James Chance

Wikipedia - "A key figure in No Wave, Chance has been playing a combination of improvisational jazz-like music and punk in the New York music scene since the late 1970s, in such bands as Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, James Chance and the Contortions, James White and the Blacks (as he appeared in the film Downtown 81), The Flaming Demonics, James Chance & the Sardonic Symphonics, and James Chance and Terminal City."
Wikipedia, MySpace, The Blow Up, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Stone circle

Wikipedia - "A stone circle is an ancient monument of standing stones. It is not always precisely circular, often forming an ellipse, or more rarely a setting of four stones laid on an arc of a circle. The size and number of stones in a 'circle' varies from example to example. More than 1,000 stone circles have been catalogued for the British Isles and parts of Western Europe, mostly lying not more than 100 miles from the sea. Erected thousands of years ago, their purpose is still something of a mystery."
Wikipedia

This Is England

Wikipedia - "The film is centred on young skinheads, and is set in England in July 1983. The film illustrates that the skinhead subculture, whose roots are associated with Jamaican culture (especially ska, rocksteady, and reggae music), eventually became adopted by white nationalist groups such as the National Front."
Wikipedia, imdb, Guardian), Vimeo

The Red Book of C.G. Jung

"This unprecedented exhibition marks the first public presentation of the preeminent psychologist C. G. Jung’s (1875-1961) famous Red Book. During the period in which he worked on this book Jung developed his principal theories of archetypes, collective unconscious, and the process of individuation."
Rubin Museum of Art, Red Book Video, NYT

History of astronomy

Wikipedia - "Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, with its origins in the religious, mythological, and astrological practices of pre-history: vestiges of these are still found in astrology, a discipline long interwoven with public and governmental astronomy, and not completely disentangled from it until a few centuries ago in the Western World (see astrology and astronomy)."
Wikipedia

Gabriel Orozco

Wikipedia - "Gabriel Orozco (born April 27, 1962) is a Mexican artist, called 'one of the most influential artists of this decade, and probably the next one too.' He was born in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico and educated in the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas between 1981 and 1984."
Wikipedia, Art 21: PBS, MoMA

Youssou N'Dour

Wikipedia - "Youssou N'Dour ... (born 1 October 1959 in Dakar) is a Senegalese singer, percussionist and occasional actor. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, in Senegal and much of Africa, 'perhaps the most famous singer alive.' He helped develop a style of popular music in Senegal, known by its Wolof language name of mbalax."
Wikipedia, Youssou N'Dour, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Personal Service Announcements - Laurie Anderson

"Five short 'Personal Service Announcements' from Laurie Anderson • The National Debt • TV Lunch • Women and Money • Jerry-Rigging • The National Anthem • They were aired in 1990 on VH1 as bumpers between videos."
YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Jeff Greinke

Wikipedia - "Jeff Greinke is an American ambient music and jazz artist and composer currently based in Tucson, Arizona. He is known as one of the pioneers of dark ambient music, with his earlier solo albums often compared to works by Robert Rich, Brian Eno, and Vidna Obmana. Greinke's approach on his ambient works is to heavily layer, mutitrack, and texture soundscapes, effectively using the studio as an instrument."
Wikipedpa, MySpace, Profile: Jeff Greinke, last.fm, Rhapsody, Ambience for the Masses, YouTube

Dick Higgins

Wikipedia - "Dick Higgins (March 15, 1938 – October 25, 1998) was a composer, poet, printer, and early Fluxus artist."
Wikipedia, Dick Higgins, TAM Interview #43

Honky tonk

Wikipedia - "A honky tonk (also called a honkatonk, honkey-tonk, or tonk) is a type of bar with musical entertainment common in the Southern and Southwestern United States. The term has also been applied to various styles of 20th-century American music."
Wikipedia, YouTube, (1), (2)

John Wieners.

