Francisco Goya

Third of May, 1808
Wikipedia - "Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. The subversive and subjective element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, provided a model for the work of later generations of artists, notably Manet and Picasso."
Wikipedia, WebMuseum, Met Museum, Francisco Goya, YouTube

New York Daily Photo

Enchanted April
"New York City - a place of diversity. Visit a daily photo blog of the timely, the timeless, the classic, the unexpected and the hidden gems by a long time resident who shares his love of New York."
New York Daily Photo

Drone music

Wikipedia - "Drone music is a minimalist musical style that emphasizes the use of sustained or repeated sounds, notes, or tone-clusters – called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harmonic variations throughout each piece compared to other musics. La Monte Young, one of its 1960s originators, defined it in 2000 as 'the sustained tone branch of minimalism'."
Wikipedia, amazon - "The best of drone music, "Stars Of The Lid And Their Refinement Of The Decline", The Platypus Affiliated Society

The Whole Earth Catalog

"In 1968 Stewart Brand launched an innovative publication called The Whole Earth Catalog. It was groundbreaking, enlightening, and spawned a group of later publications. The collection of that work provided on this site is not complete — and probably never will be — but it is a gift to readers who loved the CATALOG and those who are discovering it for the first time."
The Whole Earth Catalog, Wikipedia

SST Records

Wikipedia - "SST Records is an American independent record label formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California by musician Greg Ginn. The company was initially called Solid State Transmitters through which Ginn sold electronics equipment."
Wikipedia, SST, Perfect Sound Forever, SST Records

Stand by Me

Wikipedia - "Stand by Me is the title of a song originally performed by Ben E. King and written by Ben E. King, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller."
Wikipedia, You Tube - Ben E. King, John Lennon, U2, Bruce Springsteen, Cassius Clay, Mink DeVille, Andy, Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora & Friends, Spyder Turner, Playing For Change Song Around the World

Humberto Solás

Wikipedia - "Humberto Solás (14 December 1941 - 18 September 2008) was a Cuban film director, credited with directing the classic film Lucía (1968), which explored the lives of Cuban women during different periods in Cuban history."
Wikipedia, film reference, Guardian, Fandango, YouTube - Lucia, amazon, Cuba Now, In Praise of a Famous Cuban: Humberto Solás and the Power of Melodrama

Letters from Camp

"In the early 1950s while at Black Mountain College, Charles Olson had a dream of an atomic holocaust. The threat of the bomb hovered over Olson. Between the death of FDR and the bombing of Hiroshima, which Olson considered the end of history, Olson revised Call Me Ishmael and wrote his first mature poems. Out of death and destruction arose Olson the creator."
Mimeo Mimeo

Hugo Ball

Wikipedia - "Hugo Ball (February 22, 1886 – September 14, 1927) was a German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists."
Wikipedia, Ubu, DADA Companion, YouTube - Gadji Beri Bimba, The ABC's of DADA, The ABC's of DADA - 2, The ABC's of DADA - 3

"Walking With The Comrades" - Arundhati Roy

"The terse, typewritten note slipped under my door in a sealed envelope confirmed my appointment with India’s Gravest Internal Security Threat. I’d been waiting for months to hear from them. I had to be at the Ma Danteshwari mandir in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, at any of four given times on two given days. That was to take care of bad weather, punctures, blockades, transport strikes and sheer bad luck."
"Walking With The Comrades" - Arundhati Roy, Arundhati Roy on Obama’s Wars, India and Why Democracy Is “The Biggest Scam in the World” - Democracy Now

The Reverb, workshop Fred Frith

Wikipedpa - "Frith has used a variety of picks with his guitars, from traditional guitar picks to violin bows, drum sticks, egg beaters, paint brushes, lengths of metal chain and other found objects."
Wikipedia, YouTube, solo concert from MÓZG, sound. at REDCAT pt. 1/2, sound. at REDCAT pt. 2/2, Knitting Factory 1992

American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915

John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778
"From the colonial period to the present, Americans have been inventing characters and plots, settings and situations to give meaning to our everyday lives. American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915 includes seventy-five paintings, from before the Revolution to the start of World War I, that tell these stories in scenes of family life and courting, work and leisure, comic mishaps and disasters."
LACMA, (1), Met Museum

