"Athens is the symbol of freedom, art, and democracy in the conscience of the civilized world. The capital of Greece took its name from the goddess Athena, the goddess of wisdom and knowledge." Ancient Greek, Wikpedia
TIME - "It's good that the Cuban Revolution's 50th anniversary falls on Jan. 1. That's the day for New Year's resolutions, and it's time for Washington and Havana to make some big ones." TIME, New York Times, CBS, Wikipedia
Wikipedia - "Centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the movement impacted urban centers throughout the United States. Across the cultural spectrum (literature, drama, music, visual art, dance) and also in the realm of social thought (sociology, historiography, philosophy), artists and intellectuals found new ways to explore the historical experiences of black America and the contemporary experiences of black life in the urban North." Wikipedia, Harlem Renaissance, msn, John Carroll, A Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials
"Laurie Lipton was born in New York. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honours). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France and has made her home in London since 1986." Laurie Lipton, MySpace, beinArt
Wikipedia - "He is most famous for his ritualistic public performances and his energetic championing of the healing potential of art and the power of a universal human creativity. As well as performances, Beuys produced sculptures, environments, vitrines, 450 prints and posters, and thousands of drawings." Wikipedia, WAC, DIA, artnet
Wikipedia - "Jacir works in a variety of media including film, photography, installation, performance, video, writing and sound. She has exhibited extensively throughout the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East since 1994, holding solo exhibitions in places including New York, Los Angeles, Ramallah, Beirut, London and Linz." Wikipedia, Visual Art, Alexander and Bonin, IMEU
"During the 1950's and early 1960's in New York, The Living Theatre pioneered the unconventional staging of poetic drama - the plays of American writers like Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Paul Goodman, Kenneth Rexroth and John Ashbery, as well as European writers rarely produced in America, including Cocteau, Lorca, Brecht and Pirandello." The Living Theatre, Wikipedia, New York Surveillance Camera Players, YouTube, (1), (2)
Hazy Morning, Montclair, New Jersey, 1893 Wikipedia - "His work was influenced, in turn, by that of the old masters, the Hudson River school, the Barbizon school, and, finally, by the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg, whose spiritualism found vivid expression in the work of Inness' maturity. He is best known for these mature works that helped define the Tonalist movement." Wikipedia, George Inness, artnet, George Inness Virtual Gallery
Smithsonian - "This series of 24 one-hour programs explores the remarkable collection of music, spoken word, and sound recordings that make up Folkways Records (now at the Smithsonian as Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)." The Folkways Collection
Wikipedia - "Can were an experimental rock band formed in West Germany in 1968. One of the most important krautrock groups, Can' incorporated strong minimalist and world music influences." wikipedia, godfathers of inde, Empty Can Band, YouTube, (1), (2)
"Charles Pierre Baudelaire ...(9 April 1821 - 31 August 1867) was a nineteenth century French poet, critic and translator. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Baudelaire's name has become a byword for literary and artistic decadence." Wikipedia, poets.org, Charles Baudelaire, Huck Gutman
"San Francisco visual artist of the 60's and 70's. Here are Interviews, research, clues, events, along the last ten years . . . Here's the story of what happened to me when I met Satty... Two years after he was already physically dead." Wilfred Sätty
"East German art, like much of what used to be East Germany itself, hasn’t fared altogether well here since the Wall fell. Twenty years on, victorious Westerners, at least those old enough to remember the country divided, still tend to look with contempt on what passed for culture under Communism, as if the two, culture and Communism, were mutually exclusive." New York Times, Berlin Wall Art, Berlin Wall
"Jimmie Durham is a Cherokee, born in Arkansas in 1940. He is a visual artist, and also a politcal activist for the American Indian Movement and an essayist." Arte All'arte, Wikipedia, The Saatchi Gallery, Google
"The work of Edith Dekynt deals more than anything else with the aesthetic act. Her research into phenomena is a search for a truth that exists in the invisible or nearly visible. In this way she approaches the infinite, absolute, and unreachable.[cold, dust, humidity, static electricity]." ARTFACTS.NET, Edith Dekynt
Composition 1965 "Zao Wou-ki, now 82, found his distinctive voice and vocabulary in his mid-thirties, having by that time lived in Paris for a decade." Marlborough, Wikipedia
Wikipedia - "Vittorio De Sica (7 July 1901 or 1902–13 November 1974) was a critically acclaimed Italian neorealist director and actor." Wikipedia, IMDb, strictly film school, YouTube
"He became known instantly with a model he created during his time at the Rijksakademie: a crossroads with traffic lights at night. This work is typical in its dealing with a recurring theme of his, that of alienation in modern life and the superficiality, monotony and miscommunication that accompanies it." RONMANDOS, Hans Op de Beeck, frieze
Matt Lee - "Collected during my time working from Bangalore, these matchboxes are the tangible memories of my various travels and experiences through India." Matt Lee, Light of India, flickr
kottke.org - "Here's the same thing mixed with Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice. Reminds me of the previously featured but still awesome video of Al Minns and Leon James doing the Charleston to Daft Punk." Soviet Army dance ensemble + Run DMC
La fenetre The Metropolitan Museum of Art - "The first exhibition to focus entirely on the radiant late interiors and still lifes of Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947), the 80 paintings, drawings, and watercolors on display date from the artist’s later years, when he centered his painting activity in his pink stucco house overlooking the Mediterranean in the village of Le Cannet." The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wikipedia
"Richard's playing inspired a whole generation of dulcimer players, and Mimi, who was 19 when the album was recorded, developed a beautifully expressive, winsome style on the guitar that complemented Richard's dulcimer perfectly." Richard & Mimi Fariña, YouTube, (1), (2), Rhapsody
