"By drawing historical, cultural, and political metaphors out of basic materials, Allora & Calzadilla’s works explore the complex associations between an object and its meaning."
pbs, YouTube
Allora & Calzadilla
"By drawing historical, cultural, and political metaphors out of basic materials, Allora & Calzadilla’s works explore the complex associations between an object and its meaning."
pbs, YouTube
John Collier, Jr.
Fort Kent, Aroostook County, Maine, 1942
"John Collier, Jr. was born in 1913, the youngest son of Lucy Wood Collier and John Collier, Sr. His father was a social activist who later served as the Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1933 to 1945 and, because of this work, the family maintained ties to the area around Taos, New Mexico."
American Image
Etienne Chambaud
Le Comble, 2007
Wikipedia - "Etienne Chambaud is a French artist based in Paris. He was born in France in 1980."
Wikipedia, Courtesy of the Artists, Carefully Aimed Darts, Museo Magazine
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Wiukipedia - "Lee "Scratch" Perry (born Rainford Hugh Perry, on 20 March 1936, in Kendal, Jamaica) is a musician, who has been highly influential in the development and acceptance of reggae and dub music in Jamaica and overseas. He employs numerous pseudonyms, such as Pipecock Jackxon and The Upsetter."
Wikipedia, MySpace, Lee Perry, Perfect Sound Forever, last.fm, Roots World, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)
The Fantastic Tavern: The Tbilisi Avant-Garde
"The Fantastic Tavern: The Tbilisi Avant-Garde is an exhibition about a highly significant yet overlooked period in art history. During Georgia’s short independence as the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1918-1921, Tbilisi became the 'Paris' of the East, where an inspired community of artists not only developed unprecedented creative practices but also collaborated to produce astonishing works of art."
Georgian Daily, Casey Kaplan Gallery
William Kentridge
Wikipedia - "Kentridge is perhaps best known for his animated films. These are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again. He continues this process meticulously, giving each change to the drawing a quarter of a second to two seconds' screen time. A single drawing will be altered and filmed this way until the end of a scene. These drawings are later displayed along with the films as finished pieces of art."
Wikipedia, William Kentridge, Greg Kucera, artnet, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)
Wings of Desire
Wikipedia - "Wings of Desire is a 1987 film by the German director Wim Wenders. Its original German title is Der Himmel über Berlin, which can be translated as The Sky (or Heaven) over Berlin. Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry partially inspired the movie; Wenders claimed angels seemed to dwell in Rilke's poetry."
Wikipedia, Wim Wenders, Cinematical, Film, YouTube, (1), (2)
Fortune cookie
Wikipedia - "A fortune cookie is a crisp Asian American cookie usually made from flour, sugar, vanilla, and oil with a 'fortune' wrapped inside. A 'fortune' is a piece of paper with words of faux wisdom or a vague prophecy."
Wikipedia
Bent Larsen
Wikipedia - "Jørgen Bent Larsen (born March 4, 1935, Thisted) is a Danish chess Grandmaster. He has been a six-time Danish champion, and a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on four occasions: 1965, 1968, 1971, and 1977. He won three Interzonal tournaments: Amsterdam 1964, Sousse 1967, and Biel 1976."
Wikipedia, Chess Games, YouTube, (1), (2)
Stealing Home: The Case of Contemporary Cuban Baseball
"In the debate over Cuban Baseball, so much is a matter of subject position. Often point of view and geographic location are inextricably tied and knowing what to think is like navigating the impossible medieval labyrinth. Browse what the various interested parties have said on a range of topics critical to forming an educated opinion about Cuban baseball."
PBS, NYT, (1), Time, Vanity Fair
Erick Beltrán
"Erick Beltrán’s practice work reveals his interest in language and the systems in which information is dispersed. He often inserts his work as ‘viruses’ into conventional communication systems, questioning the economic and political motives driving the circulation of information in the public realm."
SCAPE, 28 Bienal sao paulo, MDE07, Google
Antonin Artaud
Wikipedia - "Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud (September 4, 1896, in Marseille – March 4, 1948 in Paris) was a French playwright, poet, actor and theatre director. Antonin is a diminutive form of Antoine (little Anthony), and was among a long list of names which Artaud used throughout his life.(September 4, 1896, in Marseille – March 4, 1948 in Paris) was a French playwright, poet, actor and theatre director. Antonin is a diminutive form of Antoine (little Anthony), and was among a long list of names which Artaud used throughout his life."
Wikipedia, Antonin Artaud, Levity
Anselm Kiefer: Karfunkelfee and The Fertile Crescent
Aschkelon, 2009
"The new work continues to confront the violence and paradoxes of human history, its endless cycle of creation and destruction. The paintings are allusive, not illustrative, with an emphatic material and spiritual presence. They seem almost sensuously painted but are the result of a long process during which both the artist and the elements have attacked the canvas."
White Cube
PJ Harvey
Wikiedia - "Polly Jean Harvey (born 9 October 1969) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. Raised in Corscombe, Dorset, Harvey formed the band (calling it PJ Harvey) as a teenager with drummer Rob Ellis and bassist Ian Olliver, who was replaced with Steve Vaughan."
Wikipedia, PJ Harvey, MySpace, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
Agrippa (a book of the dead) - William Gibson
Wikipedia - "Agrippa (a book of the dead) is a work of art created by speculative fiction novelist William Gibson, artist Dennis Ashbaugh and publisher Kevin Begos Jr. in 1992. The work consists of a 300-line semi-autobiographical electronic poem by Gibson, embedded in an artist's book by Ashbaugh. Gibson's text focused on the ethereal nature of memories (the title is taken from a photo album)."
