Jindrich Stysky


1934
"This—the inaugural exhibition of Ubu Gallery—consisted of a rare group of photographs by the Czech avant-garde artist, Jindrich Styrsky (1899-1942). These photographs were the basis for the artist’s surrealist masterpiece, On the Needles of These Days, published clandestinely in 1941 with original photographs and more widely in 1945 with gravure reproductions."
Ubu Gallery

Mister Peabody


"Peabody appeared in these segments alongside 'his boy' Sherman (in a twist on the 'boy and his dog' cliché). Peabody, who was a genius, decided to adopt Sherman so he'd have some company in his life. Sherman's personality was that of a naive but fairly bright, energetic young boy. They both wore black, over-sized horn-rimmed glasses."
Wikipedia

Harry Crosby


Wikipedia - "Harry Crosby (June 4, 1898 – December 10, 1929) was an American heir, bon vivant, poet, and for some, an exemplar of the Lost Generation in American literature."
Wikipedia, Modern American Poetry, Literary Kicks, Cosmic Baseball Assoiation, Fascicle - Issue03

Milky Way Transit Authority



"Urban transit maps are wonderful tools: they are guides to traveling, they serve as mechanisms for distilling and abstracting a city down to a set of linkages and interconnections, and they are beautiful."
Milky Way Transit Authority

Elizalice's Art


Brooklyn 10
Brooklyn Art Project

Guillaume Zuili


Victory Day (Moscow 3), 2000
"For a few years now, Guillaume Zuili is exploring urban universes. In Black and white, using the double exposure process, he is drawing the portrait of Paris, Berlin and Moscow that reveals the layers of time and history of those cities."
Agence, Guillaume Zuili

Still-Life Painting in Northern Europe, 1600-1800


A Basket of Flowers, Jan Brueghel the Younger (Flemish, 1601-1678)
"Still-life painting as an independent genre or specialty first flourished in the Netherlands during the early 1600s, although German and French painters (for example, Georg Flegel and Sebastien Stoskopff...) were also early participants in the development, and less continuous traditions of Italian and Spanish still-life painting date from the same period."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Laura Blau


"Reconsidering the truth of my remembered reality, through objects and documentation remaining accessible over the years, was a driving force for this body of works. The process began while sorting through drawers, shelves and closets in my parents’ house, uncovering forgotten matter, fragments of my past, proof that I was there, with these possessions, at various stages of my life."
Laura Blau

Solidarity


Wikipedia - "Solidarity ... is a Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard, and originally led by Lech Wałęsa."
Wikipedia, BBC

Robin Rhode


Stone Flag
Wikipedia - "Working predominantly with everyday material like charcoal, chalk and paint, Rhode started out creating performances that are based on his own drawings of objects that he interacts with. He expanded and refined this practice into creating photography sequences and digital animations."
Wikipedia, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Walker Art, Toxel

Alberto Korda


"Korda had two main passions in life: his photography which the world saw, and his passion for women which his friends and colleagues saw. Korda also loved fashion – mainly because of the beautiful models, however fashion photography was not a custom at that time in Cuba, so Korda began his photography career taking photos for advertisements."
Alberto Korda, Wikipedia, ArtScene

Sicilian Defence


Miguel Najdorf
Wikipedia - "The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. e4 c5. The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4."
Wikipedia, W - Najdorf Variation, W - Dragon Variation

Grolier Poetry Bookshop


Wikipedia - "The Grolier Poetry Bookshop ('Grolier's') is an independent bookstore on Plympton Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Although founded as a 'fine-arts' bookstore, its focus today is solely poetry."
Wikipedia, W - Elsa Dorfman, The Poetry Porch

The Internet Bird Collection


Slate-crowned Antpitta
Ferran Gil - "This will give access to uploading videos and photos (sound recordings will come soon)! As we are still in beta, some functionalities are not as good as they will be, so please be patient and let us know if you find any problems."
IBC

Film noir


Wikipedia - "Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize moral ambiguity and sexual motivation. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s."
Wikipedia, Wikipedia (1), Film Noir: Foundation, Film noir Studies, The Criterion Collection, Crime Culture, Film Noir and Neo-Noir

Debbie Fleming Caffery


Darius Himes - "Mexico is a misunderstood land steeped in paradoxes. The depth of culture and richness of family and landscape is lost under a cloak of poverty and modern economic distress, breeding misunderstandings and stereotypes that are rarely questioned."
Debbie Fleming Caffery

