Richard Long


"In contemporary art, consensus is rarer than a decent drawing by Tracey Emin. In the case of Richard Long, however, the critics seem mostly to be agreed: hard to describe their usual response to his work as anything other than a swoon. They stare at his maps, his photographs and his stone circles, and a sense of awe creeps over them. They imagine him - bandana around his head, dried foodstuffs in his rucksack - striding out alone into the wilderness, and they tremble at the sheer manliness of the enterprise."
Guardian, Berkshire Review, Richard Long

Helvetica


"Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which recently celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives."
Helvetica, Wikipedia, YouTube, (1)

Bruce Springsteen the E Street Band


Wikipedia - "Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed 'The Boss', is an American singer-songwriter. He records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock infused with pop hooks, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey."
Wikipedia, W - Born to Run, W - Born in the U.S.A., npr, Backstreets, Bruce Springsteen, MySpace, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), dailymotion, video cure

Cuba Stamp


"We welcome you to our Canadian website offering Cuban stamps MNH Mint Never Hinged from 1929 to 2002. If you don't find what you want send us an e-mail with the catalog number of the Cuban stamp that you are looking for as we have more stamps available that are not in the website as we are updating it on a regular basis."
Cuba Stamp, Google, Glassine Surfer, Postal Museum

Will Ryman


"His portraits of city life emphasize the absurd, abandoning natural proportion in favor of dream-like distortions in which lips and eyes balloon forward, furniture becomes architecture, and limbs stretch in fits of ecstasy or bend into a sedation at the edge of sleep."
Brooklyn Rail, artnet, Art Observed, Saatchi Gallery

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess


"In the early 1920s a rumor circulated through the art worlds of Paris and New York that Marcel Duchamp—the artist best known for Nude Descending a Staircase, the sensation of the Armory Show of 1913—had decided to stop making art in order to devote his life to playing chess."
Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Chess, Re-evaluating the Art & Chess of Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Duchamp: Chess Master, Amazon

Andreas Slominski


Untitled, 1991
"Billed as a retrospective, this exhibition of 20 or so pieces was not the accumulation of all sizes of traps, shaggy dog stories and absurd riddles one might have anticipated from a two-decade round-up of Andreas Slominski’s work."
frieze - Issue 100, Google, artnet, Guardian

Jean Renoir


"Provence is one of the most spectacular regions of France. It's the France of the great Impressionist painters. Monet, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, and (of sidelong interest here) Auguste Renoir captured the luminescent quality of the light there and the brilliance of the colors."
Stage & Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir: The Criterion Collection, YouTube, (1)

Culture


"Culture has long been reggae’s preeminent harmony group. Born in the 70's golden age of reggae, the ever viable Culture has garnered continual US and international acclaim for its long series of classic 'roots' albums."
Fast Lane Intl, Culture, veoh, (1), Google, YouTube

Cassini


"Seen from our planet, the view of Saturn's rings during equinox is extremely foreshortened and limited. But in orbit around Saturn, Cassini had no such problems."
Cassini - NASA, NASA, YouTube

The Roman Empire


"Two thousand years ago, the world was ruled by Rome. From England to Africa and from Syria to Spain, one in every four people on earth lived and died under Roman law. The Roman Empire in the first century AD mixed sophistication with brutality and could suddenly lurch from civilization, strength and power to terror, tyranny and greed."
PBS

Vivian Springford


"Gary Snyder/Project Space will present an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Vivian Springford (1914 – 2003), an abstract expressionist painter best known for her Stained Color Field Paintings."
NY Art Beat, artnet

Ash Ra Tempel


Wikipedia - "Ash Ra Tempel (also known as Ashra) is a German Krautrock group of the 1970s, and are an example of cosmic or space rock."
Wikipedia, Ashra, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

The Church of the SubGenius


Wikipedia - "The Church of the SubGenius is a parody religion that promotes slack, while in a meta-commentarial way, satirizes religion, conspiracy theories, UFOs, and popular culture."
Wikipedia, SubGenius, YouTube, (1), dailymotion, SubGenius Manifesto, Google

Cycling Board Games


"Quite a lot of movement in the cycling board games' world!!!"
Cycling Board Games

George Grosz


The City
Wikipedia - "George Grosz (July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his savagely caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic before he emigrated to the United States in 1933."
Wikipedia, Olga's Gallery

Sally Mann


Wikipedia - "Sally Mann is an American photographer, best known for her large black and white photographs, first of her young children, then of landscapes suggesting decay and death."
Wikipedia, PBS

