Pauline Oliveros
Wikipedia - "Pauline Oliveros (born May 30, 1932 in Houston, Texas) is an accordionist and composer who currently in Kingston, New York. Her instrument is tuned in just intonation and she often includes it in her meditative improvisational music."
Wikipedia, Deep Listening, Kalvos Damian, New Albion
Wikipedia, Deep Listening, Kalvos Damian, New Albion
Guy Tillim
Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec 2002 - Jan 2003
"Tillim was born in Johannesburg in 1962. He started photographing professionally in 1985 and joined Afrapix, a collective of South African photographers with whom he worked closely until 1990."
Michael Stevenson, ARTTHROB, Daimier Art Collection
World Treasures of the LOC
The Burmese Buddhist World
"In Buddhist cosmology, deriving from Indian origins, the world is viewed as a system of of continents and oceans, either in rings (as in the center here) or floating detached in the ocean."
The Library of Congress
"In Buddhist cosmology, deriving from Indian origins, the world is viewed as a system of of continents and oceans, either in rings (as in the center here) or floating detached in the ocean."
The Library of Congress
Tseng Kwong Chi
"A comprehensive survey Tseng's pioneering series of self portraits, this exhibition will feature over 90 large-scale, black-and-white photographs, some of which will be on view for the first time."
Paul Kasmin Gallery
Paul Kasmin Gallery
Atul Dodiya
Mirage (full closed view), 2002
Documenta/Kassel - "The watercolours in this series are immense. It is almost as if they articulated a genre of their own. In the humid air of India, where they were painted, they dry only slowly."
Saffron Art, 1, Chemould, Faces Of India
Tula Telfair
There is Rarely Pleasure Without Seduction, or Seduction Without Illusion
"Forum gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Located at the Edge of a Momentary Convergence: New Landscape Paintings."
Tula Telfair
"Forum gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Located at the Edge of a Momentary Convergence: New Landscape Paintings."
Tula Telfair
Explore the Collection
Africans Thrown Overboard from a Slave Ship, Brazil, ca. 1830s
"The images are arranged in eighteen categories. These categories serve as rough guides to the collection, but the categories are not mutually exclusive."
Virginia
"The images are arranged in eighteen categories. These categories serve as rough guides to the collection, but the categories are not mutually exclusive."
Virginia
Frida Kahlo
Wikipedia - "Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 - July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter, who has achieved great international popularity. She painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico as well as by European influences that inlude Realism, Symbolism, and Surrealism."
Wikipedia, Buch, PBS, Frida Kahlo, ArtCyclopedia
Wikipedia, Buch, PBS, Frida Kahlo, ArtCyclopedia
Michael Eastman
Courtyard, Barcelona
Linda Durham Contemporary Art - "Over the past thirty years, Michael Eastman has produced a body of fine-art photography on subjects ranging from European architecture to Midwestern storefronts."
Linda Durham
Linda Durham Contemporary Art - "Over the past thirty years, Michael Eastman has produced a body of fine-art photography on subjects ranging from European architecture to Midwestern storefronts."
Linda Durham
Felix Feneon
Wikipeda - "Felix Feneon (June 22, 1861 - February 29, 1944) was a French anarchist and art critic in Paris during the late 1800s."
Olga's Gallery, New York Review of Books, The Anarchist Encyclopedia, London Review, Wikipedia, The Sienese Shredder
Olga's Gallery, New York Review of Books, The Anarchist Encyclopedia, London Review, Wikipedia, The Sienese Shredder
Clayton Eshleman
"They moved there in the spring of 1962 and remained Kyoto until the fall of 1964. While in Kyoto, Eshleman began his apprenticeship to poetry: a translation of the 110 poems that Vallejo wrote in Paris between 1923 and 1938."
Clayton Eshleman, Wikipedia, epc, PENNSOUND
Clayton Eshleman, Wikipedia, epc, PENNSOUND
Georges Adeagbo
Synchronizing Archaeology - "Through his unique installations, Georges Adeagbo is able to investigate the mysteries underlying evolution and destiny of a person, a cite or a country."
Georges Adeagbo, Galerie im Taxspalalis, Caac Art, Frittelli Arte Contemporanea
Georges Adeagbo, Galerie im Taxspalalis, Caac Art, Frittelli Arte Contemporanea
Ibon Aranberri
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
Robert Ashley
Photo by Joanne Savio, 2006
"Robert Ashley, a distinguished figure in American contemporary music, holds an international reputation for his work in new forms of opera and multi-disciplinary projects."
Robert Ashley, Wikipedia, PENNSOUND
"Robert Ashley, a distinguished figure in American contemporary music, holds an international reputation for his work in new forms of opera and multi-disciplinary projects."
Robert Ashley, Wikipedia, PENNSOUND
David Alfaro Siqueiros
Wikipedia - "David Alfaro Siqueiros (Dec. 29, 1896 in Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico - Jan. 6, 1974 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico) was a social realist painter (muralist), and also a Stalinist, known for large murals in fresco that established the 'Mexican Mural Renaissance' together with work by Diego Rivera, Orozco, and others."
Wikipedia, Artcyclopedia, Image results
Wikipedia, Artcyclopedia, Image results
Stanko Abadzic
Forgotten Bicycle, 1998
Alan Griffiths - "These black and white photographs show every day life in the Czech capital of Prague, a city that Stanko loves deeply."
Abadzic
Alan Griffiths - "These black and white photographs show every day life in the Czech capital of Prague, a city that Stanko loves deeply."
Abadzic
Karl Doyle
Mother Child - Mongolia
"Karl Doyle's unique vision and affinity for diverse cultures is rooted in an early fascination with nomadic gypsies in his birthplace of Ireland - a group whose individuality and exotic visual appeal serve as one of the artist's earliest and most profound memories."
Obsolete
Obsolete
Ron Padgett
Photo by Ulla Montan
"Beginning in the mid-1960s the Padgetts visited Kenward Elmslie and Joe Brainard at the former's house in northern Vermont each summer for fifteen years. Then they constructod their own abode nearby."
Ron Padgett, Poets.org, PENNSOUND
"Beginning in the mid-1960s the Padgetts visited Kenward Elmslie and Joe Brainard at the former's house in northern Vermont each summer for fifteen years. Then they constructod their own abode nearby."
Ron Padgett, Poets.org, PENNSOUND
Astor Piazzolla
piazzolla.org - "Astor Pantaleleon Piazzolla was born on March 11, 1921 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, only child of Vicente 'Nomino' Piazzolla and Asunta Mainetti. In 1925, the family relocates to New York City until 1939 with a brief return to Mar del Plata in 1930."
Piazzolla, Wikipedia, Todo Tango, Musicolog, Sterns Music, ToTANGO, Video
Piazzolla, Wikipedia, Todo Tango, Musicolog, Sterns Music, ToTANGO, Video
Creating French Culture
Pierre Bersuire, Decades, after 1480
"Throughout French history the powerful have sought to harness culture to their own ends. They understood that the representation of power - what today we call 'image' - is form of power itself."
Library of Congress Exhibitions
"Throughout French history the powerful have sought to harness culture to their own ends. They understood that the representation of power - what today we call 'image' - is form of power itself."
Library of Congress Exhibitions
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