Shakespeare—Sonnet 138

Sofonisba Anguissola, Portrait of a Young Woman (ca. 1575)
"Listen to John Dowland’s Can She Excuse My Wrongs from the First Booke of Songes (1597) in a performance by Gérard Lesne and the Ensemble Orlando Gibbons, and then a guitar performance of his Melancholy Galliard and an Allemande by Jamie Andreas on a modern guitar"
Harpers

David Bowie, La La La Human Steps - "Look Back In Anger"

"Live in London with La La La Human Steps 1988"
YouTube

Leon McAuliffe

Wikipedia - "Leon McAuliffe (January 3, 1917–August 20, 1988), born William Leon McAuliffe, was an American Western swing musician from Houston, Texas. He is famous for his steel guitar solos with Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys, inspiring Wills's phrase, 'Take it away, Leon.'"
Wikipedia, Brad's Page of Steel, Legendary Steel Guitarist, YouTube, (1), (2)

Jockum Nordström

Wikipedia - "Jockum Nordström (born 1963) is a Swedish artist, best known for his vivid collages, but also for his drawings, paintings and work as an illustrator."
Wikipedia, artnet, YouTube

Gotham Art & Theater

"What does this have to do with art? Find out at Artists Space, where "Rip it Up and Start Again" can be seen until Feb. 20, 2010. Curated by an impressive assortment of presenters, including poet John Giorno, gallerist Mitchell Algus and fictional artist Claire Fontaine, this fascinating show brings together works by Burroughs, artist Ray Johnson, poet Charles Henri Ford, musician Arthur Russell and Philippe Thomas (who started a fictional public relations agency called readymades belong to everyone®). All of them shared an interest in collaboration, collage and breaking down the boundaries between visual, written and musical art."
artnet

The Famous Flames, T.A.M.I. Show - James Brown

Wikipedia - "The Famous Flames was an R&B vocal group founded by Bobby Byrd that performed with James Brown during the early years of his career. On recordings such as 'Please, Please, Please', 'Try Me', 'Think', 'I Don't Mind', 'Shout and Shimmy', 'Bewildered', 'Oh Baby, Don't You Weep', and 'I'll Go Crazy' the group's smooth backing harmonies contrasted strikingly with Brown's own rough, impassioned delivery, and their synchronized dance steps were a prominent visual feature of his live shows."
Wikipedia, W - T.A.M.I. Show, James Brown, The T.A.M.I. Show, (2), (3)

Nueva trova

Ruinas de la Casa de la Nueva Trova
Wikipedia - "Nueva trova is a movement in Cuban music that emerged around 1967/68 after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, and the consequent political and social changes. Nueva trova has its roots in the traditional trova, but differs from it because its content is, in the widest sense, political. It combines traditional folk music idioms with 'progressive' and often politicized lyrics."
Wikipedia, Cuban Trova. III Part. The Nueva Trova., At the Beginning, There Wasn't a Nueva Trova by Silvio Rodriguez, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), Cuba Son Guajira Nueva Trova - Video Dokumentation Mi Cuba Son

Festival de Cannes 2010

"Find out more in detail about the official Selection, Juries, Awards, programmes, events, and follow everything happening at the Festival through articles, photos and videos."
Festival de Cannes 2010, (1), Wikipedia, MUBI

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Ville-d'Avray: Entrance to the Wood
Wikipedia - "Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (July 17, 1796[1] – February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism."
Wikipedia, Artchive, Olga's Gallery, NGA

Prince Far I

Wikipedia - "Prince Far I (b. Michael James Williams, c.1944, Spanish Town, Jamaica, d. 15 September 1983, Kingston, Jamaica) was a reggae deejay, producer and a Rastafarian."
Wikipedia, My Space, Roots Archives, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Italian Renaissance

Gozzoli: Procession of the Kings (Medici Portraits)
Wikipedia - "The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe."
Wikipedia, WebMuseum, Famous Artists of Italy

