Romanywg / Jeremy Gibbs

Least Wanted - 'Chicago 1221'
"JUSTICE is a concept show based on themes of Law and Order that all five artists (C215, Dan23, Bruno Leyval, Least Wanted and MC1984) have been committed to for the past three months, and have been working very hard to make it a special show."
flickr, (1)

Loris Cecchini

"Comprised of thousands of plastic balls surrounding an internal framework of aluminum ladders, the work continues Cecchini's investigation of how space is defined. Utilizing a formal vocabulary and lines of inquiry reminiscent of architects like Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, Cecchini creates a nearly abstract, voluminous mass, evoking a weightless body of epic proportions."
P.S.1, BNET, Galleria Continua

Robert Longo

Wikipedia - "Although he studied sculpture, drawing remained Longo's favorite form of self-expression. However, the sculptural influence pervades his drawing technique, as Longo's 'portraits' have a distinctive chiseled line that seems to give the drawings a three-dimensional quality."
Wikipedia, Google, Robert Longo, artnet

Erik Satie

Wikipedia - "Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde. He was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, repetitive music, and the Theatre of the Absurd."
Wikipedia, Erik Satie, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

The Great Depression

Wikipedia - "The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn starting in most places in 1929 and ending at different times in the 1930s or early 1940s for different countries. It was the largest and most important economic depression in the 20th century, and is used in the 21st century as an example of how far the world's economy can fall."
Wikipedia, Modern American Poetry, PBS, The Library of Congress

Zheng Duanxiang

Coming Tempest No. 4, 2007
"The photographs of Zheng Duanxiang are not a simple record of moments in time. His manner of taking photos is much the same as that of a lost person trying to find their way in the dark; or to put it another way, a depiction that reveals the flesh and bones of reality in the dark."
55, 1918 ArtSpace

Meredith Monk - "Ellis Island"

"Meredith Monk's 'Ellis Island' is a haunting, reflective piece on Ellis Island and the immigrants who passed through there. Black-and-white, near-static shots of actors and actresses realistically portraying turn-of-the-century immigrants are combined with color shots of a modern-day tour guide conducting a tour of the buildings."
UbuWeb, Ellis Island - PDF

Bauhaus

Wikipedia - "The Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar. In spite of its name, and the fact that its founder was an architect, the Bauhaus did not have an architecture department during the first years of its existence. The Bauhaus style became one of the most influential currents in Modernist architecture and modern design."
Wikipedia

Hagia Sophia

Wikipedia - "Famous in particular for its massive dome, it is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture. It was the largest cathedral in the world for nearly a thousand years, until the completion of the Seville Cathedral in 1520."
Hagia Sophia, Sacred Destinations

CBGB

Charlie Doherty - "New York natives Living Colour are no strangers to the legendary and as of 2006, deceased NYC CBGB rock club, which supported live acts for 33 years."
CBGB OMFUG Masters - Live August 19, 2005 - The Bowery Collection, CBGB - Virtual Tour, Wikipedia, YouTune

Magnificent 11

The Bellelli Sisters, Edgar Degas
"Eleven of LACMA’s permanently held artworks made the Times list. In era, subject, and form they are profoundly varied, ranging from ancient sandstone dryads to Georges de La Tour's seventeenth-century The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame to Vija Celmins’ monumental enamel-on-wood comb of 1970."
LACMA, Art Babble

Wim Mertens

Wikipedia - "Wim Mertens (b. Neerpelt, Belgium, May 14, 1953) is a Flemish Belgian composer, countertenor vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist."
Wikipedia, Wim Mertens, The Belgian Pop & Rock Archives, Discogs, MySpace, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

Keith Haring

Into the Groove
Wikipedia - "Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s."
Wikipedia, K. Haring, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Poetic Realism

"Port of Shadows"
Wikipedia - "Poetic realism was a film movement in France leading up to World War II. More a tendency than a movement, Poetic Realism is not strongly unified like Soviet Montage or French Impressionism."
Wikipedia, The Criterion Collection

Yang Fudong

Seven Intellectuals In a Bamboo Forest
"Yang Fudong’s films and photographs articulate multiple perspectives. His works investigate the structure and formation of identity through myth, personal memory and lived experience. Each of his works is a dramatic existential experience and a challenge to take on."
ShanghART Gallery, The Renaissance Society, BNET, Hans Ulrich Obrist

Weavings of War

"Weavings of War: Fabrics of Memory accompanies a landmark traveling exhibit of textiles depicting the horrors of war, by women from Central and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and South Africa."
Weavings of War

Jorge Colombo

Times Online - "The iPhone is great for everything from gaming, social networking and figuring out where the heck you are once you get lost. But you wouldn’t have thought it would be a great tool for artists. Until now."
Times Online, Jorge Colombo

Giorgio Barrera

"Thus when we see open windows appearing inside an image, the impression we always get is that of a painting within a painting or a photograph within a photograph a further framing that is at times capable of absorbing and blanking out the function of the first and more decisive act of framing."
photo.box.sk, Giorgio Barrera, Fondazione Studio Marangoni

