Henry Miller - Asleep & Awake

"One of my favorite writers is Henry Miller, who I happen to share a birthday with (Dec. 26th). I recently came across a short documentary about the man called Henry Miller - Asleep & Awake (1975, Tom Schiller), which was made when Miller was 84 years old. Some kind soul uploaded the entire 35 minute film to YouTube in four separate parts and I really can’t recommend it enough if you’re a fan of Miller’s work or just curious about him."
Cinebeats
YouTube: Bathroom monologue 1, monologue 2, monologue 3

These Boots Are Made for Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra

"These Boots Are Made for Walkin' is a pop song musically composed by Lee Hazlewood and first written and recorded by Nancy Sinatra. It was released in February 1966 and hit #1 in the United States and United Kingdom Pop charts."
YouTube
W - These Boots Are Made for Walkin'

Strength

Wikipedia - "Strength is a Major Arcana Tarot card, and is numbered either XI or VIII, depending on the deck. Historically it was called Fortitude, and in the Thoth Tarot deck it is called Lust. This card is used in game playing as well as in divination."
Wikipedia

Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), 2011

Dora Maurer, Seven Twists, 1979
"The 12th Istanbul Biennial explores the rich relationship between art and politics, focusing on artworks that are both formally innovative and politically outspoken. It takes as its point of departure the work of the Cuban American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957–1996). Gonzalez-Torres was deeply attuned to both the personal and the political, and also rigorously attentive to the formal aspects of artistic production, integrating high modernist, minimal, and conceptual references with themes of everyday life."
Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), 2011
YouTube

Cameo

Wikipedia - "Cameo is an American soul-influenced funk group that formed in the early 1970s. Cameo was initially a 13-member group known as the New York City Players; this name was later changed to Cameo to avoid a lawsuit from Ohio Players, another group from that era. Since then, Cameo has recorded several hits records. As of 2009, some of the original members continue to perform together, while two others were hired by the hip hop group Outkast."
Wikipedia
W - Word Up!
YouTube: Shake your pants, Word Up, You Make Me Work, Skin I'm In, Candy, Single Life

Mustard Gas Party

"Stencil, Acrylic paint, inks, dyes, staining agents, watercolor paper, wood. Brandon Merkel. 28, NY."
Mustard Gas Party

René Clair - Entr'acte (1924)

"In his search for 'pure' cinema, René Clair followed the Dadaist approaches of photomontage (as advocated by John Heartfield—a technique which involved 'the meeting place of a thousand spaces'), and the random (as advocated by Tristan Tzara). True to those premises, Clair juxtaposed images and events as disparate as a chess game played by Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, a cannon ignited by Erik Satie and Francis Picabia, a funeral where the coat of arms bearing the initials of Satie and Picabia was displayed, a ballerina, a sniper, inflatable balloon heads, the Luna Park rollercoaster, etc."
YouTube: Part 1/2, 2/2

Bilingual - Pet Shop Boys

Wikipedia - "Bilingual continues the heavily instrumented arrangements and backing vocals Pet Shop Boys began making to their music with the album Very. As suggested by the title, the songs on the album have worldwide influences, particularly from Latin America. After the release of their Very album, Pet Shop Boys toured South America and were influenced by the beats and rhythms associated with Latin American music. Three of the songs have bilingual lyrics, mixing the English language with Spanish and Portuguese."
Wikipedia
amazon: Bilingual
YouTube: A Red Letter Day, Delusions Of Grandeur (A red letter day B-side), Se a vida é, Discoteca, Single, To Step Aside, SOMEWHERE(VERSION 2), The Boy Who Couldn't Keep His Clothes On, Before (standart disco dub), The Survivors, It Always Comes As Surprise [Teatime Mellow Mix], Metamorphosis (That Kind Of Guy Vision Mix)

The History of Salsa From Africa to New York

"A journey through the history of salsa, I produce this movie in two main parts African influence then development in New York. This short movie is upload on 3 videos made with loads of passion and love to Salsa and Afro Antillana music."
YouTube: The History of Salsa From Africa to New York 1 of 3, 2 of 3, 3 of 3

10 Questions for Poet John Ashbery

"American poet John Ashbery talks to TIME about fame, poverty, art criticism and why he hates the sound of his own voice"
YouTube

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings: Ralph Stanley

"Standing on the corner
With a nickel or a dime
There use to be a rail car
To take you down the line

Too much beer and whiskey
To ever be employed
And when I got to Nashville
It was too much soldiers joy"
YouTube: Wayside, Jackson

Prisoners of the Sun - Tintin

Wikipedia - "Prisoners of the Sun (French: Le Temple du Soleil) is the fourteenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. It is a continuation of The Seven Crystal Balls, and is one of very few Tintin books to directly carry on the story of the preceding title."
Wikipedia
Telegraph: Tintin and the finder of lost cities
amazon
In Peru with Tintin
YouTube: Tintin Fan Video - Prisoners of the Sun

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"