Gauguin Tahiti

"The life of Paul Gauguin is one of the richest and most mythic in the history of Western art. A banker and 'Sunday painter,' he left behind family and homeland and sailed to the South Seas, seeking a life 'in ecstasy, in peace, and for art.' Gauguin Tahiti, the first major retrospective of the artist's work in fifteen years, offers an in-depth study of the fabled Polynesian years that have so defined our image of the painter."
amazon: Gauguin Tahiti
W - Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
theartwolf
Paul Gauguin Prints
Google
YouTube: Paul Gauguin

The Draughtsman's Contract - Peter Greenaway

Wikipedia - "The Draughtsman's Contract is a 1982 British film written and directed by Peter Greenaway – his first conventional feature film (following the feature-length mockumentary The Falls). Originally produced for Channel 4 the film is a form of murder mystery, set in 1694 (in the William and Mary period). The period setting is reflected in Michael Nyman's score, which borrows extensively from Henry Purcell, and in the extensive and elaborate costume designs (which slightly exaggerate those of the period for effect). The action was shot on location in the house and formal gardens of Groombridge Place."
Wikipedia
Shooting Down Pictures
amazon: The Draughtsman's Contract
The Draughtsman's Contract - Peter Greenaway
YouTube: The Draughtsman's Contract

The Satyagraha protest

"As promised, Philip Glass spoke to an Occupy Wall Street demonstration at Lincoln Center tonight, after a performance of Satyagraha at the Met. The protest, which was directed not at the opera itself but at a certain disparity between its lofty moral message and the machinery of corporate arts funding, got under way during the third act; police cleared everyone from the plaza, loitering music critics included (I had gone to the Mahler Tenth at the New York Philharmonic), and so the crowd assembled on the sidewalk at the foot of the steps."
Alex Ross, YouTube: Philip Glass at Occupy Wall Street protest
OccupyWallStreet: Phillip Glass Joins OWS in Protest at Lincoln Center
The Nation: The Occupy, USA Blog for Friday (Dec. 2), With Frequent Updates (Video)

Chicago, 1949 - Stanley Kubrick

"Before he started making movies, Stanley Kubrick was a star photojournalist. In the summer of 1949, Look magazine sent him to Chicago to shoot pictures for a story called 'Chicago City of Contrasts.' - Chicago Tribune"
Retronaut
YouTube: Stanley Kubrick's Chicago, 1949

Joan La Barbara

Wikipedia - "Joan La Barbara (born June 8, 1947 in Philadelphia, PA) is an American vocalist and composer associated with contemporary music. She is a former student of Helen Boatwright. She has worked with her husband Morton Subotnick since 1979, as well with other contemporary composers such as John Cage, Robert Ashley, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Larry Austin, Peter Gordon, and the dancer Merce Cunningham."
Wikipedia
Joan La Barbara
New Albion
Lovely
vimeo: "New Roulette" INTERVIEW SERIES: Joan La Barbara, Jon Gibson, Phill Niblock, Roulette TV: JOAN LA BARBARA
YouTube: Neil Rolnick: Body Work, with Joan La Barbara 2004 (part 1), JOAN LA BARBARA & JAAP BLONK - Messa Di Voce-2003, Angels, Demons and Other Muses

Blaise Cendrars

Wikipedia - "Frédéric Louis Sauser (September 1, 1887 – January 21, 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized French in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the modernist movement."
Wikipedia
The Paris Review: Blaise Cendrars, The Art of Fiction No. 38
Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961) - pseudonym of Frédéric Louis Sauser
Introduction to the Trans-Siberian of Blaise Cendrar
BLAISE CENDRARS [the greatest poetic spirit of the 20th century]
amazon: Complete Poems
MoMA: La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France
YouTube: Homage to Apollinaire

The ARChive of Contemporary Music

"There is a wonderful short story by Emanuel Boundzeki Dongala called 'Jazz and Palm Wine.' In it, the Earth is invaded from outer space and the advance ships land in Zaire. Aliens conquer the world. Spacemen explore the various cultures and societies on this planet and decide, quite rightly, that the only things of value are palm wine, a West African intoxicant, and Jazz. The tipsy, hip and benign rulers make Sun Ra the president of the United States and John Coltrane the Pope. 'A Love Supreme' replaces the 'Gloria' in the liturgy."
The ARChive of Contemporary Music
NYT: Sampling a Vast Archive of Music (Video)
The Supine View From the ARChive's Chesterfield
Wikipedia
YouTube - GOLDMINE presents: What's in the Archive?, Collectors Peruse Semi-Annual Music Archive Sale

