Wikipedia - "David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American director, screenwriter, producer, painter, cartoonist, composer, video and performance artist." Wikipedia, David Lynch, YouTube, (1)
Structure of Thought 15, 2001-2004 "Mike and Doug Starn, American artists and identical twins, were born in New Jersey in 1961. Working collaboratively in photography since age thirteen, they continue to defy categorization by effectively combining traditionally separate disciplines such as sculpture, painting, video, and installation." mike + doug starn, artnet
Wooden Tree, 2005 Wikipedia - "Susan Weil (born in New York, 1930) is American artist best known for experimental three-dimensional paintings, which combine figurative illustration with explorations of movement and space." Wikipedia, ARTINFO
Wikipedia - "The World Chess Championship 1972 match between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky in Laugardalsholl, Reykjavik, Iceland, has been dubbed the Match of the Century." Wikipedia, chessgames.com, YouTube, (1)
Passage "Growing up in New Orleans has given Angela an eye for architectual and cultural detail and she has traveled the world focusing her camera on the detais often overlooked by others." Angela Drury Pictures, Angela Drury Photography
Wikipedia - "The B-52's originated as a New Wave rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, United States, in 1976. The band's name comes from a particular beehive hairdo resembling the nose cone the airplane of the same name." Wikipedia, last.fm, Rolling Stone, YouTube, (1)
Jo Freeman - "I've been collecting buttons since 1964 when my local pusher enticed me with freebies until I was hooked. My passion has waxed and waned with time, so I now have somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 different buttons - a paltry number to the serions collector, who usually loses count at 20,000." Jo Freeman
"Visually captivating and intriguing, contemporary art is admired and appreciated by many in museums and galleries. Yet few are given access to the creative processes behind the work - the inspirations and ideas that translate into compelling finished objects." Art:21
Ethereal winged figures dance NYT - "The ruins of Ostia, an ancient Roman port, have never captured the public imagination in the same way as those of Pompeii, perhaps because Ostia met with a less cataclysmic fate." New York Times, Wikimedia
A Book of Knowledge, 2000 "In 1982, while sitting on the floor of the library at Philadelphia College of Art, I discovered a remarkable book, Signs of Life, that opened my eyes to the wonder of photography and its amazing capabilities." Edelman Gallery, Joseph Bellows, Olivia Parker
Wikipedia - "The (C3a) Inverted Jenny (or Jenny Invert) is a United States postage stamp first issued on May 10 1918 in which the image of the Curtiss JN-4 airplane in the center of the design was accidentally printed upside-down; it is probably the most famous error in American philately." Wikipedia
Micheal Ondaatje - "The music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit and is deeply moving. He is one of the few composer who can put slapstick and primal emotion alongside each other." Gavin Bryary, Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2)
Panoramic Echoes "These days, the birds singing in New York City's Madison Square Park sound hyperreal. The air is filled with their exotic arias that seem to descend from the sky in waves, somehow loud enough to supplant the din of nearby traffic with the beauty of birdsong." Resoundings.org, Wikipedia, UC Berkeley Art, L & S Online America
"The Continuing Curve: 2008 - Rococo's most significant later interpretation occurred internationally from about 1880 to 1915, when designers found inspiration in the natural flow of the rococo aesthetic for a new design concept known as Art Nouveau." Rococo
Wikipedia - "Federico Garcia Lorca (5 June 1898 - 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet and dramatist, remembered as a painter, pianist, and composer. An emblematic member of the Generation of '27, he was killed by Nationalist partisans at the age of 38 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War." Wikipedia, Federico Garcia Lorca, Imagi-nation
Wikipedia - "Gregory Crewdson (born September 26, 1962) is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged, surreal scenes of American homes and neighborhoods." Wikipedia, Luhring Augustine, Gagosian Gallery
Summer Light, 2000 Robert Adams - "Artists don't take vacations. Their work is their pleasure. Dag Alveng's report of his summer days on an island is therefore not the record of an escape but an embrace." Dag Alveng
Wikipedia - "Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasionally guitat, and Chris Lowe on keyboards ossasionally on vocals." Wikipedia, petshopboys, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
Wikipedia - "Classics Illustrated is a comic book series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Iliad. Created by Albert Kanter, the series began publication in 1941 and finished its first run in 1971, producing 169 issues." Classics Illustrated, Classics Illustrated Comic Books, Classics Central
"Found images in mysterious Bonaventure Cemetery, found images along the highways and byways, and found images in the ever present landscape." Meryl Truett
Dust / The Beginning of the 21st Century - "Dust, 2005-2007. In the filmed performance, the artists trace, with sticks and string, the outline of the church Vacaresti in Bucharet, demolished by the communist regime in 1986." Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, NY ART BEAT
Sattler Theater WebUrbanist - "Many of these abandoned cinemas are in a sense being recycled into apartments, office buiding, and for some even haunted houses." WebUrbanist
