Stones: Larry Rivers and Frank O’Hara

"For the book Stones, Rivers and O'Hara jumped in with an enthusiasm and lack of experience that gave them freedom to experiment. Together they created an intimate dialogue, starting each print with individual titles and then responding to each other's imagery and words."
MoMA, TATE, Buffalo

Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback

Wikipedia - "Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback is a 2006 film directed by Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios about the seminal German-American beat band The Monks." (Erik B.)
Wikipedia, amazon, Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback, The Monks, YouTube - Monk Anthology, YouTube - trailer, The Monks on Chic-A-Go-Go, Oh, How to Do Now, Shut Up, Drunken Maria, I hate you, Boys are boys and girls are girls

Obscure No. 5 - Jan Steele / John Cage

"Brian Eno's Obscure Records label released only 10 albums during its existence from 1975 through 1978. Some of these have been reissued on CD (among them Eno's own 1975 masterpiece Discreet Music), but for some reason the album Voices and Instruments (Obscure No. 5, 1976) only exists on out-of-print vinyl. It is a very quiet and beautiful record, featuring three compositions by Jan Steele on one side, and five compositions by John Cage on the other side."
UbuWeb

The Beatles - The German Songs

"On 29 January 1964 in a Paris recording studio, the Beatles recorded two of their hit songs in German. The instrumental music tracks were the original ones used for the English recordings, but the German lyrics had been hurriedly written by a Luxembourger named Camillo Felgen (Camille Jean Nicolas Felgen, 1920-2005)."
About, German Beatles Sing, YouTube - Sie liebt dich, Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand, Geht raus (Jan 1969), The Beatles In Germany 1960-1962 (The Early Years)

Henry Cow Concerts - 1976

Wikipedia - "Henry Cow Concerts is a live double album by English avant-rock group Henry Cow, recorded at concerts in London, Italy, the Netherlands and Norway between September 1974 and October 1975. Sides one and two of the LP record consist of composed material while sides three and four contain improvised pieces."
Wikipedia, YouTube - Henry Cow - Terrible as an army with banners, Beautiful as the Moon, No More Songs

Op-Ed at 40, A Brief History of the Art

Barbara Kruger
"Yesterday’s New York Times celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the op-ed section. Part of the commemoration is a video dedicated to the influential illustrations of the op-ed section."
Columbia University, NY Times - Op-Ed at 40, A Brief History of the Art

Blue Note Records

Wikipedia - "Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic 'blue notes' of jazz and the blues."
Wikipedia, Blue Note Records, amazon

Sampling

Damian Marley & Nas collaborating & sampling african music
Wikipedia - "In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song. The wide spread use of sampling in popular music originated with the birth of hip hop music in New York in the 1970s. This is typically done with a sampler, which can be a piece of hardware or a computer program. Sampling is also possible with tape loops or with vinyl records on a phonograph."
Wikipedia, YouTube - The Art Of Sampling Pt.1, 9TH WONDER INTERVIEW: The Art of Sampling, Sampling Weapons of Choice, The Art Of Sampling 1, The Art Of Sampling 2, etc.

May 1968 in France

Wikipedia - "The May 1968 protest refers to a particular period in French history. During this time, the country saw the largest general strike that resulted in the economy coming to a virtual standstill, the first of its kind for an advanced industrial country. It was also the first wildcat general strike in history and involved a series of student occupation protests. The strike involved eleven million workers for a continuous two weeks, and its impact was such that it almost caused the collapse of President Charles de Gaulle's government."
Wikipedia

The Trip (1967)

Wikipedia - "The Trip (1967) is a low-budget cult film released by American International Pictures, directed by Roger Corman, and shot on location in and around Los Angeles, including on top of Kirkwood in Laurel Canyon, Hollywood Hills, and near Big Sur, California in 1966. Peter Fonda stars as a young television commercial director, Paul Groves."
Wikipedia, YouTube - The Trip, Dennis Hopper & Peter Fonda, The Electric Flag - M-23 (The Trip Soundtrack)

Brian Eno, H.Budd: The Plateaux of Mirror

"Music by Brian Eno, H.Budd Album:The Plateaux of Mirror. First Light. This video takes the point of view of a fly flying in cigarette smoke."
YouTube - First Light, Wind in lonely fences, Above Chiangmai, Steal away, Not yet remembered, An arc of doves

Long barrow

Wikipedia - "A long barrow is a prehistoric monument dating to the early Neolithic period. They are rectangular or trapezoidal tumuli or earth mounds traditionally interpreted as collective tombs. Long barrows are also typical for several Celtic, Slavic, and Baltic cultures of Northern Europe of the 1st millennium AD."
Wikipedia

Count Five

Wikipedia - "The Count Five was a 1960s garage rock band from San Jose, California, best known for their Top 10 single 'Psychotic Reaction'."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube - Psychotic Reaction (live appearance - 1966), Double Decker Bus, Peace Of Mind

