularity; the archetype of the superhero was created and defined; and many of the most famous superheroes debuted, among them Superman, Batman, Captain America, and Wonder Woman."
Wikipedia

New York Film Festival

"America’s pre-eminent film presentation organization, The Film Society of Lincoln Center was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, to recognize and support new filmmakers, and to enhance awareness, accessibility and understanding of the art among a broad and diverse film going audience."
New York Film Festival, NYT

Steve Wolfe

"For over two decades, Steve Wolfe (b. 1955) has created objects and drawings of astounding craft and visual presence that investigate the intersections among material culture, intellectual history, and personal and collective memory."
Whitney, Luhring Augustine

KG52

Kareem Rizk
"Is the collage merely an artistic technique or is it a cognitive modus, a way of thinking? Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase 'the media is the message' by which he meant that every media from the written language to the computer influences our way of thinking and the way we see ourselves and perceive the world. Man forms his tool and his tools form man."
Cut and Paste

Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, and Sol LeWitt ‘Dance' at Bard's Summerscape

"This year, the intrepid and stimulating Bard Summerscape features Richard Wagner—his music and his world. Yet the seven weeks of performances, films, talks, and symposia open with a dance set to music by Philip Glass—a composer whose aesthetic is so far from sturm und drang that it might be arriving from a distant galaxy."
Voice, Lucinda Childs, NYT, Broadway World

Mona Dukess

"The works shown here, appear as single pieces or in grids. Drawings are Watermarks - translucent designs hidden within the thickness of a crisp piece of handmade paper."
Mona Dukess

First day of issue

Wikipedia - "The first day of issue is the day on which a postage stamp, postal card or stamped envelope is put on sale, within the country or territory of the stamp-issuing authority. Sometimes the issue is made from a temporary or permanent foreign or overseas office. There will usually be a first day of issue postmark, frequently a pictorial cancellation, indicating the city and date where the item was first issued, and 'first day of issue' is often used to refer to this postmark."
Wikipedia, Google

The Fugs

Wikipedia - "The Fugs are a band formed in New York City in late 1964[1] by poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, with Ken Weaver on drums. Soon afterward, they were joined by Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber of the Holy Modal Rounders."
Wikipedia, The Fugs, last.fm, Perfect Sound Forever, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Sigmar Polke

Klassenzimmer, (1995)
"This exhibition presents photographs in the Getty Museum's collection created by Sigmar Polke, who became one of the most influential artists working in post-war Germany. With their juxtaposed images, multiple exposures, extreme close-ups, and under- and over-exposures, these photographs demonstrate the artist's early fascination and experimentation with photography."
Getty, Wikipedia, artnet

Songs of Ascension - Meredith Monk and Ann Hamilton

"As realized by 120 performers, including dancers, musicians, singers, children, and costumed quasi-characters, Ms. Monk’s work was far more than cleverly staged and executed; it was a poignant, profound and fiercely unique occurrence that speaks to the fecund imagination of its creator."
Buzzine, Meredith Monk, MPR, WNYC, NYT, Boosey, BAM, artforum

Robert Frank

"Robert Frank (born November 9, 1924), born in Zürich, Switzerland, is an important figure in American photography and film. His most notable work, the 1958 photographic book titled simply The Americans, was heavily influential in the post-war period, and earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and skeptical outsider's view of American society."
Wikipedia, (1), NGA, WSJ, Steidl

Viva Mexico! Edward Weston and His Contemporaries

"In the decades following the Constitution of 1917, Mexico became a powerful magnet for foreign artists and intellectuals drawn to its ideal climate, dramatic landscapes, and inexpensive cost of living."
MFA, Art Blart

C215

"The streets are just my favourite gallery, I been in love with graffiti since i was a child. Sure I did draw, paint free hand, with brushes, with cans, but stencils are the best way to quick place something beautiful anywhere in the streets, without any fucking authorisation."
flickr, Five Prime, MySpace

Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972

Wikipedia - "The Society of the Spectacle (La Société du spectacle) is a work of philosophy and critical theory by Situationist and Marxist theorist, Guy Debord. It was first published in 1967 in France."
Wikipedia, YouTube, (1), (2)

Clay Wagstaff

"I see the world in terms of a balance between cosmos and chaos. Painting for me is the process of continually seeking, and attempting to work out, that balance."
Wagstaff Studios, Sears Peyton

John and Teenuh Foster

"As a longtime collector of folk art works and other objects whose makers have been unknown to me, I am deeply moved by the ability of these items to communicate across time and in different contexts than those in or for which they were originally created, meanings their makers may not have intended for them to convey."
accidental mysteries

Rainbow Quest

Wikipedia - "Rainbow Quest (1965-66) was a U.S. television series hosted by Pete Seeger, devoted to folk music. It was filmed in black and white and featured musicians playing in traditional American music genres such as old-time music, bluegrass and blues."
Wikipedia, Pete Seeger, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), rutube, dailymotion

Richard Long

"In contemporary art, consensus is rarer than a decent drawing by Tracey Emin. In the case of Richard Long, however, the critics seem mostly to be agreed: hard to describe their usual response to his work as anything other than a swoon. They stare at his maps, his photographs and his stone circles, and a sense of awe creeps over them. They imagine him - bandana around his head, dried foodstuffs in his rucksack - striding out alone into the wilderness, and they tremble at the sheer manliness of the enterprise."
Guardian, Berkshire Review, Richard Long

Helvetica

"Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which recently celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives."
Helvetica, Wikipedia, YouTube, (1)

Bruce Springsteen the E Street Band

Wikipedia - "Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed 'The Boss', is an American singer-songwriter. He records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey."
Wikipedia, W - Born to Run, W - Born in the U.S.A., npr, Backstreets, Bruce Springsteen, MySpace, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), dailymotion, video cure

Cuba Stamp

"We welcome you to our Canadian website offering Cuban stamps MNH Mint Never Hinged from 1929 to 2002. If you don't find what you want send us an e-mail with the catalog number of the Cuban stamp that you are looking for as we have more stamps available that are not in the website as we are updating it on a regular basis."
Cuba Stamp, Google, Glassine Surfer, Postal Museum

Will Ryman

"His portraits of city life emphasize the absurd, abandoning natural proportion in favor of dream-like distortions in which lips and eyes balloon forward, furniture becomes architecture, and limbs stretch in fits of ecstasy or bend into a sedation at the edge of sleep."
Brooklyn Rail, artnet, Art Observed, Saatchi Gallery

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess

"In the early 1920s a rumor circulated through the art worlds of Paris and New York that Marcel Duchamp—the artist best known for Nude Descending a Staircase, the sensation of the Armory Show of 1913—had decided to stop making art in order to devote his life to playing chess."
Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess, Re-evaluating the Art & Chess of Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Duchamp: Chess Master, Amazon

Andreas Slominski

Untitled, 1991
"Billed as a retrospective, this exhibition of 20 or so pieces was not the accumulation of all sizes of traps, shaggy dog stories and absurd riddles one might have anticipated from a two-decade round-up of Andreas Slominski’s work."
frieze - Issue 100, Google, artnet, Guardian

Jean Renoir

"Provence is one of the most spectacular regions of France. It's the France of the great Impressionist painters. Monet, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, and (of sidelong interest here) Auguste Renoir captured the luminescent quality of the light there and the brilliance of the colors."
Stage & Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir: The Criterion Collection, YouTube, (1)