Sigmar Polke

The goat wagon, 1992
"Sigmar Polke (born February 13, 1941) is a German painter and photographer."
Wikipedia, Tate, artnet, Getty

Julio De Caro

"After starting in the second decade of the 20th century, close to the great creators of the period -Eduardo Arolas, Roberto Firpo and others-, who had changed the early tango and after being influenced by the leading pioneers of melody construction of the genre-such as Juan Carlos Cobián and Enrique Delfino-, the violinist Julio De Caro established with his sextet, as from 1924, a new and far-reaching style."
Todo Tango, YouTube, (1), last.fm

Calligraphy Qalam

"Welcome to Calligraphy Qalam—we’re glad you’re here. On this website you'll find a variety of interactive tools and information to help you learn more about calligraphy in the Arab, Ottoman and Persian traditions."
Calligraphy Qalam

The KLF

Wikipedia - "The KLF, also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (which was often abbreviated to The JAMs), The Timelords and other names, were one of the seminal bands from the British acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s."
Wikipedia, KLF Online, Kopyright Liberation Front, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Braco Dimitrijevic

"Braco Dimitrijevic, one of the pioneers of conceptual art, had his first one-man exhibition at the age of 10. In 1963 he made his first conceptual work, The Flag of the World, in which he replaced a national flag with an alternative sign. It marked the beginning of his artistic interventions into urban landscapes."
Braco Dimitrijevic, Slought

León Ferrari and Mira Schendel

Mira Schendel, 1972
"León Ferrari (Argentine, b. 1920) and Mira Schendel (Brazilian, b. Switzerland, 1919–1988) are considered among the most significant artists working in Latin America during the second half of the twentieth century."
MoMA, (1). León Ferrari and Mira Schendel at MoMA.

La Monte Young

Wikipedia - "Young is generally recognized as the first minimalist composer, and one of the four most celebrated leaders of the minimalist school, along with Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass, despite having little in common formally with Glass or Reich. Young is also probably the least heard and least well-known of the major minimalist composers."
Wikipedia, MELA Foundation, Kyle Gann, last.fm, American Mavericks, YouTube, Henry Flynt - (1), (2), (3), La Monte Young - YouTube

Eugène Delacroix

La liberté guidant le peuple, 1830
Wikipedia - "Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement."
Wikipedia, WebMuseum, Eugène Delacroix

John Stezaker

"John Stezaker’s work re-examines the various relationships to the photographic image: as documentation of truth, purveyor of memory, and symbol of modern culture."
The Saatchi Gallery, The approach, Friedrich Petzel

African Head Charge

Wikipedia - "African Head Charge is a dub reggae ensemble active since the early 1980s. The group was formed by drummer Bonjo Iyanbinghi Noah, and featured a revolving cast of members, including, at times, Prisoner, Crocodile, Junior Moses, Sunny Akpan, Skip McDonald, and Jah Wobble. The group released most of its albums on Adrian Sherwood's label, On-U Sound."
Wikipedia, ON U Sound, (1), last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2)

Eileen Neff

"Using the camera, the computer, and the space of the studio, Eileen Neff poetically reconstructs moments experienced outside of it. Clouds move from outdoors to in. Windows appear as apertures onto completely other places. The landscape doubles but does not mirror itself."
ICA, Locks Gallery, out of the blue

Maya Lin, Storm King Wavefield 2007-2008

"Storm King Wavefield is a pastoral, mesmerizing work that encourages active viewer participation. Inspired by studies of naturally occurring wave formations, which Lin has abstracted, the sculpture evokes a tension between movement and stasis."
Storm King, NYT

Katharina Sieverding

Transformer, (installation/eight slide projections), 1973/1974
Wikipedia - "Sieverding's works consist of self-portraiture and most have an abstract quality. She uses the techniques of silhouette, contrast, and extreme close-up to make the photograph more revealing of herself."
Wikipedia, P.S.1 - MoMA, artnet, The Brooklyn Rail

Afrika Bambaataa

Wikipedia - "Afrika Bambaataa (born April 19, 1957) is an American DJ from the South Bronx, who was instrumental in the early development of hip hop throughout the 1980s."
Wikipedia, Zulu Nation, MySpace, Rolling Stone, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Jaromir Funke

Reflexy, 1931

"Influenced by Frantisek Drtikol, Jaromir Funke began exploring the intellectual and photographic possibilities of cubism, consructivism, and expressionism in 1919."
Museum of New Mexico, National Gallery of Art, artdaily

Stanley Kubrick

Wikipedia - "Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an influential American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and photographer, who, during most of the last 40 years of his career, lived in England. Kubrick is widely acknowledged as one of the most innovative directors in the history of cinema."
Wikipedia, IMDb, senses of cinema, The Kubrick Site, Charlie Rose - Google, YouTube

