Agnes Denes

Wheatfield - A Confrontation, 1982
greenmuseum.org - "One of the early pioneers of both the environmental art movement and Conceptual art, Agnes Denes brings her wide ranging interests in the physical and social sciences, mathematics, philosophy, linguistics, poetrt and music to her delicate drawings, books and monumental artworks around the globe."
greenmuseum.org, Projects for Public Spaces, Wikibiotics

Seamus Heaney

Poets.org - "Seamus Heaney was born on April 13, 1939, in Casthedawson, County Derry, Northern Ireland. He earned a teacher's certificate in English at St. Joseph's College in Belfast and in 1963 took a position as a lecturer in English at that school."
Academy of American Poets, Wikipedia, Internet Poetry Archive, Seamus Heaney, Literary History

Bush Tetras

Wikipedia - "The Bush Tetras were a rock band from New York City, popular in the New York club scene in the early 1980s but never achieving much mainstream success. Their music, sometimes classified under Rare Beats, combined dance rhythms and dissonant rock-guitar riffs."
Wikipedia, msn, Deaf Sparrow, YouTube, (1), (2), Knitting Factory

Henry Hudson, 1570-1611

"No one knows what happened to Henry Hudson and his shipmates after the mutinous crew aboard Discovery lost sight of them on that cold morning. They were never found by subsequent rescue missions, nor was any trace found to identify them as having survived in that harsh land."
Ian Chadwick

The Schoolhouse

"The Schoolhouse nurtures each child's natural love of learning and helps each to assume responsibility for learning and proceed at his/her own pace. Our goal is to lead chidren to discover the rewards found in the process of active inquiry and respectful, cooperative work with others."
The Schoolhouse

Ron Hicks

Once Upon a Time
"Ron Hicks' works have been characterized as a blend of representational art and impressionism. Some critics have compared them to paintings by Rembrandt and Daumier."
Ron Hicks

Jasmina Danow

"Created with thin washes overlaying thick paint sufaces, the colors and forms in Danowski's panels are compressed and charged, drawing energy from the confinement of the small, square supports."
Spanierman Modern

Isadora Duncan

Wikipedia - "Barefoot, dressed in clinging scarves and faux-Grecian tunics, she created a primitivist style of improvisational dance to counter the rigid styles of the time. She was inspired by the classics, especially Greek myth. She rejected traditional ballet steps to stress improvisation, emotion, and the human."
Wikipedia, Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco, B. John Zavrel, YouTube

Arundhati Roy

"Arundhati Roy (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, activist and a world citizen. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel The God of Small Things."
Arundhati Roy, Wikipedia, Salon, Anniina's Arundhati Roy, YouTube, Video

Peter Hutton

Wikipedia - "Peter Hutton (born 1944 in Detroit, Michigan) is an experimental filmmaker, known primarily for his silent cinematic portraits of cities and landscapes around the world."
Wikipedia, Canyon Cinema, REDCAT, Study of a River, My Space, My Space - 1

Penny Black

Wikipedia - "The Penny Black, the world's first adhesive postage stamp of a public system, was issued by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 May 1840, for use from 6 May."
Wikipedia, Penny Black Stamp, The Penny Black Project

Janis Avotins

Conversation - "People, places, focus, artists, short interesting conversations, the weather, music, an empty museum (never been in one), gossip and generosity."
Conversation, IBID Projects, Video

Robert Rauschenberg

Bowery Parade (Borealis), 1989

Wikipedia - "Rauschenberg is perhaps most famous for his 'Combines' of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovations. While the Combines are both painting and sculpture, Rauschenberg has also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking, and performance."
Wikipedia, pbs, National Gallery of Art, Greg Kucera Gallery, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Berend Strik

DJ, 2008
"The images are chosen from photographs the artist has taken on his travels through Africa, documenting the people, architecture and post-colonial landscapes of the continent."
Tilton Gallery

Dinh Q. Le

Untitied (from The Hill of Poisonous Trees Series), 2008
The Penal Colony - "Dinh Q. Le had been working for over a decade with issues of politics, memory and history, and he continues this exploration with The Penal Colony."
PPOW

