Andreas Slominski

Untitled, 1991
"Billed as a retrospective, this exhibition of 20 or so pieces was not the accumulation of all sizes of traps, shaggy dog stories and absurd riddles one might have anticipated from a two-decade round-up of Andreas Slominski’s work."
frieze - Issue 100, Google, artnet, Guardian

Jean Renoir

"Provence is one of the most spectacular regions of France. It's the France of the great Impressionist painters. Monet, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, and (of sidelong interest here) Auguste Renoir captured the luminescent quality of the light there and the brilliance of the colors."
Stage & Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir: The Criterion Collection, YouTube, (1)

Culture

"Culture has long been reggae’s preeminent harmony group. Born in the 70's golden age of reggae, the ever viable Culture has garnered continual US and international acclaim for its long series of classic 'roots' albums."
Fast Lane Intl, Culture, veoh, (1), Google, YouTube

Cassini

"Seen from our planet, the view of Saturn's rings during equinox is extremely foreshortened and limited. But in orbit around Saturn, Cassini had no such problems."
Cassini - NASA, NASA, YouTube

The Roman Empire

"Two thousand years ago, the world was ruled by Rome. From England to Africa and from Syria to Spain, one in every four people on earth lived and died under Roman law. The Roman Empire in the first century AD mixed sophistication with brutality and could suddenly lurch from civilization, strength and power to terror, tyranny and greed."
PBS

Vivian Springford

"Gary Snyder/Project Space will present an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Vivian Springford (1914 – 2003), an abstract expressionist painter best known for her Stained Color Field Paintings."
NY Art Beat, artnet

Ash Ra Tempel

Wikipedia - "Ash Ra Tempel (also known as Ashra) is a German Krautrock group of the 1970s, and are an example of cosmic or space rock."
Wikipedia, Ashra, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

The Church of the SubGenius

Wikipedia - "The Church of the SubGenius is a parody religion that promotes slack, while in a meta-commentarial way, satirizes religion, conspiracy theories, UFOs, and popular culture."
Wikipedia, SubGenius, YouTube, (1), dailymotion, SubGenius Manifesto, Google

Cycling Board Games

"Quite a lot of movement in the cycling board games' world!!!"
Cycling Board Games

George Grosz

The City
Wikipedia - "George Grosz (July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his savagely caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic before he emigrated to the United States in 1933."
Wikipedia, Olga's Gallery

Sally Mann

Wikipedia - "Sally Mann is an American photographer, best known for her large black and white photographs, first of her young children, then of landscapes suggesting decay and death."
Wikipedia, PBS

Peter, Paul and Mary

Wikipedia - "Peter, Paul and Mary (often called PP&M) was a musical group from the United States who were one of the most successful folk-singing groups of the 1960s. The trio was composed of Peter Yarrow, Noel 'Paul' Stookey, and Mary Travers."
Wikipedia, Peter, Paul and Mary, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)

Mural

Maya Mural Reveals Royal Tale
Wikipedia - "A mural is any piece of artwork painted directly on a wall, ceiling, or other large permanent surface."
Wikipedia, Stanton Macdonald-Wright Mural, Mural Painting

Jackie Robinson

Wikipedia - "Jack Roosevelt 'Jackie' Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was the first African-American Major League Baseball player of the modern era.[2] Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. As the first black man to openly play in the major leagues since the 1880s, he was instrumental in bringing an end to racial segregation in professional baseball, which had relegated African-Americans to the Negro Leagues for six decades."
Wikipedia, Jackie Robinson, TIME, Afro-American, Baseball and Jackie Robinson, Google, YouTube, (1), (2)

graphic concrete

"Our products are based on a special membrane spread over the mould table, allowing precast concrete manufacturers to produce high-quality concrete elements and slabs. Depending on the product, the end result is a concrete surface that is patterned, smooth or completely exposed."
graphic concrete

Money Power Respect

Brenda Ann Kenneally

Jim Carroll

Wikipedia - "James Dennis 'Jim' Carroll (August 1, 1950 – September 11, 2009) was an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician."
Wikipedia, Jim Carroll, YouTube, (1), (3 - Jim Carroll live reading), (4), (5 - Jim Carroll (and Charles Bukowski), photobucket, St Lyrics, NYT, Famous Poets and Poems

Ilisha Helfman

"Ilisha Helfman is a Yale trained artist / designer with a special interest in color, digital manipulation and dimensional graphics."
Ilisha Helfman, Sunday Magazine Paper Doll

