The Long Take: Lucy Raven, Thom Andersen

Lucy Raven, China Town
"How do you show what’s not there anymore—or what’s not there yet? Answers run throughout the work of both Lucy Raven and Thom Andersen, who trace processes and places that are gone, hidden, or changing so rapidly that we can hardly keep pace."
ARTFORUM

Ephemeral New York

Union Square
"Union Square has been around since 1839, when it opened with a large central fountain, according to the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation. But when Union Square was ripped up during subway construction in the 1920s, the fountain went with it. This postmarked, stamped 1910, doesn’t indicate what we’re looking at, but I think it’s Union Square West."
Ephemeral New York

The Directors: Martin Scorsese (2000)

"The American Film Institute's Directors: Martin Scorsese profiles the great director and offers insight into Scorsese's working methods, philosophies, and intentions. ... ~ Betsy Boyd, All Movie Guide"
NYT, amazon, YouTube - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Risk

Wikipedia - "Risk is a strategic board game, produced by Parker Brothers (now a division of Hasbro). It was invented by French film director Albert Lamorisse and originally released in 1957, as La Conquête du Monde ('The Conquest of the World'), in France. Risk is a turn-based game for two to six players. The standard version is played on a board depicting a political map of the Earth, divided into forty-two territories, which are grouped into six continents. Players attempt to capture territories from other players by rolling higher die numbers. The game is won when one player has managed to occupy every territory."
Wikipedia, Risk, Total Diplomacy, YouTube

Christo and Jeanne-Claude - The Gates

"Drawing 2002, in two parts. 38 X 244 cm. and 106,6 X 244 cm. (15" X 96" and 42" X 96"). Pencil, charcoal, pastel, wax crayon, aerial photograph, fabric sample and hand-drawn technical data."
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, amazon, YouTube - The Gates, YouTube - The artists behind The Gates Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936

"Following the chaos of World War I, a move emerged towards figuration, clean lines, and modeled form, and away from the two-dimensional abstracted spaces, fragmented compositions, and splintered bodies of the avant-gardes—particularly Cubism, Futurism, and Expressionism—that dominated the opening years of the 20th century."
Guggenheim, amazon, New York TimeOut

When Herzog Rescued Phoenix

"Remember back in 2006 when Werner Herzog heroically rescued Joaquin Phoenix from a wrecked car?"
Coilhouse, Report: Affleck admits Joaquin Phoenix doc a fake

Amrita Sher-Gil

Three Girls, 1935
Wikipedia - "Amrita Sher-Gil ... (January 30, 1913, – December 5, 1941), was an eminent Indian painter, sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo, and today considered an important women painter of 20th century India, whose legacy stands at par with that of the Masters of Bengal Renaissance; she is also the 'most expensive' woman painter of India."
Wikipedia, Tate, Kamat, Guardian, YouTube

K. Leimer

"The music of Lesser Epitomes is derived from the aleatoric reordering of discreet, compatible components in relationships that emulate typical theme and variation. The end results were reprocessed into deliberately modified versions or left as is. The three principal pieces are indexed for random shuffle during replay — and reordering is recommended."
palace of lights, Melliflua, cdbaby. emusic

An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry

"The one Irish poet people used to know was Yeats. More recently it has been Seamus Heaney. And yet 'the standing army of Irish poets never falls below 20,000,' proclaimed Patrick Kavanagh, who was one of them. An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry, running to almost a thousand pages, comes from a country with a population roughly equal to that of Tennessee. The book includes upwards of 50 poets— and there's not a dull page in it. Editor Wes Davis's selection is judicious, while his introduction and notes are as informative as they are brief."
WSJ, Eyewear, Wooing the clay, amazon

Rufus Thomas

Wikipedia - "Rufus Thomas, Jr. (March 27, 1917 – December 15, 2001) was an American rhythm and blues, funk and soul singer and comedian from Memphis, Tennessee, who recorded on Sun Records in the 1950s and on Stax Records in the 1960s and 1970s."
Wikipedia, YouTube - Walking the Dog, Jump Back, Do the funky penguin, The Memphis Train, All Night Worker

BBC - 2010 Astronomy Photographer of the Year

"From back-garden enthusiasts to professional photographers - the Royal Observatory in Greenwich received hundreds of entries for its 2010 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition."
BBC

The Clash - Rudie can’t fail

"Okay, I went to the market to realise my soul
Cos what I need I just don’t have, oh no
First they cursed then they pressed me ‘till I hurt
They say Rudie can’t fail"
YouTube - Rudie can’t fail, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros

