Monhegan Island

Wikipedia - "Monhegan is a plantation on an island of the same name in Lincoln County, Maine, United States, about 12 nautical miles (22 km) off the coast. The population was 75 at the 2000 census. ... The island is accessible by mailboat ferry (no automobiles) from Boothbay Harbor, New Harbor and Port Clyde."
Wikipedia, Monhegan, Monhegan Art Collector, Monhegan Island Light, Monhegan Welcome, NYT

66th Venice International Film Festival

"Starting 2nd September, 22 filmmakers run for the prestigious Golden Lion award for best film. The line-up includes great masters such as Jacques Rivette and Werner Herzog, up until the new generation represented by Fatih Akin and Vimukhti Jayasundara."
66th Venice International Film Festival, Wikipedia, NYT - Festival Stresses Its Italian Accent

Gerry & The Pacemakers

Wikipedia - "Gerry & The Pacemakers were a British rock and roll group during the 1960s. In common with The Beatles, they came from Liverpool and were managed by Brian Epstein. They are most remembered for being the first act to reach number one in the UK Singles Chart with their first three single releases."
Wikipedia, Geocities, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Investigating Bellini's Feast of the Gods

"Around 1512, the Duke of Ferrara commissioned Giovanni Bellini to paint this masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, which now hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Dosso Dossi subsequently decorated a gallery for the Duke, and, in 1522, painted over half of Bellini's canvas. Seven years later, Titian repainted the Feast of the Gods again. What did the earlier versions look like? How much of each artist's work do we see today? What motivated these unprecedented changes?"
Investigating Bellini's Feast of the Gods

Soul Train

Wikipedia - "Soul Train is a syndicated, music-related television program. In its 35-year history, the show primarily featured performances by rhythm and blues, soul, and hip hop artists, although jazz musicians and gospel singers have also appeared."
Wikipedia, mbc, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

Protest song

Wikipedia - "A protest song is a song which is associated with a movement for social change and hence part of the broader category of topical songs (or songs connected to current events). It may be folk, classical, or commercial in genre. Among social movements that have an associated body of songs are the abolition movement, women's suffrage, the labor movement, civil rights, the anti-war movement, the feminist movement, and Environmentalism."
Wikipedia

The Maltese Falcon

"When Warner Brothers green-lit the 1941 movie The Maltese Falcon, they were placing their bets on a first-time director (John Huston) and an unproven leading man (Humphrey Bogart). Yeah, we can laugh about it now. But what the studio did feel certain about at the time was the material, Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 detective novel… because they had already filmed it twice."
The Realm of Ryan, YouTube

Pre-Khomeini Iran

"In light of the protests in Iran over the recent presidential election, Magnum takes a look at Iran from 1950-79, before the revolution in which Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi was overthrown in a movement led by Shiite cleric Ruhollah Khomeini."
State, Wikipedia, Iran Chamber

steephill

"Also check out the stage profiles and maps, timetables, race preview, team rosters to enhance your viewing pleasure."
steephill

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

Wikipedia - "Joseph Saddler (born January 1, 1958 in Bridgetown, Barbados[1]) better known as Grandmaster Flash, is an American hip hop musician and DJ; one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing."
Wikipedia, W - 1, Grandmaster Flash, MySpace, joystiq, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Quebec City

Wikipedia - "The narrowing of the Saint Lawrence River approximate to Quebec City and Lévis, on the opposite bank, provided the name given to the city, Kébec, an Algonquin word meaning 'where the river narrows'. Founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain, Quebec City is one of the oldest cities in North America. The ramparts surrounding Old Quebec (Vieux-Québec) are the only remaining fortified city walls."
Wikipedia, YouTube, (1)

Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity

Oskar Schlemmer. Bauhaus Stairway. 1932
"This survey is MoMA’s first major exhibition since 1938 on the subject of this famous and influential school of avant-garde art. Founded in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus brought together artists, architects, and designers in an extraordinary conversation about the nature of art in the age of technology."
MoMA, dexigner

The Gleaners and I

"The Gleaners and I takes its title, and some of its inspiration, from an 1867 painting by Jean-Francois Millet that shows three women in a wheat field, stooping to pick up sheaves and kernels left behind after the harvest."
NYT, theauteurs, Combustible Celluloid, amazon, YouTube

Burning Man

"Trying to explain what Burning Man is to someone who has never been to the event is a bit like trying to explain what a particular color looks like to someone who is blind. In this section you will find the peripheral definitions of what the event is as a whole, but to truly understand this event, one must participate."
Burning Man, Wikipedia, Google, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

