Istanbul Modem - MUSAC "Jennifer Steinkamp is an installation artist who with video and new media in order to explore ideas about architectural space, motion, and perception." Steinkamp Artist Resume
Magnum - "Invasion ... In August of 1968 the Warsaw Pact armies invaded Czechoslovakia with more than 5,000 tanks and hundreds of thousands of soldiers. The invasion followed Czech reforms that emphasized freedom of the press, consumer goods, and democracy." Magnum
"Out of a dance vocabulary entirely designed to suit her own body the choreographer developed an idiom closely linked to specific performers." Rosas, Wikipedia, Vlaams Theater Instituut, YouTube, (1)
"Born in Brooklyn on November 9th, 1921, he worked for $1 a day on the back of a Dugan's Donut truck for spare cash when going to high school." Stan Drake, Wikipedia, Wikipedia - 1
Wikipedia - "Popol Vuh was a German Krautrock band founded by pianist and keyboardist Florian Fricke in 1970 together with Holger Trulzsch (percussion) and Frank Fiedler (electronics)." Wikipedia, Wikipedia - 1, last.fm, Popol Vuh, YouTube
Arenal, Cuba Series Duane Reed Gallery - "The St. Louis native has traveled throughout Europe and Cuba to shoot his architectural and landscape photography." Duane Reed Gallery
Floral Font (detail), 1989 VDB - "There he discovered an area of clay pits that had once provided the raw material foor some of Manhattan's older buildings." VDB, UbuWeb, BNET
Wikipedia "The Brazilian team, featuring the likes of Pele (who was in his fourth and final World Cup), Carlos Alberto, Clodoaldo, Gerson, Jairzinho, Rivelino, and Tostao, is usually regaded as the greatest attacking World Cup team ever." Wikipedia, Wikipedia - Pele, YouTube, (1)
Wikipedia - "Joseph John Camphell (March 26, 1904 - October 30, 1987) was an American mythology professor, writer, and lecturer best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion." Wikipedia, Wikipedia - 1, Joseph Campbell Foundation
Wikipedia - "Wire are arguably a definitive art punk or post-punk ensemble, mostly due to their richly detailed and atmospheric sound, often obscure lyrical themes and, to a lesser extent, their Situationist political stance." Wikipedia, Pinkflag, Brainwashed, wireviews
Wikipedia - "Many of Godard's films challenged the conventions of Hollywood cinema, and he was often considered the most extreme New Wave filmmaker. His films often expressed his political ideologies as well as his knowledge of film history." Wikipedia, IMDb, Cinema=Godard=Cinema, senses of cinema, Godard, YouTube, (1)
Sacred Destinations - "Newgrange has been dated to about 3200 BC, during the Bronze Age. It is not known for whom the tomb was built, but it was clearly the burial of great tribal leaders." Sacred Destinations, Wikipedia, Knowth, Newgrange
Wikipedia - "On the fall of France in 1940 Messiaen was made a prisoner of war, and while incarcerated he composed his Quatuor pour la fin du temps ('Quartet for the end of time') for the four available instruments, piano, violin, cello, and clarinet." Wikipedia, YouTube, last.fm
PBS - "An Iraqi photojournalist from Baghdad, he has sought out Islamic militants across the Middle East, and his articles and photos have appeared in several Western newspapers." PBS, Wikipedia, Selves and Others, YouTube, (1), (2)
Wikipedia - "Leslie Conway Bangs (December 13, 1948 - April 30, 1982) was an American music journalist, author and musician. Most famous for his at Creem and Rolling Stone magazines, Bangs was and still is regarded as an extremely influential voice in rock criticism." Wikipedia, Perfect Sound Forever, (1), ALLLIE, RockCritics
May 12, 1967 Helix cover "It's not hard to define 'what' the Sixties were. Most can agree on the main ingredients: Vietnam and the explosion worldwide of wars for national liberation; civil rights and emergence of 'black power' and other cultural-identity movements...." University of Washington Libraries
Wikipedia - "Paul Binder and Micheal Christensen were a pair of American street jugglers who, after meeting in San Francisco, decided to travel to Europe in the early 1970s." Wikipedia, Big Apple Circus, Wikipedia - Circus
"State organized demonstration marking the 24th anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the US embassy, 'The Den of Espionage', by radical students and Revolutionary Guards." Thomas Dworzak
Captures the Sun at both Winter & Summer Solstices Wikipedia - "Nancy Holt (born, April 5, 1938) is an American artist famous for her public sculpture, installation art and land. Throughout her career, Holt has also produced works in other mediums, including film, photography, and writing artist's books." Wikipedia, greenmuseum.org, Video Data Bank
Nocturne in Black and Gold: Entrance to Southampton Water, 1872 to 1874
"James Abbott McNeill Whistler was the one revoltionary painter in the English-speaking world whom courbet, Manet, and Degas regarded as their peer and comrade-in-arms in the crusade against nineteenth century academic art." WebMuseum, Wikipedia
"Since the land 80s, he has photographed New York's political, social landscape, such as issues of AIDS, homelessness, and street crimes, focusings on people suffering their human rights violation in the related poverty, discrimination, and violence." Q. Sakamaki, Redux Pictures, NYT
Wikipedia - "The members of the group are considered musical pioeers in psych folk and, by integrating a very wide variety of traditional music forms and instruments, in the development of world music." Wikipedia, Wikipedia - 1, The Incredible String String Band, YouTube, (1), (2)
"Kilroy Variations 2008 Ugly New Buildings. In the past few years much of my neighborhood in Brooklyn has been torn down to make for luxury housing. For better or worse it's a whole new street-scape out here." Dan Witz
