Linda Thompson


George Graham - "The Thompsons went their seperate ways, and Linda Thompson fell victim to a rare condition called spasmodic dysphonia which disabled her voice, preventing her from performing, and at times even speaking for some 17 years. In 2002, she made a comeback with a fine recording called Fashionably Late, and now five years later, still suffering from occasional periods of dysphonia, which has limited her abilies live, she is out with Versatile Heart, another instant classic recording in which she resumes her role as one of the classic voices, of English folk, with the usual diverse collection of traditional songs, original music - comprising the majority - and a cover tune or two."
Wikipedia, NPR, Rounder - 1, Rounder - 2, Rounder - 3, MSN, Graham Weekly, YouTube

Richard Long


"Art as a formal and holistic description of the real space and experience of landscape and its most elemental materials. Nature has always been recorded by artists, from pre-historic cave paintings to 20th century landscape photography."
Richard Long

Blackwell's Herbal


Garden Cucumber and White Lily
British Library - "Elizabeth Blackwell's A Curious Herbal is notable both its beautiful illustration and for the unusual circumstances of its creation."
Turning the Pages

Medieval Manuscripts


The Spanish Forger, Miniature. Spain, S. XIX
Collection of Richard and Mary Rouse - "Manuscripts, whether medieval or renaissance, the ordinary as the grand, are basic to our understanding of history, literature, and art."
UCLA

The African-American Migration Experience


The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Presents. The Transatlantic Slave Trade. Runaway Journeys. The Domestic Slave Trade. Colonization and Emigration. Haitian Immigration: 18th & 19th Centuries. The Western Migration. The Northern Migation. The Great Migration. Caribbean Immigration. Return South Migration. Haitian Immigtion: 20th Century. African Immigration.
The African-American Migration Experience

Astro Cruise


M16 - Eagle Nebula - Serpens
Philp Perkins - "Please spend a few minutes sharing my photographic adventure. How nice it would be if we could walk out on a starry night and simply see the splendours of the cosmos."

POEMS-FOR-ALL


Richard Hansen - "They're scattered around town - on buses, trains, cabs, in restrooms, bars, left along with the tip; stuffed into a stranger's back pocket. Whatever. Wherever. Small poems in small booklets half the size of a business card."
POEMS-FOR-ALL

Jenny Holzer


"For more than twenty-five years, Jenny Holzer has presented her astringent ideas, arguments, and sorrows in public places and international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale, the Reichstag, and the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao."
Creativetime Presents

Paris Changing


Eugene Atget
The Morning News - "Between 1888 and 1927, Eugene Atget photographed thousands of Paris scenes, cataloguing the city as it grew into the modern era. Christopher Rauschenberg spent a year in the 1990s revisiting many of Atget's locations to see what had changed."
TMN Galleries

Myoung Ho Lee


lens culture - "Myoung Ho Lee, a young artist from South Korea, has produced an elaborate series of photograph that pose some unusual questions about representation, reality, art, envronment and seeing."
lens culture

Carmontelle's Transparency


The Duchess of Chaulnes as a Gardener in an Allee
The Getty - "This exhibition spotlights one of the most unusual objects in the Getty Museum's collection - a 12-foot-long transparent drawing by Louis de Carmontelle."

Jeffry Gugick


Looking up 8th Avenue
Jeff Gugick - "Here is my small collection of Tone Mapped - High Dynamic Range Images of New York City. Most of these images were shot with three to six separate exposures to create each. I always shoot my HDR photos with my camera on a tripod to help ensure that the images will align correctly during the creation of high dynamic image."
New York City in HDR

Pierre Reverdy 1889-1960


Famous Poets and Poems - "He was at the centre of the French poetry and culture for fifteen of the headiest years of the century. After settling in Paris in 1910, Reverdy founded the influential journal Nord-Sud with Max Jacob and Guillauma Apoillnaire, which drew together the first Surrealists."
Famous Poets and Poems, Seven Poems translated by Kenneth Rexroth, milk MAGAZINE translated by Tom Hibbard, KCRW: John Ashbery and Ron Padgett.

Francesca Berrini


1911-1919
Viveza - "Since the startof my exploration into mapmaking, I have become increasingly fascinated by the intersection of manmade and natural forms made visible in maps and atlases."

