The CIVIL warS

Wikipedia - "The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down (rendered the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down) is an opera created in the early 1980s by director Robert Wilson to music by Philip Glass, David Byrne, Gavin Bryars and others. The vast five-act work has never been performed whole."
Wikipedia, Nonesuch, amazon, Knee Plays - David Byrne

SoHo

Wikipedia - "SoHo is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan in the United States. Prior to the mid-20th century, the area was known as Hell's Hundred Acres, and was described as an 'industrial wasteland', busy with sweatshops and small factories in the daytime, but empty at night. Before that, it was an area with more bars and brothels than anywhere else in the city."
Wikipedia

W. S. Merwin - The Art of Poetry No. 38

"In the past thirty-four years, you have published twelve books of poetry, three books of prose, and at least fifteen books in translation. Yet you said recently that 'writing is something I know little about.' How is that possible?"
The Paris Review

DAIN

"After two very successful New York shows, Brooklyn born artist DAIN, makes his first solo show in europe at the Lebenson Gallery in Paris. His love for old Hollywood glam is evident in all his work. This, along with his roots in graffiti, create a gritty yet classy street art style."
Lebenson Gallery

Dust Bowl Ballads

Wikipedia - "Dust Bowl Ballads is an album by Woody Guthrie, recorded for Victor Records during Guthrie's time in New York City in 1940. It was Guthrie's first commercial recording and the most successful album he made. It is sometimes considered the first concept album."
Wikipedia, Woody Guthrie: Dust Bowl Balladeer, youTube -Dust Bowl Refugee, Talking Dustbowl Blues, Dust Cain't Kill Me

Julius Heinrich Bissier

Dongo, 1964
"From 1947, after long struggles, Julius Heinrich Bissier managed to reintegrate color in his artwork. He produced colored monotypes and from 1948 also woodcuts. A short period focusing on geometric pictures on canvas followed in 1953. Around the mid 1950s the artist discovered watercolor techniques. At the same time Bissier produced his 'miniatures' in egg-oil-tempera."
Julius Heinrich Bissier, art.com

Red Barber

Wikipedia - "Walter Lanier 'Red' Barber (February 17, 1908 – October 22, 1992) was an American sportscaster. Barber, nicknamed 'The Ol' Redhead', was primarily identified with radio broadcasts of Major League Baseball, calling play-by-play across four decades with the Cincinnati Reds (1934–38), Brooklyn Dodgers (1939–1953), and New York Yankees (1954–1966)."
Wikipedia, Radio Hall of Fame, npr, YouTube - Ernie Harwell and Red Barber, Red Barber on Jackie Robinson, Mel Allen and Red Barber on the 1947 World Series

Tellus #10: All Guitars! (1985)

"Tellus 'All Guitars' issue came out in 1985 and was curated by Tom Paine (Live Skull) and a cover art was created by Jane Bauman. As the title suggests, this is a collection of guitar pieces by various New York artists (and some of non-natives, as well). Thanks to UbuWeb sound archive, the compilation is available for download here."
I Heart Noise, UbuWeb

Juke joint

Cross Roads Store Bar juke joint. Melrose, Louisiana 1944
Wikipedia - "Juke joint (or jook joint) is the vernacular term for an informal establishment featuring music, dancing, gambling, and drinking, primarily operated by African American people in the southeastern United States. The term 'juke' is believed to derive from the Gullah word joog, meaning rowdy or disorderly. A juke joint may also be called a 'barrelhouse'. It could also derive from the Irish language 'deoch dionta' (drinking roofed place)."
Wikipedia, YouTube - Juke Joint, It Ain't A Juke Joint Without The Blues - Carl Sims, Fats Waller- This Joint Is Jump'in, Boogie Woogie Dream -Albert Ammons & Pete Johnson

Nurse with Wound

Wikipedia - "Nurse with Wound (or shortened as NWW) is the main recording name for British musician Steven Stapleton. Nurse with Wound was originally a band, formed in 1978 by Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak. The band ranges in many genres such as avant-garde, industrial, noise, dark ambient, and drone."
Wikipedia, Nurse with Wound, lsat.fm, YouTube - The Bottom Feeder, I've Plummed This Whole Neighborhood, David Tibet live at Donau Festival, Trabendo, Paris - Part 1, Trabendo, Paris - Part 2

Simone de Beauvoir

Wikipedia - "Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, called Simone de Beauvoir (French pronunciation: [simɔn də boˈvwaʁ]; January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986), was a French writer, existentialist philosopher, feminist, Marxist, Maoist[1] and social theorist. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography in several volumes."
Wikipedia