Near East Collections

"Essentially geographic designations imposed upon this vital part of the world by the European West, each of these names both obscures within that region's manifold achievements and promotes as many enduring stereotypes of its inhabitants as the number of the rivers flowing through it."
The Library of Congress

Pizzi Cannella

Luna o luna nuova, 2006-2007
"After initially working in mixed media, Cannella adopted painting. Beginning in the mid-1980s, he begun a series of works that set objects (dresses, stools, beds, doors, cathedrals) against unspecified, non-desript backgrounds."
Barbara Mathes Gallery

Bound for Glory: 1939-1943

Marion Post Wolcott. Melrose, Louisiana, June 1940.
"Bound for Glory: Amermica in Color is the first major exhibition of the little known color images taken by photographers of the Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information."
Library of Congress

Susan Burnstine

Bridge To Nowhere
"In Spring 2005, she started building her own homemade lenses and cameras, primarily made out of plastic, vintage camera parts and random household objects. The result of this creative endeavor can be viewed in her series, On Waking Dreams."
Susan Burnstine, On Waking Dreams

Nedko Solakov

O.K Center for Contemporary Art - "Sprung from the artist's fertile imagination, the stories take shape in a unique artistic universe made of drawings, paintings, installations, videos and performances, in which he tackles personal as well as universal themes, using a strongly poetic yet critical approach often tinged with a fine sense of humour."
OK Centrum, Arndt & Partner, Nedko Solakov

Grand Central Terminal

"Grand Central Terminal was built to house Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad network, consolidated in the late 19th century as New York Central."
New York Architecture

Trisha Brown

"The Trisha Brown Dance Company has presented the work of its legendary artistic director for more than 35 years. Founded in 1970 when Trisha Brown branched out from the experimental Judson Dance Theater to work with her own group of dancers, TBDC offered its first performances at alternative sites in Manhattan's SoHo."
Trisha Brown Dance Company, Wikipeda, YouTube, (1)

Slavery in America

L'Afrique, 1782
"The American slave trade was an international business. It began in Western Afica, where prisoners were taken for sale to European and American slave traders, and continued in permanent and impromptu slave markets in the United States, ultimately, conentrated in the South."
New York Life

Arthur Rimbaud

Wikipedia - "As part of the decadent movement, his influence on modern literature, music and art has been enduring and pervasive."
Wikipedia, Arthur Rimbaud

Au Pairs

Wikipedia - "All these bands shared a strongly left wing social outlook, but the Au Pairs stood out due to their frontwoman, Lesley Woods, being an outspoken feminist and lesbian: the band were greatly influential in this respect on the riot grrrl movement a decade later."
Wikipedia, Au Pairs, New Wave Photos, mog, Rhapsody, YouTube, (1)

Diego Rivera

Wikipedia - "Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 - November 24, 1957, born Diego Maria de la Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Asosta y Rodriguez in Guanajusato, Gto.) was a world-famous Mexican painter, an active communist, and husband Frida Kahlo."
Wikipedia, The Virtual Diego Rivera, Diego Rivera, pbs

Jacob Collins

"The Hudson River School for Landscape with build a new movement of American art, modeling itself after the artistic, social and spiritual values of the Hudson River School painters."
Jacob Collins

Gustave Le Gray

Beech Tree

The Getty - "Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884) is known as the most important French photographer of the nineteenth century because of his technical innovations in the still new medium of photography, his role as the teacher of other noted photographers, and the extraordinary imagination he brought to picture making."
The Getty, Gustave Le Gray - In Images

Canadian Painting in the 30s

Walter J. Phillips, York Boat on Lake Winnipeg, 1930
"An innovative stude of the period, this exhibition documents the development of Canadian modermist painting, from the nationalism of early schools of landscape painting to the intternational trends 1940s."
Canadian Painting in the Thirties

Paul Beliveau

Les Humanites CCLVXXXIII, 2007
Stricoff Fine Art - "Recognized for his expertise drawing, engraving and painting he has since then had more than sixty solo exhibitions across Canada and the United States."
**Paul Beliveau