Baseball Poems

"Many great men and women have written entire books about every aspect of the game; however, other than 'Casey at the Bat,' few know about some of the other great poems that have appeared honoring our national pastime. Here are several that honor the game of baseball."
Baseball Almanac, Earthlink, The Baseball Poems, Outlaw Baseball, Poetry Foundation - "Baseball and Verse, from Tinker to Evers to Big Papi", Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine, Line drives: 100 contemporary baseball poems, npr - Donald Hall's Baseball Poetry, Extra innings: baseball poems, May Swenson - "Poetry Dispatch No. 111", The Best American Poetry, Hummers, knucklers, and slow curves: contemporary baseball poems

García Lorca — The Seawater Ballad

Joaquín Sorolla, The Beach at Valencia (1908)
"The sea
Smiles from far off
Teeth of foam
Lips of sky.
..."
Harpers, Wikipedia, Poems by Federico García Lorca

Little Eva

Wikipedia - "Eva Narcissus Boyd (June 29, 1943 – April 10, 2003), known by the stage name of Little Eva (after a character from Uncle Tom's Cabin), was an American pop singer."
Wikipedia, Little Eva, last.fm, YouTube, (1)

The Battle of Chile

Workers at a protest, from The Battle of Chile. Venezuela /France/Cuba 1973-1979
Wikipedia - "The Battle of Chile is a documentary film in 3 parts, directed by the Chilean Patricio Guzman: The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie (1975), The Coup d'état (1976), Popular Power (1979). It is a chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. It won the Grand Prix in 1975 and 1976 at the Grenoble International Film Festival."
Wikipedia, amazon, The Rumpus, WSWS, Icarus Films, Patricio Guzmán: The Battle for Chile

Front Cover

"I found a copy of Alan Powers's Front Cover at the local used bookstore last night and was pleasantly surprised to find so many interesting specimens..."
Mimeo Mimeo, amazon

Satyagraha

Wikipedia - "Satyagraha is an opera in three acts for orchestra, chorus and soloists, composed by Philip Glass, with a libretto by Glass and Constance de Jong. The opera is loosely based on the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi, and is the second part of Glass's 'Portrait Trilogy' of operas about men who changed the world, which also includes Einstein on the Beach and Akhnaten."
Wikipedia, W - Satyagraha, Philip Glass, amazon, YouTube

Spiral Jetty

Wikipedia - "The Spiral Jetty, considered to be the central work of American sculptor Robert Smithson, is an earthwork sculpture constructed in 1970."
Wikipedia, DIA, Robert Smithson, Getty

The Map Room

"The Map Room is a blog about maps by Jonathan Crowe. It covers everything from collecting to the latest in geospatial technology from a generalist’s perspective."
The Map Room

Cluster

Wikipedia - "Cluster is a German experimental musical group who influenced the development of contemporary popular electronic and ambient music. They have recorded albums in a wide variety of styles ranging from experimental music to progressive rock, all of which had an avant-garde edge."
Wikipedia, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5). Interview with Hans-Joachim Roedelius of CLUSTER. Hans-Joachim Roedelius Performance, (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13)

Meredith Monk

Wikipedia - "Meredith Jane Monk (born November 20, 1942 in New York City) is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. Since the 1960s, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which dwell in the spaces between music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records."
Wikipedia, Meredith Monk, MySpace, YouTube - Meredith Monk, (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8). Book of Days (1988), Churchyard Entertainment, Walking Song, Last song, Facing North, Boat Song (Recent Ruins), Dolmen Music, An Interview with Meredith Monk, Meredith Monk

Susan Rothenberg

123456, 1988
Wikipedia - "Susan Rothenberg is a contemporary painter who lives and works in New Mexico, USA. Since 1989, she has been married to the artist Bruce Nauman."
Wikipedia, art:21, Sperone Westwater, artnet

Pinhole camera

Wikipedia - "A pinhole camera is a very simple camera with no lens and a single very small aperture. Simply explained, it is a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box. Cameras using small apertures and the human eye in bright light both act like a pinhole camera."
Wikipedia, The Pinhole Gallery, Pinhole Photography, Making a Pinhole Camera

Bert Jansch

Wikipedia - "Herbert Jansch (born 3 November 1943), known as Bert Jansch, is a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and, in the 1960s, he was heavily influenced by the guitarist Davey Graham and folk singers such as Anne Briggs. He is best known as an innovative and accomplished acoustic guitarist but is also a singer and songwriter."
Wikipedia, Bert Jansch, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6).
Acoustic Routes - part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8

