"Julio Larraz was born in Havana, Cuba, on 12 March 1944. The son of a newspaper publisher, he began to draw at a very early age. In 1961 his parents moved to Miami, Florida, taking the whole family with them." Julio Larraz
"The last of the N&W's steam locomotives was taken out of service in May 1960, and Winston returned to New York, where he continued his work as a commercial photographer." Link, Wikipedia, Carolina Arts, artnet
"This site presents Chinese, pinyin and English texts of poems by some of the greatest Chinese poets. Most of the featured authors are from the Tang dynasty, when culture in China was at its peak, but writers from other periods are also included." Chinese Poems
French Rose "Roses are a group of herbaceous shrubs found in temperate regions throughout both both hemispheres. All the Roses of the Antipodes, South Africa and the temperate parts of South America have been carried there by cultivation." Edible Flowers
The Hand of John F. Kennedy California, 1960 Wikipedia - "Cornell Capa (April 14, 1918 - May 23, 2008) was a Hungarian-American photographer, member of Magnum Photos, and photo curator, and the younger brother of photo-journalist and war photographer Robert Capa." Wikipedia, SKJosefsberg Studio
Wikipedia - "Paul Celan (...November 23, 1920 - approximatelly April 20, 1970) was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel, one of the major poets of the post-World War II era." Wikipedia, Poets.org, Force of Light, Art of Europe
"Like so many Brazilian girls of humble origin, she had to help support his family by working as washerwoman, cleaning woman, manicurist, and cook." Virginia Rodrigues, FeileAfrica, Wikipedia
Lambiek.net - "Herge - a pseudonym of Georges Remi's initials (G.R.) in reverse (R.G.) - is the creator of the highly popular comic character, Tintin. This famous Belgian artist is often considered to be the most influential European comic artist ever." (Artw) Lambiek, Tintin
"John Berger is a storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwrier, dramatist and critic, whose body of work embodies his concern for, in Geoff Dyer's words, 'the enduring mystery of great art and the lived experience of the oppressed.'" John Berner, Wikipedia
Wikipedia - "Walid Raad ... (born in Chbanieh, Lebanon) is a contemporary media artist. His works to date include video, photography and literary essays." Wikipedia, artnet
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
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
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
"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 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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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 was built to house Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad network, consolidated in the late 19th century as New York Central." New York Architecture
"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)
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
Wikipedia - "As part of the decadent movement, his influence on modern literature, music and art has been enduring and pervasive." Wikipedia, Arthur Rimbaud
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)
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
"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
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
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
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
Joshua Tree, 2003 "Each surface has a connecting border in mysterious ways. And in those expanses, all the things and phenomena including living things exist in time as independent entities." Koichiro Kurita, Joseph Bellows
Alex Katz - Ted Berrigan, 1967 Wikipedia - "A telling reflection on the era that produced it, The Sonnets beautifully weaves together traditional elements of the Shakespearean sonnet form with the disjunctive structure and cadence of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Berrigan's own literary innovations and personal expreiences." Wikipedia, epc, PENNSOUND
July,1971 Wikipedia - "Fairfield Porter (June 10, 1907 - September 18, 1975) was an American painter and art critic. He was the brother of photographer Eliot Porter and the brother-in-law of federal Reclamation Commissioner Michael W. Straus." Wikipedia, Watercolor Artists, Parrish
"Included are classic Trumpets in shades of yellow, gold, cream, and white; Large Cups and Small Cups in great variety with petals and ruffled cups; members of the delicate and graceful Poeticus class; some Split-coronas; fragrant Jonquilla hybids holding smaller flowers; and Tazetta hybrids bearing clusters of sweet flowers on each stalk." White Flower Farm
Collateral, 2007 Steidl - "Sheela Gowda's art resides within a space between the local and the global. Her sculpltural installations are comprised of such simple materials as cow dung and ash, but each piece is undeniably monumental in its scale and content." Stiedl
Judy A. Saslow Gallery - "Gerard Cambon is a self-taught artist living and working in Paris creating evocative constructions composed primarily of found materials." Judy A. Saslow Gallery, Gerard Cambon
Wikipedia - "The Clash were an English punk rock band, active from 1976 to 1986, part of the original wave of UK punk. Along with punk rock, they experimented with reggae, funk, rap, dub, rock and roll and rockabilly." Wikipedia, Don J Whistance's, The Clash, Wikipeda - Joe Strummer, YouTube, (1), (2), (3),
Afghan Images, 1998 "Fazal Sheikh is an artist-activist who uses photography to create a sustained portrait of different communities around the world, addressing their beliefs and traditions, as well as their political economic problems." Fazal Sheikh, Utata Tribal Photography
"The building is clad in white brick and dark gray brickwork is used as horizontal decoration to enhance the window rows." Chrysler Building, 1930-1931