Pina Bausch - "Cafe Muller":

"Director and choreographer Pina Bausch (July 27, 1940 - June 30, 2009) 'Cafe Muller' (1978, TV version 1985) Cast: Pina Bausch, Malou Airaudo, Domenique Mercy, Jan Minarik, Nazareth Panadero, Jean Laurent Sasportes. Musiс by Henry Purcell / 'The Fairy Queen' and 'Dido and Aeneas'" BAM, 1984
YouTube - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Chapbook

Wikipedia - "Chapbook is a generic term to cover a particular genre of pocket-sized booklet, popular from the sixteenth through to the later part of the 19th century. No exact definition can be applied. The term chap-book was formalized by bibliophiles of the 19th century, as a variety of ephemera (disposable printed material), popular or folk literature. It includes many kinds of printed material such as pamphlets, political and religious tracts, nursery rhymes, poetry, folk tales, children's literature and almanacs."
Wikipedia, Viddler - Anne Waldman Saves the Chapbook, YouTube - What Is A Chapbook?

ZE Records

Wikipedia - "ZE Records (originally always written with two capital letters) was a New York-based record label, started in 1978 by Michael Zilkha and Michel Esteban."
Wikipedia, ZE Records

Sun & Moon

"The collection documents the publishing history of the press throughout most of its 28 years of operation and maps the literary careers and, in some cases, the personal lives of numerous American and international literary figures and artists. The bulk of the materials documents Sun & Moon's publishing activities from 1991-2002."
OAC, The Register of Sun and Moon Press Archive, 1976 - 2002, The Argotist Online, YouTube - Douglas Messerli by Charles Bernstein, amazon, Green Integer

Black Orpheus

Wikipedia - "Black Orpheus (Portuguese: Orfeu Negro) is a 1959 film made in Brazil by French director Marcel Camus. It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, which is an adaptation of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, setting it in the modern context of a favela in Rio de Janeiro during the Carnaval. The film was an international co-production between production companies in Brazil, France and Italy."
Wikipedia, Criterion, YouTube

Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance & the Camera

"Exposed offers a fascinating look at pictures made on the sly, without the explicit permission of the people depicted. With photographs from the late nineteenth century to present day, the pictures present a shocking, illuminating and witty perspective on iconic and taboo subjects."
Tate, Guardian - Prying eye: Tate Modern's Exposed uncovers the art of secret photography, Voyeuristic Exhibitions

Horses ~ Patti Smith Group

Live 1976. Stockholm.
YouTube

Field Hollers, Work song

Wikipedia - "Field Hollers as well as work songs were African American styles of music from before the American Civil War, this style of music is closely related to spirituals in the sense that it expressed religious feelings and included subtle hints about ways of escaping slavery, among other things. Slaves in New Orleans had a field area called Congo Square in which they were allowed time on Sundays to dance and sing more freely than they could on the plantations."
Wikipedia, W - Work song, Slave Work Songs, YouTube - Work Songs in a Texas Prison, Gandy Dancers, Poor Boy - Lomax Prison Recording, Negro Prison & Blues Songs Black Woman

Poetry by Pablo Neruda - Poema 20

Poetry by Pablo Neruda - Poema 20

Delaney & Bonnie & Friends

Wikipedia - "Delaney & Bonnie – later called Delaney & Bonnie & Friends – was a rock/soul revue fronted by husband-and-wife singer/songwriters Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube - Comin' Home, Delaney and Bonnie with Eric Clapton 1969, Getting To Know You So Well, Poor Elijah, I Don't Want To Discuss It, When The Battle Is Over

Peter Hutchinson

"Peter Hutchinson, born in England in 1930, has been living and working in Provincetown, Massachusetts, since 1953. As one of the pioneers of Land Art, he is represented in such renowned collections as the Musée d’Art Moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basle, the National Gallery of Art, Washington and the Museum of Modern Art in New York."
Peter Hutchinson, Movie, artnet, amazon

Hot Hot Hot

Wikipedia - "'Hot Hot Hot' is a song by Montserrat musician Arrow featured on his 1982 studio album Hot Hot Hot. Written by Arrow himself, the song became an instant dance floor hit and was later covered by artists around the world, most notably in 1987 by American singer David Johansen under the name Buster Poindexter."
Wikipedia, Repeating Islands, YouTube - Hot Hot Hot, Buster Poindexter - Hot Hot Hot

Arena - Robert Mapplethorpe (1988)

"Profile of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, one of the most controversial of American photographers, which accompanied an exhibition of his work at the National Portrait Gallery in the year before he died. Contains interview with Mapplethorpe himself, along with critic and author Edmund White, and with several of Mapplethorpe's subjects."
UbuWeb