"Coffee with Pina"

"Lee Yanor first met with the choreographer Pina Bausch in Paris in 1993. They have had an ongoing dialogue for 12 years, which resulted in the film 'Coffee with Pina': a 50 minutes documentary on Pina Bausch`s universe. Filmed in Paris in 2002 and in Wuppertal (Germany) in 2005, hometown of Pina Bausch and her company, the film links different elements in order to convey a choreography of state of mind."
Art Action
YouTube: Coffee with Pina - Lee Yanor, 2, 3, 4

My Communism

"The TOP Contemporary Art Center gallery is currently holding a reminiscing poster exhibition, under the theme of the entire collection being: "My Communism". The artists included present one to five pieces by using an old fashioned media: the poster. That old school medium that represents the idealist community and the reconstruction of the peoples Utopia."
Satellite Voices
ArtLinkArt

Peter Tosh

Wikipedia - "Peter Tosh, born Winston Hubert McIntosh (19 October[1] 1944 – 11 September 1987), was a Jamaican reggae musician who was a core member of the band The Wailers (1963–1974), and who afterward had a successful solo career as well as being a promoter of Rastafari."
Wikipedia
Peter Tosh
YouTube: Bush Doctor, Legalize It, African Live 1983 Rotterdam, Walk & Don t Look Back - Peter Tosh & Mick Jagger, Peter To 1976, Feel No Way, Where You Gonna Run, Captured Live (59:36)

Linda Thompson - Fashionably Late

"Twenty years later, on the cover of Linda Thompson's Fashionably Late, that same woman sits on a floor, near a similar corner, in a calmly lit room. The carpet looks pricey. The walls are painted dove-gray. The woman's gaze is still direct and solemn. And above her, against the wall to her right, stands an easel holding a gold frame, ascending beyond our vision."
Pamela Murray Winters
amazon
George Graham
YouTube: Dear Old Man of Mine, All I See, Nine Stone Rig
topic records (Video)

2008 January: Linda Thompson

Twenty-Four Sonnets (1971)

"Mimeo'd in an edition of 250 copies with offset covers by Philip Whalen, Twenty-Four Sonnets is Alice Notley's first book of poems. Like with Notley's Chicago to Ted Berrigan's C: A Journal of Poetry, there are parallels here with Berrigan's first book of poems The Sonnets, which was self-published by C Press in 1964. To get a sense of what these cross-currents are, get a copy of Mimeo Mimeo #5 and read Stephanie Anderson's essay on Alice Notley's Chicago."
MimeoMimeo

2012 Street Art Calendars From TASCHEN, Curated By The Wooster Collective

"Earlier this year, after finishing work on TRESPASS: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art, we were asked by TASCHEN if we would be interested in curating a series of 2012 Street Art Calendars. Over the years TASCHEN had been approached by numerous museums and bookstores inquiring about urban art calendars."
Wooster Collective (YouTube - Video)

Billy Bragg

Wikipedia - "Stephen William Bragg (born 20 December 1957), better known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes. His music career has lasted more than 30 years."
Wikipedia
Billy Bragg
YouTube: Between The Wars, Milkman of human kindness, Levi Stubbs' Tears, New England - The Tube 1983, the INTERNATIONALE, Waiting For the Great Leap Forwards, Which Side Are You On?, To Have And To Have Not, Sexuality, Help Save the Youth of America

Junior Wells

Wikipedia - "Junior Wells (December 9, 1934 – January 15, 1998), born Amos Wells Blakemore Jr., was an American Chicago blues vocalist, harmonica player, and recording artist. Wells, who was best known for his performances and recordings with Muddy Waters, Earl Hooker, and Buddy Guy, also performed with Bonnie Raitt, The Rolling Stones, and Van Morrison."
Wikipedia
Can I Do it Like I Want To?
YouTube: Hoodoman Blues, Cryin' Shame, Trouble no more- Lonesome Pine 1987, Messin' With The Kid, Messin with The Kid, Snatch It Back and Hold It, Junior Wells live at Theresa's in Chicago

Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X – 197X

"An explosion of architectural little magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture with the architecture of the magazines acting as the site of innovation and debate. Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X – 197X takes stock of seventy little magazines from this period, which were published in over a dozen cities."
Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X – 197X
MimeoMimeo
amazon
de zeen
Review> But Never Toss
YouTube: VID_0078: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X - 197X

