On the Road with Candide

"The New York Public Library (NYPL) has just launched the online exhibition On the Road with Candide, commemorating the 250th birthday of Voltaire's famous satire. Intended as a companion to the library's in-house exhibition, which runs through April, the digital component includes several stand-alone interactive features for readers."
Independent, NYPL: On the Road with Candide, NYPL: Multimedia

Bertozzi & Casoni

Italian Pavilion, 2009
"Bertozzi & Casoni work with many different ceramic materials, using both tradition and experimentation in a continuous attempt to free themselves from conventionality and cultural stereotypes connected to ceramics and to the so-called applied arts."
Bertozzi & Casoni, Art Hag

Prince Valiant

Wikipedia - "Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, or simply Prince Valiant, is a long-run comic strip created by Hal Foster in 1937. It is an epic adventure that has told a continuous story during its entire history, and the full stretch of that story now totals more than 3700 Sunday strips."
Wikipedia, King Features

Roland Barthes

Claude Cahun, Self-portrait, 1927.
Wikipedia - "Roland Barthes (12 November 1915 – 25 March 1980) ... was a French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes's work extended over many fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, existentialism, social theory, Marxism and post-structuralism."
Wikipedia, textetc

Del Shannon

Wikipedia - "Del Shannon (December 30, 1934 — February 8, 1990) was an American rock and roll singer-songwriter who had a No. 1 hit, 'Runaway', in 1961."
Wikipedia, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Antoni Tàpies

Great Painting (Gran pintura), 1958
Wikipedia - "Antoni Tàpies (born in Barcelona, 13 December 1923) is a Spanish Catalan painter. He is one of the famous artists of European abstract expressionism. After studying law for 3 years, he devoted himself from 1943 onwards only to his painting. He is perhaps the best-known Catalan artist to emerge in the period since the Second World War."
Wikipedia, artnet, YouTube

RēR Quarterly

Wikipedia - "The RēR Quarterly (also known as Rē Records Quarterly and RēR Records Quarterly) was an English 'quarterly' sound-magazine comprising an LP record and a magazine. It was published at irregular intervals between 1985 and 1997 by Recommended Records and November Books, and edited by English percussionist, lyricist and music theorist, Chris Cutler."
Wikipedia, Squid, allmusic, (1), (2), Clouds and Clocks - An interview with Chris Cutler (1999)

Google - Lat Long Blog

Google - Lat Long Blog

Tom Verlaine

Wikipedia - "Tom Verlaine (born Thomas Miller, December 13, 1949, in Morristown, New Jersey) is a singer, songwriter and guitarist, best-known as the frontman for the New York rock band Television."
Wikipedia, The Wonder - Tom Verlaine, Televsion and Stuff, Thrill Jockey, Just the Facts, YouTube - Double Exposure. Rehearsal 1974, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12)

Dinner With Henry (1979)

"It's a classic question: Name a famous person, living or dead, you'd like to have dinner with. I imagine that a number of readers of this blog would say 'Henry Miller.' Indeed, he had a reputation for holding court at the dinner table, regaling his fellow eaters with opinions and reminiscences. Dinner With Henry is a rare, 30-minute documentary about Henry Miller. It is exactly what the title implies: footage of Henry having dinner."
UbuWeb

Arshile Gorky

Portrait of Master Bill, 1929-1936
"This exhibition celebrates the extraordinary life and work of Arshile Gorky (c.1904-1948). Along with Rothko, Pollock and de Kooning, Gorky was one of the most powerful American painters of the twentieth century, and a seminal figure in the formation of Abstract Expressionism. The exhibition includes paintings and drawings from across his career, and a handful of rarely seen sculptures."
Tate, artnet, NYT, Wikipedia

The Moth Poem: Robin Blaser

"The Moth Poem is Robin Blaser’s first book publication, which was preceded by a broadside printed by Auerhahn Press in 1963. I love this chapbook format which is perfect for the serial poem. Spicer’s work of the period published by Auerhahn and White Rabbit provide the model, along with Robert Duncan’s groundbreaking Medieval Scenes."
MIMEO MIMEO

Sally Mann

Candy Cigarette, 1989
"For the first time in Switzerland, a museum exhibition is devoted to the exceptional oeuvre of Sally Mann. For more than twenty years this American photographer (b. Lexington, Virginia in 1951) has been dealing with the themes of intimacy and the inexorable passage of time. The photographs of Mann’s three children, gathered together in 1992 for the book Immediate Family, sparked immediate controversy, while propelling the artist to the summit of the American photography scene."
Elysee, art21

John Oswald

Wikipedia - "John Oswald (born May 30, 1953 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, media artist and dancer. His best known project is Plunderphonics, the practice of making new music out of previously existing recordings (see sound collage and musical montage)."
Wikipedia, pfony, last.fm, U. Toronto, BMOP, New Music Yahoo, electrocd, The Unheard Music, NME, My Space

Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery

Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) Les Plaisirs du bal, c. 1715–17
"In anticipation of the exhibition, The Frick Collection is pleased to announce the early arrival of Watteau's Les Plaisirs du bal, now on view in the museum's North Hall. The painting — considered to be one of the artist's most beautiful — is one of nine works from Dulwich that will be shown exclusively at the Frick."
The Frick Collection, curated

Op Magazine

Wikipedia - "OP Magazine, based in Olympia, Washington, was a music fanzine published by John Foster and the Lost Music Network (leading to the title, which extends the abbreviation LMN to LMNOP) from 1979 to 1984. It was known for its diverse scope and the role it played in providing publicity to DIY musicians in the midst of the cassette culture."
Wikipedia, Tape OP