Peter, Paul and Mary


Wikipedia - "Peter, Paul and Mary (often called PP&M) was a musical group from the United States who were one of the most successful folk-singing groups of the 1960s. The trio was composed of Peter Yarrow, Noel 'Paul' Stookey, and Mary Travers."
Wikipedia, Peter, Paul and Mary, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Mural


Maya Mural Reveals Royal Tale
Wikipedia - "A mural is any piece of artwork painted directly on a wall, ceiling, or other large permanent surface."
Wikipedia, Stanton Macdonald-Wright Mural, Mural Painting

Jackie Robinson


Wikipedia - "Jack Roosevelt 'Jackie' Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was the first African-American Major League Baseball player of the modern era.[2] Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. As the first black man to openly play in the major leagues since the 1880s, he was instrumental in bringing an end to racial segregation in professional baseball, which had relegated African-Americans to the Negro Leagues for six decades."
Wikipedia, Jackie Robinson, TIME, Afro-American, Baseball and Jackie Robinson, Google, YouTube, (1), (2)

graphic concrete


"Our products are based on a special membrane spread over the mould table, allowing precast concrete manufacturers to produce high-quality concrete elements and slabs. Depending on the product, the end result is a concrete surface that is patterned, smooth or completely exposed."
graphic concrete

Money Power Respect


Jim Carroll


Wikipedia - "James Dennis 'Jim' Carroll (August 1, 1950 – September 11, 2009) was an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician."
Wikipedia, Jim Carroll, YouTube, (1), (3 - Jim Carroll live reading), (4), (5 - Jim Carroll (and Charles Bukowski), photobucket, St Lyrics, NYT, Famous Poets and Poems

Ilisha Helfman


"Ilisha Helfman is a Yale trained artist / designer with a special interest in color, digital manipulation and dimensional graphics."
Ilisha Helfman, Sunday Magazine Paper Doll

Quicksilver Messenger Service


Wikipedia - "Quicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band, formed in 1965 in San Francisco and is considered one of the leading acts on the city's psychedelic scene in the mid-to-late 1960s. Essentially a jam band, Quicksilver Messenger Service gained wide popularity in the Bay Area and with psychedelic rock enthusiasts around the globe."
Wikipedia, Quicksilver Messenger Service, YouTube, (1), (2)

Raymond Roussel


Wikipedia - "Raymond Roussel (Paris, January 20, 1877 - Palermo, July 14, 1933) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, and chess enthusiast. Through his novels, poems, and plays he exerted a profound influence on certain groups within 20th century French literature, including the Surrealists, Oulipo, and the authors of the nouveau roman."
Wikipedia, Raymond Roussel Menu, Variant issue15 , Google, ... Inside of ... Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams ..., Atlas Press, NY Press

NAZZA


"My name is NAZZA and I do stencil work technique since 1994 in Argentina." Wooster Collective, flickr

Vanessa Winship


"I had been living and working in the region for almost a decade, and in Turkey itself for more than four years. I was drawn by ideas of borders and belonging. One enduring image that had always struck me wherever I travelled was the schoolgirls in their little blue dresses, the same in every town, city or village."
lens culture, Vanessa Winship, Blogspot

Toronto Rock and Roll Revival


Wikipedia - "The Toronto Rock and Roll Revival was a one day, twelve hour music festival held in Toronto on September 13, 1969, featuring a number of popular musical acts from the 1950s and 1960s. The festival is particularly notable as featuring an appearance by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, as the Plastic Ono Band, which resulted in the release of their Live Peace in Toronto 1969 album."
Wikipedia, Robert Christgau, John Lennon, 1969 - Video, Duke - Video, YouTube

MAPCO


War Map Of The Gallipoli Peninsula 1915
"MAPCO's aim is to provide genealogists, students and historians with free access to high quality scans of rare and beautiful antique maps and views. The site displays a variety of highly collectable 18th and 19th century maps and plans of London and the British Isles, and also 19th century maps and engravings relating to Australia."
MAPCO

Vermeer's Masterpiece, The Milkmaid


The milkmaid
"On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s historic voyage to Manhattan from Amsterdam, that city’s Rijksmuseum will send The Milkmaid, perhaps the most admired painting by Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), to the Metropolitan Museum."
Met Museum

Patrick O'Brian


Wikipedia - "Patrick O'Brian, CBE (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centered on the friendship of English Naval Captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen Maturin."
Wikipedia, W - Aubrey–Maturin series, The Patrick O'Brian Compendium, A Gunroom Guide to Patrick O'Brian Web Resources, Google, (1), The Patrick O'Brian Mapping Project, The Patrick O'Brian Novels, MPR

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer


Frequency and Volume
Wikipedia - "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (born in 1967 in Mexico City) is a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist who works with ideas from architecture, technological theater and performance."
Wikipedia, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Claire Denis


