The Sites of Latin American Abstraction

"The exhibition intends to explore a rarely addressed aspect of Latin American abstract art: To what extent the simultaneous development of an abstract movement in different artistic centers (Argentina and Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela) responded to the cultural and socio-political need of reconsidering, on the basis of modernist art, the prospect of a previously much-discussed Latin American identity."
cifo, LA Times, YouTube

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Wikipedia - "The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slaveholding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. This was one of the most controversial acts of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a 'slave power conspiracy'."
Wikipedia

Dick Cavett

Wikipedia - "Richard Alva 'Dick' Cavett (born November 19, 1936) is a former American television talk show host known for his conversational style and in-depth discussion of issues."
Wikipedia, NYT, SHECKYmagazine, YouTube - John Lennon, Ono, Lucille Ball, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Raquel Welch, Groucho, George Harrison, Katharine Hepburn, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, Bette Davis, Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal Feud, Bobby Fischer, Ingmar Bergman, Woody Allen, Orson Welles, Cassavetes, Falk, and Gazzara, etc., Marlon Brando, Frank Zappa, Sly Stone, Ray Charles

Talking drum

Wikipedia - "The talking drum is a West African drum whose pitch can be regulated to the extent that it is said the drum 'talks'. Talking drums are some of the oldest instruments used by west African griots and their history can be traced back to ancient Ghana Empiretimes."
Wikipedia, U. Mich, Talking Drum Studio, YouTune, (1), (2), (3)

Arriving and Outgoing Mail

Patrick Derible
"historian in culture and art, sometimes collARTagist" ... Roland Halbritter
Arriving and Outgoing Mail Art

Archie Bell & the Drells

Wikipedia - "Archie Bell & the Drells was a Houston, Texas, based R&B vocal group, one of the main acts on Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff's Philadelphia International Records."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube

Tamara de Lempicka

La Dormeuse
Wikipedia - "Tamara de Lempicka (Łempicka) (May 16, 1898–March 18, 1980), born Maria Górska in Warsaw, in partitioned Poland, was a Polish Art Deco painter and 'the first woman artist to be a glamour star.'"
Wikipedia, Google, Tamara de Lempicka

I Ching

Wikipedia - "The I Ching (Wade-Giles), 'Yì Jīng' (Pinyin), Classic of Changes or Book of Changes; also called Zhouyi, is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts. The book contains a divination system comparable to Western geomancy or the West African Ifá system. In Western cultures and modern East Asia, it is still widely used for this purpose."
Wikipedia, I Ching

Wire

Wikipedia - "Wire are an English rock band formed in London in October 1976, (and intermittently active to the present) by Colin Newman (vocals, guitar), Graham Lewis (bass, vocals), Bruce Gilbert (guitar), and Robert Gotobed (né Grey) (drums). They were originally associated with the punk rock scene, appearing on the Live at the Roxy WC2 album - a key early document of the scene, and were later central to the development of post-punk."
Wikipedia, Pink Flag, MySpace, "Pay attention: I am Wired!", last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4 - Pink Flag), (5 - Pink Flag), (6 - Pink Flag), (7 - Pink Flag), (8 - Chairs Missing), (9 - Chairs Missing)

Austin Kleon

"Austin Kleon is a writer, cartoonist, and designer living in Austin, Texas."
Austin Kleon

Yvonne Rainer

Film About a Woman Who... (1974)
Wikipedia - "Yvonne Rainer (born November 24, 1934, San Francisco) is an American dancer, choreographer and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is frequently challenging and experimental."
Wikipedia, sense of cinema, Video Data Bank, YouTube, (1), facebook

Augustus Pablo

Wikipedia - "Horace Swaby (June 21, 1953 – May 18, 1999), better known as Augustus Pablo, was a Jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer and keyboardist, active from the 1970s onwards. He was known for his devotion to the spiritual Rastafari movement."
Wikipedia, last.fm, Augustus Pablo, ARTIST direct, El Rocker's, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915

George Bellows, Cliff Dwellers, 1913
"Between the American Revolution and World War I, a group of British colonies became states, the frontier pushed westward to span the continent, a rural and agricultural society became urban and industrial, and the United States—reunified after the Civil War under an increasingly powerful federal government—emerged as a leading participant in world affairs."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Resource Library