Wikipedia - "John Wieners (6 January 1934 – 1 March 2002) was an American lyric poet.(6 January 1934 – 1 March 2002) was an American lyric poet."
Wikipedia, IN MEMORIAM JOHN WIENERS, Echo NYC, Jacket Magazine, PennSound

Mémoires

Wikipedia - "Mémoires (Memories) is an artist's book made by the Danish artist Asger Jorn in collaboration with the French artist and theorist Guy Debord. Printed in 1959, it is the second of two collaborative books by the two men whilst they were both members of the Situationist International."
Wikipedia

Devo

Wikipedia - "Devo (pronounced /ˈdiːvoʊ/ DEE-voh, originally /diːˈvoʊ/ dee-VOH) is an American New Wave band formed in Akron, Ohio in 1973. While they are best known for their 1980 hit 'Whip It', which made it to #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the band has succesfully maintained a cult following since early in their career."
Wikipedia, Devo, My Space, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), Daily Motion

Rockefeller Center

"One of the most prestigious office complexes on Manhattan Island, Rockefeller Center is the centerpiece of activity for thousands of New Yorkers who have embraced it as not just another boring office block, but as a warm symbol of a great city. Its rise to national stardom came not so much from the historic name it bears, but because for almost as long as there has been broadcasting, Rockefeller Center has been the home to some of the most powerful networks in the United States."
NYC Architecture

Brian Ulrich

Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois
Wikipedia - "Brian Ulrich (born 1971) is an American photographer known for his photographic exploration of consumer culture."
Wikipedia, Brian Ulrich, chicagoist

Jacques Villeglé

Wikipedia - "Jacques Villeglé, born Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé (1926, Quimper, Brittany) is a French mixed-media artist and affichiste famous for his alphabet with symbolic letters and decollage with ripped or lacerated posters. He builds posters in which one has been placed over another or others, and the top poster or posters have been ripped, revealing to a greater or lesser degree the poster or posters underneath."
Wikipedia, artnet, Modernism

Timothy Leary

Wikipedia - "Dr. Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, futurist, and advocate of psychedelic drug research. An icon of 1960s counterculture, Leary is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic, spiritual and emotional benefits of LSD. He coined and popularized the catch phrase 'Turn on, tune in, drop out.'"
Wikipedia, Timothy Leary, Virginia Uni., Google - High Priest, YouTube, YouTube - (1), (2), (3), (4).

Moby Grape

Wikipedia - "Moby Grape is an American rock group from the 1960s, known for having all five members contribute to singing and songwriting and that collectively merged elements of folk music, blues, country, and jazz together with rock and psychedelic music. Due to the strength of their debut album, several critics consider Moby Grape to be the best rock band to emerge from the San Francisco music scene in the late sixties."
Wikipedia, W - 1, NPR, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Willie Foster

"A half-brother of the famous Rube Foster, Willie Foster was the greatest left-handed pitcher from the Negro Leagues. With near perfect control and a wide assortment of pitches, all delivered with the same motion, the tall left-hander was at his best when the stakes were highest. With a crucial game to win, Bill was the kind of pitcher that a manager wanted on the mound."
Black Baseball, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

Anthony Goicolea

Night Sitting, 2009
Wikipedia - "Anthony Goicolea (born 1971) is a New York-based fine art photographer, born in Atlanta, Georgia. Goicolea's photographs frequently deal with issues of androgyny, homosexuality, and child sexuality."
Wikipedia, Anthony Goicolea, Lenscratch

Viva Cuba

Wikipedia - "In Viva Cuba, a road movie fairy tale, Cremata tackles localized Cuban problems from the literal point of view of the country’s children. He lowers the camera to the eye level of the film’s protagonists, Malú (Malú Tarrau Broche) and Jorgito (Jorgito Miló Ávila)."
Wikipedia, Video Detective

Fred Hampton

Wikipedia - "Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an African-American activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP)."
Wikipedia, Democracy Now, Black Commentator, YouTube, (2), (3), (4)

King Tubby

Wikipedia - "King Tubby (born Osbourne Ruddock, January 28, 1941 – February 6, 1989) was a Jamaican electronics and sound engineer, known primarily for his influence on the development of dub music in the 1960s and 1970s."
Wikipedia, Perfect Sound Forever, fast.fm, Rhapsody, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Wayne Gonzales