AVC: Art & Literature Gallery

"As a community that presented itself to the known world over two thousand years ago, may we always continue to keep our Macedonian heritage strong by promoting our history, our traditions and our Democratic spirit throughout the world. We owe it to Eordea our Beloved and Sacred Mother Earth, Aristotle the Philosopher of Macedonia, Alexander the Invincible of Pella, Ptolemy I Soter of Eordea, his descendent Cleopatra VII Pharaoh of Alexandria, and all our great Macedonian ancestors for bestowing on to us, such a priceless inheritance."
AVC Media

Charles Olson: The Art of Poetry No. 12

"INTERVIEWER: Do you enjoy telling young poets what they ought to do? OLSON: Oh, Jesus, God, if I ever did, may the Lord of the whole of the seven saints of India and China Buddhaland, Gangestown, and all takers this side of where the Tartars went—may they forgive me because like I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen. I mean, wow, I’ve been very lucky, very lucky. I’m sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head."
The Paris Review

2009, January. Wikipedia, EPC, Modern American Poetry, The Charles Olson Research Collection, Other Poets, YouTube, Polis Is This
2010, September. Literary History, amazon, Townsend Humanities Lab, OlsonNow, Smithsonian Institution - Charles Olson Reads from Maximus Poems IV, V, VI, Google - Selected Poems, Google - The collected poems of Charles Olson: excluding the Maximus poems, Google - Collected prose, RealityStudio - A Trip to Charles Olson’s Gloucester, PEPC LIBRARY: Robin Blaser. The Violets: Charles Olson and Alfred North Whitehead

Detroit Lives

"Once the fourth-largest metropolis in America—some have called it the Death of the American Dream. Today, the young people of the Motor City are making it their own DIY paradise where rules are second to passion and creativity. They are creating the new Detroit on their own terms, against real adversity. We put our boots on and went exploring."
Palladium Boots

Einstürzende Neubauten

Wikipedia - "Einstürzende Neubauten (German pronunciation: [ˈaɪnˌʃtʏɐtsəndə ˈnɔʏˌbaʊtən], Collapsing New Buildings) is a German experimental band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. ... One of their 'trademarks' is the use of custom-built instruments, predominantly made out of scrap metal and building tools, and noises, in addition to standard musical instruments."
Wikipedia, Einstürzende Neubauten, last.fm, YouTube - Stella Maris, The Garden, Was Ist Ist, Nagorny Karabach, Haus der Lüge, Der Tod Ist Ein Dandy, Blume, Ein Seltener Vogel, 1/2 Mensch

Cid Corman

Wikipedia - "Cid (Sidney) Corman (June 29, 1924 – March 12, 2004) was an American poet, translator and editor, most notably of Origin, who was a key figure in the history of American poetry in the second half of the 20th century."
Wikipedia, Poetry Foundation, Flash Point Mag, Longhouse Poetry

Martha and the Vandellas

Wikipedia - "Martha and the Vandellas (known from 1967 to 1972 as Martha Reeves and the Vandellas) were among the most successful groups of the Motown roster during the period 1963-1967. In contrast to other Motown groups such as The Supremes and The Marvelettes, Martha and the Vandellas were known for a harder, R&B sound, typified by '(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave', 'Nowhere to Run', 'Jimmy Mack' and, their signature song, 'Dancing in the Street'."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube - Heatwave, Dancing in the Streets, Nowhere To Run, Jimmy Mack

Venice Film Festival 2010

"One of Europe’s most prestigious film festivals, the Venice Film Festival is an opportunity not only to see cinema in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, but also to catch exciting new films fresh before they go on to play at the Toronto Film Festival in September."
MUBI

Robert Fisk

Wikipedia - "Robert Fisk (born 12 July 1946) is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone, Kent. Middle East correspondent of the The Independent, he has primarily been based in Beirut for more than 30 years. He has published a number of books and has reported from the United States's attack on Afghanistan and the same country's 2003 invasion of Iraq."
Wikipedia, The Independent - Robert Fisk.
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

Tarantula

Wikipedia - "Tarantula is an experimental novel by Bob Dylan, written between 1965 and 1966. It employs stream of consciousness writing, somewhat in the style of Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. One section of the book parodies the Leadbelly song 'Black Betty'. Reviews of the book liken it to his self-penned liner notes to two of his albums recorded around the same time, Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited."
Wikipedia, Google, Tommy Devine's Cosmos Report

2001: A Space Odyssey

Wikipedia - "2001: A Space Odyssey (often referred to simply as 2001) is a 1968 epic science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. The film deals with thematic elements of human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, and is notable for its scientific realism, pioneering special effects, ambiguous imagery that is open-ended to a point approaching surrealism, sound in place of traditional narrative techniques, and minimal use of dialogue."
Wikipedia, W - Comics, Uncyclopedia, YouTube - TRAILER, Stanley Kubrick: The Prophecy of 2001 Part 1, Part 2