Chelsea Visits Havana

"Hundreds of Cubans packed into Havana's Museo De Bellas Artes for the launch of the first major US contemporary art exhibition to be shown here for almost a quarter of a century."
Art exhibition fuels US-Cuba thaw - BBC, NYT, format, The Art Newspaper

Moleskine

"Welcome to the new Moleskine website. Please take the time to explore our new contents and features, including the new MSK format."
Moleskine, Moleskine en masse, Wikipedia, Moleskine - UK, Black Cover

Alexander Rodchenko and Lyubov Popova

"For Alexander Rodchenko and Lyubov Popova, the entire fabric of daily existence - from biscuit packets to book jackets - served a revolutionary vision."
New Statesman, MoMA, Wikipedia, Culture 24, Tate

Graffiti Ren

"Classical art, improved with spraypaint..."
Worth1000

The Raincoats

Wikipedia - "The Raincoats are a post-punk band and were formed in 1977 by Ana da Silva (vocals, guitar) and Gina Birch (vocals, bass) while they were students at Hornsey College of Art, London, England."
Wikipedia, MySpace, The Raincoats, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Kevin Bauman

"My landscapes, however, do not always reflect the idyllic scene most often portrayed by the traditional landscape photograph or painting, but ranges from serene Lake Superior sunsets to chaotic post-industrial landscapes of urban Detroit."
Kevin Bauman

Social realism

Eviction Scene, Henry Jones Thaddeus (1889)
Wikipedia - "Social Realism, also known as Socio-Realism, is an artistic movement, expressed in the visual and other realist arts, which depicts social and racial injustice, economic hardship, through unvarnished pictures of life's struggles; often depicting working class activities as heroic."
Wikipedia

Fuzzbox

Wikipedia - "A fuzzbox (or fuzz box) is a type of effects pedal comprising an amplifier and a clipping circuit, which generates a distorted version of the input signal. As opposed to other distortion guitar effects pedals, a fuzzbox boosts and clips the signal sufficiently to turn a standard sine wave input into a waveform that is much closer to a square wave output."
Wikipedia, Dailymotion, (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (8)

Maya Deren

Wikipedia - "Maya Deren (April 29, 1917, Kiev – October 13, 1961, New York City), born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, poet, writer and photographer."
Wikipedia, senses of cinema, Maya Deren Forum, Meshes of the Afternoon, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

James Castle

"James Castle: Portrait of an Artist renders Castle's life and creative process, as told by family members, art historians, curators, artists, collectors and members of the deaf community. A true case of triumph of the spirit, James Castle's story is one of monumental achievement. Castle used drawings to examine everything in sight."
J CRIST GALLERY, Greg Kucera Gallery, Gallery Paule Anglim, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Univers Zero

Wikipedia - "Univers Zero are an instrumental Belgian band known for playing dark music heavily influenced by 20th century chamber music. The band was formed in 1974 by drummer Daniel Denis. For a time they were part of a musical movement called Rock in Opposition (RIO) which strove to create dense challenging music, a direct contrast to the disco and punk music being produced in the late 1970s."
Wikipedia, MySpace, Univers Zero, Cuneiform Records, last.fm, Photographies

Jean-Baptiste Debret

Indians Crossing a Creek (The Slave Hunter), circa 1820-1830
Wikipedia - "Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768-1848) was a French painter, who produced many valuable lithographs depicting the people of Brazil."
Wikipedia, postershop.com, Google

Michael Anderson

Black Panther Apocalypto, 2007
"Advertising provides the material, appropriation is the mode of operation, and collage is the medium of my artistic creation/recycling. To create my collages, I use international street posters, taken from the streets of such far-flung places as Mexico City, Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Rome and, of course my hometown favorite, NYC. The fragments of thousands of posters are re-arranged in a painterly fashion to create the composition and imagery of an individual piece."
... the Art of Michael Anderson ...

Barcelona 1908

"Placed on the driver’s cabin, the camera seems to lead the way! And off we go to the prestigious Paseo de Gracia, the Calle Salmeron, before driving through Lesseps Square…"
Barcelona en Tranvia

Diego Rivera

The Flower Carrier
Wikipedia - "He was a world-famous Mexican painter, an active Communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo, 1929-1939 and 1940-1954 (her death). Rivera's large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Renaissance. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals in Mexico City, Chapingo, Cuernavaca, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City."
Wikipedia, PBS, Olga's Gallery

Sandy Denny

Wikipedia - "Sandy Denny, born Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny (6 January 1947 – 21 April 1978), was an English singer and songwriter who has been described by Allmusic's Richie Unterberger as 'the pre-eminent British folk rock singer'."
Wikipedia, MySpace, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