Ictineo

"Few Victorian inventions have the grace and charm of the Ictíneo, the series of two wooden submarines built by Narcís Monturiol i Estarrol in the second half of the nineteenth century. Unlike some of the better known early submarines from his contemporaries in Germany, France and the United States, the Catalan inventor managed to build submarines that operated flawlessly."
Low-tech Magazine

Alighiero Boetti

I verbi irregolari, 1989
Wikipedia - "Alighiero Boetti (also known as Alighiero e Boetti; December 16, 1940 – February 24, 1994) was an Italian conceptual artist, considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera."
Wikipedia, artnet, Sperone Westwater

Giorno Poetry Systems

Wikipedia - "Founded in 1965, Giorno Poetry Systems was an American artist collective, record label, and non-profit organisation founded by poet and performance artist John Giorno with the direct aim to connect poetry and related art forms to a larger audience using innovative ideas, such as communication technology, audiovisual materials and techniques."
Wikipedia, UbuWeb, World Class Poetry Blog, Dial-A-Poem Enters the Internet Age (NYT), McGill Daily - Dial-a-poet: verses for the masses, About.com

Jon Gibson

"Jon Gibson (b. March 11, 1940; Los Angeles, California) is a flautist, saxophonist, and composer who uses other instruments from around the world in his performances and is known for his jazz and classical contributions."
last.fm, CD Reviews, Jon Gibson, (1), new music box

Cabaret Voltaire

Wikipedia - "Their earliest performances were dada-influenced performance art, but Cabaret Voltaire later developed into one of the most prolific and important groups to blend pop with dance music, techno, dub house and experimental electronic music."
Wikipedia, Cabaret Voltaire, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Albert Oehlen

Ohne Titel (das Ende von Zuhause), 1998
Patricia Ellis - "Proclaiming there's no viable role for painting today, Albert Oehlen's work focuses exclusively on exposing art's failures. Borrowing from the tropes of traditional abstract painting, Oehlen readily subverts art's lofty idealism."
The Saatchi Gallery, artnet, Google

Public Ad Campaign

"Some wonderful artists gave this city a wonderful gift: they took over about 120 billboards spread around donwntown Manhattan, painted them on white and replaced the advertisements they usually hold with art."
cronicasbarbaras.com

Marcel Duchamp

"L.H.O.O.Q., a cheap postcard-sized reproduction of the Mona Lisa,upon which Duchamp drew a mustache and a goatee. The 'readymade' done in 1919, is one of the most well known act of degrading a famous work of art."
Marcel Duchamp, Wikipedia, Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp, Google, YouTube, (1), (2)

Elizabeth Streb

Wikipedia - "Elizabeth Streb is a choreographer, performer, teacher, and innovator of contemporary dance throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."
Wikipedia, STREB, Art+Culture, YouTube, (1), (2)

Carlos Gardel

Wikipedia - "Carlos Gardel (11 December 1887 - 24 June 1935 Medellín, Colombia) is perhaps the most prominent figure in the history of tango. Although his birthplace is disputed between Argentina, Uruguay and France, he lived in Argentina from the age of two and acquired Argentine citizenship in 1923."
Wikipedia, Carlos Gardel - The King of Tango, last.fm, Todo Tango, YouTube, Google, Dailymotion

Waterlines

"We examine the history of Seattle through a focus on its shorelines: the natural and human forces that have shaped them, the ways they have been used and thought about by the people who have lived here, and how this historic understanding might influence urban-development decisions being made today."
The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture

Henry Varnum Poor

"In the late winter of 2007, a remarkable rescue occurred in New York’s Hudson River Valley. After nearly three years of existing on the precipice of demolition, Crow House, the hand-built home and studio of the once-renowned painter and potter Henry Varnum Poor (1887-1970) ultimately was saved by Christopher St. Lawrence, Town Supervisor of Ramapo, New York."
American Craft, Henry Varnum Poor, NYT

Rap Chop

"Some impressive sound editing from DJ Steve Porter."
YouTube

William Eggleston

Webb
"William Eggleston's great achievement in photography can be described in a straightforward way: he captures everyday moments and transforms them into indelible images."
Whitney, William Eggleston, Wikipedia, Getty, YouTube

W. G. Sebald

Wikipedia - "W. G. (Winfred Georg) Maximilian Sebald (18 May 1944, Wertach im Allgäu – 14 December 2001, Norfolk, England) was a German writer and academic."
Wikipedia, The Threepenny Review, Conversational Reading, Vertigo: Collecting & Reading W.G. Sebald, NYT

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Black-chinned Hummingbird
"Explore our new birding tips, multimedia, articles, and updated bird profiles."
Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Mentalgassi

Eugene - "I can't help but laugh when I look at Mentalgassi's street art installations in Berlin, Germany. Consisting of three core members, they go around wheatpasting faces on public installations, such as reclyling bins and tickets validators, thereby evoking emotion from those that pass by. Gotta love their sense of humor!"
Urban Street Art, Mentalgassi