Quicksilver Messenger Service

Wikipedia - "Quicksilver Messenger Service is an American psychedelic rock band, formed in 1965 in San Francisco and is considered one of the leading acts on the city's psychedelic scene in the mid-to-late 1960s. Essentially a jam band, Quicksilver Messenger Service gained wide popularity in the Bay Area and with psychedelic rock enthusiasts around the globe."
Wikipedia, Quicksilver Messenger Service, YouTube, (1), (2)

Raymond Roussel

Wikipedia - "Raymond Roussel (Paris, January 20, 1877 - Palermo, July 14, 1933) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, and chess enthusiast. Through his novels, poems, and plays he exerted a profound influence on certain groups within 20th century French literature, including the Surrealists, Oulipo, and the authors of the nouveau roman."
Wikipedia, Raymond Roussel Menu, Variant issue15 , Google, ... Inside of ... Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams ..., Atlas Press, NY Press

NAZZA

"My name is NAZZA and I do stencil work technique since 1994 in Argentina." Wooster Collective, flickr

Vanessa Winship

"I had been living and working in the region for almost a decade, and in Turkey itself for more than four years. I was drawn by ideas of borders and belonging. One enduring image that had always struck me wherever I travelled was the schoolgirls in their little blue dresses, the same in every town, city or village."
lens culture, Vanessa Winship, Blogspot

Toronto Rock and Roll Revival

Wikipedia - "The Toronto Rock and Roll Revival was a one day, twelve hour music festival held in Toronto on September 13, 1969, featuring a number of popular musical acts from the 1950s and 1960s. The festival is particularly notable as featuring an appearance by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, as the Plastic Ono Band, which resulted in the release of their Live Peace in Toronto 1969 album."
Wikipedia, Robert Christgau, John Lennon, 1969 - Video, Duke - Video, YouTube

MAPCO

War Map Of The Gallipoli Peninsula 1915
"MAPCO's aim is to provide genealogists, students and historians with free access to high quality scans of rare and beautiful antique maps and views. The site displays a variety of highly collectable 18th and 19th century maps and plans of London and the British Isles, and also 19th century maps and engravings relating to Australia."
MAPCO

Vermeer's Masterpiece, The Milkmaid

The milkmaid
"On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s historic voyage to Manhattan from Amsterdam, that city’s Rijksmuseum will send The Milkmaid, perhaps the most admired painting by Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), to the Metropolitan Museum."
Met Museum

Patrick O'Brian

Wikipedia - "Patrick O'Brian, CBE (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centered on the friendship of English Naval Captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen Maturin."
Wikipedia, W - Aubrey–Maturin series, The Patrick O'Brian Compendium, A Gunroom Guide to Patrick O'Brian Web Resources, Google, (1), The Patrick O'Brian Mapping Project, The Patrick O'Brian Novels, MPR

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Frequency and Volume
Wikipedia - "Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (born in 1967 in Mexico City) is a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist who works with ideas from architecture, technological theater and performance."
Wikipedia, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Claire Denis

Wikipedia - "Claire Denis (born 21 April 1948) is a French film director. Denis was born in Paris, France, and raised in colonial Africa, where her father was a French official. She moved houses every two years because her father wanted them to know about geography. She used to watch the old damaged copies of war films that America would send when she was growing up in Africa."
Wikipedia, senses of cinema, (1), Daily Plastic

Art Spiegelman, Francoise Mouly

"Raw Magazine functioned as a sporadically published periodical publication (with offshoots in book publishing) between 1980 and 1991, driven by the editorial and personal partnership between Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman. In the early-to-mid-1970's, Mouly was an architecture student at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, but had grown disenchanted with her studies."
Indy Magazine, (1), Wikipedia, W

Mark Jenkins

Mark Jenkins

Kerstin Braetsch

"MY PSYCHIC ATLAS Do you sometimes have a cut in your mouth? Yes. Do you play with it? Yes. Does it hurt? Yes. When it hurts do you still play with it? Yes."
RHM Foundation, Art in America

The Seeds

Wikipedia - "The Seeds is a rock band best known for the hit single 'Pushin' Too Hard', released in 1966. Based in Los Angeles, California, its raw and abrasive energy and simple, repetitive lyrics came to exemplify the garage rock style of the 1960s."
Wikipedia, YouTube, (1), (2)

Lea Redmond

"Lea Redmond’s other creative projects range from socially-engaged conceptual artwork, to projects with youth, to small performances reminiscent of magic tricks. In a nutshell, she loves to make things. Things that inspire. Things that tell stories. Things that spark critical thinking. Things that question. Things that make us wonder. Things that envision and create a new world."
leafcutterdesigns, Lea Redmond

Oh Chi Gyun

"Once in the presence of Oh’s paintings, the viewer inhabits cities, countryside landscapes, houses, roads, imagined and real; those apparently familiar aspects that conform and shape the world in which we live."
Raul Zamudio, artnet