The Kitchen

Ikue Mori at The Kitchen
Wikipedia - "The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary art space in New York. The Kitchen was founded in Greenwich Village in 1971 and it takes it name from its original location, the kitchen of the Mercer Arts Center."
Wikipedia, The Kitchen

Vassar Clements

Wikipedia - "Vassar Clements (April 25, 1928 – August 16, 2005) was a Grammy Award- winning American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz."
Wikipedia, Vassar Clements, MySpace, YouTube, (1), (2)

Gabriele Münter

Dorfkirche in Riedhausen bei Murnau, 1908
Wikipedia - "Gabriele Münter (19 February 1877 –19 May 1962) was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century."
Wikipedia, artnet, BNET, Google

Kenneth Koch

Wikipedia - "Kenneth Koch (27 February 1925 – 6 July 2002) was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77. He was a prominent poet of the New York School of poetry, a loose group of poets including Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery that eschewed contemporary introspective poetry in favor of an exuberant, cosmopolitan style that drew major inspiration from travel, painting, and music."
Wikipedia, Academy of American Poets, PennSound, The New York Review of Books

Collection Rotation: Meara O’Reilly

Timothy H. O’Sullivan, Black Cañon, Colorado River, Looking Below, Near Camp 7, 1871
"In my own research, I try to find a disputable balance between scientific and subjective perception. I’m interested in the idea of learning as a beautiful physical experience or performance or even a game—creating a situation where individual perception of a piece can be as much a part of the process as the artist’s intent or an objective material-based truth."
SF MoMA

Anarchism

The True Inwardness of the Central Labor Union - Merely Puppets in the Anarchist Editor's Hands
Wikipedia - "Anarchism is a political philosophy encompassing theories and attitudes which consider the state to be unnecessary, harmful, or otherwise undesirable, and favor instead a stateless society or anarchy. Individual anarchists may have additional criteria for what they conceive to be anarchism, and there is often broad disagreement concerning these broader conceptions."
Wikipedia, Spartacus, Social Anarchism, The Anarchist Library

Lindsay Cooper

Wikipedia - "Lindsay Cooper (born 3 March 1951) is an English bassoon and oboe player, composer and political activist. Best known for her work with the band Henry Cow, she was also a member of Comus, National Health, News from Babel and David Thomas and the Pedestrians. She has collaborated with a number of musicians, including Chris Cutler and Sally Potter, and co-founded the Feminist Improvising Group."
Wikipedia, last.fm, AllMusic, YouTube, (1)

Railway transport modelling

Wikipedia - "Railway modelling (UK, Australia, Ireland and Canada) or Model railroading (US) is a hobby in which rail transport systems are modelled at a reduced scale, or ratio. The scale models include locomotives, rolling stock, streetcars, tracks, signalling, and roads, buildings, vehicles, model figures, lights, and features such as streams, hills and canyons."
Wikipedia, (1), vimeo

Anton Corbijn

"Don van Vliet, alias 'Captain Beefheart', is one of the most influential, misunderstood, talked about, admired, copied, treasured, loved and quoted musicians and yet he is still an obscure and mysterious artist."
UbuWeb

Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht

"Weill came of age at the end of World War I, in a Europe that was both spiritually exhausted, ghastly, frightening, desperate -- and remarkably creative. The carnage of World War I had shattered the smug 19th-century illusion that Western societies had achieved perfect, rational civilizations under wise, benign leaders. When the smoke cleared and the millions of bodies were buried, every art form underwent radical change, from old styles of simplistic (and often schmaltzy) charm and harmony to new, terrifying visions of fear, dread, satire, revolt and despair."
Gordscafe, Three Penny Opera, Wikipedia - Kurt Weill, W - Bertolt Brecht, YouTube, (1), (2)

Jah Wobble

"Fascinating collusion of East, West and down-deep dub This could well be one of the greatest things to have come out of Liverpool’s status as Capital Of Culture 2008. Wobble’s commissioned collaboration with a selection of handpicked traditional Chinese musicians came to a wonderful blossoming conclusion with a series of gigs that blended Chinese music with his own hefty dub leanings. This album is the beautiful extrapolation of those unique moments."
MySpace, YouTube

