Roller coaster

Roller Coaster 1928
Wikipedia - "The roller coaster is a popular amusement ride developed for amusement parks and modern theme parks. LaMarcus Adna Thompson patented the first coasters on January 20, 1885. In essence a specialized railroad system, a roller coaster consists of a track that rises in designed patterns, sometimes with one or more inversions (such as vertical loops) that turn the rider briefly upside down."
Wikipedia, Ultimate Roller Coaster

MAPCO

War Map Of The Gallipoli Peninsula 1915
"MAPCO's aim is to provide genealogists, students and historians with free access to high quality scans of rare and beautiful antique maps and views. The site displays a variety of highly collectable 18th and 19th century maps and plans of London and the British Isles, and also 19th century maps and engravings relating to Australia."
MAPCO

Big Rock Candy Mountain

Wikipedia - "'Big Rock Candy Mountain' is a song about a hobo's idea of paradise - a modern version of the medieval concept of Cockaigne, and similar to the cavalryman's concept of Fiddler's Green. The song describes a hobo's vision of utopia, a place where the 'hens lay soft boiled eggs' and there are 'cigarette trees'."
Wikipedia, PBS, YouTube - Burl Ives, (1)- 1920s

The Women of the Avant-Garde

"Sound clips from Kathy Acker, Laurie Anderson, Caroline Bergvall, Denise Levertov, Lydia Lunch, Patti Smith, Eileen Myles, and many more."
Poetry Foundation, (1)

Greek and Roman

"The collection of Greek and Roman art at the Metropolitan Museum—more than seventeen thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312—includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America."
Met Museum, NYT - The Met's New Greek and Roman Galleries

Just intonation

Wikipedia - "In music, just intonation is any musical tuning in which the frequencies of notes are related by ratios of whole numbers. Any interval tuned in this way is called a just interval; in other words, the two notes are members of the same harmonic series."
Wikipedia, UbuWeb - Tellus #14 'Just Intonation' (1986), Just intonation, Just Intonation Explained, American Mavericks, Music Resource Development, Harmonic Theory and Just Intonation, YouTube, La Monte Young - The Well Tuned Piano, Philip Glass - Changing Opinion, The Beatles - PURE intonation, Harrison: "Bells"

Salon (Paris)

Salon de la Commission du Personnel, Adolphe Willette
Wikipedia - "The Salon (French: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: Salon de Paris), beginning in 1725 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Between 1748–1890 it was the greatest annual or biannual art event in the western world. Since 1881 it was organized by the Société des Artistes Français."
Wikipedia, W - Société des Artistes Indépendants

Granary Books

Turning Leaves of Mind, 2003
"For over twenty years, Granary Books has brought together writers, artists, and bookmakers to investigate verbal/visual relations in the time-honored spirit of independent publishing. Granary's mission—to produce, promote, document, and theorize new works exploring the intersection of word, image, and page—has earned the Press a reputation as one of the most unique and significant small publishers operating today."
Granary Books, Jacket magazine, ARTBOOK&, Too Much Bliss: Twenty Years of Granary Book

Nouveau Réalisme

Travailleurs Communistes by Raymond Hains
Wikipedia - "Nouveau Réalisme (New Realism) refers to an artistic movement founded in 1960 by the art critic Pierre Restany and the painter Yves Klein during the first collective exposition in the Apollinaire gallery in Milan. Pierre Restany wrote the original manifesto for the group, titled the 'Constitutive Declaration of New Realism,' in April 1960, proclaiming, 'Nouveau Réalisme - new ways of perceiving the real.'"
Wikipedia, New Realism, Google

Chris Cutler

Wikipedia - "Chris Cutler (born January 4, 1947) is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. Best known for his work with English avant-rock group Henry Cow, Cutler was also a member and drummer of a number of other bands, including Art Bears, News from Babel, Pere Ubu and (briefly) Gong/Mothergong."
Wikipedia, Chris Cutler, Perfect Sound Forever, ReR, YouTune, (1), (2)

Baltimore Orioles

Wikipedia - "The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland. They are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since 1992, the Orioles have played their home games at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. The 'Orioles' name refers to the official state bird of Maryland. Nicknames for the team include the O's and the Birds."
Wikipedia

Elizabeth Forbes

Zandvoort Fishergirl, 1884
"Canada-born Elizabeth Adela Forbes, nee Armstrong, was one of the leading women artists of her day. Her marriage to Stanhope Forbes was a partnership of equals, and their School of Painting was very much a joint enterprise."
Penleehouse, Cybermuse

Einstein on the Beach

Wikipedia - "Einstein on the Beach is an opera scored and written by Philip Glass and designed and directed by theatrical producer Robert Wilson. It also contains writings by Christopher Knowles, Samuel M. Johnson and Lucinda Childs."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Fascinated by the Orient: Aurel Stein (1862-1943)

"The Hungarian Orientalist, archaeologist and explorer Sir Marc Aurel Stein was interested in the meeting points of the great civilizations of the East and the West. His name and works have become inseparable from the history of the Silk Road, which was not merely an Eurasian trade route linking China with the Mediterranean, but a conduit of ideas, beliefs, styles of art and technologies."
Fascinated by the Orient, Aurel Stein, British Explorations in Chinese Central Asia

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