Patrick Winfield

"This view is from a ridge overlooking the forest floor and lake below. The white snow on the lake and the forest floor is so amazing unifies the whole piece."
Patrick Winfield

Red Detachment of Women

Wikipedia - "The Red Detachment of Women ... is a Chinese ballet which premiered in 1964. It is perhaps best known in the West as the ballet performed for US President Richard Nixon on his visit to China in 1972."
Red Detachment of Women, NYU, Internet Archive

Bill Beckley

Oh to Be Young Again, Carefree and Gay, Kerhonkson - 2005
"Beckley's work of the past five or six years looks as the new millennium, and yet for years he has exchanged the ruled line of the minimalists for the less predictable linearity of stems and branches."
Bill Beckley

McClellan Street

David Turnley
"These photographs of McClellan Steet by david and Peter Turniey, taken in 1972-73, help us understand how America came to be the country that it is today."
McClellan

Cai Guo-Qiang

Drawwing for Transient Rainbow, 2003
"These explosion projects, both wildly poetic and ambitious at their core, aim to estabilsh an exchange between viewers and the larger universe them."
Cai Guo-Qiang, Guggenheim, art:21, Wikipedia, Artcyclopedia

Ian Curtis

Wikipedia - "In May 1980, on the eve of the Band's first American tour, Curtis, overwhelmed with depression, committed suicide. Joy Division's posthumously released second album, Closer, and the single 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' became the band's highest charting releases. After the death of Curtis, the remaining members refored as New Order, achieving significant critical and commercial success."
Joy Division Central, Ian Curtis, Wikipedia, Joy Division, Video

Kim Cogan

Save Domino
The San Francisco Bay Guardian - "His oil paintings capture contemporary life in all its beauty and absurdity, inspired by the works of artists such as Richard Diebenkorn, Edward Hopper, and Antonio Lopez Garcia, he strives toward developing a visual language of his own."
Gallery Henoch, Kim Cogan

Eugene Guillevic

Bloodaxe Books - "Carnac (1961) marks the beginning of Guillevic's mature life as a poet. A single poem in several parts, it evokes the rocky, sea-bound, unfinished landscape of Brittany with its sacred objects and its great silent sense of waiting."
Answers, Boston Review, Union Songs, Thema, Amazon

Meredith Monk

"Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, director/choreographer and creator of new opera, music theater works, films and installations. A pioneer in what is now called 'extended vocal technique' and Monk creates works that thrive at the intersection of music and movement, image and object, light and sound in an effort to discover and weave together new modes of perception."
Meredith Monk, Wikipedia, New Music Box, YouTube

JR

"As an undercover photographer, JR transforms his pictures into posters and makes open space photo galleries out of our streets. An acute observer of our time, as comfortable in cozy neighborhoods as in urban ghettos, he question pedestrians with the exhibitions he mounts on their everyday commutes."
JR

Robert Doisneau

Les Tueurs Melomanes (The Accordionist), Paris
"Robert Doisneau is one the most well known French photographers. He focused on people photography, making images of common people as he wandered through the streets of Paris and its suburbs."
Vintage Works

Caribbean Poetry: Barbados

Houses
"To understand the significance and meaning of the poets' writings, scholars ultimately trace back to the island that gave birth to the poet's sensibility."
Virginia Commonwealth University

Jerry Spagnoli

"The images in this series are basically an attempt the camera to function as an observer/recorder of the world without too much interference from me."
Jerry Spagnoli

Art Images for College Teaching

Cremona Cathedal, ca. 14th century
"The AICT website's emphasis on ancient, medieval, and Renissance European art and architecture reflects the author's research and teaching interests."
Art Images

William Duckworth

"As a composer, Duckworth is considered the founder of Postminimalism, and his hour-long Time Curve Preludes for piano defines the postminimal style."
William Duckworth

Stanley Greenberg

Bypass Tunnel, Hillview Reservior, Yonkers, New York, 2000
"In these arrestingly beautiful black and white photographs of the city's infrastructre, Greenberg takes us through sites which are often off limits to the public, revealing places which keep New York City working."
Edelman Gallery

