Folio #2 Wikipedia - "Mary Heebner (b. April 19, 1951 in Los Angeles, California) is an artist known for paintings — especially abstract landscape paintings — artist books and paper making." Wikipedia, Mary Heebner
Wikipedia - "Blakelock's early landscapes have their genesis in the style of the Hudson River school of painters. In time, he developed a more subjective and intimate style." Wikipedia, artnet
Wikipedia - "Glenn Branca (born October 6, 1948 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is a highly-influential avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternate tuned guitars, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series." Wikipedia, glenn branca, You Tube, (1), (2)
Berman Twins ART in AMERICA, April 2005, Michael Amy - "You can brush, trowel, press, throw, squirt, drip or pour paint onto a canvas, or stain it with diluted medium. It has all been done. Rainer Gross makes paint adhere to the support in yet another way in order to arriving at compelling abstract compositions." Rainer Gross, artnet
Wikipedia - "François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was an influential filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave; and remains an icon of the French film industry. In a film career lasting just over a quarter of a century, he was also a screenwriter, producer or actor in over twenty-five films." Wikipedia, IMDb, senses of cinema
Les raboteurs parquet, 1875 Wikipedia - "Gustave Caillebotte (19 August 1848–21 February 1894), was a French painter, member and patron of the group of artists known as Impressionists, though he painted in a much more realistic manner than many other artists in the group. Caillebotte was noted for his early interest in photography as an artform." Wikipedia
Wikipedia - "The band is often classified as industrial music. 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. Neubauten has always experimented with sounds, originally in noise music and recently in very diverse styles." Wikipedia, Einstürzende Neubauten
1934 "This—the inaugural exhibition of Ubu Gallery—consisted of a rare group of photographs by the Czech avant-garde artist, Jindrich Styrsky (1899-1942). These photographs were the basis for the artist’s surrealist masterpiece, On the Needles of These Days, published clandestinely in 1941 with original photographs and more widely in 1945 with gravure reproductions." Ubu Gallery
"Peabody appeared in these segments alongside 'his boy' Sherman (in a twist on the 'boy and his dog' cliché). Peabody, who was a genius, decided to adopt Sherman so he'd have some company in his life. Sherman's personality was that of a naive but fairly bright, energetic young boy. They both wore black, over-sized horn-rimmed glasses." Wikipedia
"Urban transit maps are wonderful tools: they are guides to traveling, they serve as mechanisms for distilling and abstracting a city down to a set of linkages and interconnections, and they are beautiful." Milky Way Transit Authority
Victory Day (Moscow 3), 2000 "For a few years now, Guillaume Zuili is exploring urban universes. In Black and white, using the double exposure process, he is drawing the portrait of Paris, Berlin and Moscow that reveals the layers of time and history of those cities." Agence, Guillaume Zuili
A Basket of Flowers, Jan Brueghel the Younger (Flemish, 1601-1678) "Still-life painting as an independent genre or specialty first flourished in the Netherlands during the early 1600s, although German and French painters (for example, Georg Flegel and Sebastien Stoskopff...) were also early participants in the development, and less continuous traditions of Italian and Spanish still-life painting date from the same period." The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Reconsidering the truth of my remembered reality, through objects and documentation remaining accessible over the years, was a driving force for this body of works. The process began while sorting through drawers, shelves and closets in my parents’ house, uncovering forgotten matter, fragments of my past, proof that I was there, with these possessions, at various stages of my life." Laura Blau
Wikipedia - "Solidarity ... is a Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard, and originally led by Lech Wałęsa." Wikipedia, BBC
Stone Flag Wikipedia - "Working predominantly with everyday material like charcoal, chalk and paint, Rhode started out creating performances that are based on his own drawings of objects that he interacts with. He expanded and refined this practice into creating photography sequences and digital animations." Wikipedia, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Walker Art, Toxel
"Korda had two main passions in life: his photography which the world saw, and his passion for women which his friends and colleagues saw. Korda also loved fashion – mainly because of the beautiful models, however fashion photography was not a custom at that time in Cuba, so Korda began his photography career taking photos for advertisements." Alberto Korda, Wikipedia, ArtScene
Miguel Najdorf Wikipedia - "The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 c5. The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4." Wikipedia, W - Najdorf Variation, W - Dragon Variation
Wikipedia - "The Grolier Poetry Bookshop ('Grolier's') is an independent bookstore on Plympton Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Although founded as a 'fine-arts' bookstore, its focus today is solely poetry." Wikipedia, W - Elsa Dorfman, The Poetry Porch
Slate-crowned Antpitta Ferran Gil - "This will give access to uploading videos and photos (sound recordings will come soon)! As we are still in beta, some functionalities are not as good as they will be, so please be patient and let us know if you find any problems." IBC
