Jason de Caires Taylor

"Creator of the world's first underwater sculplture park, Jason de Caires Taylor has gained intrenation for his unique work. His sculptures highlight ecological processes whilst exploring the intricate relationships between modern art and environment."
Jason de Caires Taylor

Women In Art

Philip Scott Johnson. "500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art".
YouTube, eggman913.

The Psychedelic '60s

Jimi Hendrix Experience. Axis: Bold as Love. Polydor, 1967.

University of Virginia Library - "Over thirty years later, we who came of age during the turbulent decade of the sixties are dismayed to realize that, to the young adults of today, those years are now ancient history."
Literary Tradition and Social Change

Santa's Ghetto

Banksy

"Santa's Ghetto is probably the world's most low-concept art event. Every year we assemble a loose collection of the great unwashed to hawk their artistic wares on high steet amongst the mindless sham and drudgery of the christmas season."
Bethlehem 2007

Terry Riley

"California Composer Terry Riley launched what is now known as the Minimalist movement with his revolutionary classic In C in 1964. This seminal work provided a new concept in musical form based on interlocking repetitive patterns."
Terry Riley

20th International Snow Sculpture Art Expo

Sun-Sentinel - "'Romantic Feelings', measuring approximately 115 feet high and 656 feet long, is designed to be the world's largest snow sculpture." Harbin of Heilongiiang Province, China.
Snow sculpture expo

Andre Joosse

"My name is Andre Joosse, born in 1975 in my hometown Goes. I work in the Eyehospital in Zierikzee and I'm also active as a part-time firefighter. As a child I always had the interest for industrial photography. Ever since my first visit to an abandoned shipyard near my home the adrenaline rush didn't stop."
UrbEXnl

Alison Garnett

FILE: A COLLECTION OF UNEXPECTED PHOTOGRAPHY - "Match Maker is a selection of matched images - mostly pairs - by art director and photographer Alison Garnett."
Alison Garnett

Gerard de Nerval

GREEN INTEGER, Monique DiDonna - "Gerard de Nerval's greatest subject was himself. Throughout his tempestuous life that ended with suicide by hanging, this French Romantic poet journeyed to distant parts of the globe in order to comprehend and articulate the demons that assailed his inner-most being." May 22, 1808 - January 26, 1855.
Gerard de Nerval, Wikipedia, Answers.com, The Lied and Art Song Texts Page, BookFinder.com, Access My Library, The Chimeras, Translated by Mark Lamoureux, Les Chimeres, The New Criterion, Translated by Daniel Mark Epstein (1), Issue No. 19 of the Marlboro Review - Diane Furtney, Penguin Classics, Hieronymo's Mad Againe: On Translating Nerval by Richard Sieburth, Quotations, Find A Grave, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, GREEN INTEGER.

John Paskievich

GEIST: IDEAS & CULTURE, Stephen Osborne. "Invisible City - John Paskievich has been photographing the North End of Winnipeg for more than thirty years, and the body of work that he had built up in that time is a revelation of the particularity of people and place."
John Paskivich

Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet, The Peasants of Flagey

Musee a'Orsay - "After the fall of the Second Empire, Courbet was elected President of the Federation of Artists. Courbet stayed in Paris while it was besieged by the Prussian armies, and when many were fleeing the capital."
Courbet Dossier

The Mercator Atlas of Europe

Portugal
British Library - "This atlas was put together in the early 1570s by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator, perhaps the best-known mapmaker of all time, to help with planning the grand tour of Europe of his patron's son, the crown prince of Cleves."
British Library

Astronomy Picture of the Day

The Fairy of Eagle Nebula
"Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer."
Astronomy Picture of the Day

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

Chinese Posters

Stefan Lanfsberger - "Through all of its long history, the Chinese political used the arts to propagate correct behaviour and thought. Literature, poetry, painting, stage plays, songs and other artistic expressions were produced to entertain, but they also were given an important didactoc function: they had to educate the people in what was considered right and wrong at any time."
Chinese Posters