Brooklyn Royal Giants

Wikipedia - "The Brooklyn Royal Giants were a professional baseball team based in Brooklyn, New York which played in the Negro Leagues. They were one of the premier professional teams before World War I, winning multiple championships in the East. During the 1920s, under the ownership of Nat Strong, a white New York City booking agent, the team fell into somewhat of a decline, and did very poorly while in Eastern Colored League."
Wikipedia, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Brooklyn Royal Giants, Google

Cabaret Voltaire

Wikipedia - "Cabaret Voltaire were a British music group from Sheffield, England. Initially composed of Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk and Chris Watson, the group was named after the Cabaret Voltaire, a nightclub in Zurich, Switzerland that was a centre for the early Dada movement. Their earliest performances were dada-influenced performance art, but Cabaret Voltaire later developed into one of the most prolific and important groups to blend pop with dance music, techno, dub house and experimental electronic music."
Wikipedia, W - Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich), brainwashed, last.fm, MySpace, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

The Wicker Man

Wikipedia - "The Wicker Man was a large wicker statue of a human used by the ancient Druids (priests of Celtic paganism) for human sacrifice by burning it in effigy, according to Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentary on the Gallic Wars). In modern times the figure has been adopted for festivals as part of some neopagan-themed ceremonies, notably without the human sacrifice element."
Wikipedia

Kid Creole and the Coconuts

Wikipedia - "Kid Creole and the Coconuts is an American musical group created and led by August Darnell. Their music incorporates a variety of styles and influences, in particular 'American and Latin American, South American, Caribbean, Trinidadian, Calloway' and conceptually inspired by the big band era."
Wikipedia, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, MySpace, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

The Beatles' Christmas Album

Wikipedia - "The Beatles' Christmas Album (U.S.) aka From Then to You (UK), was a 1970 compilation album of the Christmas records issued via the Beatles' Fan Club—and made available solely to members of their official fan clubs in the UK and the U.S. The Beatles' Christmas Album was issued as From Then to You in the UK by Apple Records (LYN 2154) and in the U.S. (SBC 100)."
Wikipedia, The Beatles' Christmas Record, The Beatles Fan Club Christmas Records, THE BEATLES CHRISTMAS RECORDS updated 12/08, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

An Italian City Shaken to Its Cultural Core

"Cities take centuries to grow, but they can die in the relative blink of an eye. After an earthquake in April killed hundreds and left tens of thousands homeless in and around this medieval and Baroque city some 70 miles northeast of Rome, the emergency relief efforts were extraordinary. Volunteers from all over Italy rushed to help."
NYT

Sophie Calle

Wikipedia - "Sophie Calle (born 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. She is recognized for her detective-like ability to follow strangers and investigate their private lives. Her photographic work often includes panels of text of her own writing."
Wikipedia, Paula Cooper Gallery, iniva, Artist

Victorian Infographics

"A time table indicating the difference in time between the principal cities of the World and also showing their air-line distance from Washington."
BibliOdyssey

UbuWeb Ethnopoetics

"The breakthroughs of the last 100 years in poetry and elsewhere have been marked by new approaches to language and performance. Largely this has been the work of several generations of experimental writers and performers, many of them now archived and available thru Ubuweb and related web sites."
UbuWeb Ethnopoetics

Matt Kish, Zak Smith

MOBY-DICK, Page 097
"About this Moby-Dick project: In August of 2009, I was really restless. I remembered seeing a book where the artist Zak Smith had made one illustration for every page of Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow. I was really blown away by how amazing his art was, and by the whole idea in general, so a while later I decided to try the same thing myself. Only instead of Gravity's Rainbow I decided to work on my favorite novel, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick."
One Drawing for Every Page of Moby-Dick, zak smith,

"mission": reappropriating public space in new york

"Why is it ok to take down someone else's work (/advertisement) and put my work up instead: The message of this work is not 'buy! buy! buy!' it is 'look, enjoy, think, like, don't like, form an opinion.' It engages viewers in a dialogue which advertisements do not. Each piece of art put in a public space, in place of an ad, is an opportunity for viewers to reconnect with the space they inhabit."
Wooster Collective