Pripyat and the 30K Zone


Sinking boat on the Pripyat River, Chornobyl, October 1998
"The exclusion zone is a remarkable and surprising place, not dead and static, as one would expect, but full of growth and change." David McMillan.
Pripyat and the 30K Zone

Henri Cartier-Bresson


Henri Matisse, 1944
"To take a photograph means to recognize - simuitaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organisation of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis." Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Wikipedia.

Carlos Cortez


Before the Disappearance
"Carlos Cortez was an extraordinary artist, poet, printmaker, photographer, songwriter and lifelong political activst. His mother was a German socialist, and his father was a Mexican Indian organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), also known as the Wobblies."
Carlos Cortez, Artwork.

Whole Earth Catalog

About Whole Earth - "Whole Earth is committed to a vision of what's needed to challenge ingrained patterns and stale assumption. Curiosity. Exploration. Independence. Community. Living fearlessly. Principles. Tools and ideas."
Whole Earth Catalog, Wikipedia. Small Is Beautiful: Wikipedia. Stewart Brand, Wikipedia. E.F. Schumacher, Wikipedia.

Sigismundus of Luxemburg


Road to Calvary, c. 1530, Turin Book of Hours (Jan van Eyck?)
"The goal of the exhibition is to present the personality and times as well as the artistic milieu of Sigismund of Luxemburg, the king of Hungary (1387), and king (1410/11) and later emperor (1433) of the Holy Roman Empire."
The Age Sigismund

Pete Seeger


"Musician, singer, songwriter, folklorist, labor activist, environmentalist, and peace advocate, Seeger was born in Patterson, New York, son of Charles and Constance Seeger, whose families traced their ancestry back to the Mayflower. Seeger grew up in an unusually politicized environment."
Pete Seeger, Wikipedia, Notable American Unitarians, Pandora.

Adrienne Rich


The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program - "Poet, essayist, and cultural critic Adrienne Rich is among the most widely admired and thought provoking writers in the United States."
Adrienne Rich, PENNSOUND

Guido Tramontano Gurreitore


" ... Milky Way, Solar Sys, Earth, Europe, Italy, Salreno.."
PBase

Ubu Gallery


Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze), Portrait Nicole Boubant. ca. 1933
Ubu Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in Art 38 Basel. "Founded in 1994, Ubu Gallery has presented approximately 60 exhibitions of 20th-century avant-garde art, with an emphasis on the inter-war period of the 1920s-1930s, particularly the Dada, Surrealist, and Constructivist movements."
Ubu Gallery, Art Basel Catalogue

Sasha Rudensky


"Sasha Rudensky was born in Moscow, Russia in 1979. She immigrated to the United Stater with her family in 1990. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 2001 with a degree in Studio Art and Russian Studies."
Sasha Rudensky

Death in Art


Marianne Stokes, Death and the maiden
"The big plague epidemic of the middle of the 14th century, which decimated approximately a third of Europe's population, was not the only one. New outbreaks occurred, and for all the inhabitants of Europe, the fear of plague was part of everyday life."
Death in Art

The Essence of Line: French Drawings From Ingres to Degas


Antoine-Louis Barye
"Welcome to this database of nineteenth-century French drawings. From revealing preparatory sketches to exquisite finished watercolors, more than 900 works by artists such as Eugene Delacroix, Honore Daumier, Paul Cezanne, and Edgar Degas illuminate the range of French art over the course of a century of innovation."
The Essence of Line

Cuba Chronicles: Elaine Ling


Havana Bayan, Havana 2002
"In Cuba, an island caught between the grandeur of old world glory and the decay of the immediate epoch, I found an urban landscape that reflects a struggle between daily life and the slow forces of Nature, and a religion that has superimposed the old world African demigods onto the new world Roman Catholic saints."
Cuba Chronicles

A Show of Emotion: Victorian Sentiment in Prints & Drawings


Myles Birket Foster, The Milkmaid, 1860
"Sentimental subjects span many genres of artistic exression, from highly finished exhibition watercolours to music sheet covers."
A Show of Emotion (V&A)

Terry O'Neill in St. James's

"Exciting images post-war photographers complete our wealth of British works of paper. Click see Terry O'Neil ... rich tones of monochrome to explore fame and fashion, repotage and social reality."
Terry O'Neill (Chris Beetles)

Cliff House Project


Owned by Martha Anderson
"The goal of this website is to preserve the visual imagery of Adolph Sutro's Victorian Cliff House. ... Sadly, its existence was short-lived. It was constructed in 1896 and, like so many wooden structures of that era, burned completely to the ground in September of 1907."
Cliff House, photo