Documenta/Kassel - "There are 46 framed aerial photography, commissioned by Aranberri from industrial photographers."
BAC-PIR, Documenta/Kassel, e-flux, Basel
BAC-PIR, Documenta/Kassel, e-flux, Basel
Bernd Kleinhelsterkamp
"The photographys from the work BRASIL stand for my effort to produce abstract pictures through representational exposure. Picture without words. No context but a geographical."
BKL
BKL
Jim Crow
You Don't Have to Ride Jim Crow -"Warned by Southern friends that they would be taking their lives into their hande if they attempted interracial travel through the Deep South, they limited their trip to the Upper South only."
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, American RadioWorks, Wikipedia, You Don't Have to Ride Jim Crow, African American Odyssey, PBS,
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, American RadioWorks, Wikipedia, You Don't Have to Ride Jim Crow, African American Odyssey, PBS,
Brian Eno
Wikipedia - "Brian Eno ... (born on 15 May 1948, in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England), with full name Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, is an English electronic musician, music theorist and record producer. As a solo artist, he is best known as the father of modern ambient music."
Wikipedia, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Brian Eno Home, In Motion Magazine, The Oblique Strategies, NNDB, Rolling Stone, YouTube
Wikipedia, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Brian Eno Home, In Motion Magazine, The Oblique Strategies, NNDB, Rolling Stone, YouTube
Weekend Explorer
"Weekend Explorer is a series of walking tours through areas of New York, in which John Strausbaugh, guided by neighborhood denizens and historians, seeks out still-visible traces of the city's layers of history."
NYTimes
NYTimes
Danica Bakic
El Dorado
Gandy Gallery - "The Gandy Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Danica Dakic (born in 1962 in Sarajevo, lives in Dusseldorf and Sarajevo) in Slovakia."
Gandy Gallery
Gandy Gallery - "The Gandy Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition by Danica Dakic (born in 1962 in Sarajevo, lives in Dusseldorf and Sarajevo) in Slovakia."
Gandy Gallery
Sonia Abian Rose
Annunciation in Block 11, Auschwitz
Documenta Kassel - "Furniture stores our things and makes our life easier. It is close to us, part of our private sphere, removed from the gaze of others and from external laws."
Documenta Kassel, Universes in Universe, 1
Documenta Kassel - "Furniture stores our things and makes our life easier. It is close to us, part of our private sphere, removed from the gaze of others and from external laws."
Documenta Kassel, Universes in Universe, 1
Anselm Kiefer
Jerusalem, 1985-86
Wikipedia - "Anselm Kiefer (born March 8, 1945, Donaueschingen) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials like straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac."
Wikipedia, White Cube, Marian Goodman Gallery, Met Museum
Wikipedia - "Anselm Kiefer (born March 8, 1945, Donaueschingen) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials like straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac."
Wikipedia, White Cube, Marian Goodman Gallery, Met Museum
Gram Parsons
Wikipedia - "In a story that has taken on legendary stature, Parsons' body disappeared from the Los Angeles International Airport, where it was being readied to be shipped to Louisiana for burial. Prior to his death, Parson steted that he wanted his body cremated at Joshua Tree and has ashes spread over Cap Rock, a prominent natural feature there."
Wikipedia, Gram Parsons Home, Rolling Stone, The Gram Parsons Project, Byrd Watcher, Gram Parsons Story, Video results
Wikipedia, Gram Parsons Home, Rolling Stone, The Gram Parsons Project, Byrd Watcher, Gram Parsons Story, Video results
Tonatiuh Ambrosetti
Shane Lavalette - "A beautiful, surprising image from Tonatiuh Ambrosetti's Wolfschanze series."
Tonatiuh Ambrosetti
Tonatiuh Ambrosetti
White Cube
Wikipedia - "White Cube is one of the most prominent contemporary commercial art galleries in the world. It is based in Hoxton Square in the East End of London."
Wikipedia, White Cube
Wikipedia, White Cube
Ancient Near Eastern Seals & Tablets
Goats Before a Shrine, Mesopotamia (ca. 3500-2900 BC)
The Morgan Library & Museum - "They were carved in great detail with simple tools on semiprecious stones. These engraved objects provide a continuous artistic and chronological sequence of more than three thousand years."
The Morgan Library Museum
The Morgan Library & Museum - "They were carved in great detail with simple tools on semiprecious stones. These engraved objects provide a continuous artistic and chronological sequence of more than three thousand years."
The Morgan Library Museum
Shooshie Sulaiman
Kean Wong - "Shooshie's is visbly happier as the diaries' contents, which tell of her friend's experiences in the late 1970s, can now be better understood as her visitors browse the hand-made books, conjuring up memories through touch, smell and textual readings."
Universes in Universe, 1
Universes in Universe, 1
John Ruskin
The Garden of San Miniato near Florence, 1845
Wikipedia - "John Ruskin (8 February - 1819 - 20 January 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an autyor, poet and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwarian eras."
Wikipedia, Ruskin Collection, Ruskin Museum
Wikipedia - "John Ruskin (8 February - 1819 - 20 January 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an autyor, poet and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwarian eras."
