The Box Tops


Wikipedia - "The Box Tops were a Memphis pop music group of the second half of the 1960s. They are best known for the hits 'The Letter,' 'Neon Rainbow,' 'Soul Deep,' 'I Met Her in Church,' and 'Cry Like A Baby,' and are considered a major blue-eyed soul group of the period."
Wikipedia, YouTube, dalealplay

Pietro Germi


Wikipedia - "Pietro Germi (14 September 1914 - 5 December 1974) was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting."
Wikipedia, Film Forum, NYT

John Brown


John Steuart Curry's John Brown Mural in the Kansas Capitol
Wikipedia - "John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist, and folk hero who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end all slavery. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas and made his name in the unsuccessful raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859."
Wikipedia, PBS, The Underground Railroad Site, The Trial of John Brown, Democracy Now, Washington Post - Harpers Ferry Marks 150th Anniversary of John Brown's Raid (Video)

Strat-O-Matic


Wikipedia - "Strat-O-Matic is a game company based in Glen Head, New York, that develops and publishes sports simulation games. It produces tabletop baseball, football, basketball, and ice hockey simulations, as well as personal computer adaptations of each, but it is primarily known for its baseball game."
Wikipedia, Strat-o-Matic, Sporting News

Rococo and Revolution: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings


"Rococo and Revolution: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings features more than eighty exceptional drawings almost exclusively from the Morgan's renowned holdings. The efflorescence of the ancien régime and its eventual downfall provide the backdrop to a century of remarkable artistic vitality and variety that subtly chronicles the many changes taking place in eighteenth-century France."
The Morgan Library & Museum

Catchin' Up With Sten in Naples


"I was in Naples. The police arrested me and lex but after they recognize our stuff and they like it so much that they asked us to do something in the house of the Colonnello, Sergent of the police. So we painted the house of the police and they give us some money and didn't arrested us. It was the first time that we are friend of the police. Sergent Giorgio thank you."
Wooster Collective, flickr

Mission of Burma


Wikipedia - "Like many of their post-punk contemporaries, Mission of Burma's efforts are largely concerned with extending punk's original vocabulary without losing its essential rebellious spirit. Using rapid shifts in dynamics, unconventional time signatures and chord progressions along with tape effects, Mission of Burma challenges the prevailing idioms of punk while attempting to retain its power and immediacy."
Wikipedia, Mission of Burma, MySpace, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2)

Berlin Wall


Wikipedia - "During a revolutionary wave sweeping across the Eastern Bloc, the East German government announced on November 9, 1989, after several weeks of civil unrest, that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans climbed onto and crossed the wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere."
Wikipedia, Newseum, Appropriate Software

Electric Junkyard Gamelan


"Originally inspired by the interlocking rhythms of traditional Gamelan music from Bali, today the group's music is influenced by a diverse range of sounds from eastern modal music to funk, klezmer to rock."
Electric Junkyard Gamelan, WNYC, NY1, YouTube, (1)

Charles Burchfield


Wikipedia - "Charles Ephraim Burchfield (April 9, 1893 - January 10, 1967), an American watercolor painter, was born in Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio. He is known for his visual commentaries on the effects of Industrialism on small town America as well as for his paintings of nature."
Wikipedia, Google

Steven Charles


wogracis
"I am interested in creating problems. Painting is a vehicle for me to dedicate myself to something I know won't work. Abstract painting is the most confusing dilemma I have encountered–it is this confusion that motivates me. I am not a believer. I am in search of holes and gaps. When I start a painting I don't plan or sketch, I just begin. The beginning could be simple drips, splashes or paint shot out of a squeeze bottle."
pierogi 2000, artnet, Marlborough Gallery

Raï


Wikipedia - "Raï (English pronunciation: /ˈraɪ/; Arabic: راي‎) is a form of folk music that originated in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture."
Wikipedia, lexicorient, U. Texas, last.fm, dailymotion, YouTube, (1), (2)

Techno Tuesday


"‘Techno Tuesday’ began as an exercise in drawing comics and complaining. In fact it still is, after it’s inception in January of 2006. The comic, which is based on technology and the modern world, originally appeared on the Fabrica blog."
Techno Tuesday, Google