Locus Solus

"The history and contents of the magazine Locus Solus provide insight into the type of progressive poetry circles and ideas Burroughs started tapping into with his small scale, textual cut-up works of the early 1960s. A testament to refined taste, Locus Solus was impeccably edited by John Ashbery (Issue 3/4), Kenneth Koch (Issue 2), and James Schuyler (Issue 1 and 5). Harry Matthews published the magazine in France."
RealityStudio, RS -Eureka: Locus Solus V

The Shirelles

Wikipedia - "The Shirelles were an American girl group in the early 1960s, and the first to have a number one single on the Billboard Hot 100."
Wikipedia, lsat.fm, YouTube - Will you still love me tomorrow?, Soldier Boy, Boys, Mamma Said, Dedicated to the one I love, Tonight's the night

Back to Rage Anew, Fires Smoldering Still

"'For your dubious pleasure!' John Lydon proclaimed as Public Image Ltd. started its set on Tuesday night at Terminal 5. That was Mr. Lydon’s famous cynicism. His corrosive mockery made him the voice of anarchy and nihilism for the brief, indelible punk flare-up of the Sex Pistols and then, from 1978 to 1992, a provocateur and post-punk pioneer as the leader of Public Image Ltd., abbreviated to PiL for the band’s logo."
NYT, npr - Public Image Ltd. Returns For A Thrilling Live Concert

Avantacular Press

"collaged from national geographics & a medical dictionary, CHEMICAL is designed to re-wire your retinas to your taste buds."
Avantacular Press

Jordan Wolfson

"Mixing and combining opposites, playing with analogies and ambiguity Jordan Wolfson creates a distorted mix of reality, imagination and cultural critique. He investigates the relationships of technology and media merged with his own personal experience, poetically balanced somewhere between pop and conceptual art."
UbuWeb

John Grade

Collector, 2007. Documentation shot of wooden sculptures.
"John Grade. Born: Minneapolis, 1970. Resides: Seattle. Education: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. (B.F.A., 1992)"
John Grade, YouTube

Flower power

Wikipedia - "Flower power was a slogan used by the American counterculture movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and non-violence ideology. It is rooted in the opposition movement to the Vietnam War."
Wikipedia, W - Hippie

Orpheus Charms the Underworld

"The music is divine and the ballet, divided into four parts, 'In Mourning', 'Violence', 'Peace', and 'Death' is a masterpiece. Bausch has invented dual roles, representing Orpheus, Eurydice and Love not only by the dancers, but also by singers on stage who form an integral part of the action. Orpheus, the myth goes, equals the gods with his song and music, so when Eurydice, his lovely young wife, dies from a snake-bite shortly after their wedding, the grief-stricken musician goes down into the Underworld to bring her back to earth."
culture kiosque, YouTube - Pina Bausch: Orphée et Eurydice - Paris Opera Ballet

Holy minimalism

Alio Die :: Under An Holy Ritual
Wikipedia - "Holy minimalism, mystic minimalism, spiritual minimalism, or sacred minimalism are terms used to refer to a number of late-twentieth-century composers of Western classical music, whose works are distinguished by a minimalist compositional aesthetic and a distinctly religious or mystical subject focus."
Wikipedia, Be Still, And Know That I Am God: Concert Halls Rediscover the Sacred, YouTube - Symphony of Sorrowful Songs - Henryk Górecki - 1st movement, Arvo Pärt - Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten

Andrea Zittel

Season 1
Wikipedia - "Andrea Zittel (born 1965) is an American sculptor and installation artist. In the early 1990s, Andrea Zittel began making art in response to her own surroundings and daily routines, creating functional objects that fulfilled the artist’s needs relating to shelter, food, furniture, and clothing."
Wikipedia, art 21

Tammy Wynette

Wikipedia - "Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette (May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998), was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists."
Wikipedia, YouTube - Stand By Your Man, D-I-V-O-R-C-E, I don't wanna play house, Your good girl's gonna go bad, KFT

Mercedes Matter

Wikipedia - "Mercedes Matter née Carles (1913 – 2001) was an American painter and draughtswoman. Her father was the American modernist painter Arthur Beecher Carles who had studied with Henri Matisse. Her mother, Mercedes de Cordoba, was a model for Edward Steichen. Ms. Matter grew up in Philadelphia, New York and Europe."
Wikipedia, Mercedes Matter, M____B__/ ___F _ __A

