Newgrange

Sacred Destinations - "Newgrange has been dated to about 3200 BC, during the Bronze Age. It is not known for whom the tomb was built, but it was clearly the burial of great tribal leaders."
Sacred Destinations, Wikipedia, Knowth, Newgrange

Olivier Messiaen

Wikipedia - "On the fall of France in 1940 Messiaen was made a prisoner of war, and while incarcerated he composed his Quatuor pour la fin du temps ('Quartet for the end of time') for the four available instruments, piano, violin, cello, and clarinet."
Wikipedia, YouTube, last.fm

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

PBS - "An Iraqi photojournalist from Baghdad, he has sought out Islamic militants across the Middle East, and his articles and photos have appeared in several Western newspapers."
PBS, Wikipedia, Selves and Others, YouTube, (1), (2)

Lester Bangs

Wikipedia - "Leslie Conway Bangs (December 13, 1948 - April 30, 1982) was an American music journalist, author and musician. Most famous for his at Creem and Rolling Stone magazines, Bangs was and still is regarded as an extremely influential voice in rock criticism."
Wikipedia, Perfect Sound Forever, (1), ALLLIE, RockCritics

Vietnam War Era Ephamera Collection

May 12, 1967 Helix cover
"It's not hard to define 'what' the Sixties were. Most can agree on the main ingredients: Vietnam and the explosion worldwide of wars for national liberation; civil rights and emergence of 'black power' and other cultural-identity movements...."
University of Washington Libraries

Big Apple Circus

Wikipedia - "Paul Binder and Micheal Christensen were a pair of American street jugglers who, after meeting in San Francisco, decided to travel to Europe in the early 1970s."
Wikipedia, Big Apple Circus, Wikipedia - Circus

Thomas Dworzak

"State organized demonstration marking the 24th anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the US embassy, 'The Den of Espionage', by radical students and Revolutionary Guards."
Thomas Dworzak

Nancy Holt

Captures the Sun at both Winter & Summer Solstices
Wikipedia - "Nancy Holt (born, April 5, 1938) is an American artist famous for her public sculpture, installation art and land. Throughout her career, Holt has also produced works in other mediums, including film, photography, and writing artist's books."
Wikipedia, greenmuseum.org, Video Data Bank

James McNeill Whistler

Nocturne in Black and Gold: Entrance to Southampton Water, 1872 to 1874

"James Abbott McNeill Whistler was the one revoltionary painter in the English-speaking world whom courbet, Manet, and Degas regarded as their peer and comrade-in-arms in the crusade against nineteenth century academic art."
WebMuseum, Wikipedia

Q. Sakamaki

"Since the land 80s, he has photographed New York's political, social landscape, such as issues of AIDS, homelessness, and street crimes, focusings on people suffering their human rights violation in the related poverty, discrimination, and violence."
Q. Sakamaki, Redux Pictures, NYT

The Incredible String Band

Wikipedia - "The members of the group are considered musical pioeers in psych folk and, by integrating a very wide variety of traditional music forms and instruments, in the development of world music."
Wikipedia, Wikipedia - 1, The Incredible String String Band, YouTube, (1), (2)

Dan Witz

Williamsburg, Brooklyn 2008

"Kilroy Variations 2008 Ugly New Buildings. In the past few years much of my neighborhood in Brooklyn has been torn down to make for luxury housing. For better or worse it's a whole new street-scape out here."
Dan Witz

The Marvel and Measure of Peru

Two singing entertianers of Contisyo

"When Francisco Pizarro and his fellow Spanish conquistadors first encountered Peru in 1523, they were shocked by the wholly unfamiliar world."
The Getty

Paul Blackburn

M.L. Rosenthal - "This is how Blackburn's art works: lightly, broodingly, absorbingly. The opening couplet of The Watchers takes us unawares. It is plain, casual."
Modern American Poetry, Wikipedia, EPC, PENNSOUND, Literary History