Ai Weiwei

Wikipedia - "Ai Weiwei ... born in 1957 in Beijing, is a leading Chinese artist, curator, architectural designer, cultural and social commentator."
Wikipedia, YouTube, St. Paul Street Gallery, flickr

The Grass Roots

Wikipedia - "The Grass Roots are a U.S. rock and roll band that charted between 1966 and 1975 as the brainchild of songwriting duo P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri."
Wikipedia, The Grass Roots, YouTube, (1), (2). (3)

Pedro Matos

"My name is Pedro Matos and I am a 20 year old Painter/Street Artist. I was born in Santarém and I am currently living, working and studying in Lisbon, Portugal. I've grown up as a skateboarder and at the age of 16 that made the connection to Art and I started painting and drawing."
Pedro Matos, myspace

Ebbets Field

Wikipedia - "Ebbets Field was a Major League Baseball park located in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York, USA. It was the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National League."
Wikipedia, Ballparks, Baseball Statistics, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Jim Campbell

"In 'Memory Recollection Transformation', Jim Campbell creates a digital interactive art form that uses advanced computer-driven custom electronics and video to pose questions about the ways in which we structure and access the information we call memory."
art scenecal, Jim Campbell

The Letter Repository

"The LETTER REPOSITORY is a database of historical personal letters from the early 1700s through to the 1940s. This covers many interesting time periods including the Great Depression, the American Civil War, World War One and Two, the Napoleonic wars as well as many other world events."
The Letter Repository

Tarot

Wikipedia - "The tarot (first known as tarocchi, also tarock and similar names) ... is a pack of seventy-eight cards, used from the mid fifteenth century in various parts of Europe to play card games such as Italian Tarocchini and French Tarot."
Wikipedia

Conceptual art

One and Three Chairs, Joseph Kosuth
Wikipedia - "Conceptual art is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions."
Wikipedia

Beat Generation

Wikipedia - "The Beat Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers (led by Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac) who came to prominence in the 1950s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired (later sometimes called 'beatniks'). Central elements of 'Beat' culture include a rejection of mainstream American values, experimentation with drugs and alternate forms of sexuality, and an interest in Eastern spirituality."
Wikipedia, Literary Kicks Opinions, Observations and Research, The Beat Generation Archives, Empty Mirror Books

Scientist

Wikipedia - "Scientist, born Hopeton Brown in Kingston, Jamaica, 1960 (sometimes known as Overton Brown), was a protégé of King Tubby (Osbourne Ruddock), one of the originators of dub music."
Wikipedia, W - Scientist in the Kingdom of Dub, MySpace, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Ramparts

Wikipedia - "Ramparts was an American political and literary magazine, published from 1962 through 1975. ... Unlike most leftist publications, Ramparts was expensively produced and graphically sophisticated. It reached an audience that may have been put off by the grittier 'movement' publications of the time."
Wikipedia, Hippy

John Chamberlain

Hatband 1960
"He is best known for creating sculptures from old automobiles (or parts of) that bring the Abstract Expressionist style of painting into three dimensions. He currently lives and works in Shelter Island, New York. Since the 1950s, Chamberlain has worked with steel ribbons to create his sculptures."
Wikipedia, artnet

Galaxy Zoo 2

"The Galaxy Zoo files contain almost a quarter of a million galaxies which have been imaged with a camera attached to a robotic telescope the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, no less). In order to understand how these galaxies — and our own — formed, we need your help to classify them according to their shapes — a task at which your brain is better than even the fastest computer."
Galaxy Zoo 2

A Chronicle of New York’s Darks and Lights, Captured by Savvy Street Photographers

"Last winter, when the art economy was looking especially dark, a group of Manhattan photography dealers got together and decided to put on a spirit-lifting show: 'New York Photographs,' a summertime tribute to the greatest city on earth. Thirteen galleries agreed to mount exhibitions — some dedicated to individual artists, some to subjects like sex or music — of which six are currently up."
NYT, Gothamist, Yancey Richardson

Gang Busters

Wikipedia - "Gang Busters was an American dramatic radio program heralded as "the only national program that brings you authentic police case histories." It premiered as G-Men, sponsored by Chevrolet, on July 20, 1935."
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Young Marble Giants

Wikipedia - "The Young Marble Giants were a Cardiff post-punk band. A trio formed in 1978, their music was constructed around the powerful and minimal instrumentation of brothers Philip and Stuart Moxham supporting the naive untrained vocals of Alison Statton."
Wikipedia, MySpace, Young Marble Giants, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)