Piero Milesi

"Piero Milesi is an Italian composer who approached minimalism from a unique angle on Modi (Cherry Red, 1982 - Cuneiform, 1984). The six movements of Modi No. 1 is heavily influenced by Steve Reich and achieves the same kind of emphatic transcendence Michael Nyman's scores."
Piero Milesi, Cuneiform Records, Aural Innovations

Cupid Playing with a Butterfly

"Cupid, a winged adolescent, offers a rose to a butterfly he is holding by the wings. The butterfly, a prisoner, symbolizes the soul (Psyche in Greek). The theme inpired Chaudet to create a graceful composition, whose linear harmony and delicate details are heightened by his beautiful treatment of the marble."
Louvre

John Wieners

"Although Wieners would always depict Olson as his mentor, he shared more common ground at Black Mountain with Robert Duncan, the overt Romanticism of whose work, in stark contrast to 1950s orthodoxy, would find an echo in Wieners' more perfumed and occult pieces."
John Wieners reading, Wikipedia, PENNSOUND

Bruce Nauman

Wikipedia - "Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing and performance."
Wikipedia, art:21, Video Data Bank

La La La Human Steps

Wikipedia - "La La La Human Steps is a leading Quebecois contemporary dance group in Canada, known for its energetic, acrobatic style that often involves fast-paced and athletic physical contact. Its signature move is the barrel jump, which is like a horizontal pirouette in the air."
Wikipedia, La La La Human Steps, Wikipedia - 1, Wikipedia - 2, YouTube, (1)

Joseph Staskevetch

Kunstmarkt - "The technique of his works is fascinating, resembling from a distance of black and white photographs. From closer they reveal an intimate, direct and unrefined aesthetic of drawing, which draws in the spectator due to its spatial effects."
Galerie Micheal Schultz, Joseph Stashkevetch

Robert Mapplethorpe

Wikipedia - "Robert Mapplethorpe (November 4, 1946 - March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and naked men."
Wikipedia, artnet, Guggenheim Museum, Fine Art Photography

Chad Gerth

Corkin Gallery - "Chad Gerth's new series of photographs explore the intricacies of urban and human langscapes through images of abandoned parking lots slowly being reclaimed by nature."
Corkin Gallery

Olafur Eliasson

Wikipedia - "Olafur Eliasson (born 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish-Icelandic artist, noted for his exhibition The Weather Project at the Tate Modern, London, in 2003. That same year, he also represented Denmark at the Venice Biennale."
Wikipedia, Studio Olafur Eliasson, MOMA, sfmoma

The Slits

"...choppy guitar chord on maximum fuzz (and always ever-so-slightly off-key) scratched through the racket at irregular intervals like jagged shards of cut glass and undulating over the whole live, solid mass came Ari's signature wobbly, screeching wails and yelps."
The Slits, Wikipedia, YouTube, (1), (2)

Carrie Mae Weems

All That Passes Before You, from the series Roaming, 2006
Wikpedia - "Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953) is an award winning photopher and artist. Her photophs, films, and videos have been displayed in over 50 exhibitions in the United States and abroad and focus on serious issues that face African Americans today, such as racism, gender relations, politics, and personal identity."
Wikipedia, PPOW, Jack Shainman Gallery

Helen Mirra

Orange Boulder Lichen, 2007
"Helen Mirra's work occurs in varied scrap media. It is often referred to as poetic, and indeed Mirra engages is as much in the in metrical as in the lyrical."
Helen Mirra, Peter Freeman, Video Data Bank

Lucinda Childs

Wikipedia - "Childs is most famous for being able to turn the slightest movements into an intricate chorographic mastrepiece. Her use of pattrens, repetition, and dialect has caused her to have a unique style of choreography that is often imitated for its ability to experiment."
Wikipedia, Lucinda Childa, The Dance Insider, Robert Wilson, YouTube, (1)

Massimo Vitali

lens culture - "The images are crowded and dense and rich with banal detail. Large masses of people congregate closely together - trying to relax or play - while wedged between the sea and man-made industrial urban landscapes."
lens culture, Bill Charles Represents, artnet

Big Mama Thornton

Wikipedia - "Willie Mae ('Big Mama') Thornton (December 11, 1926 - July 25, 1984) was an American Texas blues, rhythm and blues (R&B) singer, and songwriter. She was the first to record the hit song 'Hound Dog' in 1952."
Wikipedia, Google, YouTube, (1)

Euro 2008

NYT

NYT - "The continent's quadrennial soccer championship, hosted this year by Switzerland and Austria, ends on Sunday here."

