Borges—The Conjectural Poem

Eugène Delacroix, The Battle of Taillebourg (1834)
"Lawyers can be dishonest, venal and self-serving. Lawyers can be intoxicated by power and can do evil to achieve it. But lawyers can be heroes, though sometimes tragic ones, whose vision provides inspiration across the ages. Consider this amazing poem by Borges, a salute to his ancestor, Francisco Narciso de Laprida, a lawyer who struggled to bring democratic liberalism anchored in the rule of law to the southern cone of Latin America."
Harpers

Rock-paper-scissors

Wikipedia - "Rock-paper-scissors is a hand game played by two or more people. The game is known by many names, including paper-rock-scissors, paper-scissors-rock, fargling, cachipun, scissors-paper-rock/stone, jan-ken-pon, kauwi-bauwi-bo, and rochambeau."
Wikipedia, Google

Factory Records

Wikipedia - "Factory Records was a Manchester based British independent record label, started in 1978 by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus, which featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, and (briefly) James and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark."
Wikipedia, Factory Records, A Factory Discograpy, Google, YouTube - BBC, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

W.R. MacAskill

"We have also taken some of MacAskill's 16mm silent colour film footage from the 1930s and converted it for online viewing. The MacAskill Travelogue presents Nova Scotia for potential tourists, while the Bluenose footage provides truly exciting coverage of the last International Fishermen's Trophy Race, off Gloucester, MA in 1938."
Nova Scotia, W.R. MacAskill: The Man and His Time

WK Interact Goes Big in New York

Wooster Collective, WK

Willie Mays

Wikipedia - "William Howard 'Willie' Mays, Jr. (born May 6, 1931) is a retired American baseball player who played the majority of his career with the New York and San Francisco Giants before finishing with the New York Mets."
Wikipedia, NNDB, npr, YouTube

Paul Bowles (1910-1999)

"The American writer and composer, Paul Bowles, reflects on his life in Morocco, his adopted home for over fifty years. Dir. Mohamed Ulad-Mohand. Runtime: 27 min. "
UbuWeb

The Ronettes

Wikipedia - "The Ronettes were a 1960s girl group from New York City, best known for their work with producer Phil Spector. The group consisted of lead singer Veronica Bennett (a.k.a. Ronnie Spector); her sister, Estelle Bennett; and their cousin Nedra Talley."
Wikipedia, The Ronettes, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Stencil graffiti

Stencil near Rush and State Street, Chicago
Wikipedia - "Stencil graffiti makes use of a paper, cardboard, or other media to create an image or text that is easily reproducible. The desired design is cut out of the selected medium and then the image is transferred to a surface through the use of spray paint or roll-on paint."
Wikipedia

No Depression

Wikipedia - "No Depression was a bi-monthly magazine that covered a broad range of roots music, including alternative country and Americana. It was launched in September 1995 (as a quarterly) by co-editors/co-founders Grant Alden and Peter Blackstock, who brought in Kyla Fairchild as a co-publisher shortly thereafter."
Wikipedia, No Depression

Leslie Hewitt

Untitled, 2005
"Leslie Hewitt is inspired by 'the everyday and the transformative power of circumstance or situation,' as she notes in Modern Painters, taking on the forsaken documents of our past—brittle pictures, forgotten books, repressed films, and ephemera—to repurpose them in the present."
Whitney, Leslie Hewitt

Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages

"Designer Steven Heller traces the evolution of the tiny symbols for each Olympic sport since their appearance in 1936."
NYT

William T. Wiley

Alchemical Lyon, 2007
Wikipedia - "William T. Wiley (born October 21, 1937, in Bedford, Indiana) is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, performance, and pinball. At least some of Wiley's work has been referred to as Funk art."
Wikipedia, William T. Wiley, artnet

David Tudor

Wikipedia - "David Eugene Tudor (January 20, 1926 – August 13, 1996) was an American pianist and composer of experimental music."
Wikipedia, David Tudor, The Getty, Sonic Memorial for David Tudor, YouTube - Realisation of David Tudor's Rainforest IV, (1), (2)

In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976

Jan Dibbets. Untitled. 1969
"This exhibition examines approximately seventy-five works by artists of different nationalities relating to travel and the city of Amsterdam, which was the nexus of intense art activities in the 1960s and 1970s, when artists converged there from all over the world."
MoMA, artcritical, Brooklyn Rail, NYT

Prince Buster

Wikipedia - "Cecil Bustamente Campbell, O.D. (born 28 May 1938), better known as Prince Buster and also known by his Muslim name Muhammed Yusef Ali, is a musician from Kingston, Jamaica is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of ska and rocksteady music. The records he made on the Blue Beat label in the 1960s inspired many reggae and ska artists."
Wikipedia, last.fm, ska2soul, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

New York Cubans

Wikipedia - "The New York Cubans were a Negro Leagues baseball team that played during the 1930s and from 1939 to 1950. Despite playing in the Negro Leagues, the team occasionally employed white-skinned Hispanic baseball players as well, because Hispanics in general were largely ignored by the major league baseball teams before Jackie Robinson played for the Brooklyn Dodgers for the first time."
Wikipedia, Negro League Baseball Players Association

dance on paper

Pina Bausch
"Who is dancing on paper? Dance on Paper is an open space for writing about movement and its many manifestations. Previously from Paris and New York City, now from Riverside, CA, I intend this site mostly for my own documentation, but also to relay interesting discourse on contemporary dance from French into English."
dance on paper

Gotham City

Wikipedia - "Gotham City, a fictional city appearing in DC Comics, is best known as the home of Batman. Batman's place of residence was first identified as Gotham City in Batman #4 (Winter 1940)."
Wikipedia

