Dan Graham

Wikipedia - "Dan Graham (March 31, 1942, Urbana, Illinois) is a conceptual artist now working out of New York City. He is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner of conceptual art and an art critic and theorist."
Wikipedia, Dan Graham, DIA, Whitney, NYT

House music

Wikipedia - "House is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino, and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City and Detroit. It eventually reached Europe before becoming infused in mainstream pop & dance music worldwide."
Wikipedia, Deep House Page, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

"We choose to go to the moon..."

"Eight years later, on July 20, 1969, two American astronauts landed on the Moon's surface."
JFK Library & Museum, We Choose the Moon, Apollo, YouTune

SimCity

Wikipedia - "SimCity is a city-building simulation game, first released in 1989 and designed by Will Wright. SimCity was Maxis' first product, which has since been ported into various personal computers and game consoles, and spawned several sequels including SimCity 2000 in 1993, SimCity 3000 in 1999, SimCity 4 in 2003, SimCity DS, and SimCity Societies in 2007."
Wikipedia, SimCity

Robert Ryman

Untitled. 1965
"Robert Ryman (born May 30, 1930) is an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. The majority of his works feature abstract expressionist-influenced brushwork in white or off-white paint on square canvas or metal surfaces."
Wikipedia, art21, MoMA, DIA

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Wikipedia - "Anne Teresa, Baroness De Keersmaeker (born 1960 in Mechelen, Belgium, grew up in Wemmel) is one of the most prominent choreographers in contemporary dance. The dance company constructed around here, Rosas, was in residence at La Monnaie in Brussels from 1992 to 2007."
Wikipedia, Independent, Voice of Dance, PARTS, Utopia Parkway, NYT, YouTube

Richard Thompson

Wikipedia - "Richard John Thompson (born 3 April 1949 in Notting Hill, West London) is a British songwriter, guitar player and recording and performing musician."
Wikipedia, Richard Thompson, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8)

Projects 90: Song Dong

"Beijing-based artist Song Dong (b. 1966) explores notions of transience and impermanence with installations that combine aspects of performance, video, photography, and sculpture. Projects 90, his first solo U.S. museum show, presents his recent work Waste Not."
MoMA

Linen Motel Postcards

"My Motel Morgue is a place to view my collection of mostly dead motel postcards. At least a couple of these motels are still alive and even have websites. The images on the postcards themselves, however, are at least fifty years old. The linen postcard was pretty much dead by 1957, although remaining stocks of linen postcards continued to be used in the 1960s."
Linen Motel Postcardsz

Persopolis 2.0

"Since the Revolution in 1979, Iranians have coped with an increasingly repressive regime. Attempts for greater social and political freedoms have resulted in brutal crackdowns by the hardline government. The ensuing apathy and significant boycott of the 2005 presidential elections led to the election of the ultraconservative mayor of Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."
Persepolis 2.0, Wikipedia,

Children of the Atomic Bomb

"A mother fled the flames with her child in her arms" was drawn by Yamada Ikue, who was 12 years old at the time of the blast at Hiroshima.
"Dr. James N. Yamazaki, at the age of 33 in 1949, was the lead physician of the U.S. Atomic Bomb Medical Team assigned to Nagasaki to survey the effects of the bomb. This bomb was a deliberate act of destruction that destroyed human bodies, brains, and genes for generations."
Children of the Atomic Bomb

Siouxsie & the Banshees

Wikipedia - "Siouxsie & the Banshees were a British rock band formed in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bassist Steven Severin, the only constant members."
Wikipedia, Siouxsie & the Banshees, last.fm, My Space, mital-u, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Hermann Glöckner

Profil vor Dächern
"Hermann Glöckner (1889 – 1987) is one of the most significant – although not of the prominent – artists who lived in the German Democratic Republic (former East Germany) and have created lasting works of art in terms of art history."
IFA

Pages of Gold: Medieval Illuminations

"This exhibition comprises nearly sixty lavish single leaves, dating from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. Pierpont Morgan, the preeminent collector of complete medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, also acquired single pages as did many collectors who developed an appreciation for these orphaned leaves during the nineteenth century."
The Morgan

two twelve

"My goal is to bring art to the streets. All pieces are painted using hand cut stencils and spray paint, no silk screening or mass production. Quality over quantity."
two twelve

Clay Ketter

In My Mind in Venice, 2006
"Ketter, who has lived in Sweden for over 20 years, is renowned for creating art works through the investigation of construction techniques. His work on the surface has a beautifully minimalist aesthetic, but the real interest lies beneath the layers in a 'truth to materials' approach and the perfection of the process."
Cool Hunting, artnet, Art Daily

Soldier’s Mail

"Letters Home from a New England Soldier 1916-1919. Under Bombardment, 7/10-16/1918. ... In rain and fog at midnight on July 14, the entire 26th Division front was again heavily shelled with a combination of high explosive and gas, including 1500 rounds falling on the 103rd Infantry positions in the woods near La Voie du Chatel."
Soldier’s Mail