John Everett Millais


Ophelia, 1852
Wikipedia - "Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood."
Wikipedia

Zineb Sedira


Self Portraits or the Trinity (2000)
"How to negotiate different worlds is the overriding question in Zineb Sedira’s work, worlds that collide and conflict. It is precisely her Algerian heritage and her experience of living in London and France that gives Zineb’s work insight into these different worlds."
Zineb Sedira, 24 Hour Museum

Johann Fournier


Johann Fournier

Early Twentieth-Century Russian Drama


Natalia Goncharova, 1881-1962
"There have been only a handful of periods in world cultural history when the theater was the leading form-Athens of the 5th century BC, Elizabethan England, and Russia/the Soviet Union from the 1890s to the 1930s."
Northwestern University Dept. of Slavic Languages and Liberatures

Kurt Kuenne


IMDb - "Kurt Kuenne is an award-winning filmmaker and composer of both fiction and documentary films. He grew up in Silicon Valley, where he began making films as soon as he was old enough to pick up a camera."
IMDb, Dear Zachary, YouTube, (1), veoh

Yoko Ono


aiu: a yoko ono - "By the mid-1960s Yoko Ono was an established figure in the underground art scene; she had begun performing musical pieces, presented events with a loosely affiliated group of artists who worked under the name Fluxus, published a book of instructional poems entitled Grapefruit (e.g. "Hammer a nail in the center of a piece of glass. Send a fragment to an arbitrary address."), and was making films."
aiu: a yoko ono, Wikipedia, IK!, SFMOMA, MySpace, YouTube, (1), (2)

Leah Evans


Development
"My quilted wall hangings consist of layers of the following techniques: appliqué, reverse appliqué, piecing, natural and synthetic dyeing, needle-felting, hand printing, and a variety of embroidery stitches. There is an overall balance between hand and machine work."
Leah Evans

The African Rock 'N' Roll Years

"Dazzling six-part series telling the full story of African music, from the desert blues of the Sahara to the dance music of the Congo."
BBC, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

Painting in Nature around 1800


Classical Landscape with Figures and Sculpture, Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 1788
"This exhibition focuses on the practice of painting sur le motif—in nature—as it developed in Europe during the late 1700s and early 1800s."
The Getty

Amarna Project


"The ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna (or simply Amarna) was the short-lived capital built by the ‘heretic’ Pharaoh Akhenaten and abandoned shortly after his death (c. 1332 BCE). It was here that he pursued his vision of a society dedicated to the cult of one god, the power of the sun (the Aten)."
Amarna Project

April Gornik


"I am an artist that values, above all, the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically. I make art that makes me question, that derives its power from being vulnerable to interpretation, that is intuitive, that is beautiful."
April Gornik

Three Belgian Autochromists


Woman and girl by a brook - c. 1910. Corbet.
"The subject of these lectures focused on the autochromes of Charles Corbet, Paul Sano and Alfonse Van Besten."
Three Belgian Autochromists

UBU: Pina Bausch

Directed by Anna Linsel, Germany, 2006. "Before choreographer Pina Bausch and her Tanz-theater Wuppertal were known around the world, her new, unusual and body language ill-received." Germany...
UBU

Henry Cowell


Wikipedia - "Henry Cowell (March 11, 1897 - December 10, 1965) was an American composer, musical theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario."
Wikipedia, Subversive Prophet: Henry Cowell as Theorist and Critic, University Libraries Music Library

Protecting the Word: Bookbidings of the Morgan


Roger Bartlett Mosaic Binding
"Begun energetically by Pierpont Morgan himself before the turn of the twentieth century, the collection has grown to over 1,000 volumes."
The Morgan Library & Museum

White Nights: Russia After the Gulag


"Two years later, the Bolsheviks sentenced 70,000 men, women and children to corrective Labour Camps, as they were now called."
Donald Weber

The Flatiron Building


"Designed by the Chicago architect Daniel Burnham, known for his skyscraper, this steel-framed terra-cotta and stone-clad skyscaper represents this developers' first (and ultimately unsuccessful) attempt to create a new business center north of Wall Street."
New York Architecture

Christmas under Fire (1941)

"All of the fims available to view here are from the BFI National Archive - the world's largest and most diverse film and TV archive."
YouTube

Clare Leighton


Loading, 1931
Wikipedia - "Clare Veronica Hope Leighton (1899-1989) was an English/American artist, writer and illustrator, best known for her wood engravings."
Wikipedia, Artwork, Paramour Fine Arts