Tom Verlaine

Wikiperia - "Tom Verlaine dated poet and musician Patti Smith when they were both up-and-coming artists in the burgeoning New Yory punk scene. Television released two albums, Marquee Moon and Adverture, to great critical acclaim and modest sales before breaking up in 1978. Verlaine soon released a self-titled solo album that began a fruitful 1980s solo career."
Wikiperia, The Wonder, BC Music, Just The Facts, NPR Music, NPR Music - 1, KCRW

The Chicago Project

David Moenkhaus

"Catherine Edelman Gallery is proud The Chicago Project, an online gallery devoted to new and established photographers in the Chicago area who we feel deserve recognition. We hope this site will expose local talent to a wider audience and plan on adding photographers as we find them."
The Chicago Project

Maggini Quartet

"Formed in 1988, The Maggini Quartet is one of the finest contemporary British string quartets. Renowned for their championship of British repretoire, the Maggini's acclaimed and ongoing contribution to Naxos' British Music Series has seen the Quartet's explore the music of Britten, Walton, Davies, Elgar, and Ireland."
Maggini Quartet

Leaves of Gold

St. Augustine's The City of God: The Building and Destruction of Troy
Philadelphia Museum of Art - "The Gallery: Illuminated manuscripts are hand-produced books that include drawn, painted, and gilded decoration on pages made of vellum, a specially prepared and polished animal skin."
Leaves of Gold

Nancy Rexroth

Library Hats (The House Series), 2002
Weinstein Gallery - "Nancy Rexroth is perhaps best known for her use of the Diana camera. Her photograph made with this cheap toy camera were made famous with the publication of Iowa (1977)." Artists + Nancy Rexroth...
Nancy Rexroth

John Ashbery

Melena Ryzik - "Its hallmarks included notes of surrealism, sarcasm and irony-essential qualities for urban life. He also spent several years living in Europe, principally Paris."
NYT, mtvU, PENNSOUND

Impressionism: Art and Modernity

Dancers in the Rehearsal Room with a Double Bass, 1882-85. Edgar Degas

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - "The group was unified only by its independence from the official annual Salon, for which a jury of artsts from the Academie des Beaux-Arts selected artworks medals. The independent artists, despite their diverse approaches to painting, appeared to contemporaries as a group."
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Block Prints of the Chinese Revolution

Princeton University Library - "The ephemeral collection of very rare 30 block fall into several categories: some are color prints with a minimum of text, others and black and white illustated sheets, some of which inlude current news, while others have a more general content."
Princeton University

Gustave Dore

Plate 20: I watched the water-snakes

"Gustave Dore was a world famous 19th century illustrator. Although he illustated over 200 book, some with more than 400 plates, he is primarily known for his illustrations to The Divine Comedy, particularty The Inferno, his illustrations to Don Quixote, and Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven."
Dore

Land Art

"Land Art, Earthworks or Earth Art is an art movement which emerged in America in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably. Sculptures are not placed in the landscape, rather the landscape is the very means of their creation."
Land Art

Philip Glass

"Through his operas, his symphonies, his compositions for his own ensemble, and his wide-ranging collaborations with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg, Woody Allen to David Bowie, Philip Glass his had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times."
Philip Glass

Epact: Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe

British Museum, London

"Epact is an electronic catalogue of medieval and renaissance scientific instruments from four European museums: the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, the British Museum, London, and the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden."
Epact

Louis Stettner

Sel, Place de Clichy - 1998

"Louis Stettner (1922-) is a celebrated American photographer whose work includes iconic images of Paris and New York. He was born and raised in Brookly, New York but moved to Paris in the 1950s, where he now lives peermanently with his family."
Louis Stettner

Deutschland. 1929

Nahebrucke, Kreuznach

Julian Littlewood - "These pictures were taken from an old coffee-table book of Germany. Other than was no text: only 304 full-page reproduction of black and white photographs with captions in five European languages."
Deutschland, 1929

Patti Smith

MySpace - "Patti Smith, born in Chicago in 1946, the oldest of four siblings, was raised in South Jersey. From an early age gravitated toward the arts and human rights issues. ... She teamed up with art student Robert Mapplethorpe and the two encouraged each other's work process. Both of them pursuing painting and drawing and she poetry."
Patti Smith, MySpace, Minnesota Public Radio, 1, 2, 3, 4