Costa Gavras

Wikipedia - "Constantinos Gavras (born 13 February 1933), better known as Costa-Gavras ..., is a Greek born French filmmaker, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z (1969). Most of his movies were made in French; starting with Missing (1982), several were made in English."
Wikipedia, Guardian - French resistance: Costa Gavras, AV Club, YouTube - Z, YouTube - Missing

ACT UP New York

Silence = Death Project, AIDSGATE, 1987
Eileen Myles - "In addition to the multitude of posters, this emotional feast of a show comprised video projections, handbills, stickers, T-shirts, buttons—all the paraphernalia of a daily, lived political movement filled the upper floor of the Carpenter Center, chronicling six years of adamant activity."
ARTGUIDE, Frieze, ACTUP Oral History Project, NYPL Digital Gallery

In Remembrance of Ed Dorn

Alice Notley - "Where do/ did the words come from? I ask. And open my 1975 edition of Slinger at random, to:

his head is a spasm
of presyntactic metalinguistic urgency

What What What
Where Where Where
Who What Where
What Where Who"
Big Bridge #12, Wikipedia, amazon - "Way More West", Jack Magazine - October of 1991

JR's "Women Are Heroes"

"They peer, sadly or defiantly or joyously, from the ancient quays like the eyes of Big Brother, or rather the eyes of Big Sister. The whole circumference of the elegant 17th-century Ile Saint-Louis in the river Seine is being transformed this week into an immense photo gallery of blown-up eyes. Even the bridges linking the island to the right and left banks of Paris will, by tomorrow night, become bridges of eyes, rather than bridges of sighs."
Independent, Wooster Collective

The 35 Best Dance Sequences in Film

"Forget the so-so acting and formulaic plots — there is a long and illustrious history of great dance moments captured on film. Be it Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire tap dancing, John Travolta doing the disco, Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray practicing lifts in the water, or Julia Stiles fusing ballet and hip hop, everyone has a favorite dance scene that they have tried to memorize and perform. After the jump, we have compiled our favorite dance scenes from film in chronological order. We’re willing to bet you won’t stay in your chair for long.'
Flavorwire

Che

Wikipedia - "Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (... June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as El Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat, military theorist, and major figure of the Cuban Revolution. Since his death, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol and global insignia within popular culture."
Wikipedia, W - 1, Che Guevara Archive, Che Lives, la red del Che : the Che network, Spartacus, Che Guevara: Where You'd Never Imagine Him - Netflix, amazon, The Motorcycle Diaries - Netflix, amazon, Che - Netflix, amazon, Criterion - Che, Criterion - "Why Che?", Amy Taubin

The Philosophers' Football Match

Wikipedia - "The Philosophers' Football Match is a Monty Python sketch depicting a football match in the Olympiastadion at the 1972 Munich Olympics between philosophers representing Greece and Germany. Starring in the sketch are Archimedes (John Cleese), Socrates (Eric Idle), Hegel (Graham Chapman), Nietzsche (Michael Palin), Marx (Terry Jones) and Kant (Terry Gilliam)."
Wikipedia, Philosophers Football, Telegraph

The Belles Heures

"The Belles Heures (1405–1408/9) of Jean de Berry, a treasure of The Cloisters collection, is one of the most celebrated and lavishly illustrated manuscripts in this country. Because it is currently unbound, it is possible to exhibit all of its illuminated pages as individual leaves, a unique opportunity never to be repeated."
Met Museum

Charles Olson: August 1963

"Charles Olson's monumental reading (2 hr 45 mins) at the Vancouver Poetry Festival, August 1963"
Penn Sound

Dark ambient

Necropolis Necrosphere
Wikipedia - "Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music that features foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones. Dark ambient emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of new synthesizer and sampling technology in the electronic music genre and other technical advances in music. Dark ambient is an unusually diverse genre, related to industrial music, noise, ethereal wave, and black metal, yet generally free from derivatives and connections to other genres or styles."
Wikipedia, darkambient, last.fm, Cold Warning, Dark Ambient Radio, Dark Ambient Music, Cold Spring, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Ulysses "Seen"

"Throwaway Horse projects are meant to be mere companion pieces to the works themselves-by outfitting the reader with the familiar gear of the comic narrative and the progressive gear of web annotations, we hope that a tech-savvy new generation of readers will be able to cut through jungles of unfamiliar references and appreciate the subtlety and artistry of the original books themselves which they otherwise might have neglected."
Ulysses "Seen", The Webcomic Overlook #93: Ulysses Seen, Ulysses "Seen" Blog, The New Yorker, Wikipedia

Moyra Davey

16 Photographs from Paris, 2009
"Photographer Moyra Davey takes quiet but ravishing photographs of typically overlooked and banal objects. Newspapers, dust, books, money, empty bottles, and the things on top of refrigerators all figure in series of pictures that bring viewers into a state of increased sensitivity to their everyday lives. Long Life Cool White features forty-five of the artist’s photographs from the past two decades."
Yale Press, Dust: Videos by Moyra Davey, Exposure Project

The Honeycombs

Wikipedia - "The Honeycombs were an English beat/pop group, founded in 1963 in North London. The group had one chart-topping hit, the million selling 'Have I the Right?', in 1964. After that song the interest in the group ebbed away, and they split up in late 1966. The group's most distinguishing mark was their female drummer, Honey Lantree."
Wikipedia, YouTube, (1)

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