Robert Capa

Wikipedia - "Robert Capa (Budapest, October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was born Andre Friedmann. A self-proclaimed 'photo-journalist,' he was a 20th century combat photographer who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War."
Wikipedia, PBS

José Clemente Orozco

La Trinchera
Wikipedia- "José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican social realist painter, who specialized in bold murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros, and others."
Wikipedia, PBS, WFU

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto - "I'm a habitual self-interlocutor. Around the time I started photographing at the Natural History Museum, one evening I had a near-hallucinatory vision."
Hiroshi Sugimoto

Barack Obama

"The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents."
NYTimes, Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address, MySpace, CNN, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, BBC

Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity."
American Rhetoric, (1), Martin Luther King, Jr., Research & Education Institute, Martin Luther King, Jr., MLK Online, NYTimes. Democracy Now!

Vik Muniz

Wikipedia - "Vik Muniz made two detailed replicas of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa: one out of jelly and the other out of peanut butter. He has also worked in sugar, wire, thread, and Bosco Chocolate Syrup, out of which he produced a recreation of Leonardo's Last Supper."
Wikipedia, Vik Muniz, artnet, PBS

Charles Olson

Wikipedia - "Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970), was an important 2nd generation American modernist poet who was a crucial link between earlier figures like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, a rubric which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance."
Wikipedia, EPC, Modern American Poetry, The Charles Olson Research Collection, Other Poets, Looking For Oneself, YouTube, Polis Is This

Feminist movement

"The feminist movement (also known as the Women's Movement or Women's Liberation) is a series of campaigns on issues such as reproductive rights (sometimes including abortion), domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, sexual harassment, and sexual violence."
Wikipedia, Wikipedia - 1, CWLU, Encycloperia of Chicago, Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement

Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943

Buster Ezell
"'Now What a Time': Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 consists of approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia."
The Library of Congress

Leaves of Gold

"Illuminated manuscripts are hand-produced books that include drawn, painted, and gilded decoration on pages made of vellum, a specially prepared and polished animal skin."
Leaves of Gold

Hard Format

Silent Room, Skoltz Kolgen
"However, Hard Format isn’t intended to become a dusty museum devoted exclusively to past glories, though there’ll certainly be some of that, we also want to highlight the brilliant new design work being produced right now."
Hard Format

Tadashi Kawamata

Catedral de Cadeiras, Ville de Reims France 2007
"Kawamata's works are ingenious simulations of urban situations - roads, bridges, passages, 'private' spaces - they are unreal, unrealistic and non-functional objects. The artist relates to the urban chaos of modern cities which is invisible at first glance because it is hidden behind rational, planned structures."
Tadashi Kawamata, Tadashi Kawamata - 1, YouTube, (1)

Elger Esser

Cutting Wharf I, 2007
"They seem to be more related to the earliest photography in their romantic static's. Theses in faded yellow dipped landscapes, mostly taken in France and Italy, are in strange kind of transition; all the details are correct, nothing has been retouched, but still everything seems to be unreal and remote."
Elger Esser

Mail art

Wikipedia - "Mail artists typically exchange ephemera in the form of illustrated letters, zines, rubberstamped, decorated or illustrated envelopes, artist trading cards, postcards, artistamps, faux postage, mail-interviews, naked mail, friendship books, decos, and three-dimensional objects. An amorphous international mail art network, involving thousands of participants in over fifty countries, evolved between the 1950s and the 1990s. It was influenced by other movements, including Dada and Fluxus."
Wikipedia, U. Texas, Mail Art Postcard Exhibition, R., Mail Art To And From Dan Waber, P22 Mail Art, mailart

MTA: Arts for Transit

Felipe Galindo, 231st Street, Magic Realism in Kingsbridge, 2008
"MTA Arts for Transit commissions public art that is seen by hundreds of thousands of city-dwellers as well as national and international visitors who use the New York City Transit, Metro-North Railroad, Long Island Rail Road, and Bridges & Tunnels."
Arts for Transit

Sam Cooke

Wikipedia - "Sam Cooke (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964) was an American gospel, R&B, soul, and pop singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. He is considered to be one of the pioneers and founders of soul music."
Wikipedia, Google, Sam Cooke, Daily Motion, LiveVideo, You Tube, (1), (2)

The Story of India

Arches of Agra Fort
PBS - "The world's largest democracy and a rising economic giant, India is now as well known across the globe for its mastery of computer technology as it is for its many-armed gods and its famous spiritual traditions. But India is also the world's most ancient surviving civilization, with unbroken continuity back into prehistory."
PBS, Wikipedia, BBC

Mary Heebner

Folio #2
Wikipedia - "Mary Heebner (b. April 19, 1951 in Los Angeles, California) is an artist known for paintings — especially abstract landscape paintings — artist books and paper making."
Wikipedia, Mary Heebner

Ralph Albert Blakelock

Wikipedia - "Blakelock's early landscapes have their genesis in the style of the Hudson River school of painters. In time, he developed a more subjective and intimate style."
Wikipedia, artnet

Glenn Branca

Wikipedia - "Glenn Branca (born October 6, 1948 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is a highly-influential avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternate tuned guitars, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series."
Wikipedia, glenn branca, You Tube, (1), (2)

Mal Smart

a few photo's by / Mal, vfxy, ONEXPOSURE

Rainer Gross

Berman Twins
ART in AMERICA, April 2005, Michael Amy - "You can brush, trowel, press, throw, squirt, drip or pour paint onto a canvas, or stain it with diluted medium. It has all been done. Rainer Gross makes paint adhere to the support in yet another way in order to arriving at compelling abstract compositions."
Rainer Gross, artnet

François Truffaut

Wikipedia - "François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was an influential filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave; and remains an icon of the French film industry. In a film career lasting just over a quarter of a century, he was also a screenwriter, producer or actor in over twenty-five films."
Wikipedia, IMDb, senses of cinema

Gustave Caillebotte

Les raboteurs parquet, 1875
Wikipedia - "Gustave Caillebotte (19 August 1848–21 February 1894), was a French painter, member and patron of the group of artists known as Impressionists, though he painted in a much more realistic manner than many other artists in the group. Caillebotte was noted for his early interest in photography as an artform."
Wikipedia

Einstürzende Neubauten

Wikipedia - "The band is often classified as industrial music. One of their 'trademarks' is the use of custom-built instruments, predominantly made out of scrap metal and building tools, and noises, in addition to standard musical instruments. Neubauten has always experimented with sounds, originally in noise music and recently in very diverse styles."
Wikipedia, Einstürzende Neubauten

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