"From the ninth to the seventh centuries BC, the Assyrians were the dominanant power in the ancient Near East, controlling all of present-day Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, as well as large parts of Israel, Egypt, Turkey, and Iran." mfa
Wikipedia - "He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakeds of moders cinema." Wikipedia, IMDb, Bergmanorama, senses of cinema, YouTube, (1), (2)
Esquire - "The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are out most intimate connection to the horror of that day." (September 2003) Esquire - Tom Junod, Seeing the Horror
Shipbreaking No. 12, Chittagong, Bangladesh. Edward Burtynsky "Suffering, tragedy, and misunderstanding form the soil out of which the works in Damaged Romanticism sping, makind a place, as they grow, for hope." Blaffer Gallery
Tate - "Jazzmen is made from a section of posters and advertisements stripped from the rue de Tolbiac in Paris. Villegle starter making works using torn posters in the late 1940s and again in the 1960s." Tate, Modernism, artnet
"For more than twenty years, David Maisel has chronicled the tensions between nature and culture in his large-scaled photogras of environmentally impacted landscapes." David Maisel, Walk the Walk
ARTTHROB - "This recycling, the rawness and roughness of technique, the free form of the constructions unbounded by rectilinear framing and adhered directly onto the wallseems wholly appropriate for these depictions of a shifling society." ARTTHROB
"The dramatically outlined figures brandishing red book gospel, set against flat planes of colour, are rendered in a style specific to Chinese government issue posters of the late 60s and early 70s." Wang Guangyi
Installation, 1995 "Tania: Masks and Trophies - Photographic blow ups installation of the five identities abopted by Haydee Tamara Bunke, also known as Tania, La Guerrillera, the only woman who fought together with Ernesto Che Guevara in Bolivia." Leandro Katz
Wikipedia - "His lengthy career in a wide variety of experimental and other music genres is matched by few, if any, American composer-arrangers and music educators." Wikipedia, Renewable Music, YouTube, (1), (2)
FIFA - "The home of tournament founder Jules Rimet, France enjoyed an unforgettable summer as its footballers finally tasted FIFA World Cup glory, Zinedine Zidane leading Les Bleus to victory over Brazil in the Final." FIFA, Wikipedia, YouTube
"Feverish with color and dancing brushstokes, the painting hold a tension between passion and ruthless. Over at Arden Gallery, Anne Packard's landscapes, inspired by the view of Provincetown Harbor from the window of her home, are ethereal and soft." Addison Gallery
A refugee family lives on the side of the road in Kurdistan, 1991 "Since the 1970s, question of ethics raised by documentary practice have been central to debates in photography." Susan Meiselas, The Museum at ICP
Poisson d'Avril New York Times - "A couple of them date from his college years in the 1940s. Most are from the 1970s and were recently rediscovered tucked away in a shoebox." New York Times, artnet
"Sex, spirituality, religion, power - he has relentlessly examined the largest issues in human lives, always with a full appreciation of how elusive answers can be to the vexing questions he raises." Leonard Cohen, Wikipedia, The Leonard Cohen Files, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)
Patricia Johanson - "These multi-function landscapes have always appealed to me because they are not only beautiful and useful, but also productive and life supporting." Land Views, greemuseum.org, Patricia Johanson
"A digital edition of Radical America, a product of the campus-based New Left of the late 1960s, specifically the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), but the magazing long outlived its seedbed." Brown University Library Center for Digital Initiatives
"Raoul Dufy experimented with color even before the first Fauve exhibition in 1905. He did not exhibit with Henri Matisse and his group of Fauves at the first show, but he was excited by their creative use of color and drawing." WebExhibity, artnet
senses of cinema - "Rohmer came to filmmaking relatively late. He was a teacher, journalist and writer (of fiction as well as cinema theory and criticism) before making his first short in 1950, and commercial success came seventeen years later." senses of cinema, Wikipedia, IMDb, The Criterion Collection, films de france
Twenty Cent Movie, 1936 Wikipedia - "Reginald Marsh (14 March 1898 - 3 July 1954) was an American painter, born in Paris, most notable for his detailed depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. He produced many watercolors, egg tempera paintings, oil paintings, Chinese ink drawings, and a number of lithographs and etchings." Wikipedia, Color Artwork, artnet
Wikipedia - "It was built around the year 1460, but abandoned as an official site for the Inca rulers a hundred years later, at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire." Wikipedia, Destination: Machu Picchu
The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construciion - "Abstract expressionist in composition and appearance, one is reminded in these particular works from the 1950's/60's of the dynamics and color harmonies in the painting of Clifford Still." Collage Museum, ARAS, artnet
MySpace - "Strange rock, neo-classical composition, world music (from Africa to Central Asia), string quartets, pieces for wind instruments, voices or synthesizers, Hector Zazou has a surprise waiting with each new record, showing his passion for the most unexpected mixes." MySpace, Wikipedia, last.fm
Wikipedia - "Hannah Hoch (November 1, 1889-May 31, 1978) was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage." Wikipedia, Cut & Paste, Gallery of Photomontages