Wikipedia - "Claire Denis (born 21 April 1948) is a French film director. Denis was born in Paris, France, and raised in colonial Africa, where her father was a French official. She moved houses every two years because her father wanted them to know about geography. She used to watch the old damaged copies of war films that America would send when she was growing up in Africa."
Wikipedia, senses of cinema, (1), Daily Plastic

Art Spiegelman, Francoise Mouly


"Raw Magazine functioned as a sporadically published periodical publication (with offshoots in book publishing) between 1980 and 1991, driven by the editorial and personal partnership between Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman. In the early-to-mid-1970's, Mouly was an architecture student at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, but had grown disenchanted with her studies."
Indy Magazine, (1), Wikipedia, W

Mark Jenkins


Mark Jenkins

Kerstin Braetsch


"MY PSYCHIC ATLAS Do you sometimes have a cut in your mouth? Yes. Do you play with it? Yes. Does it hurt? Yes. When it hurts do you still play with it? Yes."
RHM Foundation, Art in America

The Seeds


Wikipedia - "The Seeds is a rock band best known for the hit single 'Pushin' Too Hard', released in 1966. Based in Los Angeles, California, its raw and abrasive energy and simple, repetitive lyrics came to exemplify the garage rock style of the 1960s."
Wikipedia, YouTube, (1), (2)

Lea Redmond


"Lea Redmond’s other creative projects range from socially-engaged conceptual artwork, to projects with youth, to small performances reminiscent of magic tricks. In a nutshell, she loves to make things. Things that inspire. Things that tell stories. Things that spark critical thinking. Things that question. Things that make us wonder. Things that envision and create a new world."
leafcutterdesigns, Lea Redmond

Oh Chi Gyun


"Once in the presence of Oh’s paintings, the viewer inhabits cities, countryside landscapes, houses, roads, imagined and real; those apparently familiar aspects that conform and shape the world in which we live."
Raul Zamudio, artnet

Dead Kennedys


Wikipedia - "The Dead Kennedys were an American punk band, formed in San Francisco, California in 1978. Pioneers of hardcore punk during the 1980s, the band gained a large underground following in the international punk music scene."
Wikipedia, Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Mariana Cook


"Photographer Mariana Cook has received national acclaim for her portraits of mothers and sons, fathers and daughters, and generations of women."
Cook Studio

Black Sox Scandal


Wikipedia - "The Black Sox Scandal refers to an incident that took place around and during the play of the 1919 World Series. The name 'Black Sox' also refers to the Chicago White Sox team from that era. Eight members of the major league franchise were banned for life from baseball for throwing (intentionally losing) games, and essentially giving the series to the Cincinnati Reds."
Wikipedia, W - Shoeless Joe Jackson, Chicago Lawyer Magazine, The Chicago Black Sox Trial, Sources Of Information For The Virtual Hall of Fame, Baseball Almanac, 1919 Black Sox

Propaganda


Konstantin Makovsky - The Bulgarian martyresses
Wikipedia - "Propaganda is communication aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience."
Wikipedia, propaganda, World War II Propaganda, Cartoons, Film, Music, & Art, PROPAGANDA

Zineb Sedira


Beyond the dust
"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. - Rachel Garfield"
Zineb Sedira, frieze, Universes in Universe

Kenneth Anger


Wikipedia - "Kenneth Anger (born February 3, 1927) is an Californian underground avant-garde film-maker and author."
Wikipedia, senses of cinema, Kenneth Anger, YouTube, (1), YouTube - Scorpio Rising (1964), YouTube - Kenneth Anger Interview - On Magick and Film Commentary

Underground comix


Wikipedia - "Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence."
Wikipedia, Cal Poly, Lambiek, Sir Real Comix

Keith Tyson


MC4, 1999
Wikipedia - "Keith Tyson’s work can be characterised as an artistic exploration of some of the basic mysteries of human experience.(b. August 23, 1969) is a British Turner Prize-winning artist. He works in a wide range of media, including painting, drawing and installation, and he is noted equally for his painting series, such as Nature Paintings (2005 - 2008), and his large-scale sculptures and installations such as Large Field Array (2005). Keith Tyson’s work can be characterised as an artistic exploration of some of the basic mysteries of human experience."
Wikipedia, Keith Tyson, Contemporary Art Daily

Mel Bochner


Fool, 2007
Wikipedia - "Mel Bochner (born 1940) is an American conceptual artist."
Wikipedia, artnet, Mel Bochner, Google

Monopoly


Wikipedia - "Monopoly is a board game published by Parker Brothers, a subsidiary of Hasbro. The game is named after the economic concept of monopoly, the domination of a market by a single entity."
Wikipedia