Eduardo Galeano

"Like all Uruguayan children, I wanted to be a soccer player. I played quite well, in fact I was terrific, but only at night when I was asleep. During the day I was the worst wooden leg ever to set foot on the little soccer fields of my country."
Wikipedia, Common Dreams, Books and Writers, Charlie Rose, The Progressive, KCRW, Fact Index, Daily Bleed, Z Magazine, Atlantic, amazon, 1

The National Gallery: London

Roelandlt Savery, 1576-1639

"The painting in the National Gallery's collection come from Western Europe, and their subjects reflect the history, religion and myths of the region."
National Gallery

Jerry Takigawa

"We live in an information-rich yet time-poor culture. I see a society that is becoming more and more disonnected from nature, disonnected from natural rhythms, cycles, and seasons. Often, this is manifested by being disonnected from our own selves."
Jerry Takigawa

Zoe Leonard

"Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing." -- Zoe Leonard
Wexner Center for the Arts, Zoe Leonard, MIT, frieze

Steve McQueen

The ArtFund - "Queen and Country: A Project by Steve McQueen. Steve McQueen is one of Britain's most influential artists. Over the last decade he has opened up the ways in which artist work with film."
The ArtFund, Small Swords, Richard Hollis, frieze

Gordon Matta-Clark

Wikipedia - "Gordon Matta-Clark (June 22, 1943 - August 27, 1978) was an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He is famous for his 'building cuts,' a series of works in abandoned buildings in which he variously removed sections of floors, ceilings, and walls."
Wikipedia, QMA, Artcyclopedia, artnet, David Zwirner

Robert Duncan, 1919-1988

Michael Palmer - "Let's begin with the thought that Duncan, in his poetics, embodies a series of paradoxes that at once reflect upon the antecedent poetics of what he called his 'modernist masters'."
Modern American Poetry, Wikipedia, MLA Guidelines, Robert Duncan, epc, Poetry Foundation, PENNSOUND

Virginia Rose Kane

"A unique melding of collage and papercutting, these delicate works are an artisic expression of the earths eternal mysteries that provide the viewer an opportunity to discover art and nature anew."
Viginia Rose Kane

Alexander Palace

A Labour Day Loyalty Demonstration at the Hotel Astoria
Bob Atchison - "Our Russian history websites and online books present a wide array of subjects relating to Royalty, Art, the Revolution ane the Romanov Dynasty. "
Alexander Palace

Johannes Vermeer

Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665-67
Wikipedia - "Vermeer produced transparent colours by applying paint onto the canvas in loosely granular layers, a technique called pointellie (not te be confused with pointillism). No drawing have been securely attributed to Vermeer, and his painting offer few clues to preparatory methods."
Essential Vermeer, Wikipedia, Met Museum, National Gallery of Art

E.J. Peiker

Julia Butterfly
"I have also expanded my love for landscape photography and am now heavily engaged in creating artistic landscape images of North America's great scenic wonders."
E.J. Peiker

Fernando Pessoa

Wikipedia - "Fernando Antonio Norueira Pessoa ... (b. June 13, 1888 in Lisbon, Portugal - d. November 30, 1935 in the same city) was a poet and writer. The critic Harold Bloom referred to his in the book The Western Canon as the most representative poet of the twentieth century, along with Pablo Neruda."
Pessoa Trunk, Wikipedia, Wikimeria, Fernando Pessoa, Academy of American Poets, Google, Condalmo

Chuck Close

Roy II, 1994
"American artist Chuck Close his been a leading figure in contemporary art since the early 1970s. Bestknown for the monumental heads he has painted in thousands of tiny airbrush bursts, thumbprints, or looping multi-color brushstrokes, Close has developed a formal analysis and methodological reconfiguration of the human face that have radically changed the definition of modern portraiture."
Chuck Close, Chuck Close 1, Wikipedia, Image results, Video results

Meridith McNeal

"I am an intention based and content driven artist. My work is about memory and the cultural, physical and social history of a place or individuals. The ideas I set out to convey me to manifest work to best tell a particular story."
Meridith McNeal