Bauhaus: The Face of the 20th Century (1994)

"The Bauhaus school of design, craftsmanship and architecture, founded by Walter Gropius at Weimar in 1919, was largely responsible for revolutionizing the structure of art school tuition, and its basic tenets of design are now a modern commonplace."
UbuWeb

Tapedeck

"Tapedeck.org is a project of neckcns.com, built to showcase the amazing beauty and (sometimes) weirdness found in the designs of the common audio tape cassette. There's an amazing range of designs, starting from the early 60's functional cassette designs, moving through the colourful playfulness of the 70's audio tapes to amazing shape variations during the 80's and 90's."
Tapedeck

Z'EV

Wikipedia - "Z'EV (born Stefan Joel Weisser, at 7:58 a.m. on February 8, 1951 in Los Angeles, California) is an American text-sound artist, poet and mystic who is perhaps best known for his work as a catacoustic (reflected sound-based) percussionist."
Wikipedia, MySpace, Z'ev: Swords into Plowshares, YouTube, (1), (2)

Gustav Metzger

Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, April 28 1943, (1995/2009)
Wikipedia = "Gustav Metzger (born 1926) is an artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike. Together with John Sharkey, he initiated the Destruction in Art Symposium in 1966. Metzger is recognized for his protests in the political and artistic realms."
Wikipedia, Guardian, Gustav Metzger, artinfo, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Folk America

The Bently Boys
"Clips and commentary about or by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charlie Poole, Fiddlin' John Carson, Dock Boggs, Mississippi John Hurt, Judy Collins, Steve Earle, Pete Seeger, Honeyboy Edwards, Slim Bryant, Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Rambling Jack Elliot, Anna Lomax, Mary Travis, Tom Paxton, Roger McGuinn, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson, Stephen Stills, Country Joe McDonald, Odetta, Tom Paxton and more."
Folk America: Birth Of A Nation, Folk America: This Land Is Your Land, Folk America: Blowin' In The Wind

NYPL Map Rectifier

"The NYPL Map Rectifier is a tool for digitally aligning ('rectifying') historical maps from the NYPL's collections to match today's precise maps. Visitors can browse already rectified maps or assist the NYPL by aligning a map. Play the video above to tour the site and learn how to rectify a map yourself."
NYPL

Éric Rohmer

Wikipedia - "Éric Rohmer (4 April 1920 – 11 January 2010) was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. A figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of Cahiers du cinéma."
Wikipedia, NYT, Films de France, IMDb

African Head Charge

Wikipedia - "African Head Charge is a dub reggae ensemble active since the early 1980s. The group was formed by percussionist Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah, and featured a revolving cast of members, including, at times, Prisoner, Crocodile, Junior Moses, Sunny Akpan, Skip McDonald, and Jah Wobble. The group released most of its albums on Adrian Sherwood's label, On-U Sound."
Wikipedia, On-U Sound, MySpace, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Gabriele Münter

Jawlensky and Werefkin, 1909
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, MyStudios, artnet

The International Dada Archive

"Founded in 1979 as part of the Dada Archive and Research Center, the International Dada Archive is a scholarly resource for the study of the historic Dada movement. The Archive has compiled a comprehensive collection of documentation and scholarship relating to Dada."
The International Dada Archive

Bang on a Can

Wikipedia - "Bang on a Can is a multi-faceted musical organization based in New York City. It was founded in 1987 by three American composers who remain its artistic directors: Julia Wolfe, David Lang, and Michael Gordon. It is a major force in the presentation of new concert music, and has presented hundreds of musical events worldwide."
Wikipedia, Bang on a Can, cantaloupe, YouTube, Thurston Moore - Stroking Piece, "Manhatta" by Michael Nyman, Bang on a Can: Summer Music Institute 2008 #31, STEVE REICH DIRECTING BANG ON A CAN, Louis Andriessen - Workers Union, In C by Terry Riley - Bang on a can

Danh Vo

"Danh Vo has planted a garden on the roof of the historical passageway using plants which former French missionaries introduced to Europe on their return from Vietnam. The artist ordered these plants from a special horticultural nursery in North Rhine-Westphalia; they may be regarded as descendants of the varieties that were originally introduced, among them predominantly different species of rhododendron."
Preis2009, frieze, Contemporary Art Daily, ArtMag, YouTube - Package Tour - part I, Package Tour - part II

Michael Buthe

Der Engel und sein Schatten, 1974
"Buthe worked in various media and was one of the first artists to present room-size installations as works of art. These installations could be seen as settings for shamanistic ceremonies. In painting and assemblage, Buthe consistently experimented with color and a wide variety of materials, including fabric, foil, and organic matter. His art was greatly influenced by his personal spirituality and by his travels to Africa and the Middle East."
Alexander and Bonin, Google

David Hochbaum

You Are Not Falling, You Are Floating
"This February Corey Helford Gallery presents You Are Not Falling, You Are Floating, an immersion into the surreal state of consciousness between being awake and asleep and the secrets about ourselves, which are revealed in our dreams, by New York artist David Hochbaum."
Contra, David Hochbaum, MySpace

Antique Radio Tuning Dials

"A special thanks goes to Doug Morton, of 72 Studio, who designed and provided me the above photograph and the Antique Radio Tuning Dials viewing web page."
Indiana Radios

Timelines: Sources from History

"This British Library interactive timeline allows you to explore collection items chronologically, from medieval times to the present day. It includes a diverse combination of texts: those that allow glimpses of everyday life (handbills, posters, letters, diaries), remnants of political events (charters, speeches, campaign leaflets), and the writings of some of our best known historical and literary figures."
Timelines: Sources from History