Raï

Wikipedia - "Raï (English pronunciation: /ˈraɪ/; Arabic: راي‎) is a form of folk music that originated in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture."
Wikipedia, lexicorient, U. Texas, last.fm, dailymotion, YouTube, (1), (2)

Techno Tuesday

"‘Techno Tuesday’ began as an exercise in drawing comics and complaining. In fact it still is, after it’s inception in January of 2006. The comic, which is based on technology and the modern world, originally appeared on the Fabrica blog."
Techno Tuesday, Google

Edward Burtynsky

Wikipedia - "Burtynsky's most famous photographs are sweeping views of landscapes altered by industry: mine tailings, quarries, scrap piles. The grand, awe-inspiring beauty of his images is often in tension with the compromised environments they depict."
Wikipedia, Edward Burtynsky, Google, TED

Giorno Poetry Systems

Wikipedia - "Founded in 1965, Giorno Poetry Systems was an American artist collective, record label, and non-profit organisation founded by poet and performance artist John Giorno with the direct aim to connect poetry and related art forms to a larger audience using innovative ideas, such as communication technology, audiovisual materials and techniques."
Wikipedia, W - You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With, NYT, UbuWeb, UbuWeb 1, Kelly Writers House CD, Poetry Foundation, Discogs, The Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation

Raymond Pettibon

Wikipedia - "Raymond Pettibon (born Raymond Ginn on June 16, 1957 in Tucson, Arizona is an American artist and sometime musician and lyricist. Known for his comic-like drawings with disturbing, ironic or ambiguous captions, Pettibon's subject matter is sometimes violent and anti-authoritarian."
Wikipedia, art:21, Raymond Pettibon, Google

N.C. Wyeth

Robin Hood and His Adventures
"Wyeth was a realist painter just as the camera and photography began to compete with his craft. Sometimes seen as melodramatic, his illustrations were designed to be understood quickly. Wyeth, who was both a painter and an illustrator, understood the difference, and said in 1908, 'Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.'"
Wikipedia, Google, N.C. Wyeth

Was (Not Was)

Wikipedia - "Was (Not Was) is an American eclectic pop group founded by David Weiss (a.k.a. David Was) and Don Fagenson (a.k.a. Don Was). They gained popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s."
Wikipedia, W - Don Was, MySpace, WorldWideWas, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Crime comics

Wikipedia - "Crime comics is a genre of American comic books and format of crime fiction. The genre was originally popular in the 1940s and 1950s and is marked by a moralistic editorial tone and graphic depictions of violence and criminal activity."
Wikipedia, Crime Comic Books

Anselm Kiefer

Naglfar, 1998
Wikipedia - "Anselm Kiefer was born on March 8, 1945, in Donaueschingen. He is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac."
Wikipedia, WebMuseum, artnet, Met Museum

James Castle

"James Castle: A Retrospective marks the first comprehensive museum exhibition of the work of James Castle (1899–1977), an artist from rural Idaho who, despite undergoing no formal or conventional training, is especially admired for the unique homemade quality, graphic skill, and visual and conceptual range that characterize his works."
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Tfaoi

Arto Lindsay

Wikipedia - "Arto Lindsay (born May 28 1953, Richmond, Virginia) is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer. He has a distinctive soft voice and an often noisy, self-taught guitar style comprised almost entirely of extended techniques, described by Brian Olewnick 'studiedly naïve ... sounding like the bastard child of Derek Bailey'; his guitar work is contrasted frequently with gentler, sensuous Brazilian music themes."
Wikipedia, arto lindsay, MySpace, Slip Cue, Perfect Sound Forever, last.fm, Bar/None Records, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), veoh

Anne Hardy

Wikipedia - "Hardy's images appear to be photographs of existing places but they are quite the opposite. They are actually carefully constructed sets, created by the artist in her studio, which she then photographs. The subjects of Hardy's artworks are usually objects or junk which she has found in markets, DIY shops, urban skips or jumble sales. The type of objects she chooses have ranged from large antlers, brightly coloured cables, old Christmas trees, light bulbs, American basketballs, orange balloons, scientific test tubes and even butterflies."
Wikipedia, Saatchi Gallery. Bellwether Gallery, Cyana Trend Land

