Pere Ubu

Wikipedia - "Pere Ubu are a rock music group formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975. ... The group is named after Pere Ubu ('father Ubu') , the protagonist of Ubu Roi ('Ubu, the King'), a play by Frenchman Alfred Jarry."
Wikipedia, Pere Ubu Biography, Trouser Press, Pere Ubu's Avant Garage Online, YouTube

Lidwien van de Ven

Documenta/Kassel - "The artist presents her monumental photography as digitally printed posters mounted directly onot the gallery walls."
Documenta/Kassel, 1

Peter Henry Emerson

Wikipedia - "Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936) was a Cuban-born photographer. His photographs are early examples of promoting photography as an art form. He is known for taking photographs that displayed natural settings."
Wikipedia, Science & Society

Robert Wilson

Wikipedia - "Robert Wilson (born 4 October 1941) is an internationally acclaimed American avant-garde stage directon and playwright who has been called '[America]'s - or even the world's - foremost vanguart theater artist'. Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer."
Wikipedia, Robert Wilson, Design Museum, Red Planet, MASS MoCA, NYT, YouTube, 1

The Notebook of William Blake

"William Blake is famous today as an imaginative and original poet, painter, engraver, and mystic. But his work, especially his poetry, was largely ignored during his own lifetime, and took many years to gain widespread appreciation."
British Library

Aneta Grzeszykowska & Jan Smaga

"Over the course of two years, Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga created series of ten highly unusual photographic prints: each piece documents the entirety of an apeatment, including its occupants, from a normally unavailable perspective - from above."
Robert Mann Gallery

Frank Gohlke

"The windows of our hilltop apartment gave onto a comprehensive view of the Midway, a mile-long stretch of grain elevators and railroad tracks on the boundary between the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul."
Frank Gohlke

Richard Estes

"Richard Estes (born May 14, 1932 in Kewanee, Illinois) is an American painter who is best known for his photorealistic paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes."
Wikipedia, Galeria artelibre

The Japanese Garden

"We have added a large new section on the individual elements of a Japanese garden, and have updated the bibliography and the section on internet links."
Bowdoin College

Michael Nyman

Wikipedia - "Michael Laurence Nyman (born March 23, 1944, London) is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, perhaps best known for the many scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway."
Wikipedia, Michael Nyman, Stage & Screen Online, Video results

Tim Porter

Kyu Furukawa Teien - January 21, 2006
"A paradise in an urban tangle of overhead wires, grey buildings and sullen commuters, the gardens of Tokyo are a tangible, organic connection with Japan's rich and fabled past."
Tim Porter

Neo Kekkonen

"As long as I can remember, I've been interested in expessing myself. Currently my means of doing that are electronic music and photography, with occasional forays into video and some other things."
28 Hours in Jyvaskyla, YouTube

Jane Hammond

Fallen, 2004
"The leaves in Fallen have been made by the artist, they are not real leaves. They are based on leaves gathered in the Autumns of 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 from Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Colorado, Washington, California and Hawaii."
Jane Hammond, Wikipedia

Wendell Berry

Wikipedia - "Wendell Berry (born August 5, 1934, Henry County, Kentucky) is an American man of lettres, academic, cultural and economic critic, and farmer. He is a prolific author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays."
Wikipedia, Academy of American Poets, CROSSCURRENTS: "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine", Sierra Club: "For Love of the Land", Mr. Wendell Berry of Kentucky

Satyagraha

The Metropolitan Opera - "Philip Glass's landmark 1980 work, set to text from the ancient Sanskrit scripture Bhagavad Gita, is a moving account of Mahatma Gandhi's formative experiences in South Africa, which transformed him into a great leader."
Met Opera, Classical 90.5, Philip Glass, New York Times

Kathryn Frund

Radical Acts
"My paintings and assemblages address the relationship between man and the environment through the use of symbolic landscapes."
Chase Gallery

Old Photos of Japan

Yokohama 1910s
"Old Photos of Japan shows photos Japan between the 1860s and 1930s. In 1854, Japan opened its doors to the outside world for the first time in more than 200 years."
Old Photos of Japan

Peter Beard

Elephants Memory, 1972/2008
"The beautiful play period has come to an end. Millions of years of evolutionary processes have been destroyed in the blink of an eye."
Peter Beard

Kraftwerk

Rolling Stone - "Once the venue lockdown was complete, a packed house witnessed firsthand the end result of man-maching morphing."
Kraftwerk, Rolling Stone, MySpace, YouTube, 1, 2, 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vaclav Pajkrt

CGSociety - "Vaclav Pajkrt said this week he was humbled and surprised after hearing of the success of has image in this inaugural NVArt contest."
CGSocety, P:0/site

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

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

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

Ibon Aranberri

Documenta/Kassel - "There are 46 framed aerial photography, commissioned by Aranberri from industrial photographers."
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

Beth Dow

Meadow, Boboli Gardens
Minnesota State Arts Board - "These recent photography were taken in formal English and Italian gardens. The shape and mystery of these places are a natural draw for me as they offer glimpses of rich traditions of garden making."
Beth Dow

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Shane Lavalette - "A beautiful, surprising image from Tonatiuh Ambrosetti's Wolfschanze series."
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

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

Edmund Teske

Chicago/Pianola Roll, 1938-1940

The Getty - "Edmund Teske credited a grammar school teacher with inspiring his interest in photography. He received his first box camera around 1920."
The Getty, BNET

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

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

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

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

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