Soft Cell

Wikipedia - "Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They consist of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball. The duo is most widely known for their 1981 worldwide hit version of 'Tainted Love'."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube - Tainted Love, Top 100 One Hit Wonders of the 80s

Mulholland Drive

Wikipedia - "Mulholland Drive is a 2001 American neo-noir psychological thriller written and directed by David Lynch, starring Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, and Justin Theroux. The surrealist film was highly acclaimed by many critics and earned Lynch the Prix de la mise en scène (Best Director Award) at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival as well as an Oscar nomination for Best Director."
Wikipedia, Film Comment, September/October 2001, YouTube

Greater New York

"Greater New York, the third iteration of the quinquennial exhibition organized by MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art, showcasing some 68 artists and collectives living and working in the metropolitan New York area, will open at MoMA PS1 on May 23 and run through October 18, 2010. The 2010 exhibition will not only present recent work made within the past five years, but also will foster a productive workshop where artists are invited to experiment with new ideas within MoMA PS1’s building for the duration of the exhibition."
PS1, MoMA, (1), WNYC, Village Voice, DLK Collection, YouTube - Greater New York 2010 at MoMA PS1, YouTube - Greater New York at PS1 RUSHES, YouTube - Greater New York at P.S.1 Part I, Part II

Jimi Hendrix

Wikipedia - "James Marshall 'Jimi' Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix, November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is often considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in the history of rock music by other musicians and commentators in the industry, and one of the most important and influential musicians of his era across a range of genres." Sept 18, 40th anniversary.
Wikipedia, Jimi Hendrix, last.fm, YouTube - Purple Haze, All Along The Watch Tower, Voodoo Chile, Hey Joe, The Wind Cries Mary, Little Wing, Killing Floor, Foxy Lady, Fire, Spanish Castle Magic, Red House, Rock me baby, Band of Gypsys

Fresh Stuff From BR1 in Berlin

"More from BR1 here."
Wooster Collective, flickr

Mississippi Fred McDowell

Wikipedia - "Fred McDowell (January 12, 1904 - July 3, 1972) known by his stage name; Mississippi Fred McDowell, was a blues singer and guitar player in the North Mississippi style."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube - Goin Down to the River, Shake Em On Down, John Henry, Spike Driver Blues, You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley, Blues Maker, 1969 - Part 1, Part 2, When I Lay My Burden Down

Cyberpunk

Shibuya crossing
Wikipedia - "Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on 'high tech and low life'. The name is a blend of cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story 'Cyberpunk', published in 1983. It features advanced science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order. Cyberpunk works are well situated within postmodern literature."
Wikipedia, The Cyberpunk Project, Cyberpunk Review, Mirrorshades

The Music Machine

Wikipedia - "The Music Machine (1965–1969) was an American garage rock and psychedelic (sometimes referred to as garage punk) band from the late 1960s, headed by singer-songwriter Sean Bonniwell and based in Los Angeles. The band sound was often defined by fuzzy guitars and a Farfisa organ. Their original look consisted of all-black clothing, (dyed) black moptop hairstyles and a single black glove."
Wikipedia, YouTube - Talk Talk, Trouble, Masculine Intuition

Eclipse

"Eclipse is a free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of the most radical small-press writing from the last quarter century. Eclipse also publishes carefully selected new works of book-length conceptual unity."
Eclipse, Tottel's Magazine, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine, THIS Magazine, Space - Clark Coolidge, Men In Aida - David Melnick, Silliman's Blog

The Long Take: Lucy Raven, Thom Andersen

Lucy Raven, China Town
"How do you show what’s not there anymore—or what’s not there yet? Answers run throughout the work of both Lucy Raven and Thom Andersen, who trace processes and places that are gone, hidden, or changing so rapidly that we can hardly keep pace."
ARTFORUM

Ephemeral New York

Union Square
"Union Square has been around since 1839, when it opened with a large central fountain, according to the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation. But when Union Square was ripped up during subway construction in the 1920s, the fountain went with it. This postmarked, stamped 1910, doesn’t indicate what we’re looking at, but I think it’s Union Square West."
Ephemeral New York

The Directors: Martin Scorsese (2000)

"The American Film Institute's Directors: Martin Scorsese profiles the great director and offers insight into Scorsese's working methods, philosophies, and intentions. ... ~ Betsy Boyd, All Movie Guide"
NYT, amazon, YouTube - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Risk

Wikipedia - "Risk is a strategic board game, produced by Parker Brothers (now a division of Hasbro). It was invented by French film director Albert Lamorisse and originally released in 1957, as La Conquête du Monde ('The Conquest of the World'), in France. Risk is a turn-based game for two to six players. The standard version is played on a board depicting a political map of the Earth, divided into forty-two territories, which are grouped into six continents. Players attempt to capture territories from other players by rolling higher die numbers. The game is won when one player has managed to occupy every territory."
Wikipedia, Risk, Total Diplomacy, YouTube

