Irving Petlin

Trestle Bridge . . The Next Village, 1990
"Irving Petlin was born in Chicago to Polish Jewish parents who left Europe in the early 1920s right after World War I. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1950s, during the height of the Chicago Imagist movement."
absolutearts, artnet

Perfect game

Don Larsens Perfect, Game 5 of 1956 World Series
Wikipedia - "A perfect game is defined by Major League Baseball as a game in which a pitcher (or combination of pitchers) pitches a victory that lasts a minimum of nine innings and in which no opposing player reaches base. Thus, the pitcher (or pitchers) cannot allow any hits, walks, hit batsmen, or any opposing player to reach base safely for any other reason—in short, '27 up, 27 down'."
Wikipedia

Bohemianism

Édouard Manet, At The Cafe, 1878
Wikipedia - "Bohemianism is the practice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people, involving musical, artistic or literary pursuits, with few permanent ties. Bohemians can be wanderers, adventurers, or vagabonds. The term bohemian, of French origin, was first used in the English language in the nineteenth century to describe the non-traditional lifestyles of marginalized and impoverished artists, writers, journalists, musicians, and actors in major European cities."
Wikipedia, Evolution of Bohemia

Rosanne Cash

Wikipedia - "Rosanne Cash (born May 24, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of the late country music singer Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto Cash Distin."
Wikipedia, Rosanne Cash, My Space, last.fm, NPR, Metacafe - The Wheel, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)

And Now Right "Before Your Very Eyes"

"The first (and only) issue of an 'occasional magazine' from Goliard Press that included Olson, Raworth, Saroyan, Koller, Padgett, Hirschman. The correct publishing date is 1967 not 1964 as elsewhere reported."
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Rhino

"Be the first on your block to hear about new limited-edition music and merch, plus get inside info on special promotions and events!"
Rhino, Wikipedia, MySpace

Maira Kalman

Wikipedia - "Maira Kalman, born in 1949, is an American illustrator, author, artist, and designer."
Wikipedia, Maira Kalman, NYT, TED

Trance music

Wikipedia -"Trance is a style of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 155 BPM, short melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track. It is a combination of many forms of electronic music such as industrial, techno, and house. ... The effect of some trance music has been likened to the trance-inducing music created by ancient shamanists during long periods of drumming."
Wikipedia, Google, YouTube - Donna Summer - I Feel Love, Phuture - Acid Tracks, Fast Eddie - Acid Thunder, KLF - What Time Is Love (Pure Trance), The Future Sound of London — Papua New Guinea, Humate - Love Stimulation, Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar (Cosmic Baby's Impression Mix), Man with no name- Teleport, Hallucinogen - LSD, Robert Miles - Children, Paul Van Dyk - For an angel(E-Werk Club Mix)

Van Gogh Museum

The White Orchard, 1888
"During his ten-year artistic career, Van Gogh was highly prolific. A full 864 paintings and almost 1,200 drawings and prints have survived. The largest collection of his work – more than 200 paintings, 437 drawings and 31 prints – can be found in the Van Gogh Museum."
Van Gogh Museum, Wikipedia

Afrobeat Revolution

"A bit more than a Rough Guide, if you ask us -- actually a great little set that capable shows the range of Afrobeat and and funk in a new generation - Dusty Groove"
bongohead, CD Universe, amazon

Artists’ Book Collection

"This database is an illustrated, descriptive index to the Artists’ Book Collection, located in the Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Presently, the Artists’ Book Collection contains over 800 titles. The database indexes approximately 760 of those titles, over 500 of which have one to four images to visually represent the structure and/or content of the book."
Artists’ Book Collection, (1)

ElMac

"This is sort of a no-brainer. Over the past few years, there have not been many artists who have generated the attention and energy than Mac. Its obvious why: his murals with Retna, as well as his solo work, are unlike the work of any artist today. His last show at FIFTY24SF Gallery in the Summer of 2009 featured eight faces, 7 women and 1 man, all peering over onlookers almost as if they should be hanging in a church. They were dynamic, but as with all of his work, there is almost something holy going on."
The Citrus Report, ElMac

Pina Bausch: Barbe Bleue (1977)

"Not only movement, but songs, words, snatches of poetry and dialogues among themselves as well as with the audience accompanied by a pell-mell of music, sounds, silence and vociferations abounded in her shows."
Sehenswert

In C

Wikipedia - "In C is a semi-aleatoric musical piece composed by Terry Riley in 1964 for any number of people, although he suggests 'a group of about 35 is desired if possible but smaller or larger groups will work'. It is a response to the abstract academic serialist techniques used by composers in the mid-twentieth century and is often cited as the first minimalist composition."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube, (1)

Candida Höfer

Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra VI, 2006
"German artist Candida Höfer will exhibit large and small-scale color photographs describing public institutions in Los Angeles, Cambridge and Madrid."
Rena Bransten Gallery, artnet

Otis Redding

Wikipedia - "Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American soul singer. Often called the 'King of Soul', he is renowned for an ability to convey strong emotion through his voice."
Wikipedia, Otis Redding, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy

Criterion - "Roberto Rossellini is one of the most influential filmmakers of all time. And it was with his trilogy of films made during and after World War II — Rome Open City, Paisan, and Germany Year Zero — that he left his first transformative mark on cinema. With their stripped-down aesthetic, largely nonprofessional casts, and unorthodox approaches to storytelling, these intensely emotional works were international sensations and came to define the neorealist movement. Shot in battle-ravaged Italy and Germany, these three films are some of our most lasting, humane documents of devastated postwar Europe, containing universal images of both tragedy and hope."
Criterion - Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy, the auteurs, AV Club, DVD Talk, Filmwell, senses of cinema, Hammer To Nail, amazon - Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy

Caravaggio

The Calling of St Matthew, 1599-1600
Wikipedia - "Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, (29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His intensely emotional realism and dramatic use of lighting had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting."
Wikipedia, Caravaggio, WebMuseum, W - Caravaggio (Film)

Ambient Music Guide

"A history of ambient sound. From Eric Satie through to the Third Millenium, take a short trip through the ambient universe."
Ambient Music Guide, Amhient Music Blog

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."
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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