Subodh Gupta

Lot No. 79. Untitled, 2006
Wikipedia - "Subodh Gupta (born 1964) is an artist based in New Delhi. Gupta was born in Khagaul, Bihar, India. His work encompasses sculpture, installation, painting, photography, performance and video. Common images and objects in Gupta’s work are taken from prominent clichés about Indian culture, for example, his prevalent use of stainless steel cooking utensils."
Wikpedia, Saatchi Gallery, artnet

In Bb 2.0 - Bb Buddha Machine

"In Bb 2.0 is a 'collaborative music and spoken word project' from Darren Solomon. With just the native YouTube playback interface, multiple clips can be played and controlled to create your own soothing musical mix."
Split Screen, In Bb 2.0, Science for Girls, Bb Buddha Machine

Hay in Art

Jean-Francois Millet - The Hay-Harvest
"The hay in art database has grown to over six thousand images. The essays initially were intended to illustrate both the changing technology of hay making and the ways in which hay has been used by artists and writers of the last two millennia. Here is a briefly annotated outline of the work done so far."
Hay in Art

The Lumière Brothers

Wikipedia - "The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas (19 October 1862, Besançon, France – 10 April 1954, Lyon) and Louis Jean (5 October 1864, Besançon, France – 6 June 1948, Bandol), were among the earliest filmmakers.(Appropriately, 'lumière' translates as 'light' in English.)"
Wikipedia, Early Cinema, CineScene, YouTube, (1)

Underground press

Berkeley Barb. Vol.7, no.4 (no.154), 1968
Wikipedia - "The phrase underground press is most often used to refer to the independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other western nations."
Wikipedia, Voices from the Underground

Archaeoastronomy

Wikipedia - "Archaeoastronomy (also spelled archeoastronomy) is the study of how past people 'have understood the phenomena in the sky, how they used phenomena in the sky and what role the sky played in their cultures.'"
Wikipedia

Edward Ruscha

Wikipedia - "Edward Ruscha ("roo-SHAY") (born December 16, 1937 Omaha, Nebraska) is an American artist associated with the Pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film."
Wikipedia, Edward Ruscha, Google

Costa Gavras

Wikipedia - "Constantinos Gavras (born February 13, 1933), better known as Costa-Gavras (Κώστας Γαβράς), is a Greek born French filmmaker, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z (1969). Most of his movies were made in French; starting with Missing (1982), several were made in English."
Wikipedia, French resistance: Costa Gavras - Guardian, Film Reference, YouTube, DailyMotion

The Full Moon Atlas

"A complete series of interactive lunar maps, with more than 2,500 geographic formations (including craters, mountains, lakes, seas and valleys) identified simply by moving your mouse cursor over the feature. You must have Javascript turned on in order to access this function."
The Full Moon Atlas

Ed Dorn: Four New Recordings, 1969-1981

"Today, we added two newly-segmented readings by Ed Dorn, both from Buffalo in the mid-1970s, and both drawing heavily upon poems from his 1974 collection, Recollections of Gran Apacheria — a sprawling work which celebrates Apache culture and history, even as it serves as a litany of offenses committed against them."
PennSound, (1), (2)

Ann-Sofi Sidén

Would A Course Of Deprol Have Saved Van Gogh's Ear?, 1996
Wikipedia - "Ann-Sofi Sidén is a contemporarty Swedish artist.[1] She had a traditional education and started out as a painter. She expanded into other mediums, including video, film, performance and sculpture."
Wikipedia, artnet, Google

The Virtual Museum of Iraq

"Iraq is still a warzone and still unsafe for tourists to approach outside of Iraqi Kurdistan. The country, home to some of humankind’s greatest cultural treasures, is not a place for one to visit."
The Virtual Museum of Iraq

Captain Beefheart

Wikipedia - "Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet on January 15, 1941) is an American musician and painter, best known by the pseudonym Captain Beefheart. His musical work was mainly conducted with a rotating assembly of musicians called The Magic Band, which was active between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s."
Wikipedia, W - Trout Mask Replica, Beefheart, the crackling cyberverse of CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & the MAGIC BAND, allmusic, allmusic 1, YouTube, (2), (3), (4), (5), (6). YouTube - Beefheart on Letterman, Live In Belgium 1969, Ice Cream for Crow (HIgh Resolution), Upon the my oh my, Big Eyed Beans from Venus, Abba Zabba

Know Hope

"'Kindred Times and Future Goodbyes' a recent event that a few friends (Foma <3, Klone and Zero Cents) and i recently put on. like the name implies, the show was in an abandoned building in south tel aviv."
Wooster Collective, this is limbo

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