Julie Mehretu: Grey Area

Middle Grey, 2007
"Currently on display at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin is American artist Julie Mehretu’s suite of paintings Grey Area. It’s the fifteenth work within the Deutsche Guggenheim’s series of commissions that started in 1998 with James Rosenquist, followed by Andreas Slominski, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Lawrence Weiner, Jeff Koons, Rachel Whiteread, Bill Viola, Gerhard Richter, John Baldessari, William Kentridge, Hanne Darboven, Phoebe Washburn, Jeff Wall, Anish Kapoor, and now Julie Mehretu."
VTV, Artmag, White Cube

Error card

Wikipedia - "In the trading card collecting hobby, an error card is a card that shows incorrect information or some other unintended flaw. It can contain a mistake, such as a misspelling or a photo of someone other than the athlete named on the card. Depending on whether the manufacturer noticed the problem while the cards were still being produced, a card may exist in both correct and incorrect versions."
Wikipedia

Werner Herzog Reads Where's Waldo

"Uncompromising German film director Werner Herzog reads the children's classic Where's Waldo"
YouTube

Neil Young - Part 3

Wikipedia - "While Young had never been a stranger to eco-friendly lyrics, themes of environmentalist spirituality and activism became increasingly prominent in his work throughout the 1990s and 2000s, especially on Greendale and Living With War. The trend continued on 2007's Chrome Dreams II, with lyrics exploring Young's personal eco-spirituality."
Wikipedia, Harvest Moon, Winterlong, Prime Of Life, Sleeps With Angels, Mansion On The Hill, F!#*in Up, My Heart, From Hank to Hendrix. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Greendale, (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), (14), (15*), Love to Burn, Piece Of Crap, Downtown, The Believer, Milano, Sad Movies, Wille Nelson, Home Grown - Farm Aid 2009, Love And Only Love, When You Dance I Can Really Dance, It's a dream, The Painter, He Was The King, No Wonder (Prairie Wind), Grey Ridery, This Note's For You - NY 1989, Crime In The City, Love Art Blues, Mellow My Mind, Words

Pedro Costa

Wikipedia - "Pedro Costa (born 1959) is a Portuguese film director. He is acclaimed for using his ascetic style to depict the marginalised people in desperate living situations. Many of his films are set in a district of Lisbon inhabited by the socially disadvantaged and shot in a natural and low-key way that makes them resemble documentaries."
Wikipedia, Pedro Costa, Guardian - "Pedro Costa, the Samuel Beckett of cinema", Harvard Film Archive, New Yorker - "Lisbon Calling", strictly film school, MUBI, Criterion Collection - "Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa

Assemblage

Joseph Cornell
Wikipedia - "Assemblage is an artistic process in which a three-dimensional artistic composition is made from putting together found objects. The origin of the word (in its artistic sense) can be traced back to the early 1950s, when Jean Dubuffet created a series of collages of butterfly wings, which he titled assemblages d'empreintes."
Wikipedia, Google

Kon + Amir Present: The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Samples Of All Time

"These days, everyone loves hip-hop. But how much does the average fan really know about the building blocks that formed the foundation of the genre's entire sound? That's right, before it was all-808-everything, hip-hop used a secret (and sometimes not-so-secret) selection of classic soul, funk rock, and jazz records from the ’60s and ’70s to create their sound. From tiny, obscure snippets to instantly-recognizable loops, the sample-based producers of the late ’80s and early ’90s uncovered some truly classic musical gems that are still sought after and used today."
Kon + Amir Present: The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Samples Of All Time

Diplomacy

Wikipedia - "Diplomacy is a strategic board game created by Allan B. Calhamer in 1954 and released commercially in 1959. Its main distinctions from most board wargames are its negotiation phases (players spend much of their time forming and betraying alliances with other players) and the absence of dice or other game elements that produce random effects."
Wikipedia, Play Diplomacy Online, The Game of Diplomacy, (1), amazon

The American Breed

Wikipedia - "The American Breed was an American rock band that was formed in 1966 and disbanded in 1969."
Wikpedia, last.fm, YouTube

Art of the Mimeo Revolution

"I just finished reading Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics to Comix 1963-1990, which was released in connection with an exhibition at Chazen Museum of Art in Madison, Wisconsin a year ago."
Mimeo Mimeo, Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix, 1963 - 1990, Little Magazine Collection