The Art of Illumination

"The Belles Heures (1405–1408/9) of Jean de Berry, a treasure of The Cloisters collection, is one of the most celebrated and lavishly illustrated manuscripts in this country. Because it is currently unbound, it is possible to exhibit all of its illuminated pages as individual leaves, a unique opportunity never to be repeated."
Met Museum

Werner Herzog's cave art documentary takes 3D into the depths

"From his film about the hostage survivor Dieter Dengler, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, to his examination of the life and death of the eccentric grizzly bear activist Timothy Treadwell, Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog always seems to have an eye for stranger-than-fiction scenarios that make for fascinating documentaries. Over on Roger Ebert's blog, there's news of a new Herzog project that might represent his most important venture into factual film-making yet."
Guardian, Roger Ebert's Journal, Wikipedia

The Troggs

Wikipedia - "The Troggs are an English rock band from the 1960s that had a number of hits in Britain and the USA, including their most famous song, 'Wild Thing'. The Troggs were from the town of Andover in southern England. The band were originally called The Troglodytes (troglodyte meaning 'caveman')."
Wikipedia, last.fm, YouTube, (1), (2)

McCarthyism

Wikipedia - "McCarthyism is the politically motivated practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. The term specifically describes activities associated with the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s and characterized by heightened fears of communist influence on American institutions and espionage by Soviet agents."
Wikipedia, Spartacus

Pianoless Vexations - Erik Satie

Wikipedia - "Vexations is a noted musical work by Erik Satie. Apparently conceived for keyboard (though the single page of manuscript does not specify an instrument), it consists of a short theme in the bass whose four presentations are alternatively heard unaccompanied and played with chords above. The theme and its accompanying chords are written using strikingly eccentric and impractical enharmonic notation. The piece is undated, but scholars usually assign a date around 1893 on the basis of musical and biographical evidence."
Wikipedia, UbuWeb

Isidro Blasco

Shanghai At Last
"BLASCO combines architecture, photography and installation to explore themes of vision and perception in relation to physical experience. His work often references the realm of private or domestic space. BLASCO normally begins by selecting one angle in a room or outdoors and then constructs a new space from the perspective of that vantage point."
DCKT, Isidro Blasco, artnet, Vimeo

Séraphine Louis

"Séraphine Louis, known as 'Séraphine de Senlis' ('Séraphine of Senlis') (1864–1942), was a French painter in the naïve style. Self-taught, she was inspired by her religious faith and by stained-glass church windows and other religious art. The intensity of her images, both in color and in replicative designs, are sometimes interpreted as a reflection of her own psyche, walking a tightrope between ecstasy and mental illness."
Wikipedia, IMDb, YouTube, (1), NYT, artnet

Street art

"Street art is any art developed in public spaces — that is, 'in the streets' — though the term usually refers to unsanctioned art, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives. The term can include traditional graffiti artwork, stencil graffiti, sticker art, wheatpasting and street poster art, video projection, art intervention, guerrilla art, flash mobbing and street installations."
Wikipedia

Granite State of Mind

"A music video about New Hampshire that was filmed in New Hampshire has become an Internet sensation. 'Granite State of Mind,' a spoof on the Granite State, is a parody of Jay-Z’s hit song 'Empire State of Mind'."
NY DAILY - 'Granite State of Mind,' by Christian Wisecarver, takes 'Empire State of Mind' to New Hampshire, WMUR

Manroot and Acts

"A friend of mine loaned me a copy of Manroot #10, published in the fall/winter of 1974. This issue dedicated to Spicer came after Caterpillar 12 but before Blaser’s Collected Books of Spicer. Manroot reprints Billy the Kid and Fifteen Propositions as well as several magazine appearances starting with Occident from the late 1940s to J and Open Space."
Mimeo Mimeo, Jacket 7 — April 1999

Cosmic Baseball Association

"The baseball playoffs are over. Behind the veteran pitcher Charles Manson, the Psychedelphia Woodstockings defeated the Speed City Velocitors and their star second baseman, the Apollo 11 command module, in the decisive fifth game. The Woodsox are now likely to face Cyd Charisse, the Paradise Pisces' high-kicking hurler, when the Universal Series opens on Nov. 23."
NYT, Cosmic Baseball Association

