2004.12.22 12:47
coincidental? or LEARNING FROM NUDIST CAMP
On 30 January 2004 it was announced (via design-l) that:
The title of Duchamp's and Jennewein's paper for the Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club Convention is "Nudist Camp at the Philadelphia Museum of Art".
In the January 2005 Member's Calendar of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (received by post yesterday) the Programs include:
Members-Only Tour: Nude or Naked?
Thursday, January 6 and 20;
Tuesday, January 11 and 18;
and Saturday, January 22, 10:15 a.m.
Behind the words "nude" and "naked" are centuries of controversy and moral courage, as well as admiration and awe. This tour will explore the story of this provocative subject. Tours meet in the West Entrance. Space is limited, and reservations are required.
I made a reservation for the tour on 6 January (feast of the Epiphany). I also asked if this was a new tour or one that was conducted before. "I'm not entirely sure, but I think this tour is new."
from an email to a friend 19 December 2004:
Things are getting busy here in preparation for the commencement of Leaving Obscurity Behind, the Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club Convention, 28 December 2004. All the guests are getting their accommodations set via Ichnographia Romaphilia--one of the highlights of the convention is that all the guests are in a constant state of bilocation between Philadelphia and Rome, with the register being the match of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and the axis of life of the Ichnographia Campi Martii--oddly, Fairmount and the Vatican Hill are the 'same place.' Luckily, Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI are thrilled to be staying at Eastern State Penitentiary. Otto's going to explain all this in his opening speech delivered from the roof of the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Newest unexpected development: Albert Barnes is going to give a talk, 2 January 2005 (Barnes' birthday) about how his collection should now be hung within the forthcoming new facility on the Parkway. To say the least, the fan club is very anxious to hear what Barnes will say.]
In keeping with the bilocation theme/amalgamation of Leaving Obscurity Behind, Duchamp and Jennewein, with help from Michelangelo, are installing new virtually art works for the two still-blank pediments of the Philadelphia Museum of Art courtyard.
Also received return call from the Barnes Foundation this morning. Wasn't able to get a reservation for 2 January 2005, but did get reservation for 9 January 2005. I've seen the 1993 Barnes Exhibition at the National Gallery and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but I've never been to the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania (even though it's like a 15 minute car-ride from where I live).
Either I never noticed it before or it's a new display, a portrait of Marie-Antoinette hangs in a gallery of the Philadelphia Museum of Art that is next to the gallery containing four French sculptures given to the Museum by Eva Stotesbury in memory of her husband Ned. Of course, Marie-Antoinette and Eva and Ludwig have been very close recently as they prepare for "Here a Versailles, There a Versailles, Everywhere a Versailles, Sigh" to be delivered at Versailles, Herrenchiemsee, and Whitemarsh Hall 18 January 2005. Otto's already made provisions in case anyone attending the lecture comes down with trilocation-sickness.
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Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun
Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
Oil on canvas, 1783
One of Marie Antoinette's favorite painters, Vigée-Lebrun created this semiformal portrait of the queen in a graden assembling a small bouquet of roses and jasmine, in the summer of 1783. The painting was shown at the annual exhibition of the French Royal Academy of Arts in September 1783, having been substituted at the last minute for a portrait of the queen in a straw hat and an informal dress that was concidered scandalous. In the same year, on Marie Antoinette's recommendation, Vigée-Lebrun was named a member of the French Royal Academy, holding one of four places reserved for female artists.
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Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
Philadelphia Museum of Art
image 2004.12.21
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2004.12.22 19:29
his Remness
That's easy, drowned in the Mediterraean 27 August 1965.
An architect died exactly 13 years after Le Corbusier, who was it?
2004.12.22 19:50
his Remness
Charles Eames died 21 August 1978
Ray Eames died 21 August 1988
my grandmother, Franziska Brenner, died 21 August 1988
Steven Izenour died 21 August 2001
An architect died exactly 13 years after Le Corbusier died, who is it?
2004.12.22 19:52
his Remness
'an architect' is a sort of clue
2004.12.23 09:54
his Remness
It's funny, if I said I was an artist, a lot of people would say, "You're not really an artist." And if I said I was an architect, a lot of people would say, "You're not a really architect." Conclusion: a lot of people are not really the standard I go by.
Who coined the term and practiced 'anarchitecture'?
2004.12.25 11:48
Re: Thelma Goldens' Spends $84,727.50
tweak tweak naughty and nice Prince of Traffic ($10,000) better than a Fuzzbuster, then The Expeditious Expedition Through Beuys Haus ($15,000) for that long wall at my mother's house. Moving toward rarity, Hey Art Picasso How's Your Brother Dick ($25,000) and 2 = odd, Dick ($35,000). Oh dear, I wanted some other stuff too.
2004.12.25 17:11
Best and Worst of 2004
Best: announcing The Ottofest in Budapest on 9 August 2004.
Worst: Julia Child dies 13 August 2004
Worst: On 14 August 2004 it was suggested at archinect that Julia Child was hence going to the Ottofest in Budapest on 15 August 2004.
Best: Like Honorius and Napoleon, Julia Child too was born on the 15th of August.
Best: writing "Oh, I don't know. I heard she [St. Helena] is fuming over some of Antonina Harbus' published lack of historical insight." on 22 September 2004
Worst: Mount St. Helens begins fuming on 1 October 2004, the first time in 18 years.
Best: On 17 July 2004, Rita Novel reported: Marie Antoinette is getting a real kick out of how Martha Stewart is reenacting her these days--so Hameau Tableau. She's also wondering if 6 October [when Marie Antoinette and the French Royal family were arrested at Versailles] will again have some significance.
Worst: Martha Stewart began her jail sentence 8 October 2004.
2004.12.26
great tsunami of the Indian Ocean
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