DOLK Goes BIG in Brooklyn

"In New York for his show with M-City at the Brooklynite Gallery, DOLK has been hitting Brooklyn hard."
Wooster Collective, Brooklynite Gallery

The Master Musicians of Jajouka

"Jajouka is an ancient village perched above a long valley in the blue Djebala foothills of the Rif Mountains in northern Morocco. The village is home to the Master Musicians of Jajouka as well as the sanctuary of Saint Sidi Ahmed Sheikh, who came from the East around 800 AD to spread Islam to North Morocco."
The Master Musicians of Jajouka, Wikipedia, W - 1, My Space, YouTube, (1), (2), Master Musicians of Joujouka Live in Porto part 1, Porto part 2, Rolling Stones - 'In Morocco" BBC Documentary 1989 Pt 1, Pt 2, Pt 3, Pt 4, Pt 5.

Patti Smith, Tom Snyder

"February 23, 2009 — Patti Smith interviewed by Tom Snyder, May 11, 1978."
YouTube

Benjamin Péret

Wikipedia - "Benjamin Péret (4 July 1899 – 18 September 1959) was a French poet and Surrealist."
Wikipedia, Green Integer, enotes, Benjamin Péret: songs of the eternal rebels

Ken Kesey

Wikipedia - "Kenneth Elton 'Ken' Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American author, best known for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), and as a counter-cultural figure who considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s."
Wikipedia, W - Merry_Pranksters, Psychedelic 60s: Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters, YouTube

Eugène Delacroix

Liberty Leading the People
Wikipedia - "Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement."
Wikipedia, Eugène Delacroix,

Gregory Isaacs

Wikipedia - "Gregory Isaacs (born Gregory Anthony Isaacs, 15 July 1951, Fletchers Land, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican reggae musician. Milo Miles, writing in the New York Times, described Isaacs as 'the most exquisite vocalist in reggae'."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

Tango #16

"'Tango', #16 in the Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine series, offers the unexpected pairing of contemporary downtown NY composers with vintage tango songs."
continuo, UbuWeb

Thomas Struth

Sommerstrasse, Düsseldorf, 1980
Wikipedia - "Thomas Struth (born 1954) is a German photographer whose wide-ranging work covers detailed cityscapes, Asian jungles and family portraits. Along with Andreas Gursky, he is one of Germany's most noted modern-day photographers."
Wikipedia, artnet, Marian Goodman

“Get out of there!,” the definitive montage

"So I was dangling this dork from Pajiba upside-down trying to dislodge his lunch money when out popped this video. It’s a montage of 'Get out of there!' scenes from movies."
Filmdrunk

Soviet Non-Conformist Art – Before and after the fall of the USSR

Lucien Dulfan, City Street, 1980s
"Under the paradoxical title Soviet Non-Conformist Art – Before and after the fall of the USSR, the Chambers Gallery next to Smithfields Market is showing paintings and prints by a group of artists hailing from the Odessa School, the Ukrainian Underground and Russia."
A World to Win, FAD, Guardian

Darren Almond

"Darren Almond’s diverse work, incorporating film, installation, sculpture and photography, deals with evocative meditations on time and duration as well as the themes of personal and historical memory."
White Cube, artnet

It's a Beautiful Day

Wikipedia - "It's a Beautiful Day was a band formed in San Francisco, California in 1967, the brainchild of violinist David LaFlamme. LaFlamme, a former soloist with the Utah Symphony Orchestra, had previously been in the band Orkustra, and unusually, played a five-string violin."
Wikipedia, It's a Beautiful Day, YouTube - It's a Beautiful Day, (1), Soapstone Mountain, Bombay Calling

Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery

Anthony Van Dyck, Samson and Delilah, c. 1619–20
"Dulwich Picture Gallery holds one of the world's major collections of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century paintings. The exhibition, which heralds the Gallery’s bicentenary in 2011, reintroduces American audiences to this institution’s collection through an exceptional group of works, to be shown exclusively at the Frick through May 30, 2010."
The Frick Collection