"By addressing the complex relation between photography and the construction and dissemination of history, Wayne Gonzales's new work inserts itself in what appears to be a burgeoning genre: post-photographic history painting."
BNET, artnet, Google, YouTube

Jukebox

Wikipedia - "A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that can play specially selected songs from self-contained media. The traditional jukebox is rather large with a rounded top and has colored lighting on the front of the machine on its vertical sides. The classic jukebox has buttons with letters and numbers on them that, when combined, are used to indicate a specific song from a particular record."
Wikipedia, Playa Cofi Jukebox, JukeBox

Afrobeat

Wikipedia - "Afrobeat is a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, and funk rhythms, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the 1970s. Its main creator was the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti who used it to revolutionise musical structure as well as the political context in his native Nigeria. It was Kuti who coined the term 'afrobeat' upon his return from a U.S. tour with his group Nigeria 70 (formerly Koola Lobitos)."
Wikipedia, The Afrobeat Blog, YouTube, (1), (2)

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Wikipedia - "Claude Lévi-Strauss ... (28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called the 'father of modern anthropology'. He also was one of the central figures in the structuralist school of thought, where his ideas reached into fields including the humanities and philosophy."
Wikipedia, NYT, Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

Harvey Pekar

"Harvey Pekar's been mining the mundane for magic for more than 30 years in his autobiographical American Splendor comics. Now he has teamed with SMITH and four remarkable artists &mdash Tara Seibel, Joseph Remnant, Rick Parker, and Sean Pryor &mdash to create his first ongoing webcomic series. New stories appear every other week, with interviews, creator spotlights, and behind-the-scenes goodies. - — Jeff Newelt, Comics Editor"
Pekar Project, Wikipedia, WKSU, NPR

Debashish Bhattacharya

Wikipedia - "Debashish Bhattacharya (Bangla: ভট্টাচার্য, Hindi: देबाशिष भट्टाचार्य, Devāśiṣ Bhaṭṭācārya, born 12 January 1963) is an Indian classical musician who plays the lap slide guitar."
Wikipedia, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Exhibit: Iranian banknotes uprising

Ayatollah Khomeini 10,000 Rial Fantasy Banknote
"Anti-government activists are not allowed to express themselves in Iranian media, so theses activists have taken their expressions to another high circulation mass-medium, banknotes. The Central Bank of Iran has tried to take these banknotes out of circulation, but there are just too many of them, and gave up. For the activists’ people it’s a way of saying 'We are here, and the green movement is going on'."
Payvand

Artistamp

Wikipedia - "The term artistamp (a portmanteau of the words 'artist' and 'stamp') or artist's stamp refers to a postage stamp-like artform used to depict or commemorate any subject its creator chooses. Artistamps are a form of Cinderella stamps in that they are not valid for postage, but they differ from forgeries or bogus stamps in that typically the creator has no intent to fool postal authorities or stamp collectors."
Wikipedia, U. Texas, Faximum, NPCC, Terra Candella, artistamp

Falnama: The Book of Omens

Hell, from the Ahmed I Falnama. Iran or Turkey, 1580-1590
"Whether by consulting the position of the planets, casting horoscopes, or interpreting dreams, the art of divination was widely practiced throughout the Islamic world. The most splendid tools ever devised to foretell the future were illustrated texts known as the Falnama (Book of omens)."
Asia, Smithsonian, Washington Post

Who Shot Rock & Roll

William "PoPsie" Randolph, Wilson Pickett, Jimi Hendrix
"Who Shot Rock & Roll is the first major museum exhibition on rock and roll to put photographers in the foreground, acknowledging their creative and collaborative role in the history of rock music. From its earliest days, rock and roll was captured in photographs that personalized, and frequently eroticized, the musicians, creating a visual identity for the genre."
Brooklyn Museum

The Buena Vista Social Club

Orlando “Cachaito” Lopez
Wikipedia - "The Buena Vista Social Club was a members club in Havana, Cuba that held dances and musical activities, becoming a popular location for musicians to meet and play during the 1940s."
Wikipedia, PBS, Wim Wenders, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)