Wikipedia, Ruskin Collection, Ruskin Museum
Carnatic music
15/16th Century
Wikipedia - "Its classical tradition is from the southren part of the Indian subcontinent, and its area roughly corresponds to the four modern states of South India: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Karala, and Tamil Nadu."
Wikipedia, Answers, Carnatic Corner, Carnatic Classical Music
Wikipedia - "Its classical tradition is from the southren part of the Indian subcontinent, and its area roughly corresponds to the four modern states of South India: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Karala, and Tamil Nadu."
Wikipedia, Answers, Carnatic Corner, Carnatic Classical Music
Kim Gordon
"KS Art annouces come acrss an exhibition of new abstract watercolors by Kim Gordon. Painted on translucent rice paper these ethereal images recall faces of audience members from the perspective of the performer."
Kerry Schuss / KS Art
Kerry Schuss / KS Art
Desiree Palmen
"This is the work of Dutch artist Desiree Palmen. The first thing I want to know is, how does she do this? It takes hours to paint each full-body, canvas-white suit."
Desiree Palmen
Desiree Palmen
Ahlam Shibli
Arab-al-shaih, 2007
Wikipedia - "Her artistic medium is photography. Her work explores the life of the Bedouin. Adrian Seale describes as 'unsentimental and undramatic ... extremely moving'."
Wikipedia, Max Wigram Gallery, Universes in Universe
Wikipedia - "Her artistic medium is photography. Her work explores the life of the Bedouin. Adrian Seale describes as 'unsentimental and undramatic ... extremely moving'."
Wikipedia, Max Wigram Gallery, Universes in Universe
Margaret Mead
"As an anthropologist, the adult Margaret Mead sought to apply the principles anthrology and the social sciences to social problems and issues, such as world hunger, childhood education, and mental health."
Library of Congress
Library of Congress
Vernon Fisher
Water Music, 2007
"These layered compositions begin with a magnified section of a colonial map of central-Western Africa upon which the artist paints any number of images referencing pop culture (a pixelized Mickey Mouse makes an appearance), war, stereotypical icons of Africa (elephants, monkeys, Tarzan), or death."
Charles Cowles Gallery
"These layered compositions begin with a magnified section of a colonial map of central-Western Africa upon which the artist paints any number of images referencing pop culture (a pixelized Mickey Mouse makes an appearance), war, stereotypical icons of Africa (elephants, monkeys, Tarzan), or death."
Charles Cowles Gallery
Cesar Vallejo
Wikipedia - "Cesar Abraham Vallejo Mendoza (March 16, 1892 - April 15, 1938) was a Peruvian poet. Although he published only three books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century."
Wikipedia, Academy of American Poets, Ten Poems translated by Clayton Eshleman, Cesar Vallejo: the Poet, the Militant, the Communist, Open Letters, Shearsman, Oldpoetry
Wikipedia, Academy of American Poets, Ten Poems translated by Clayton Eshleman, Cesar Vallejo: the Poet, the Militant, the Communist, Open Letters, Shearsman, Oldpoetry
Elizabeth Magill
Parlous Land
Wikipedia - "Apparent influences are the glens and coastline of Northern Ireland, where she spent most of her chidhood, but the emptiness of the landscapes themselves is generally tempered by empty houses, electricity pyons, and the like, giving a sense of absence of absence of human life and wistful isolation."
Elizabeth Magill, PEER, Osborne Samuel
Wikipedia - "Apparent influences are the glens and coastline of Northern Ireland, where she spent most of her chidhood, but the emptiness of the landscapes themselves is generally tempered by empty houses, electricity pyons, and the like, giving a sense of absence of absence of human life and wistful isolation."
Elizabeth Magill, PEER, Osborne Samuel
Great Baltimore Fire of 1904
"Sunday Morning, 11 am - On Sunday February 7th, 1904 most of Baltimore was looking forward to a quiet Sunday afternoon."
Baltimore on fire, Wikipedia
Baltimore on fire, Wikipedia
Veronika Anita Teuber
"Stimulated through literature, I learned to see not only through my eyes but also through thoughts. The two ways of seeing, physical and mental, complete the power of perception."
Veronika Anita Teuber
Veronika Anita Teuber
Nadine Gordimer
Wikipedia - "Nadine Gordimer (born 20 November 1923) is a South African writer, political activist and Nobel Prize in literature laureate. Her writing has long dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa."
Wikipedia, Nobel, British Council, Salon, NYT
Wikipedia, Nobel, British Council, Salon, NYT
Zofia Kulik
All the Missiles Are One Missile, 1993
Maryla Sitkowska, Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw - "Since 1987 she has been working and exhibiting individually. She uses a self-developed technique known as 'multiple exposure black and white photography', the end result of which are large format, collage-type composition."
culture.pl, Cineview, Polish Culture, Image results
Maryla Sitkowska, Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw - "Since 1987 she has been working and exhibiting individually. She uses a self-developed technique known as 'multiple exposure black and white photography', the end result of which are large format, collage-type composition."
culture.pl, Cineview, Polish Culture, Image results
Roxy Paine
Conjoined, 2007
Eleanor Heartney - "Rising from a patch of green within the urban grid, Roxy Paine's metal trees and boulders have the unsetting character of industrial artifacts masquerading as natural phenomena."
James Cohan Gallery
James Cohan Gallery
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