Edward Burtynsky


Wikipedia - "Burtynsky's most famous photographs are sweeping views of landscapes altered by industry: mine tailings, quarries, scrap piles. The grand, awe-inspiring beauty of his images is often in tension with the compromised environments they depict."
Wikipedia, Edward Burtynsky, Google, TED

Giorno Poetry Systems


Wikipedia - "Founded in 1965, Giorno Poetry Systems was an American artist collective, record label, and non-profit organisation founded by poet and performance artist John Giorno with the direct aim to connect poetry and related art forms to a larger audience using innovative ideas, such as communication technology, audiovisual materials and techniques."
Wikipedia, W - You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With, NYT, UbuWeb, UbuWeb 1, Kelly Writers House CD, Poetry Foundation, Discogs, The Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation

Raymond Pettibon


Wikipedia - "Raymond Pettibon (born Raymond Ginn on June 16, 1957 in Tucson, Arizona is an American artist and sometime musician and lyricist. Known for his comic-like drawings with disturbing, ironic or ambiguous captions, Pettibon's subject matter is sometimes violent and anti-authoritarian."
Wikipedia, art:21, Raymond Pettibon, Google

N.C. Wyeth


Robin Hood and His Adventures
"Wyeth was a realist painter just as the camera and photography began to compete with his craft. Sometimes seen as melodramatic, his illustrations were designed to be understood quickly. Wyeth, who was both a painter and an illustrator, understood the difference, and said in 1908, 'Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.'"
Wikipedia, Google, N.C. Wyeth

Was (Not Was)


Wikipedia - "Was (Not Was) is an American eclectic pop group founded by David Weiss (a.k.a. David Was) and Don Fagenson (a.k.a. Don Was). They gained popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s."
Wikipedia, W - Don Was, MySpace, WorldWideWas, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4)

Crime comics


Wikipedia - "Crime comics is a genre of American comic books and format of crime fiction. The genre was originally popular in the 1940s and 1950s and is marked by a moralistic editorial tone and graphic depictions of violence and criminal activity."
Wikipedia, Crime Comic Books

Anselm Kiefer


Naglfar, 1998
Wikipedia - "Anselm Kiefer was born on March 8, 1945, in Donaueschingen. He is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac."
Wikipedia, WebMuseum, artnet, Met Museum

James Castle


"James Castle: A Retrospective marks the first comprehensive museum exhibition of the work of James Castle (1899–1977), an artist from rural Idaho who, despite undergoing no formal or conventional training, is especially admired for the unique homemade quality, graphic skill, and visual and conceptual range that characterize his works."
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Tfaoi

Arto Lindsay


Wikipedia - "Arto Lindsay (born May 28 1953, Richmond, Virginia) is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer. He has a distinctive soft voice and an often noisy, self-taught guitar style comprised almost entirely of extended techniques, described by Brian Olewnick 'studiedly naïve ... sounding like the bastard child of Derek Bailey'; his guitar work is contrasted frequently with gentler, sensuous Brazilian music themes."
Wikipedia, arto lindsay, MySpace, Slip Cue, Perfect Sound Forever, last.fm, Bar/None Records, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), veoh

Anne Hardy


Wikipedia - "Hardy's images appear to be photographs of existing places but they are quite the opposite. They are actually carefully constructed sets, created by the artist in her studio, which she then photographs. The subjects of Hardy's artworks are usually objects or junk which she has found in markets, DIY shops, urban skips or jumble sales. The type of objects she chooses have ranged from large antlers, brightly coloured cables, old Christmas trees, light bulbs, American basketballs, orange balloons, scientific test tubes and even butterflies."
Wikipedia, Saatchi Gallery. Bellwether Gallery, Cyana Trend Land

Subodh Gupta


Lot No. 79. Untitled, 2006
Wikipedia - "Subodh Gupta (born 1964) is an artist based in New Delhi. Gupta was born in Khagaul, Bihar, India. His work encompasses sculpture, installation, painting, photography, performance and video. Common images and objects in Gupta’s work are taken from prominent clichés about Indian culture, for example, his prevalent use of stainless steel cooking utensils."
Wikpedia, Saatchi Gallery, artnet