Stan Brakhage, Joseph Cornell - The Wonder Ring,1955

"The gentle The Wonder Ring (1955) is an important early film by Stan Brakhage, which Cornell commissioned as a record of New York's Third Avenue el before it was torn down. Curiously lacking in people, the film focuses on the rhythms of the ride and reflections in train windows, finding a real-world version of the superimpositions Brakhage would later create in the lab."
Stan Brakhage, Joseph Cornell - The Wonder Ring,1955

Judy Chicago

The Dinner Party
Wikipedia - "Judy Chicago (born Judy Cohen on July 20, 1939) is a feminist artist, author, and educator. Chicago has been making work since the mid 1960s. Her earliest forays into art-making coincided with the rise of Minimalism, which she eventually abandoned in favor of art she believed to have greater content and relevance. Major works include The Dinner Party and The Holocaust Project.
Wikipedia, W -The Dinner Party, Judy Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, When Women Rule the World: Judy Chicago in Thread, YouTube - The Dinner Party, Right Out of History: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party, Judy Chicago on Q TV

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Wikipedia - "Creedence Clearwater Revival (often abbreviated CCR) was an American rock band that gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various albums. The group consisted of lead vocalist, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter John Fogerty, his brother and rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty, bassist Stu Cook, and drummer Doug Clifford. Their musical style encompassed rock and roll and swamp rock genres." Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube - Have you ever seen the rain?, Proud Mary, Green River, Born On The Bayou, I Put A Spell On You, Heard It Through The Grapevine, Down on the corner, Bad Moon Rising, Midnight Special, Fortune Son, Lookin' Out My Backdoor

La La La Human Steps on Mondo Beyondo

"The Canadian dance troupe La La La Human Steps performs on Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo."
YouTube - La La La Human Steps on Mondo Beyondo

The Weavers

Wikipedia - "The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. They sang traditional folk songs from around the world, as well as blues, gospel music, children's songs, labor songs, and American ballads, and selling millions of records at the height of their popularity."
Wikipedia, The Weavers, YouTube - Irene Goodnight, Union Miners, When The Saints Go Marching In, Tzena, Tzena, Tzena, Around The World, The Sinking of the Reuben James, If I Had a Hammer, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, Wimoweh

Stephan Balkenhol

"The exhibition presents recent works by Stephan Balkenhol: free-standing sculptures and reliefs in wood, as well as some prints on wooden panels that concentrate on the human figure, both nude and clothed."
U. Brown, artnet, Contemporary Art Daily

Espresso

Wikipedia - "Caffè espresso, or just espresso is a concentrated coffee beverage brewed by forcing hot water under pressure through finely ground coffee."
Wikipedia, W - Espresso machine, Coffee Drinks Illustrated, CoffeeGeek, YouTube - The Perfect Espresso

The Full Spectrum: Josef Albers

"We had the opportunity to travel to CT and visit The Albers foundation. His work and theories on color made quite an impact on me when I was a student at the Cleveland Institute of Art. So I was thrilled to make this piece."
Vimeo

Thyra Hilden, Pio Diaz

Wikipedia - "The Danish-Argentinean artist couple destabilize European cultural history by setting building and monuments on fire. Thyra Hilden (1972) and Pio Diaz (1973) have for many years excelled in the production of large scale video work, projected on monuments and buildings."
City On Fire

Hugh Mundell

Wikipedia - "What seemed likely to be a brilliant career was cut short when Mundell was shot to death while driving with Junior Reid in Kingston, Jamaica in 1983. Many accounts of the incident exist which are all speculative; some reporting that the cause was an argument over a fridge, others that it was in revenge for a burglary, others still that it was over a woman."
Wikipedia, Reggae Reviews, Roots Archives, last.fm, YouTube - Rare acoustic performance (1979), Jah Will Provide + Hungry (Dub Version), Jah Fire, My Mind, Why Do Blackman Fuss And Fight, Africa Must Be Free By 1983, Africa Must Be Free By 1983 (dub), Africa Dub, Milion Miles, Let's All Unite

Poetry Rain

"Reading about the Chilean artists' collective Casagrande's recent poetry rain over Berlin reminded me of Ed Dorn's confetti cards mailed to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968. Kyle Waugh has written an excellent account of the confetti poems for Jacket. I haven't seen the confetti poems for years, but I did dig up a scan I made when I was a graduate student in the Poetics Program at Buffalo."
Mimeo Mimeo

Blue Cheer

Wikipedia - "Blue Cheer were an American psychedelic blues-rock band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and were sporadically active from that point on until 2009. Based in San Francisco, Blue Cheer played in a psychedelic blues-rock style, and are also credited as being pioneers of heavy metal (their cover of 'Summertime Blues' is sometimes cited as the first in the genre), punk rock, stoner rock, doom metal, experimental rock, and grunge."
Wikipedia, YouTube - Summertime Blues, The Hunter, Parchment Farm