Darius Himes - "Mexico is a misunderstood land steeped in paradoxes. The depth of culture and richness of family and landscape is lost under a cloak of poverty and modern economic distress, breeding misunderstandings and stereotypes that are rarely questioned." Debbie Fleming Caffery
Ophelia, 1852 Wikipedia - "Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood." Wikipedia
Self Portraits or the Trinity (2000) "How to negotiate different worlds is the overriding question in Zineb Sedira’s work, worlds that collide and conflict. It is precisely her Algerian heritage and her experience of living in London and France that gives Zineb’s work insight into these different worlds." Zineb Sedira, 24 Hour Museum
Natalia Goncharova, 1881-1962 "There have been only a handful of periods in world cultural history when the theater was the leading form-Athens of the 5th century BC, Elizabethan England, and Russia/the Soviet Union from the 1890s to the 1930s." Northwestern University Dept. of Slavic Languages and Liberatures
IMDb - "Kurt Kuenne is an award-winning filmmaker and composer of both fiction and documentary films. He grew up in Silicon Valley, where he began making films as soon as he was old enough to pick up a camera." IMDb, Dear Zachary, YouTube, (1), veoh
aiu: a yoko ono - "By the mid-1960s Yoko Ono was an established figure in the underground art scene; she had begun performing musical pieces, presented events with a loosely affiliated group of artists who worked under the name Fluxus, published a book of instructional poems entitled Grapefruit (e.g. "Hammer a nail in the center of a piece of glass. Send a fragment to an arbitrary address."), and was making films." aiu: a yoko ono, Wikipedia, IK!, SFMOMA, MySpace, YouTube, (1), (2)
Development "My quilted wall hangings consist of layers of the following techniques: appliqué, reverse appliqué, piecing, natural and synthetic dyeing, needle-felting, hand printing, and a variety of embroidery stitches. There is an overall balance between hand and machine work." Leah Evans
"Dazzling six-part series telling the full story of African music, from the desert blues of the Sahara to the dance music of the Congo." BBC, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
Classical Landscape with Figures and Sculpture, Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 1788 "This exhibition focuses on the practice of painting sur le motif—in nature—as it developed in Europe during the late 1700s and early 1800s." The Getty
"The ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna (or simply Amarna) was the short-lived capital built by the ‘heretic’ Pharaoh Akhenaten and abandoned shortly after his death (c. 1332 BCE). It was here that he pursued his vision of a society dedicated to the cult of one god, the power of the sun (the Aten)." Amarna Project
"I am an artist that values, above all, the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically. I make art that makes me question, that derives its power from being vulnerable to interpretation, that is intuitive, that is beautiful." April Gornik
Woman and girl by a brook - c. 1910. Corbet. "The subject of these lectures focused on the autochromes of Charles Corbet, Paul Sano and Alfonse Van Besten." Three Belgian Autochromists
Directed by Anna Linsel, Germany, 2006. "Before choreographer Pina Bausch and her Tanz-theater Wuppertal were known around the world, her new, unusual and body language ill-received." Germany... UBU
Roger Bartlett Mosaic Binding "Begun energetically by Pierpont Morgan himself before the turn of the twentieth century, the collection has grown to over 1,000 volumes." The Morgan Library & Museum
"Designed by the Chicago architect Daniel Burnham, known for his skyscraper, this steel-framed terra-cotta and stone-clad skyscaper represents this developers' first (and ultimately unsuccessful) attempt to create a new business center north of Wall Street." New York Architecture
Wikipedia - "Clare Veronica Hope Leighton (1899-1989) was an English/American artist, writer and illustrator, best known for her wood engravings." Wikipedia, Artwork, Paramour Fine Arts
"Liza Lou is an art whose work combines visonary, conceptual, traditional and vernacular approaches to create a new kind of scuptural experience." Deitch
The Summer You Turned Into a Butterfly "The journeys are soul searching. I never view a piece of art by Florin and walk away unchanged. I've had a conversation. We've exchanged important ideas. His works of art make me think more carefully about the work of living." artspan
"The life cycle of a wave is measured in seconds, and because of that each painting is not an image of a particular wave, but a cumulative image of waves observed over several days in various conditions." Alex Kanevsky
Wikipedia - "...synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the blues experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm and blues into a form of funky, secular testifying." Wikipedia, Google, Otis Redding, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)
William Hulme Hooper, The Months among the Tants of the Tuski, 1853 "In 1818, the British began infatuation with the Arctic. It started innocently enough, with the Admiralty trying to find an outlet for naval officers and seamen who had been idled by the end of the Napoleonic wars." A Victorian Romance
White Cube - "Runa Islam makes film and video installations that use overlapping layers of narrative to explore notions to truth and fiction, subjectivity and authorship." White Cube, Tate, Wikipedia
Guardian - "Wading through the sentimental seasonal schlock online, we fell on this moody, gritty little yuletide masterpiece for blessed relief." Guardian - (1), (2)
Botticelli, The Banquet in the Pinewoods Met Museum - "This exhibition explores the various exceptional objects creates to celebrate love and marriage in the Italian Renaissance." Art and Love in Renaissance Italy