The Art Institute of Chicago

"Explore our online collection, which offers access to over 33,000 works and basic information about works of art from all areas of our encyclopedic collection."
The Art Institute of Chicago

Charles Matton

Manhattan Image-Souvenir (The Green Wall), 2003
"Charles Matton will exhibit sculptures which relate to the box constructions. While some are larger-size realizations of the miniature maquettes in the boxes, others are sculptures that could have been been made by the artists whose studios are represented by the boxes."
Forum Gallery, Giornale Nuovo, The Bruce Museum of Arts and Science

Imre Kinszki

Andrassy ut (Street Kiosk), 1930

"Kinszki was born in Budapest in 1901. It is known that his first photographs were taken in 1921. He was first published in News of the Photograph in 1931 and in 1932 he wrote an article on the Bauhaus aesthetic."
Luminous Lint

Fela Kuti

Wikipedia - "Fela Anikulapo Kuti (born Olufela Olusegun Oludrotun Ransome-Kuti, October 15, 1938 - August 2, 1997), orsimply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, poineer of Afrobeat music, humun rights activist, and political maverick."
Wikipedia, The Shrine, FelaRadioShrine, Fela Project, Discography, YouTube, (1)

Jane Dickson

IRT West Side Line, Times Square/42nd Street
"Jane Dickson has been exhibition her painting, drawings and prints in museums and galleries domestically and internationally for two decades."
Jane Dickson, NYC Subway

Galaxy Zoo

"Thank for making Galaxy Zoo such a success! With your help, we've been able to collect millions of classifications, with which to do science faster than we ever thought possible."
Galaxy Zoo

Faces of Africa

Ibo figure (Nigeria)
Galerie Simon Blais - "Largely unknown fifty years ago, the usually wooden objects and sculptures of Lobi art, beyond their primarily ritual and sacrificial function, have an affinity with some Western folk tradition."
Galerie Simon Blais

New Acquisitions

Charles Burchfield, Tents at Twilight, 1918
Forum Gallery - "New Acquisitions will showcase thirty works new to the gallery in the last year, and will include large and small-scale paintings, dramatic sculpture and important drawings by Forum Gallery roster artists and twentieth century contemporary masters."
Forum Gallery

Anne Taintor

"Learn a thing or two about domestic bliss from these women on the edge in Anne Tiantor's delicious new collection of saucy, sassy artwork."
Anne Taintor

Sand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor

The Sand Dune (circa 1871-1872) - Winslow Homer
The Parrish Art Museum - "Sand: Memory, Meaning, and Metaphor considers one of earth's most fundamental elements takes a fascinating look into the myriad ways in which artists have explored sand's physical and metaphysical properties."
The Parrish Art Museum, NYT, artlog

Susanne Linke

Wikipedia - "Susanne Linke (born 19 June 1944 in Luneburg) is a German dancer and freelance choreographer important in the development of Tanztheater in Germany and contemporary dance internationally."
Wikipedia, clicha artist situation, Jeanne Ruddy Dance, Culture Kiosque Dance: Reviews, NYT

Putumayo World Music

"Putumayo World Music is a New York City based record label, specialising in folk, Latin and Afro-Cuban music, as well as other genres that may be classified as world music. It was established in 1993."
Wikipedia, Putumayo World Music

Gerd Arntz (1900-1988)

"Already as a young man, born in a German family of traders and manufacturers, Gerd Arntz was a socially inspired and politically committed artist."
Gerd Arntz

Tour de France 2008

Wikipedia - "The Tour de France started in 1903 and is the world's largest cycle race. It is a 23-day, 21-stage bicycle road race usually run over more than 3,500 kilometres (2,200 mi)."
Wikipedia, Tour de France 2008 Live Dashboard, NYT: The 21 Stages of the Tour de France, The Climb, CBS Sports: Tour de France, Cycling News, YouTube

Sidney D. Gamble Photographs

"From 1908 to 1932, Sidney Gambey (1890-1968) visited China four times, traveling throughout the country to collect data for social-economic surveys and to photograph urban and rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary, and the countryside."
Duke Univ. Libraries

Romeo Void

Wikipedia - "They are best known for the songs 'Never Say Never' (1982) and 'A Girl in Trouble (Is a Temporary Thing)' (1984), which were minor hits, with the latter becoming a Top 40 pop single."
Wikipedia, YouTube, MySpace

Antonio Lopez Garcia

Wikipedia - "Antonio Lopez Garcia (born Tomelloso, Ciuded Real, 1936) is a Spanish painted and sculptur, known for his realistic style. He is criticized by some art critics for neo-academism, but praised by others, like Robert Hughes, who consider him a master realist."
Wikipedia, Antonio Lopez Garcia, mfa Boston,

Irene Suchocki

"Irene creates little poems for the eyes through her explorations of the ethereal, the surreal, the whimsical, the mysterious, and the beautiful."
Irene Suchocki

Gavin Bryars

"Richard Gavin Bryars (born 16 January 1943) is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in, or has produced works in, a variety of styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, experimental music, avant-garde and neoclassicism."
Wikipedia, Gavin Bryars, MySpace, last-fm, YouTube, (1)

Transit Maps of the World

Transit Maps of the World - "Most maps in this book are what we would now call schematics or diagrams because, essentially, in many cities the highly detailed togogaphic map has evolved into a simple route diagram as a more effective way to envision and thus navigate the labyrinth of urban rail tunnels right beneath our feet."
amazon.com, UrbanRail.Net, List of railway stations
New York - MTA, IND/BMT/IRT, The Independent Subway, NYC Subway, Making Light
Boston - Massachusette Bay Transportation Authority, Green Line (MBTA), Wikipedia, Massroads.com, NYC, YouTube
Montreal - STM, Montreal by Metro, Montreal Metro, STM - 1, NYC, YouTube
Paris - Paris Metro, RATP, RATP (pdf), ratp.fr

Timothy Horn

"About half his work is done on location, or 'plein air', and the rest is done in his studio from studies or photographs."
Timothy Horn

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