1989 - Europe's Revolution

"The BBC World Service has put together a special report on the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe."
BBC World Service, BBC - 1989: Key events in Europe's revolution, BBC - 1989: Children of the revolution, BBC - Mapping the fall of communism, BBC - The day I outflanked the Stasi

David Rees

"Let me know if you'd like me to come to your town and read my comics or just talk to you about my feelings."
mnftiu, Videos, Cartoons, Press

Hip hop

Wikipedia - "Hip hop music is a musical genre which developed alongside hip hop culture, and is commonly based on concepts of looping, rapping, freestyling, DJing, scratching, sampling and beatboxing. The music is used to express concerns of political, social, and personal issues. Hip hop began in the Bronx in New York City in the 1970s, primarily among African Americans, with some Jamaican immigrant influence. The term rap is often used synonymously with hip hop, however, the latter denotes the practices of an entire subculture."
Wikipedia

James Schuyler: Six New Recordings Added

"As promised in last week's conclusion to John Ashbery week, today, we're unveiling a bevy of new recordings from another stalwart of the New York School's fabled first generation: James Schuyler. Altogether, there are six new recordings, some provided by Ashbery, the rest recently unearthed by poet and scholar Nathan Kernan. We begin with Schuyler's half of the November 23, 1989 reading with Ashbery at New York's 92nd Street Y, that we highlighted on Friday."
PennSound - Reading at 92nd Street Y with John Ashbery in New York, November 23, 1989

James Ensor

Christ's Entry into Brussels
Wikipedia - "James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor (April 13, 1860 – November 19, 1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for almost his entire life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX."
Wikipedia, MoMA, NYT, Brooklyn Rail

The Left Banke

Wikipedia - "The Left Banke was a 1960s American pop-music group best remembered for its two hit singles, 'Walk Away Renée' and 'Pretty Ballerina'. The band often utilized what was referred to as 'baroque' string arrangements, which led its music to be termed 'Bach-rock'."
Wikipedia, Left Banke, YouTube, (1)

The Bread and Puppet Theater

Wikipedia - "The Bread and Puppet Theater (often known simply as Bread & Puppet) is a politically radical puppet theater, active since the 1960s, currently based in Glover, Vermont. Its founder and director is Peter Schumann."
Wikipedia, The Bread and Puppet Theater, Video-Vermont, August, 19th, 1998, Bread & Puppet"s Domestic Resurrection Circus and Pageant, Affinity Project

Andrew Rogers

AR Horse of Chile - Landmark Sculpture
"Andrew Rogers' contribution to contemporary visual arts is significant and explores many dimensions. This is reflected in his skills, the forms and narrative of his sculptures which grace many plazas and buildings around the world. He is renowned as a leading contemporary artist globally and in Australia."
Wikipedia, Andrew Rogers

Beginner's Guide to the Spaghetti Western

"The spaghetti western was born in the first half of the sixties and lasted until the second half of the seventies. It got its name from the fact that most of them were directed and produced by Italians, often in collaboration with other European countries, especially Spain and Germany."
SWDB, Fistful of Pasta, Wikipedia, Fistful of Westerns

Steps Off the Beaten Path

"Explore ancient ruins and hidden architectural gems on a photographic walking tour of Rome. These photographers used the newest image-making technologies to capture views of the Eternal City, often creating complex juxtapositions of past and present."
The Clark

Haze Launches New Website Showcasing 30 Years of Work

"If you haven't checked it out yet, legendary graffiti artists and Brooklyn native, Haze, has finally finished and launched an all new updated and redesigned version of his website."
Wooster Collective

Eric Aho

Southern Sky
"Plein air painter, Eric Aho has quickly become one of the nation's top landscape artists working today. Always fresh and vibrant, their atmosphere evokes familiarity and each brushstroke reveals a keen understanding of sophistication through austerity."
Tory Folliard, Eric Aho, artnet

The Raincoats

Wikipedia - "The Raincoats are a British post-punk band. Ana da Silva (vocals, guitar) and Gina Birch (vocals, bass) formed the group in 1977 while they were students at Hornsey College of Art, London, England."
Wikipedia, The Raincoats, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Jean Fouquet

La Mariage de la Vierge
"Jean Fouquet, peintre et enlumineur du XVe siecleis an exquisite French-language exhibition devoted to the fifteenth-century painter Jean Fouquet."
Fouquet

365 Budapest

"I became quite obsessed during the process. Combining three things that play important roles in my life - photography, typography and riding the bike - I came across many streets of Budapest to collect the most interesting looking numbers. The more numbers I have, the harder it gets..."
365 Budapest

The Sixties Project

"The Sixties Project began as a collective of humanities scholars working together on the Internet to use electronic resources to provide routes of collaboration and make available primary and secondary sources for researchers, students, teachers, writers and librarians interested in the Sixties."
Sixties Project

Ambient music

Wikipedia - "Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an 'atmospheric', 'visual' or 'unobtrusive' quality."
Wikipedia, Ambient Music Guide, ambient, dream state, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

The Harder They Come

Wikipedia - "The Harder They Come is a 1972 Jamaican crime film directed by Perry Henzell. The film stars reggae singer Jimmy Cliff, who plays Ivanhoe Martin, a character based on Rhyging, a real-life Jamaican criminal who achieved fame in the 1940s."
Wikipedia, npr, YouTube, (1), (2)