Procol Harum

Wikipedia - "Procol Harum are a British rock band, formed in the 1960s, who contributed to the development of progressive rock, and by extension, symphonic rock. Their best-known recording is their 1967 single 'A Whiter Shade of Pale.'"
Wikipedia, Google, last.fm, metrolyrics, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), videos

José Guadalupe Posada

Wikipedia - "José Guadalupe Posada ... (2 February 1852 – 20 January 1913) was a Mexican engraver, illustrator and artist whose work has influenced many Latin American artists and cartoonists due to its satirical acuteness and political engagement."
Wikipedia, Carnaval, My Mexico

John Dowland

Wikipedia - "John Dowland (1563 – buried 20 February 1626) was an English composer, singer, and lutenist. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as 'Come, heavy sleep" (the basis for Benjamin Britten's Nocturnal), 'Come again', "Flow my tears', 'I saw my Lady weepe' and 'In darkness let me dwell', but his instrumental music has undergone a major revival, and has been a source of repertoire for classical guitarists during the twentieth century."
Wikipedia, Naxos, Youtube, (1)

In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976

"This exhibition examines approximately seventy-five works by artists of different nationalities relating to travel and the city of Amsterdam, which was the nexus of intense art activities in the 1960s and 1970s, when artists converged there from all over the world. Hanne Darboven, Gilbert & George, Sol LeWitt, Charlotte Posenenske, Allen Ruppersberg, and Lawrence Weiner, among others, spent considerable amounts of time in Amsterdam and often produced works in direct relation to the city."
MoMA

Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture

A Young Couple (Bacchus and Ariadne)
"Led by Tullio Lombardo (c. 1455–1532), the great Venetian sculptors of the High Renaissance created new ideals of beauty, shaped by a poetic and nostalgic approach to classical antiquity."
NGA

The Hidden History of Tango

"For the first century of its history, while Tango music struggled for and then achieved respectability, the dance was neglected by historians and academics. The articles on these pages are based on many years of research in areas sometimes not covered by the official histories of Tango. The aim is to get to the heart of the Tango from a dancer's perspective, but not forgetting the rich history of the music."
The Hidden History of Tango

Tour de France

Wikipedia - "The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race that covers more than 3,500 kilometres (2,200 mi) throughout France and bordering countries. The race usually lasts 23 days and attracts cyclists from around the world."
Wikipedia, Tour de France - Guardian, VS, Steephill, Tour de France 2009, Bicycling, Tour de France history - BBC, Pitchfofk - Tour de France Soundtracks, YouTube - 1, (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12)

Leaves of Ash, Paris

"Inspired by the poet Walt Whitman, Michael Nevin and Julia Dippelhofer set out to gather the work of artists that are contributors to the journal, and their friends and neighbors in Brooklyn. The fragmented natural world, portrayed by the six artists that make up this show, is both a reflection and a fabrication, a witty questioning of their surroundings as well as an observant documentation of them."
Fake-RealAX, Suzanne Tarasieve

Jacques Villeglé

Wikipedia - "Jacques Villeglé, born Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé (1926, Quimper, Brittany) is a French mixed-media artist and affichiste famous for his alphabet with symbolic letters and decollage with ripped or lacerated posters."
Wikipedia, Modernism, artnet, global moxie

Pina Bausch, 1940-2009

"Pina Bausch, the German choreographer who combined potent drama and dreamlike movement to create a powerful form of dance theater that influenced generations of dancemakers, died on Tuesday in Wuppertal, Germany. She was 68."
NYT, A Stage for Social Ego to Battle Anguished Id - NYT, Pina Bausch - NYT, Wikipedia, Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts, Ballet Magazine, npr, Pina Bausch: A Worldly Choreographer - NYT, Pornography of pain: Dancer Pina Bausch's turbulent career - The Independent, Video, UBU, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10)

Sophie Calle

“Prenez soin de vous”, 2007. Installation view.
"It’s often presumed that privacy is a myth in our technologically enmeshed world. Yet it’s a testament to the reverse that artist Sophie Calle, after more than 25 years of stealing strangers’ phone books (L’Homme au carnet), photographing hotel visitors’ underwear (L’Hôtel) and stalking strange men through Europe (Suite vénitienne), still manages to find uncomfortable aspects of the private—often in her own life—and expose them through art in unique and provocative ways."
Canadian Art, Wikipedia, Issue 5: Venice Special (Tate), Guardian, YouTube, Google

French New Wave

The 400 Blows
Wikipedia - "The New Wave (French: La Nouvelle Vague) was a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s, influenced (in part) by Italian Neorealism[3] and classical Hollywood cinema."
Wikipedia, Moving Image Source, fictionwise

Home on the Hudson: Women and Men Painting Landscapes, 1825-1875

Hudson Valley at Croton Point, 1869. Julie Hart Beers
"SHAKESPEARE is not the only attraction at Boscobel this summer. On the lower level of the historic Boscobel House, an elegant example of Federal architecture completed in 1808, is a small exhibition gallery that opened last year."
NYT, Home Hudson (PDF)

Andy Denzler

"Figures referenced from mass media, photography, cinema and other areas of popular culture, are removed from their original contexts and placed into ambiguous spaces."
Andy Denzler, artnet, re-title