Gwen John

A Corner of the Artist's Room, Paris, 1907-09
Wikipedia - "Gwendolen Mary John (22 June 1876 – 18 September 1939) was a Welsh artist noted especially for her portraits of anonymous female sitters."
Wikipedia, TATE, Google

Alexander Sokurov

Wikipedia - "Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov ... (b. June 14, 1951, Podorwikha, Irkutsk Oblast) is a Russian filmmaker from St Petersburg who has been hailed as successor to renowned director Andrei Tarkovsky."
Wikipedia, IMDb, The Island of Sokurov, strictly film school, YouTube, (1), (2)

Hannah Höch

Wikipedia - "Hannah Höch (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, Photomontage, Google

Tamara De Lempicka

"Designers and architects also remember the 20's for the Chrysler Building, the luxury liner Normandie, and the interior of Radio City Music Hall, all outstanding examples of the decorative arts style called Art Deco."
The Art History Archive - Art Deco

Pompeii and the Roman Villa

"In the first century BC, the picturesque Bay of Naples became a favorite retreat for vacationing emperors, senators, and other prominent Romans. They built lavish seaside villas in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius where they could indulge in absolute leisure, read and write, exercise, enjoy their gardens and the views, and entertain friends."
Pompeii and the Roman Villa - NGA, NYT

Jah Wobble

Wikipedia - "Jah Wobble (born John Wardle, in Stepney in 1958) is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd (PiL) in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but left the band after two years."
Wikipedia, MySpace, 30 Hertz Records, last.fm, allmusic, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Vintage Collectible Topic Postcards

"We SPECIALIZE in old historic postcard views from the world and pay particular attention to town views of the local businesses with an emphasis on amusement parks, mining facilities, factories, canals, military bases, soldiers, royalty, disasters, railroad depots, streetcars, movie theaters, opera houses, hotels, restaurants, churches, cemetery, bridges, fire department facilities, hospitals, orphanages, post offices, schools, and trams."
Moody's Collectible Vintage Postcards

Katherine Wolkoff

"In all her work, Wolkoff confounds our expectations of how photography communicates the essence of a person or place. Using almost the reverse lighting conditions that we are accustomed to in photography, she creates a deeper understanding of her subjects."
Danziger Projects, Katherine Wolkoff

At Home in Utopia

"New York City cops in the Great Depression called it Little Moscow, but for the 2,000 Jewish immigrant residents of the United Workers Cooperative Colony, a.k.a. 'the Coops,' it was their first taste of the American dream. AT HOME IN UTOPIA bears witness to an epic social experiment, following two generations of residents and their commitment to radical ideas of racial equality and rights for tenants and workers."
PBS, afl-cio now blog

Scott Mutter

"For thirty years, Scott Mutter employed classic photomontage techniques to create a world of his own -- a more perfect world. The hallmark of Mutter's remarkable imagery is the distinct sense that the elements of each picture belong together, even though the combination may violate the laws of physics."
The American Museum of Photography, Wikipedia, Scott Mutter

Kate Bush

Wikipedia - "Kate Bush (born Catherine Bush on 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic lyrics have made her one of England's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years having sold over 20 million records worldwide."
Wikipedia, Kate Bush, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Patti Smith: Veil

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey
"Singer-songwriter Patti Smith has been toying with various media since she was an art student in NYC during the 1960s. There she met her lifelong friend, late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who inspired her to unleash her inner self through different means. For the past three decades, Smith has been well-known and respected in the art world, especially for her photography, drawings and poetry."
Fordham Observer, Robert Miller Gallery, The Art Newspaper, a patti smith website

Camille Pissarro

The Wheelbarrow
Wikipedia - "Camille Pissarro (July 10, 1830 – November 13, 1903) was a French Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but also in his patriarchal standing among his colleagues, particularly Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin."
Wikipedia, Google, Impressionist

Harappa

Gateway At Harappa: Indus Valley Civilization
"This ancient settlement existed from about 3300 BCE and is believed to have had as many as 23,500 residents—considered large for its time. Although the Harappa Culture extended well beyond the bounds of present day Pakistan, its centres were in Sindh and the Punjab."
Wikipedia, Harappa

The Tropics. Views from the Middle of the Globe

"In the minds of Westerners, the term 'tropics' is usually connected to lush vegetation and exotic cultures - a view which is influenced, of course, by the traditional art from the equatorial regions."
Kulturstiftung Dea Bundes, Berliner Festspiele

Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscpes of the Golden Age

Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age
"In the 17th century a new genre of painting—the cityscape—emerged, fostered by the booming economy of the Dutch Republic and its affluent urbanites. Images of towns and cities became expressions of enormous civic pride."
Pride of Place, NYT

Stan Brakhage

Wikipedia - "James Stanley Brakhage (January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003), better known as Stan Brakhage, was an American non-narrative filmmaker who is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th century experimental film."
Wikipedia, Stan Brakhage: A Brief Introduction, senses of cinema, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

In Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now

"In Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and ephemera bring to life over forty years of activism, political protest, and campaigns for social justice."
In Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, Justseeds, flickr