"So classical music is dead, they say. Well, well. This blog will set out to consider that dubious factoid with equanimity, if not downright enthusiasm.... "
Arts Journal, Wikipedia, Kyle Gann
Kyle Gann - PostClassic
"So classical music is dead, they say. Well, well. This blog will set out to consider that dubious factoid with equanimity, if not downright enthusiasm.... "
Arts Journal, Wikipedia, Kyle Gann
Richard Wilson
Wikipedia - "Richard Wilson (born May 24, 1953) is a sculptor, installation artist and musician."
Wikipedia, Richard Wilson, bd, Google
David Toop
Wikipedia - "David Toop (born 5 May 1949) is an English musician and author, and as of 2001 was visiting Research Fellow in the Media School at London College of Communication. He was notably a member of The Flying Lizards. He was a prominent contributor to the British magazine The Face. He is a regular contributor to The Wire, the U.K. based music magazine."
Wikipedia, David Toop, MySpace, Perfect Sound Forever, Poetry Foundation - UbuWeb Featured Resources: David Toop & Pauline Oliveros, Ocean of Sound, Robert Christgau, last.fm, Vimeo
Why Your Stadium Sucks: Yankee Stadium
"For this, the season's final installment of our stadium series, I asked a wide range of writers, critics, community activists, urban planners and fans to explain all that's loathsome about Versailles-on-the-Harlem River."
Deadspin
Liquid Liquid
Wikipedia - "Liquid Liquid was a New York City post-punk band that was active from 1980 to 1983, and regained activity in 2008, playing in various venues across the globe. Their track 'Cavern', from the Optimo EP, recorded by Don Hunerberg was sampled (actually played by the Sugar Hill house band) on Grandmaster + Melle Mel's 'White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)'"
Wikipedia, MySpace, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)
D*Face
"Check out this video of the brilliant UK street artist D*Face. Friendswelove.com has made this short video intro to his work and inspirations in honor of his first show exhibit at the Jonathan Levin Gallery. Although we still don’t know too well what he looks like, click the video below to see what the future has in store for this awesome street artist."
BPM Magazine
Allen Ruppersberg
#105 Pop
Wikipedia - "Born in 1944 in Cleveland, Ohio, Allen Ruppersberg is one of the first generation of American Conceptual artists that changed the way art was thought about and made. His work includes paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, installations, and books."
Wikipedia, DIA, Elacumulador
Luigi Russolo
Wikipedia - "Luigi Russolo (April 30, 1885 – February 4, 1947) was an Italian Futurist painter and composer, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises (1913). He is often regarded as one of the first noise music experimental composers with his performances of 'noise concerts' in 1913-14 and then again after World War I, notably in Paris in 1921. He is also one of the first theorists of electronic music."
Wikipedia, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, 'The Art of Noises', theremin.vox, Media Art Net, YouTube, YouTube - Noise with John Cage (1966), Ubu
John Baldessari
Stonehenge (With Two Persons) Orange, 2005
"John Baldessari, (b. June 17, 1931, National City, California) is a conceptual artist. His work often attempts to point out irony in contemporary art theory and practices or reduce it to absurdity. His art has been featured in more than 200 solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe."
Wikipedia, John Baldessari, artnet, (1)
The Edge of New York: Waterfront Photographs
"Since its founding, New York City’s waterfront has been essential to the life of the city. The harbor’s protected bay became the site for lucrative trade, first with Native Americans and later with the rest of the world, and provided the economic engine for the city’s growth for the next three centuries."
Museum of the City of New York, TimeOut, Woman Around Town, NYT
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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