In Bb 2.0 - Bb Buddha Machine


"In Bb 2.0 is a 'collaborative music and spoken word project' from Darren Solomon. With just the native YouTube playback interface, multiple clips can be played and controlled to create your own soothing musical mix."
Split Screen, In Bb 2.0, Science for Girls, Bb Buddha Machine

Hay in Art


Jean-Francois Millet - The Hay-Harvest
"The hay in art database has grown to over six thousand images. The essays initially were intended to illustrate both the changing technology of hay making and the ways in which hay has been used by artists and writers of the last two millennia. Here is a briefly annotated outline of the work done so far."
Hay in Art

The Lumière Brothers


Wikipedia - "The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas (19 October 1862, Besançon, France – 10 April 1954, Lyon) and Louis Jean (5 October 1864, Besançon, France – 6 June 1948, Bandol), were among the earliest filmmakers.(Appropriately, 'lumière' translates as 'light' in English.)"
Wikipedia, Early Cinema, CineScene, YouTube, (1)

Underground press


Berkeley Barb. Vol.7, no.4 (no.154), 1968
Wikipedia - "The phrase underground press is most often used to refer to the independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other western nations."
Wikipedia, Voices from the Underground

Archaeoastronomy


Wikipedia - "Archaeoastronomy (also spelled archeoastronomy) is the study of how past people 'have understood the phenomena in the sky, how they used phenomena in the sky and what role the sky played in their cultures.'"
Wikipedia

Edward Ruscha


Wikipedia - "Edward Ruscha ("roo-SHAY") (born December 16, 1937 Omaha, Nebraska) is an American artist associated with the Pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film."
Wikipedia, Edward Ruscha, Google

Costa Gavras


Wikipedia - "Constantinos Gavras (born February 13, 1933), better known as Costa-Gavras (Κώστας Γαβράς), is a Greek born French filmmaker, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z (1969). Most of his movies were made in French; starting with Missing (1982), several were made in English."
Wikipedia, French resistance: Costa Gavras - Guardian, Film Reference, YouTube, DailyMotion

The Full Moon Atlas


"A complete series of interactive lunar maps, with more than 2,500 geographic formations (including craters, mountains, lakes, seas and valleys) identified simply by moving your mouse cursor over the feature. You must have Javascript turned on in order to access this function."
The Full Moon Atlas

Ed Dorn: Four New Recordings, 1969-1981


"Today, we added two newly-segmented readings by Ed Dorn, both from Buffalo in the mid-1970s, and both drawing heavily upon poems from his 1974 collection, Recollections of Gran Apacheria — a sprawling work which celebrates Apache culture and history, even as it serves as a litany of offenses committed against them."
PennSound, (1), (2)

Ann-Sofi Sidén


Would A Course Of Deprol Have Saved Van Gogh's Ear?, 1996
Wikipedia - "Ann-Sofi Sidén is a contemporarty Swedish artist.[1] She had a traditional education and started out as a painter. She expanded into other mediums, including video, film, performance and sculpture."
Wikipedia, artnet, Google

The Virtual Museum of Iraq


"Iraq is still a warzone and still unsafe for tourists to approach outside of Iraqi Kurdistan. The country, home to some of humankind’s greatest cultural treasures, is not a place for one to visit."
The Virtual Museum of Iraq

Captain Beefheart


Wikipedia - "Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet on January 15, 1941) is an American musician and painter, best known by the pseudonym Captain Beefheart. His musical work was mainly conducted with a rotating assembly of musicians called The Magic Band, which was active between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s."
Wikipedia, W - Trout Mask Replica, Beefheart, the crackling cyberverse of CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & the MAGIC BAND, allmusic, allmusic 1, YouTube, (2), (3), (4), (5), (6). YouTube - Beefheart on Letterman, Live In Belgium 1969, Ice Cream for Crow (HIgh Resolution), Upon the my oh my, Big Eyed Beans from Venus, Abba Zabba

Know Hope


"'Kindred Times and Future Goodbyes' a recent event that a few friends (Foma <3, Klone and Zero Cents) and i recently put on. like the name implies, the show was in an abandoned building in south tel aviv."
Wooster Collective, this is limbo