PennSound - John Ashbery

"PennSound's John Ashbery author page with a week's worth of PennSound Daily entries highlighting newly added recordings from the venerable poet."
PennSound

Richard Howe - The Manhattan Street Corners

"Manhattan’s streets and sidewalks are its greatest public commons. Everything else on and about the island connects to them: homes, offices, shops, newstands, restaurants, subways, train and bus stations, ferry docks, heliports, parking garages, police and fire stations, places of worship, schools, hospitals, gyms, theaters, museums, concert halls, parks and playgrounds, the rivers, the bay."
Richard Howe - The Manhattan Street Corners

Time-lapse Mandala

"Time-lapse video, shot from overhead, of Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery creating a sand mandala over 5 days: Eight frames per second (1:30); Thirty frames per second (0:23)."
flickr, (1)

Art manifesto

Wikipedia - "The Art manifesto has been a recurrent feature associated with the avant-garde in Modernism. Art manifestos are mostly extreme in their rhetoric and intended for shock value to achieve a revolutionary effect. They often address wider issues, such as the political system. Typical themes are the need for revolution, freedom (of expression) and the implied or overtly stated superiority of the writers over the status quo."
Wikipedia

The Specials

Wikipedia - "The Specials (sometimes called The Special AKA) are an English 2 Tone ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry, England. Their music combined a 'danceable ska and rocksteady beat with punk's energy and attitude', and had a 'more focused and informed political and social stance' than other ska groups."
Wikipedia, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Pittsburgh Crawfords

Wikipedia - "Stepping into an organizational vacuum, as the major African American leagues of the 1920s, the Negro National League and the Eastern Colored League, had fallen apart by late that year, Greenlee signed many of the top African-American stars, most notably Satchel Paige." Wikipedia, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

The Art of Nick Walker

"In 1992 I began to combine stencils with my freehand work which allowed me to juxtapose almost photographic imagery with the rawness which evolved from conventional graffiti styles."
The Art of Nick Walker, (1), MySpace, artnet

The Sugarhill Gang

Wikipedia - "The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group, known mostly for their biggest hit, 'Rapper's Delight"', the first hip hop single recorded to become a Top 40 hit. The song uses the instrumental track from 'Good Times' by Chic as its foundation."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Henry Darger

Wikipedia - "Henry Joseph Darger, Jr. (April 12(?), 1892–April 13, 1973) was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a custodian in Chicago, Illinois."
Wikipedia, Henry Darger, Saraayers, YouTube, (1)

Sarah Ortmeyer

"It looked like the aftermath of a storm: the gallery’s black-painted floor was covered with splinters of pale poplar wood, none larger than a foot in length. If one crouched down for a closer look, the original form of the fragments became clear: shoes. Some pieces still had half a heel, others a bulbous toe."
frieze, artnet

Chicago Race Riot of 1919

Blacks leaving their houses after Chicago race riot, July 1919
Wikipedia - "The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 was a major racial conflict that began in Chicago, Illinois on July 27, 1919 and ended on August 3. During the riot, dozens died and hundreds were injured. It is considered the worst of the approximately 25 riots during the Red Summer of 1919, so named because of the violence and fatalities across the nation. The combination of prolonged arson, looting and murder was the worst race rioting in the history of Illinois."
Wikipedia, Jazz Age Chicago, Encyclopedia of Chicago

Thomas Kilpper

State of Control, 2009
"The new Tate Modern sends gleaming signals of wealth across the river Thames. But as you walk towards Orbit House, an abandoned 60s warehouse only a few blocks away, second-wave Modernity rapidly gives way to a fractured jumble of old buildings. Sooty brick houses, dented garage doors and new, cheap, office shoeboxes all come together in a confused mish-mash of railway bridges and dark side streets."
frieze, Philagrafika, Tate

Sound collage

delia derbyshire
Wikipedia - "In music montage (literally 'putting together') or sound collage ('gluing together') is a technique where sound objects or compositions, including songs, are created from collage, also known as montage, the use of portions of previous recordings or scores. This is often done through the use of sampling, while some playable sound collages were produced by glueing together sectors of different vinyl records."
Wikipedia, Knowledge Rush, Scaruffi, MySpace

The Box Tops

Wikipedia - "The Box Tops were a Memphis pop music group of the second half of the 1960s. They are best known for the hits 'The Letter,' 'Neon Rainbow,' 'Soul Deep,' 'I Met Her in Church,' and 'Cry Like A Baby,' and are considered a major blue-eyed soul group of the period."
Wikipedia, YouTube, dalealplay

Pietro Germi

Wikipedia - "Pietro Germi (14 September 1914 - 5 December 1974) was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting."
Wikipedia, Film Forum, NYT

John Brown

John Steuart Curry's John Brown Mural in the Kansas Capitol
Wikipedia - "John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist, and folk hero who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end all slavery. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas and made his name in the unsuccessful raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859."
Wikipedia, PBS, The Underground Railroad Site, The Trial of John Brown, Democracy Now, Washington Post - Harpers Ferry Marks 150th Anniversary of John Brown's Raid (Video)

Strat-O-Matic

Wikipedia - "Strat-O-Matic is a game company based in Glen Head, New York, that develops and publishes sports simulation games. It produces tabletop baseball, football, basketball, and ice hockey simulations, as well as personal computer adaptations of each, but it is primarily known for its baseball game."
Wikipedia, Strat-o-Matic, Sporting News