Hazel & Alice

"Protest and folksinger Hazel Dickens grew up the eighth of 11 children in a large, poor mining family in West Virginia, and she has since used elements of country and bluegrass to spread truth about two causes close to her heart: the plight of non-unionized mineworkers and feminism, born not of the '60s movement but traditional values."
eMusic, Rhapsody, MySpace, last.fm

'I got a new head, and I'm fine'

"The bikes ... the robots ... the dream of man and machine in perfect harmony. How is the Kraftwerk vision of the future shaping up? Ralf Hütter gives a rare interview to John Harris."
Guardian, Paul Morley's showing off... Kraftwerk

RE/Search Publications

Wikipedia - "RE/Search Publications is a United States magazine and book publisher, based in San Francisco, founded and edited by V. Vale in 1980."
Wikipedia, RE/Search

Peter and Gordon

Wikipedia - "Peter and Gordon were a British Invasion-era performing duo, formed by Peter Asher and Gordon Waller, that rocketed to fame in 1964 with 'A World Without Love' and had several subsequent hits in that era."
Wikipedia, Classic Bands, AOL, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Martayan Lan

Paris, 1627. Carte de l'Amerique.
"Whether you are starting a new collection or further developing an existing one, we are always happy to offer you the benefit of our experience. We would like to encourage you to contact us with any questions you might have."
Martayan Lan

Vasily Kamensky

"Tango with Cows takes its title from a book and poem by the Russian avant-garde poet Vasily Kamensky. The absurd image of farm animals dancing the tango evokes the clash in Russia between a primarily rural culture and a growing urban life."
The Getty, PENNSOUND, Wikipedia

Keith Coventry

Afternoon Brass
"His abstract and narrative paintings contrast a powerful surface allure with the derelict, the degraded, the decay and decline of their subject matter."
Saatchi, artnet, frieze

Bird Songs

"Songs and calls of some New York State birds.'Speak, cry, warble, call, speak each one according to your variety, each, according to your kind.' Popol Vuh I."
SUNY

Burning Spear

Wikipedia - "Burning Spear is one of the strongest proponents of Marcus Garvey's self-determination and self-reliance for all African descendants, thus leading to several album releases in commemoration of the Jamaican activist."
Wikipedia, Burning Spear, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), veoh

Gerhard Richter

4,096 Colors, 1974
Wikipedia - "Richter has stated that the use of photographic imagery as a starting point for his early paintings resulted from an attempt to escape the complicated process of deciding what to paint, along with the critical and theoretical implications accompanying such decisions within the context of a modernist discourse."
Wikipedia, Gerhard Richter, YouTube

“Portugal Is Not a Small Country”

"Yet Portugal is loath to think of itself as a small country. Or at least it was, before its overseas empire collapsed. Built up over centuries of exploration, trade and colonisation, the Portuguese Empire once spanned four continents. The jewel in its crown was Brazil, but Portugal lost control over its South American colony in 1822."
Strange Maps

Napoleon III and Paris

"This dossier photography exhibition will focus on the changing shape of Paris during the Second Empire, when the city’s narrow streets and medieval buildings gave way to the broad boulevards and grand public works that still define the urban landscape of the French capital."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYT

John Wood

"John Wood (born 1922) has consistently challenged traditional photography, often incorporating painting, drawing, and collage as well as cliché verre, solarization, and offset lithography."
John Wood, artdaily

Robert Altman

Wikipedia - "Robert Bernard Altman (20 February 1925 – 20 November 2006) was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective."
Wikipedia, IMDb, Robert Altman Photography, senses of cinema, NYT

Pam Glew

"Pam Glew, born in 1978, is a contemporary British artist who uses unique bleaching techniques with vintage fabrics and flags to create her strong cinematic paintings."
Pam Glew, flickr

The Easybeats

Wikipedia - "The Easybeats were a rock and roll band from Australia. They formed in Sydney in late 1964 and split at the end of 1969. They are widely regarded as the greatest Australian pop band of the 1960s and were the first Australian rock and roll act to score an international pop hit with their classic 1966 single 'Friday on My Mind'."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2),

Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada

Wikipedia - "Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada is a Cuban-American contemporary artist. He was born in Cuba and grew up in the United States. He became a founding member of the culture jamming movement in New York City in the early 1990s, first with the group Artfux and later with the group Cicada Corps of Artists."
Wikipedia, Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, NY ARTS, Wooster Collective

Lucas Samaras

Self Portrait, 1973
"Over the years, Samaras has created drawings, furniture, jewelry, paintings, photographs, sculpture and room-sized installation using a variety of material including beads, chicken wire, clay, Cor-ten steel, fabric, mirrors, pastel, pencil, pins, plaster and oil."
Pace Wildenstein, The Getty, Lucas Samaras Interview

Flower Mound Observatory

"During the course of developing the skills needed to be a good astro-photographer sometimes it becomes necessary to take the law into your own hands and build what you need. Not everything out there is tailor made these days to fit your exact application."
Flower Mound Observatory