Kettle Valley #21 Mark Ruwedel - "I am interested in revealing the narratives contained within the landscape and am most attracted to places where the land reveals itself as being both an agent of geological processes and a field of human endeavor." MoCP, artnet, Mark Ruwedel
Guggenheim - "This exhibition traces how Asian art, literature, and philosophy were transmitted and transformed within American cultural and intellectual currents, influencing the articulation of new visual and conceptual languages." Guggenheim, NYT
La monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Jon Hassell, Lee Konitz, David Rosenboom Wikipedia - "The Theatre of Eternal Music, sometimes later known as The Dream Syndicate, was a mid-sixties musical group formed by LaMonte Young that focused on experimental drone music." Wikipedia, (1), last.fm, SteveWynn, The Dream Syndicate
Ballet Russes, Matisse. Wikipedia - "Many of its dancers originated from the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg. Younger dancers were trained in Paris, within the community of exiles after the Russian Revolution of 1917. The company featured and premiered now-famous (and sometimes infamous) works by the great choreographers Marius Petipa, Michel Fokine, Bronislava Nijinska, Leonide Massine, Vaslav Nijinsky, and a young George Balanchine at the start of his career." Wikipedia, NYT
"The purpose of this website is to provide activists, radicals, revolutionaries, and otherwise left-leaning individuals, who are working to put together flyers, pamphlets, zines, propaganda etc., with high resolution graphics." Radical Graphics
"Extra! Extra! Read All About It!", 2003 Wikipedia - "Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life." Wikipedia, PBS, artnet, Marlborough
Wikipedia - "Stiff Little Fingers are a punk band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 1977. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star (named after the Deep Purple song), doing rock covers, until they discovered punk." Wikipedia, Stiff Little Fingers, YouTube, (1)
Wikipedia - "A postcard or post card is a rectangular piece of thick paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an envelope and at a lower rate than a letter. Stamp collectors distinguish between postcards (which require a stamp) and postal cards (which have the postage pre-printed on them)." Wikipedia, POSTCARDY, Chicago Postcard Museum, W - Main Page
New York Times - "New York is a city of characters. On the subway and in its streets, from the intensity of Midtown to the intimacy of neighborhood blocks, is a 305-square-mile parade of people with something to say. One in 8 Million is a new collection of a few of their passions and problems, relationships and routines, vocations and obsessions. A new story will be added weekly." NYT
Wikipedia - "Robin Hood is an archetypal figure in English folklore, whose story originates from medieval times but who remains significant in popular culture where he is known for robbing the rich to give to the poor and fighting against injustice and tyranny." Wikipedia, Uni. of Rochester, Under the Greenwood Tree
Wikipedia - "Immediately after he lost his title back to Botvinnik, Tal won the 1961 Bled supertournament, ahead of a star-studded field which included Fischer, Petrosian, Keres, Gligorić, Efim Geller, and Miguel Najdorf." Wikipedia, chessgames.com, ChessBase
Wikipedia - "Christgau names Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Chuck Berry, The Beatles, and the New York Dolls as his top five artists of all time. In music critic circles, he was an early supporter of hip hop and the riot grrrl movements, along with other music styles." Wikipedia, Robert Christgau, VOICE
Wikipedia - "The Louvre Museum ... located in Paris, a historic monument, and a national museum of France. It is a central landmark, located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (neighbourhood). Nearly 35,000 objects from the 6th millennium BC to the 19th century AD are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet)." Wikipedia, Louvre
"Collaborating since 1995, Allora & Calzadilla approach visual art as a set of experiments that test whether ideas such as authorship, nationality, borders, and democracy adequately describe today’s increasingly global and consumerist society. Their hybridized works—often a unique mix of sculpture, photography, performance, sound and video—explore the physical and conceptual act of mark making and its survival through traces." Art:21, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, The Renaissance Society
Roma: città aperta (Open City, 1946) Wikipedia - "Italian neorealism is a style of film characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors. Italian neorealist films mostly contend with the difficult economical and moral conditions of post-World War II Italy, reflecting the changes in the Italian psyche and the conditions of everyday life: poverty and desperation." Wikipedia, GREEN CINE, the neorealism, NeoWeb, The Criterion Collection
Küba 2004 Wikipedia - "Kutluğ Ataman (born 1961 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish contemporary artist and filmmaker, whose pieces in photography and video art have won him much critical praise." Wikipedia, Tate, artnet, BBC
Wikipedia - "New Order was the flagship band for Factory Records, and their minimalist album sleeves and non-image reflected the label's aesthetic of doing whatever the relevant parties wanted to do, including New Order not wanting to put singles onto the albums." Wikipedia, neworderonine, MySpace, VH1, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
The Getty - "This exhibition tells the extraordinary story of a small group of artists who changed the course of art history. In the decades after the deaths of the great Renaissance masters, such as Raphael and Michelangelo, the art of painting was thought to have gone into steep decline." The Getty
"David Behrman has been active as a composer and artist since the 1960s. Over the years he has made sound and multimedia installations for gallery spaces as well as musical compositions for performance in concerts." Lovely Artist, (1), Wikipedia, Perfect Sound Forever, Rhapsody
Four Works on the Culture of Extraction greenmuseum.org - "The Harrison's concept of art embraces a breathtaking range of disciplines. They are historians, diplomats, ecologists, investigators, emissaries and art activists. Their work involves proposing solutions and involves not only public discussion, but extensive mapping and documentation of these proposals in an art context." greenmuseum.org, Ronald Feldman, Two Lines of Sight and An Unexpected Connection
Diaporama Irlande 3 Camera Work - "Huynhs square photographs convey a pure and irrational atmosphere with great clarity and strength." Camera Work, artnet, Moscow House of Photography