UEFA, BBC, ESPN, NYT..In Battle for Vienna: Soccer 1, Culture 0

Antony Gormley

"Over the last 25 years Antony Gormley has revitalised the human image in sculpture through a radical investigation of the body as a place of memory and transformation, using his own body subject, tool and material."
Antony Gormley, Wikipedia, IAIRP, YouTube

Elger Esser

Donald Goddard - "Most of the places are along shores or rivers. Usually the horizon is straight and rather low, as in Dutch landscape paintings of the 17th century. Some are of towns, particularly old Italian hill towns."
New Yokk Art World, elger esser, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

WebUrbanist

"15 (More) Amazing Tree Houses from Around the World: Unusual, Ecological and Inspired Designs - Amazing tree houses aren't just for children anymore - in fact, some are so well mede and carefully detailed, they rival most people's homes."
WebUrbanist, (1)

Greg Girard

"Beginning in 1998, Girard's extensive investigation into the accelerated metamorphosis of Shanghai looks at a historical city that will not withstand China's drive for economical developmant."
Vancouver

Philippe Jaccottet

Bloodaxe Books - "Born in Switzerland in 1925, Philippe Jaccottet is one of the most prominent figures of the immediate post-war generation of French poets."
Bloodaxe Books, Wikipedia, Judith Bishop, KB,

Carol Marino

Storm in the Retreat
"In reaction to the industrial landscape of Pittsburgh, where she grew up, Marino responds to her present, comparatively untouched environment with a certain instinctive attachmant to it."
Corkin Gallery

Philip Johnson

Wikipedia - "Philip Cortelyou Johnsom (July 8, 1906 - January 25, 2005) was an influential American architect. With his thick, round-framed glasses, Johnson was the most recognizable figure in American architecture for decades."
Wikipedia, Philip Johnson

Fernando Botero

Wikipedia - " Fernando Botero Angulo (born April 19, 1932 in Medellin, Antioquia) is a Colombian neo-figurative artist, self-titled 'the most Colombian of Colombian artists' early on, coming to prominence when he won the first prize at the Salon de Artistas Colombianos in 1959."
Wikipedia, My Hero, Fernando Botero

Saul Leiter

Foot on 8, 1954

"In both his fashion and more personal work Leiter has made an enormous contribution in the area of colour photography. His distinctively subdued colour and abstracted forms often have a paintedly quality that stand out among the work of his contemporaries."
Faggionato Fine Art

Laurie Anderson

Wikipedia - "Laurie Anderson (born ... on June 5, 1947, in Glen Ellyn, Illnois) is an American experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles."
Wikipedia, Laurie Anderson, art:21, YouTube, (1), (2)

Jane and Louise Wilson

The Silence is Twice as Fast Backwards !, 2008
"Continuing to investigate the realms of subliminal experience, Jane and Louise Wilson will present thier sound installation 'The Silence is Twice as Fast Backwards'."
303 gallery

Hans Weigand

Garten der Luste (Garden of Eathly Delights), 2006
"A glance at the printed lying around in Hans Weigand's Vienna studio gives a first hint of the elements that make up his visual world."
Arndt & Partner

Slavery by Another Name

Slavery by Another Name - "With no means to pay theae ostensible 'debts,' prisoners were sold as forced laborers to coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries and farm plantations."
Slavery by Another Name

Bob Wills

Texas Playboys - "Truly, it was the middle of nowhere, the unlikely little Texas town of Turkey that folk, country, cowboy, jazz and blues began to mix together in the mind of a young man who would lead the way in a sound we now call Western Swing."
Texas Playboys, Bob Wills, Wikipedia, Famous Texans, YouTube, (1), (2),