Dan Witz

Scott (Diamond Grate), 2008
"Definitely not. That's way too broad of a question. It requires definitions-which always end up as limitations. If pressed though, I'd say there's probably little difference in the big picture. We're all pretty much cave painters in the end. From slightly different caves maybe."
Dan Witz, YouTube

Ephesus

Wikipedia - "Ephesus (Ancient Greek Ἔφεσος; Turkish Efes) was an ancient Greek city on the west coast of Anatolia, in the region known as Ionia during the period known as Classical Greece. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League."
Wikipedia, Ephesus Library, Celsus Library

Sanford Biggers

Blossom, 2007
"A native of Los Angeles, California, and current New York resident, Sanford Biggers uses the study of ethnological objects, popular icons, and the Dadaist tradition to explore cultural and creative syncretism, art history, and politics."
Sanford Biggers, artnet, artkrush

The Red Admiral and Painted Lady Research Site

"Observers and experimenters ranging from casual to serious can discover new and valuable information about these butterflies. The list below links to more detailed information, including summaries of published findings and methods for observing these fascinating butterflies."
The Red Admiral and Painted Lady Research Site

Negativland

Wikipedia - "Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. They took their name from a Neu! song, while their record label is named after another Neu! song."
Wikipedia, Negativland, MySpace, WIRED, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Western art history

Pierre Mignard, Clio, muse of heroic poetry and history, 17th century
Wikipedia - "Western art is the art of European Countries, and those parts of the world that have come to follow predominantly European cultural traditions such as the Americas. Written histories of Western art often begin with the art of the Ancient Middle East, Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Aegean civilisations, dating from the 3rd millennium BC."
Wikipedia

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Bernd and Hilla Becher’s 1972 study of of concrete cooling towers
Wikipedia - "Bernd Becher (born August 20th 1931 in Siegen; died June 22nd 2007 in Rostock) and Hilla Becher, née Wobeser (born September 2nd 1934 in Potsdam) were a German artist couple, best known for their photographic images of industrial buildings."
Wikipedia, Google, Fine Art Photography, designboom, Dia

Shahzia Sikander

Hood's Red Rider #2, 1997
art:21 - "Sikander specializes in Indian and Persian miniature painting, a traditional style that is both highly stylized and disciplined. While becoming an expert in this technique-driven, often impersonal art form, she imbued it with a personal context and history, blending the Eastern focus on precision and methodology with a Western emphasis on creative, subjective expression."
art:21, Cooper-Hewitt, Artdaily, Shahzia Sikander

Brian Dettmer

Wikipedia - "Brian Dettmer (born 1974) is an American contemporary artist. He is noted for his alteration of preexisting media -- such as old books, maps, record albums, and cassette tapes -- to create new, transformed works of visual fine art."
Wikipedia, Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies, Kinz + Tillou Fine Art, Packer Schopf Gallery, Toomey Tourell

Dorothy Simpson Krause

Trees, 2007
"The exhibition will include both large-format pieces and artist books which combine traditional art materials and digital processes. The wall-hung pieces are printed primarily on uv cured flatbed printers on substrates such as aluminum and polycarbonate. The books include covers pigment printed on copper and engraved with a laser into wood."
Dorothy Simpson Krause, artnet

Extravagant Crowd

Ruby Dee
Bruce Kellner - "Women seem always to have loomed large in Carl Van Vechten’s photographic legend. During his Iowa youth in the 1890s, he began making photographs with a box camera and glass plates for blue cyanotypes, starting out with his paternal grandmother, posed rather like Whistler’s mother, although he had not yet seen or even heard of that painting."
Extravagant Crowd

Adrian Ghenie

Flight into Egypt, 2008
The Romanian Cultural Centre - "Adrian Ghenie approaches painting like an old master, and there is very much a sense that his collages and paintings can and should be read in dialogue with the history of painting as much as with contemporary culture."
The Romanian Cultural Centre, Andreianamihail Gallery, Galeria Plan B

Kenneth Patchen

Wikipedia - "Kenneth Patchen (December 13 1911 – January 8 1972) was an American poet and novelist. Though he denied any direct connection, Patchen's work and ideas regarding the role of artists paralleled those of the Dadaists and Surrealists."
Wikipedia, Kenneth Patchen Home Page, poets.org, Poet Hunter, Painted and Silkscreened Poems , Jacket 12, Grand Inspiritors

Holger Czukay

Wikipedia - "Holger Czukay (born Holger Schüring [1] on 24 March 1938) is a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can."
Wikipedia, Holger Czukay, Discogs, An Interview With Holger Czukay, ESTWeb, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)

Carol Reed

Wikipedia - "Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director, most famous for directing The Third Man and Oliver!. He won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for the latter."
Wikipedia, Carol Reed, senses of cinema. YouTube, (1), (2), veoh

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice

Venus with a Mirror, 1555, Titian
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - "In the sixteenth century, Venice was one of the largest and richest cities in Europe, and steady demand for paintings from both local and international clients fostered a climate of exceptional competition and innovation."
mfa, NYT