Dead Kennedys

Wikipedia - "The Dead Kennedys were an American punk band, formed in San Francisco, California in 1978. Pioneers of hardcore punk during the 1980s, the band gained a large underground following in the international punk music scene."
Wikipedia, Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Mariana Cook

"Photographer Mariana Cook has received national acclaim for her portraits of mothers and sons, fathers and daughters, and generations of women."
Cook Studio

Black Sox Scandal

Wikipedia - "The Black Sox Scandal refers to an incident that took place around and during the play of the 1919 World Series. The name 'Black Sox' also refers to the Chicago White Sox team from that era. Eight members of the major league franchise were banned for life from baseball for throwing (intentionally losing) games, and essentially giving the series to the Cincinnati Reds."
Wikipedia, W - Shoeless Joe Jackson, Chicago Lawyer Magazine, The Chicago Black Sox Trial, Sources Of Information For The Virtual Hall of Fame, Baseball Almanac, 1919 Black Sox

Propaganda

Konstantin Makovsky - The Bulgarian martyresses
Wikipedia - "Propaganda is communication aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience."
Wikipedia, propaganda, World War II Propaganda, Cartoons, Film, Music, & Art, PROPAGANDA

Zineb Sedira

Beyond the dust
"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. - Rachel Garfield"
Zineb Sedira, frieze, Universes in Universe

Kenneth Anger

Wikipedia - "Kenneth Anger (born February 3, 1927) is an Californian underground avant-garde film-maker and author."
Wikipedia, senses of cinema, Kenneth Anger, YouTube, (1), YouTube - Scorpio Rising (1964), YouTube - Kenneth Anger Interview - On Magick and Film Commentary

Underground comix

Wikipedia - "Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence."
Wikipedia, Cal Poly, Lambiek, Sir Real Comix

Keith Tyson

MC4, 1999
Wikipedia - "Keith Tyson’s work can be characterised as an artistic exploration of some of the basic mysteries of human experience.(b. August 23, 1969) is a British Turner Prize-winning artist. He works in a wide range of media, including painting, drawing and installation, and he is noted equally for his painting series, such as Nature Paintings (2005 - 2008), and his large-scale sculptures and installations such as Large Field Array (2005). Keith Tyson’s work can be characterised as an artistic exploration of some of the basic mysteries of human experience."
Wikipedia, Keith Tyson, Contemporary Art Daily

Mel Bochner

Fool, 2007
Wikipedia - "Mel Bochner (born 1940) is an American conceptual artist."
Wikipedia, artnet, Mel Bochner, Google

Monopoly

Wikipedia - "Monopoly is a board game published by Parker Brothers, a subsidiary of Hasbro. The game is named after the economic concept of monopoly, the domination of a market by a single entity."
Wikipedia

Hilary Harnischfeger

Untitled, 2007
"Right now Hilary Harnischfeger’s intriguingly intricate yet powerfully physical paintings are showing. Or maybe they’re bas-reliefs: Harnischfeger layers paper and carves it up, creating works that are at once sculptural, geological, and psychological. It’s like seeing where mosaic, stone carving, landscape painting, watercolor, and microscopic life come together."
NYMag, Rachel Uffner Gallery, Google

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Wikipedia - "The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an American country-folk-rock band that has existed in various forms since its founding in Long Beach, California in 1966. The group's membership has had at least a dozen changes over the years, including a period from 1976 to 1981 when the band performed and recorded as The Dirt Band."
Wikipedia, W - Will the Circle Be Unbroken, W - Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), WAYN

Latinbeat 2009

José Luis Torres Leiva, The Sky, the Earth and the Rain, Chile
"Now in its 12th year, Latinbeat tracks the flourishing and vital filmography of Latin America with 21 films from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay, most in their New York premieres."
Film Society of Lincoln Center

Wooden Ship Model

HMS Victory
"Model Ship Master pursues only one simple goal: to make finest wooden boat models. As a direct result of our focus, many of our boat models are equal to and, in many cases, exceed the standards of models found in many museums today. The level of accuracy in each of our model boat is achieved through painstaking scholarly research. It is this detail that distinguishes our boat models from other builders."
Model Ship Master, Handcrafted Model Ships, Best Scale Models, Google, (1)

HubbleSite

"Spectacular color pictures of stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae and more. Get wallpaper for your computer, print your own Hubble images or watch videos. Catch the best of Hubble's extensive portfolio in Gallery."
HubbleSite, (1), YouTube, viddler

Doonesbury

Wikipedia - "Doonesbury is a comic strip by Garry Trudeau that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, now a middle-aged, remarried father."
Wikipedia, Doonesbury, (1)