Wikipedia, Agrippa (a book of the dead) - William Gibson, UC Santa Barbara, William Gibson aleph, Cyber
Downtown music
Wikipedia - "Downtown music is a subdivision of American music, closely related experimental music. The scene the term describes began in 1960, when Yoko Ono—one of the Fluxus artists, at that time still seven years away from meeting John Lennon—opened her loft at 112 Chambers Street to be used as a noise music performance space for a series curated by La Monte Young and Richard Maxfield."
Wikipedia
YouTube
"Over the last few years YouTube has become the very epitome of digital culture. With more than 70 million unique users each month and approximately 100 million videos online, this brand-name video distribution platform holds the richest repository of popular culture on the Internet."
YouTube, YouTube Reader
Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés
Etant donnés, 1946-66
"Marcel Duchamp’s enigmatic assemblage Étant donnés: 1. La chute d’eau, 2. Le gaz d’éclairage (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas) has been described by the artist Jasper Johns as “the strangest work of art in any museum.” Permanently installed at the Museum since 1969, this three-dimensional environmental tableau offers an unforgettable and untranslatable experience to those who peer through the two small holes in the solid wooden door."
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Duchamp's Secret Masterpiece, Fresh Widow
Living Decay (fairy tales in the middle on nowhere)
"In the summer of 2008 Dolk and Pøbel, two talented Norwegian street artists, took on the challenge of Lofoten Islands countryside in Norway to create large-scale murales on the faces of abandoned houses which are about to be demolished. 'Living Decay' is suggestive daily log that narrates through 4 tales, the making of these huge paintings inside the unique northern landscape."
Wooster Collective
Ennio Morricone
Wikipedia - "Ennio Morricone, OMRI (born November 10, 1928), is an Italian composer and conductor. He has composed and arranged scores for more than 500 film and television productions. Morricone is considered as one of the most influential film composers since the late 1950s."
Wikipedia, Ennio Morricone, IMDb, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)
Astronomy Picture of the Day
2009 November 5
"Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer."
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Poems-for-All, Сибирский Левша, 2-inch books
"They're scattered around town -- on buses, trains, cabs, in restrooms, bars, left along with the tip; stuffed into a stranger's back pocket. Whatever. Wherever. Small poems in small booklets half the size of a business card. A project of the 24th street irregular press, which cranks them out to be taken by the handful and scattered like seeds by those who want to see poetry grow in a barren cultural landscape."
Poems-for-All, "Сибирский Левша", 2 inch book and print
Chicago house
Wikipedia - "Chicago house is the earliest style of house music. The term "House music" is thought to have originated in North America at a Chicago, USA, nightclub called The Warehouse. While the origins of the name are unclear, one of the most popular beliefs is that the term can be traced to the name of that club."
Wikipedia, Global Darkness, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)
Richard Mosse
"NPR, The Bryant Park Project - Traveling along the Mexico border on a drive from San Diego, photographer Richard Mosse spotted a rucksack lying by the side of the road. Curiosity got the better of him, and he looked inside. He found clothes, jewelry and cards for learning English. description."
Richard Mosse< BLDGBLOG, NYT
Laura Keeble
"laura keeble is a london based artist who produces traditional works as well as street art interventions. her work is subversive and often references consumerism, brands and the contemporary art market."
designboom, Laura Keeble
Jinoos Taghizadeh
"Rock, paper, scissors and a hard place. David’s picture of Marat - the murdered journalist and hero of the French Revolution - contrasts with a report that the Iranian press, censored under the shah, was to be free under the new regime."
Guardian, (1), Jinoos Taghizadeh, Aaran Gallery
Satchel Paige
Wikipedia - "Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige (July 7, 1906 – June 8, 1982) was an American baseball player whose pitching in the Negro leagues and in Major League Baseball made him a legend in his own lifetime. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971, the first player to be inducted from the Negro leagues."
Wikipedia, Satchel Paige, Baseball Almanac, ESPN, Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, YouTube: Satchel Paige, (2). YouTube
Romance comics
Wikipedia - "Romance comics was a genre of American comic books that featured dramatic scripts and art about love, domestic strife and heartache."
Wikipedia, (1), (2), The Golden Age Romance Comics Archive
The Rascals
Wikipedia - "The Rascals (known initially as The Young Rascals) were an American soul and rock musical team of the 1960s."
Wikipedia, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, YouTube, (1)
Mark Bloch
Wikipedia - "Mark Bloch (born January 23, 1956), also known as Pan, P.A.N., Panman, Panpost and the Post Art Network, is an American multi-media artist from Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Since 1982 he has lived in New York City. He is a conceptual artist in the tradition of Dada, the Surrealists, Marcel Duchamp, the Fluxus group and Ray Johnson."
Wikipedia, panmodern, Matthew Rose Paris
Shoah
Wikipedia - "Shoah is a nine-hour film completed by Claude Lanzmann in 1985 about the Holocaust (or Shoah). Though Shoah is conventionally classified as a documentary film, director Lanzmann considers it to fall outside of that genre, as, unlike most historical documentaries, the film does not feature reenactments or historical footage; instead it consists of interviews with people who were involved in various ways in the Holocaust, and visits to different places they discuss."
Wikipedia, NYT, Institute for Historical Review, Guardian, SHOAH'S ABSENCE, YouTube, (1), (2) - Raul Hilberg
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
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