The Battle of Algiers

"One of the most influential films in the history of political cinema, Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers focuses on the events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Shot in the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film vividly re-creates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French. The violence soon escalates on both sides in this war drama that's still astonishingly relevant."
Netflix: The Battle of Algiers
Slate: The Pentagon's Film Festival
Battle of Algiers
NY Metro: Prescient Tense
Roger Ebert: The Battle of Algiers (1967)
YouTube: Battle of Algiers trailer, Best Scene from "The Battle of algiers", Battle of Algiers Parade

2008 September: The Battle of Algiers

Dana Schutz

Men’s Retreat
Wikipedia - "Dana Schutz (b.1976) is a painter in New York. ... She exhibits at Zach Feuer Gallery in New York and at Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin. Her first European solo show, Self Eaters and the People Who Love Them, was in Paris's Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin. Her bright, fantastical works have been compared to Currin, Goya, and Katz."
Wikipedia
Google
Index Magazine
YouTube: Dana Schutz Missing Pictures at ZACH FEUER

15 Years That Changed Photography

"Sixty years ago this week, the Photo League fell victim to Cold War witch hunts and blacklists, closing its doors after 15 intense years of trailblazing – and sometimes hell-raising – documentary photography. From unabashedly leftist roots, the group influenced a generation of photographers who transformed the documentary tradition, elevating it to heady aesthetic heights. Yet with the accusations leveled against the group and Sid Grossman, one of its founders and legendary teachers, the narrative, such as it is known, was a flawed tale."
NY Times
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951

Bembaya Jazz National

Wikipedia - "Bembaya Jazz National is a Guinean jazz group that gained fame in the 1960s for their infectious Afropop rhythms. They are considered one of the most significant bands in Guinean music. Many of their recordings are based on traditional folk music in the country and have been fused with jazz and Afropop style."
Wikipedia
Africa Sounds
YouTube: Tama tama. 1979, N'gnamakoro. 1979, Petit Sekou. 1979, Mami Wata, Alla Lake, Diabaté

X is like Y (Dylan covering Hendrix covering Dylan)

"The melody circles like a centrifuge, a delicious heaviness spun into every second syllable. It lopes in my head, imparting a beautiful weight into my limbs and my evening and my feelings. If I could hook his nervous system to an amplifier, this is exactly how it would sound."
A Month In Music, YouTube: All Along The Watchtower, All Along The Watchtower - 2

Joe Brainard: A Retrospective

"P.S.1 presents the first museum retrospective of American artist and writer Joe Brainard (1942–1994), featuring more than 150 collages, assemblages, paintings, drawings, and book covers made in the 1960 and 1970s. Known for his humor and use of exuberant color, Brainard's collages involve everything from comic strip characters to individually painted flowers. Assemblages made from costume jewelry, shampoo bottles, and match books draw attention to the formal qualities of these mass-produced objects while celebrating their popular appeal."
MoMA PS1
amazon
The Brooklyn Rail
metrotimes

"Watching the Detectives", 1978 - Elvis Costello

Wikipedia - "'Watching the Detectives' is a 1977 single by English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello. It was his first single that credited his backing band, the Attractions, and gave him his first UK hit single."
Wikipedia
"Watching the Detectives"
YouTube: "Watching the Detectives"

John Coltrane Quartet, Live at Jazz Casual, 1963

"John Coltrane Quartet, TV program 'Jazz Casual'. 1) Afro Blue (M. Santamaria) 7:11; 2) Alabama (J. Coltrane) 5:54; 3) Impressions (J. Coltrane) 13:51. John Coltrane : Tenor and Soprano Sax. McCoy Tyner : Piano. Jimmy Garrison : Bass. Elvin Jones : Drums."
YouTube: "Live at Jazz Casual" (29:20) Full TV Concert

100 Love Sonnets - Pablo Neruda

"Against the backdrop of Isla Negra — the sea and wind, the white sand with its scattering of delicate wild flowers, the hot sun and salty smells of the Pacific — Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda sets these joyfully sensual poems in celebration of his love. The subject of that love: Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, the poet's 'beloved wife'."
amazon
Google