Alan Watts

Wikipedia - "Alan Wilson Watts (Jaanuary 6, 1915 - November 16, 1973) was a philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience."
Wikipedia, Alan Watts, Alan Watts Lectures and Essays, Alan Watts Resource, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Wikipedia - "His intense discipline and phenomenal creative energy when working were in violent contrast with a wild, self-destructive libertinism that earned him a reputation as the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, as well as its central figure."
Wikipedia, senses of cinema, The Fassbinder Foundation, Jim's Reviews / Fassbinder, YouTube, (1)

1930 FIFA World Cup

"Participation in a FIFA World Cup takng place overseas involved a long sea journey. Moreover, for some clubs it meant having to go without their best players for two months - a problem that is still topical today."
FIFA, Wikipedia, YouTube, (1)

Paul Gauguin

Tahitian Women on the Beach, 1891
Wikipedia - "His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his painting, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the was to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential exponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms."
Wikipedia, WebMuseum, Olga's Gallery, National Gallery of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, wbur.org

Remember Tibet

"On the occasion of the Beijing Olympics opening this upcoming August 8th 2008, we will be asking people to remember Tibet's struggle for independence against the undemocratic government of China."
Remember Tibet

Nick Cave

Wikipedia - "He is best known for his work in the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and his fascination with American music and its roots."
Wikipedia, Wikipedia - 1, Guardian - "Old Nick", Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Rhapsody, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943

The By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1942 collection consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal."
By the Peoply, For the Peoply: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943

Poor People's Campaign: A Dream Unfulfilled

Kathy Lohr - "In early 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders planned a Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C., for the spring. "
npr, Higher Pictures

Bill Knott

Robert Arnold - "Outspoken yet reclusive, lyrical but political, simultaneously tragic and comic, Bill Knott seems to specialize in self-denial."
Memorious 6, not poetry blog, Wikipedia, Bookslut, Ploughshares

Beijing 2008

NYT - "An ecstatic China finally got its Olympic moment on Friday night. And if the astonishing opening ceremonies of the 2008 Olympic Games lavised grand tribute on Chinese civilization and sought to stir an ancient nation's pride, there was also a message for an uncertain outside world: Do not worry. We mean no harm."
NYT: Olympics 2008, Rings, NYT: China's Leaders Try to Impress and Reassure World.
NBC Olympics, NBC: Opening Celemony (Video)

William Christenberry

T.B. Hick's Store in Newbern, Ala., 1976

Wikipedia - "William Christenberry (born November 5, 1936) is a photographer, painter and sculptor who works with personal and somewhat mythical themes growing out of his childhood experiences in Hale County, Alabama."
Wikipedia, Christenberry Online, npr

The Roches

Wikipedia - "The Roches (Maggie, Terre and Suzzy Roche) are a female vocal group of three songwriting sisters from Park Ridge, New Jersey, known for their unusual and rich harmonies, quirky lyrics, and casually comedic stage performances."
Wikipedia, The Roches, YouTube: The Roches Hallelujah Chorus 1982, (1), (2), (3)

Era Rock Art

"Amongst the outcrops and boulders of northern England keen eyes may spot an array of mysterious symbols carved into the rock surfaces."
Era Rock Art

Stanley Kubrick

Wikipedia - "Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 - March 7, 1999) was an influential American film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed a number of highly acclaimed and sometimes controversial films."
Wikipedia, IMDb, Stanley Kubrick: The Master Filmmaker, The Kubrick Site, MySpace

Horace Bristol

Portrait of Young Legong Dancer, Bali, 1939

Robert Miller Gallery - "One of the first staff photographers for LIFE magazing. Horace Bristol (1908 - 1997) worked aginst a backdrop of profound economic upheaval and sweeping political change."
Robert Miller Gallery, The Getty, Horace Bristol

George Tooker

Lunch, 1964
"His subjects, often of mixed sexual and racial features, are often obscured by heavy clothing and appear sagging and shapeless, trapped within their own dull worlds."
Rogallery, Ten Dreams