Christo and Jeanne-Claude - The Gates

"Drawing 2002, in two parts. 38 X 244 cm. and 106,6 X 244 cm. (15" X 96" and 42" X 96"). Pencil, charcoal, pastel, wax crayon, aerial photograph, fabric sample and hand-drawn technical data."
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, amazon, YouTube - The Gates, YouTube - The artists behind The Gates Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936

"Following the chaos of World War I, a move emerged towards figuration, clean lines, and modeled form, and away from the two-dimensional abstracted spaces, fragmented compositions, and splintered bodies of the avant-gardes—particularly Cubism, Futurism, and Expressionism—that dominated the opening years of the 20th century."
Guggenheim, amazon, New York TimeOut

When Herzog Rescued Phoenix

"Remember back in 2006 when Werner Herzog heroically rescued Joaquin Phoenix from a wrecked car?"
Coilhouse, Report: Affleck admits Joaquin Phoenix doc a fake

Amrita Sher-Gil

Three Girls, 1935
Wikipedia - "Amrita Sher-Gil ... (January 30, 1913, – December 5, 1941), was an eminent Indian painter, sometimes known as India's Frida Kahlo, and today considered an important women painter of 20th century India, whose legacy stands at par with that of the Masters of Bengal Renaissance; she is also the 'most expensive' woman painter of India."
Wikipedia, Tate, Kamat, Guardian, YouTube

K. Leimer

"The music of Lesser Epitomes is derived from the aleatoric reordering of discreet, compatible components in relationships that emulate typical theme and variation. The end results were reprocessed into deliberately modified versions or left as is. The three principal pieces are indexed for random shuffle during replay — and reordering is recommended."
palace of lights, Melliflua, cdbaby. emusic

An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry

"The one Irish poet people used to know was Yeats. More recently it has been Seamus Heaney. And yet 'the standing army of Irish poets never falls below 20,000,' proclaimed Patrick Kavanagh, who was one of them. An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry, running to almost a thousand pages, comes from a country with a population roughly equal to that of Tennessee. The book includes upwards of 50 poets— and there's not a dull page in it. Editor Wes Davis's selection is judicious, while his introduction and notes are as informative as they are brief."
WSJ, Eyewear, Wooing the clay, amazon

Rufus Thomas

Wikipedia - "Rufus Thomas, Jr. (March 27, 1917 – December 15, 2001) was an American rhythm and blues, funk and soul singer and comedian from Memphis, Tennessee, who recorded on Sun Records in the 1950s and on Stax Records in the 1960s and 1970s."
Wikipedia, YouTube - Walking the Dog, Jump Back, Do the funky penguin, The Memphis Train, All Night Worker

BBC - 2010 Astronomy Photographer of the Year

"From back-garden enthusiasts to professional photographers - the Royal Observatory in Greenwich received hundreds of entries for its 2010 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition."
BBC

The Clash - Rudie can’t fail

"Okay, I went to the market to realise my soul
Cos what I need I just don’t have, oh no
First they cursed then they pressed me ‘till I hurt
They say Rudie can’t fail"
YouTube - Rudie can’t fail, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros

AVC: Art & Literature Gallery

"As a community that presented itself to the known world over two thousand years ago, may we always continue to keep our Macedonian heritage strong by promoting our history, our traditions and our Democratic spirit throughout the world. We owe it to Eordea our Beloved and Sacred Mother Earth, Aristotle the Philosopher of Macedonia, Alexander the Invincible of Pella, Ptolemy I Soter of Eordea, his descendent Cleopatra VII Pharaoh of Alexandria, and all our great Macedonian ancestors for bestowing on to us, such a priceless inheritance."
AVC Media

Charles Olson: The Art of Poetry No. 12

"INTERVIEWER: Do you enjoy telling young poets what they ought to do? OLSON: Oh, Jesus, God, if I ever did, may the Lord of the whole of the seven saints of India and China Buddhaland, Gangestown, and all takers this side of where the Tartars went—may they forgive me because like I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen. I mean, wow, I’ve been very lucky, very lucky. I’m sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head."
The Paris Review

2009, January. Wikipedia, EPC, Modern American Poetry, The Charles Olson Research Collection, Other Poets, YouTube, Polis Is This
2010, September. Literary History, amazon, Townsend Humanities Lab, OlsonNow, Smithsonian Institution - Charles Olson Reads from Maximus Poems IV, V, VI, Google - Selected Poems, Google - The collected poems of Charles Olson: excluding the Maximus poems, Google - Collected prose, RealityStudio - A Trip to Charles Olson’s Gloucester, PEPC LIBRARY: Robin Blaser. The Violets: Charles Olson and Alfred North Whitehead