Aaron Hobson

"Raised in industrial Pittsburgh but now based in a small Adirondack Mountain town near the Canadian border, photographer Aaron Hobson has a keen eye for beauty in rural decay. Hobson has created a series of images that have gained international attention with their original and unique approach to the traditional genre of panoramic photography."
DRKRM Gallery
Aaron Hobson

The Lewis Chessmen

Wikipedia - "The Lewis Chessmen (or Uig Chessmen, named after the bay where they were found) are a group of 78 12th-century chess pieces, most of which are carved in walrus ivory. Discovered in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, they may constitute some of the few complete, surviving medieval chess sets, although it is not clear if a set as originally made can be assembled from the pieces."
Wikipedia
The British Museum
History Extra
YouTube: In Focus: The Lewis Chessmen

Terry Gilliam

Wikipedia - "Terrence Vance 'Terry' Gilliam (... born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe."
Wikipedia
The Animations of Terry Gilliam
YouTube: Monty Python animations, Monty Python's Flying Circus Animation Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Conrad Pooh's Dancing Teeth.

The Everly Brothers

Wikipedia - "The Everly Brothers (Don and Phil, born Isaac Donald Everly, February 1, 1937, and Phillip Everly, January 19, 1939) are country-influenced rock and roll performers, known for steel-string guitar playing and close harmony singing. The brothers are the most successful US rock and roll duo on the Hot 100."
Wikipedia
YouTube: Bye Bye Love, Walk Right Back, Till I kissed You, All I Have To Do Is Dream, Wake Up Little Suzie, Cathy's Clown, Crying In the Rain

The Last Emperor - Bernardo Bertolucci

Wikipedia - "The Last Emperor is a 1987 biopic about the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China, whose autobiography was the basis for the screenplay written by Mark Peploe and Bernardo Bertolucci. Independently produced by Jeremy Thomas, it was directed by Bertolucci and released in 1987 by Columbia Pictures. Puyi's life is depicted from his ascent to the throne as a small boy to his imprisonment and political rehabilitation by the Chinese Communist authorities."
Wikipedia
mubi (Video)

2008 July: Bernardo Bertolucci

Occupy Lulz

"Because, given time, everything becomes a meme."
Broadsheet
Broadsheet: Meanwhile, At The Birthplace Of The Free Speech Movement (Video)
facebook

Sandy Denny - Late November

"The wine it was drunk, the ship it was sunk,
the shot it was dead, all the sorrows were drowned.
The birds they were clouds, the brides and the shrouds
and as we drew south the mist it came down."
YouTube: Late November, 1971, Crazy Lady Blues, 1971

2009 March: Sandy Denny

Tamikrest

Wikipedia - "Tamikrest (Tamashek for junction, alliance, the future) is a group of musicians who belong to the Tuareg people. The band was founded in 2006. They mix traditional African music with Western rock and pop influences and sing in Tamashek. Main songwriter and leader of the band is Ousmane Ag Mossa. Their music is characterized by electric guitars and vocals, youyous, bass, drums, djembé and other percussion instruments."
Wikipedia
Tamikrest
YouTube: Aratan N Tinariwen, Fassous Tarahnet, Elhoriya, Adagh!
Obscure Sound (Video)

Off the Wall: Graffiti King from France and Singapore

"Paris street art gallery WallWorks and Singapore art dealer Fortune Cookie Projects present a special exhibition featuring some of the best contemporary urban artists from France: Kongo, Geet, Alex, Colorz, Fenx, Gilbert, Lazoo, Sonic, Tilt; and from Singapore: Antz, AshD, Glogtwo!, The Killer Gerbil, Mimer, Myow, Scope, Slacsatu, Trase, Zero, Jaba One."
Off the Wall
YouTube: Off The Wall #Voilah2011

Kecak: Ramayana Monkey Chant

Wikipedia - "Kecak ... is a form of Balinese dance and music drama, originated in the 1930s Bali and is performed primarily by men, although a few women's kecak groups exist as of 2006. Also known as the Ramayana Monkey Chant, the piece, performed by a circle of 150 or more performers wearing checked cloth around their waists, percussively chanting "cak" and throwing up their arms, depicts a battle from the Ramayana where the monkey-like Vanara helped Prince Rama fight the evil King Ravana. However, Kecak has roots in sanghyang, a trance-inducing exorcism dance."
Wikipedia
Soundcloud: Ketjak The Ramayana Monkey Chant (Chong X RMX)
YouTube: Ramayana Monkey Chant, Balinese Ketjak - Ramayana Monkey Chant