Liza Lou


"Liza Lou is an art whose work combines visonary, conceptual, traditional and vernacular approaches to create a new kind of scuptural experience."
Deitch

Florin Ion Firimita


The Summer You Turned Into a Butterfly
"The journeys are soul searching. I never view a piece of art by Florin and walk away unchanged. I've had a conversation. We've exchanged important ideas. His works of art make me think more carefully about the work of living."
artspan

Alex Kanevsky


"The life cycle of a wave is measured in seconds, and because of that each painting is not an image of a particular wave, but a cumulative image of waves observed over several days in various conditions."
Alex Kanevsky

Otis Redding


Wikipedia - "...synonymous with the term soul, music that arose out of the blues experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm and blues into a form of funky, secular testifying."
Wikipedia, Google, Otis Redding, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

ICE: A Victorian Romance


William Hulme Hooper, The Months among the Tants of the Tuski, 1853
"In 1818, the British began infatuation with the Arctic. It started innocently enough, with the Admiralty trying to find an outlet for naval officers and seamen who had been idled by the end of the Napoleonic wars."
A Victorian Romance

Runa Islam


White Cube - "Runa Islam makes film and video installations that use overlapping layers of narrative to explore notions to truth and fiction, subjectivity and authorship."
White Cube, Tate, Wikipedia

William S. Burroughs's "The Junky's Christmas"

Guardian - "Wading through the sentimental seasonal schlock online, we fell on this moody, gritty little yuletide masterpiece for blessed relief."
Guardian - (1), (2)

Digital Snow Museum


Central Park, New York City, February 21, 1929.
Digital Snow Museum

Bernadette Mayer


Wikipedia - "Bernadette Mayer (born May 12, 1945) in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is a poet and prose writer."
Wikipedia, EPC, PENNSOUND

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy


Botticelli, The Banquet in the Pinewoods
Met Museum - "This exhibition explores the various exceptional objects creates to celebrate love and marriage in the Italian Renaissance."
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

Silent Night


Wikipedia - "Silent Night (Stille Night, heilige Nacht) is a popular Christmas carol."
Wikipedia, another 120 languages, English (Sinead O'Connor), German, Irish (Enya), Arapaho (Jana Mashonnee), Russian, Norwegian, Spanish (Gloria Estefan). Simon & Garfunkel, Bing Crosby, Stevie Nicks, Johnny Cash and Friends, Tammy Wynette, Cats. Merry Xmas ... twoleftfeet.

Six Degrees of Barack Obama


TIME - "Though he never appeared in Footloose, Barack Obama does have connections to every one of his Person of the Year predecessors, from initial Charles Lindbergh (1927) to inanimats like the Personal Compoter (1982) and the Earth (1988)."
TIME, Wikipedia, Cafe Press

Robert Bresson


Wikipedia - "Robert Bresson .. (September 25, 1901 - December 18, 1999) was a French film diretor known for his spiritual, ascetic style."
Wikiipedia, Robert Bresson, senses of cinema

Theo Ellsworth


"Theo Ellsworth is a self-taught artist living in Portland, Oregon. He writes and draws comics, makes art zings, draws constantly, and on occasion, teaches workshops."
Art Capacity

Year by Year 1930-1931


James Van Der Zee (1886-1983), Evening Attire
"After World War I, architects in Europe and the US were full of new ideas. They now thought of buildings not only only as prototypes for the future of architecture but also as an integral part of their surroundings, whether rural, suburban, or urban."
Art of the 20th Century

cabaio/stencilsysem


Wooster Collective - cabaio/stencitsysem

Man Ray


Spanish Hands
Wikipedia - "Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal."
Wikipedia, artnet, Art Minimal & Conceptual Only, PBS

Art and China's Revolution


Asia Society - "The exhibition brings together large-scale oil paintings, ink paintings, sculptures, drawings and artist sketchbooks, woodblock prints, posters, and objects from everyday life, many never before shown in the United States."
Art and China's Revolution, The Brooklyn Rail

Auguste Rodin


The Kiss
Wikipedia - "Auguste Rodin (born Francois-Auguste-Rene Rodin; 12 November 1840- 17 November 1917) was a French artist, most famous as a sculptor. He was the preeminent French sculptor of his time, and remains one of the few sculptors widely recognized outside the visual arts community."
Wikipedia, Rodin, Rodin Museum