"When Francisco Pizarro and his fellow Spanish conquistadors first encountered Peru in 1523, they were shocked by the wholly unfamiliar world." The Getty
Wikipedia - "Alan Wilson Watts (Jaanuary 6, 1915 - November 16, 1973) was a philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience." Wikipedia, Alan Watts, Alan Watts Lectures and Essays, Alan Watts Resource, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)
Wikipedia - "His intense discipline and phenomenal creative energy when working were in violent contrast with a wild, self-destructive libertinism that earned him a reputation as the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, as well as its central figure." Wikipedia, senses of cinema, The Fassbinder Foundation, Jim's Reviews / Fassbinder, YouTube, (1)
"Participation in a FIFA World Cup takng place overseas involved a long sea journey. Moreover, for some clubs it meant having to go without their best players for two months - a problem that is still topical today." FIFA, Wikipedia, YouTube, (1)
Tahitian Women on the Beach, 1891 Wikipedia - "His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his painting, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the was to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential exponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms." Wikipedia, WebMuseum, Olga's Gallery, National Gallery of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, wbur.org
"On the occasion of the Beijing Olympics opening this upcoming August 8th 2008, we will be asking people to remember Tibet's struggle for independence against the undemocratic government of China." Remember Tibet
The By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1942 collection consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal." By the Peoply, For the Peoply: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
Kathy Lohr - "In early 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders planned a Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C., for the spring. " npr, Higher Pictures
Wikipedia - "William Christenberry (born November 5, 1936) is a photographer, painter and sculptor who works with personal and somewhat mythical themes growing out of his childhood experiences in Hale County, Alabama." Wikipedia, Christenberry Online, npr
Wikipedia - "The Roches (Maggie, Terre and Suzzy Roche) are a female vocal group of three songwriting sisters from Park Ridge, New Jersey, known for their unusual and rich harmonies, quirky lyrics, and casually comedic stage performances." Wikipedia, The Roches, YouTube: The Roches Hallelujah Chorus 1982, (1), (2), (3)
Robert Miller Gallery - "One of the first staff photographers for LIFE magazing. Horace Bristol (1908 - 1997) worked aginst a backdrop of profound economic upheaval and sweeping political change." Robert Miller Gallery, The Getty, Horace Bristol
Lunch, 1964 "His subjects, often of mixed sexual and racial features, are often obscured by heavy clothing and appear sagging and shapeless, trapped within their own dull worlds." Rogallery, Ten Dreams
Wikipedia - "Alan Lomax (January 15, 1915 - July 19, 2002) was an American folklorist and musicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, the West Indies, Italy, and Spain." Wikipedia, The American Folklife Center, npr, pbs
"Continually expanding its diverse repertoire with work by leading national and international choreographers, the company also contributes to the art form's evolution by developing new choreographic talent collaborating with artists in music, visual art and theatre." Hubbard Street, Wikipedia, YouTube
Wikipedia - "Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942), better known as Gilberto Gil ..., is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and his political commitment." Wikipedia, Gilberto Gil, Last FM, YouTube
Marguerite Del Giudice - "What's so striking about the ruins of Persepolis in southern Iran, An ancient capital of the Persian Empire that was burned down after being conquered by Alexander the Great, is the absence of violent imagery on what's left of its stone walls." National Geographic
Algonquin Indians at Palisades Wikipedia - "The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement by a group landscape painters, whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism." Wikipedia, ArtLex, Hudson River School Art Trail
"His own artwork consist of sculptures intended to provide the viewer with material with thought and perhaps goad them into contemplation of the human experience." Underground Art Union, Samuel Stimpert
Wikipedia - "Robert Crumb (born August 30, 1943), often credited simply as R. Crumb, is an American artist and illustrator recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream. He currently lives in Southern France." Wikipedia, The Official Crumb Site, YouTube
"Squatter Settlements in Metro Manila - These photographs were made over the past five years as part of a survey of the architure of informal settlements in Metro Manila." urban landscapes
Films de France - "Louis Malle comes from a rare breed of French film director who achieved a reputation as a great director not just in his native France but internationally, and was not afraid to embrace a wide renge of subjects, some notoriously controversial." Films de France, Wikipedia, TSPDT, IMDb, YouTube, (1), (2)
North 01 - Streymoy, Faroe Islands, 2007 "I am finding my inspiration in documentary motives, social changes of our society and people. I am aiso covering historical moments that are influencing our future." Andrija Ilic