Auden—September 1, 1939

"This poem achieved great resonance after the events of September 11, 2001—it was widely reproduced, recited on NPR, and interpreted with a link to the tragic events of that day. Indeed, it starts in Manhattan, 'in one of the dives on Fifty-second Street,' which Auden later clarified: the Dizzy Club, 62 West 52nd Street (the premises are now occupied by a Beefsteak Charlie’s, I checked). But it captures Auden’s reaction to another tragedy, namely the outbreak of World War II. The poem expresses anger and sadness towards those events, and it questions the historical and mass psychological process that led to the war."
Harpers

Celluloid Records

Choco The New Harlem Sound
Wikipedia - "Celluloid Records, a French/American record label, founded by Jean Karakos[1] operated from 1976 to 1989 in New York, and produced a series of eclectic and ground-breaking releases, particularly in the early to late 1980's, largely under the auspices of de facto in-house producer Bill Laswell."
Wikipedia

Epilogue: The Last Range (1997–1999)

"On May 28, 1997, surgeons at Colorado University Hospital in Denver determined that poet Ed Dorn (photo, left) was suffering from a nonresectable (inoperable) adenosarcoma of the pancreas, stage II/III (locally advanced). Dorn had once written that he preferred the warrior figure Hector to the victim figure Christ: 'Hector is not resurrectable. He lives in the manor of the mind and stands for unalienated beauty.'”
Jacket 16 — March 2002

Edwin Starr

Wikipedia - "Edwin Starr (January 21, 1942 – April 2, 2003) was an American soul music singer. Starr is most famous for his Norman Whitfield produced singles of the 1970s, most notably the number one hit 'War'."
Wikipedia, W - "War", lsat.fm, YouTube - War, WAR (live in TV Show), 25 Miles, You`ve Got My Soul On Fire, Happy Radio

The Atlas of True Names

"The Atlas of True Names reveals the etymological roots, or original meanings,
of the familiar terms on today's maps of the World, Europe, the British Isles and the United States."
The Atlas of True Names

The Heptones

Wikipedia - "The Heptones are a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae vocal trio most active in the 1960s and early 1970s."
Wikipedia, lsat.fm, YouTube - Make Up Your Mind, Cool rasta, Equal Rights, Ting A Ling

The Abandoned Palace On Beekman Street

"5 Beekman Street has a secret. You’ve probably passed it a million times in your travels through downtown Manhattan. Anyone who has ever visited J&R Row or hit the Starbucks on the opposite corner for a post-Brooklyn-Bridge-walk bathroom break has probably noticed its twin towers, and perhaps wondered how much its wealthy tenants must pay to live behind its beautiful brick and terra-cotta facade."
Scouting New York

Anatomy of a Filmmaker

"Peter Greenaway: Anatomy of a Filmmaker / Documentary, an ep. in Omnibus BBC-series /(1991) 50 min."
YouTube, 2, 3, 4, 5

Gwangju Biennale 2010

"Titled 10,000 Lives, the Biennale will develop as a sprawling investigation of the relationships that bind people to images and images to people. With works by more than 100 artists, realized between 1901 and 2010, as well as several new commissions, the exhibition will be configured as a temporary museum in which both artworks and cultural artifacts are brought together to compose a idiosyncratic catalogue of figures and icons, faces and masks, idols and dolls."
Gwangju Biennale 2010, 10000 LIVES

Crossing the Channel: Friendships and Connections in London and Paris 1946-1965

Francis Bacon
"Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition 'Crossing the Channel: Friendships and Connections in London and Paris 1946-1965,' which examines the vibrant exchange of ideas and influences between Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Alberto Giacometti in Paris and London during the postwar years."
Gagosian Gallery, Ars Life, DAILY MAGAZINE, Google

The Shangri-Las

Wikipedia - "The Shangri-Las were an American pop girl group of the 1960s. Between 1964 and 1966 they charted with often heartbreaking teen melodramas, and remain known for 'Leader of the Pack' and 'Remember (Walkin' in the Sand)'."
Wikipedia, lsat.fm, Dailymotion - Leader of the Pack, YouTube - Remember Walkin' in the sand, YouTube - Give Him A Great Big Kiss

Tom Cora

Wikipedia - "Thomas Henry Corra (September 14, 1953 – April 9, 1998), better known as Tom Cora, was a United States cellist and composer, best known for his improvisational performances in the field of experimental jazz and rock. He recorded with John Zorn, Butch Morris and The Ex, and was a member of Curlew, Third Person and Skeleton Crew."
Wikipedia, MySpace, YouTube - The Passing, Duniis - Paris, State of schock