Ellen Gallagher


Skinatural
"Repetition and revision are central to Gallagher’s treatment of advertisements that she appropriates from popular magazines like 'Ebony,' 'Our World,' and 'Sepia' and uses in works like 'eXelento' (2004) and 'DeLuxe' (2004-05). Initially, Gallagher was drawn to the wig advertisements because of their grid-like structure."
PBS

Dance with Camera


Maya Deren
"Dance with Camera features art works in film, video, and photography that exemplify the ways dance has compelled artists to record bodies moving in space and time. The exhibition begins with films from the 1960s, a period when associations between dancers, filmmakers, musicians and visual artists flourished at Judson Dance Theater in downtown New York."
UbuWeb

The Knickerbockers


"In early 1966, the Knickerbockers hit the Top 20 with 'Lies,' the best and most accurate early Beatle imitation ever recorded; the lead vocals were a dead ringer for John Lennon and the whole production could have fit in snugly on the second side of A Hard Day's Night."
allmusic, Wikipedia, MySpace, YouTube

Cai Guo-Qiang - An Introduction


Wooster Collective

The Theoretical Girls


"The Theoretical Girls were previously known mainly as a footnote in rock history. A band better remembered for launching Glenn Branca’s career than for a scant musical output of one single in 1978, the Theoretical Girls shared with many other bands in the No Wave scene a tendency to dissolve quickly, leaving as little recorded legacy as is humanly possible from a working band (another good example being Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, whose entire works wouldn’t fill an entire LP)."
dustedmagazine, CD Universe, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3)

Nele Azevedo


"This amazing installation of 1,000 melting men was done in collaboration with the WWF to highlight global warming. - cristinacristinacristina"
UNURTH, designboom, GreenMuze, Nele Azevedo

1969: The Year of Gay Liberation


"The year 1969 marked a major turning point in the politics of sexuality in America. Same-sex relationships were discreetly tolerated in 19th-century America in the form of romantic friendships, but the 20th century brought increasing legal and medical regulation of homosexuality, which was considered a dangerous illness."
NYPL, Wikipedia

Kurt Wenner


"Once known as Madonnari, Street Painters, Pavement artists, Chalk Artists, and Sidewalk Artists have designed impermanent or Ephemeral Art for centuries."
Kurt Wenner

Kahlo Trove: Fact or Fakery?


"In a back room tucked behind an antiques gallery in this cobblestone mountain town there is a shrine to the painter Frida Kahlo. A dozen paintings jostle for wall space. A trunk is open to show off folded huipiles, the traditional Oaxacan blouses that Kahlo favored. Loose-leaf binders hold copies of pages of notes scribbled at dawn and airmail letters never sent, filled with anger and passion for her husband, Diego Rivera, the muralist. The question is whether any of it was hers."
NYT

Martin Boyce


We Make Unsubstantial Territory
"The city surfaces in Martin Boyce’s work as both dream and physical presence. In the installation Our Love is Like the Earth, the Rain, the Trees and the Birth (2003), industrial materials like fluorescent strip lights and powder-coated steel, chain link fencing and ventilation grills are loosened from their quotidian roles to describe the signs and forms of a dreamlike urban landscape."
sodium dreams, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

The Golden Age of Comic Books


Wikipedia - "The Golden Age of Comic Books was a period in the history of American comic books, generally thought of as lasting from the late 1930s until the late 1940s. During this time, modern comic books were first published and enjoyed a surge of popularity; the archetype of the superhero was created and defined; and many of the most famous superheroes debuted, among them Superman, Batman, Captain America, and Wonder Woman."
Wikipedia

New York Film Festival


"America’s pre-eminent film presentation organization, The Film Society of Lincoln Center was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, to recognize and support new filmmakers, and to enhance awareness, accessibility and understanding of the art among a broad and diverse film going audience."
New York Film Festival, NYT

Steve Wolfe


"For over two decades, Steve Wolfe (b. 1955) has created objects and drawings of astounding craft and visual presence that investigate the intersections among material culture, intellectual history, and personal and collective memory."
Whitney, Luhring Augustine