Neil Young - Part 1

Wikipedia - "Young began performing as a solo artist in Canada in 1960. He then migrated to California in 1966, as part of Buffalo Springfield and established himself as the fourth member of Crosby, Stills & Nash."
Wikipedia, YouTube - Down by the river (1969), Cowgirl In The Sand, (1), Needle & The Damage Done (live), Heart Of Gold, After the Goldrush 1978, Thrasher, The Band & Neil Young - Helpless(Live), Ohio - Live at Massey Hall, A Man Needs A Maid, BBC Concert 1971 - Part One, (2), (3), (4), Sugar Mountain, Like A Hurricane, Like A Hurricane (Live Rust), Cortez The Killer

Crime and Punishment - Musée d'Orsay

Jean-Joseph Weerts, Marat Assassinated! 13 July 1793
"The exhibition Crime and Punishment looks at a period of some two hundred years: from 1791, when Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau called for the abolition of the death penalty, to 30 September 1981, the date the bill was passed to abolish it in France."
Musée d'Orsay

SepiaTown

"SepiaTown lets you view and share thousands of mapped historical images from around the globe. Search the map to view images or... We welcome historical images from collections of all sizes, from libraries and historical societies to individuals with a boxful of cool old photos."
SepiaTown

Unusual types of gramophone records

Wikipedia - "The overwhelming majority of records manufactured have been of certain sizes (7, 10, or 12 inches), playback speeds (33⅓, 45, or 78 RPM), and appearance (round black discs). However, since the commercial adoption of the gramophone record, a wide variety of records have also been produced that do not fall into these categories, and they have served a variety of purposes."
Wikipedia, Messages in the Matrices of Records

Bruce High Quality Foundation

"The Bruce High Quality Foundation, a group of anonymous artists, uses performances and pranks to critique the art world. For the work on view in 2010, the Foundation repurposed an iconic vehicle as a 'portable museum,' a site for both reviving and putting to rest American cultural myths."
Whitney, Bruce High Quality Foundation, YouTube, (1), (2)

U-Roy

Wikipedia - "U-Roy (born Ewart Beckford, OD, 21 September 1942, Jones Town, Jamaica) is a Jamaican musician, also known as The Originator. He is best known as a pioneer of toasting."
Wikipedia, Roots Archives, YouTube, (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)

Tic-tac-toe

Wikipedia - "Tic-tac-toe, also spelled tick tack toe, and alternatively called noughts and crosses, X's and O's, and many other names, is a pencil-and-paper game for two players, O and X, who take turns marking the spaces in a 3×3 grid, usually X going first. The player who succeeds in placing three respective marks in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row wins the game."
Wikipedia, Tic-tac-toe

Freddy Cannon

Wikipedia - "Frederick Anthony Picariello Jr. (born 4 December 1939), known as Freddy Cannon, is an American rock and roll singer, whose biggest international hits included 'Tallahassie Lassie', 'Way Down Yonder In New Orleans', and 'Palisades Park'."
Wikipedia, YouTube, (1), (2),

Artforum

Wikipedia - "Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art."
Wikipedia, artforum, BNET

Commodore 64

Wikipedia - "The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982. Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US $595."
Wikipedia, YouTube

Au Soleil (To The Sun)

"'Au Soleil' is based on my memories of a cycling trip I undertook across Eastern Europe from Berlin to Istanbul. I travelled with three close friends on a journey lasting one month; we cycled through incredible scenery in the isolated backwaters of Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey crossing the Beskids and the Carpathians."
vimeo

Robert Fripp

Wikipedia - "Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946 in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England) is a guitarist, composer and a record producer best known for being the guitarist for, and only constant member of, the progressive rock band King Crimson. His work, spanning four decades, encompasses a variety of musical styles."
Wikipedia, DGM, King Crimson, YouTube - Robert Fripp: New York - Wimborne (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3). Frippertronics, Interview, Robert Fripp String Quintet Kan Non Power, brian eno - baby's on fire/ feat. robert fripp, Fripp & Eno - Evensong, Robert Fripp String Quintet - Passacaglia

Little Red Songbook

Wikipedia - "Since the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the IWW, songs have played a big part in spreading the message of the One Big Union. The songs are preserved in the Little Red Songbook.
Wikipedia, IWW Little Red Songbook

BibliOdyssey

"We first met blogger PK and BibliOdyssey, his remarkable blog devoted to visual materia obscura two years ago. BibliOdyssey is the starting point on the net for uncovering eclectic archival imagery and the fascinating wealth of ephemera offered by libraries, universities and other institutions."
Drawn!, BibliOdyssey, amazon

'SKINE.ART

amiplasse
"Hanging by the sad, long neglected, yellow receivered pay phone on the platform at Chambers Street on a Friday Afternoon (1-22-10)."
'SKINE.ART