2026.08.09
bouncing around...
...in the concrete pond
2025.08.09
451 Rhawn Gallery
Stephen Lauf Sew Courant 2025.08.09
2021.08.09
2D CAD database
21080901.db museum collection Museum Annex plan elevation plan
2019.08.09
2D CAD database
19080901.db Neue Staatsatypicality 001 plan
2017.08.09
virtual paintings
441
444
2016.08.09
Palais Imperial de Dolma Baghtche
Is the result of Zeitgeist indeed now best described as collage?
otherwise
"In the year 2525, when architecture is finally alive..."
2001.08.09
Stephen Lauf One Third Self Portrait 2001.08.09
2000.08.09
the new Quondam
...tapping into the "virtual's" greater potential, that being the ability to create something completely other in all respects. It's like the more unreal I make Quondam, the more something really other it becomes.
1977.08.09
August 9, 1977. Tuesday, New York City
$10.00 train ticket
$97.00 left
$13.00 hotel Mansfield, 12 W. 44th St. [the clerk was surprised we wanted to actually stay overnight.]
$84.00
$2.00 subway tokens
$82.00
$2.00 lunch in Manhattan
$80.00
R and I went to Richard Meier's office and asked about the Museum of Modern Art, Strozzi Villa in Florence. The building is not under construction, but they asked us to take some pictures of the model (and overheard Meier "even get them to bring the model back"). We'll meet Meier personally when we bring pictures back. The office secretary suggested a guidebook of Florence we should get.
There was an old lady feeding the birds in Central Park, south of the zoo. She had the birds eating out of her hands and resting on her shoulders. There was also a photographer taking her picture. He was probably an amateur.
The day ended in Soho and Greenwich Village. Caught part of a concert at Washington Square. The World Trade Center Observation Deck was closed when we got there. We tried to find Jill K's place with no luck. We couldn't even find the address, although we think we found the building she was in. Went to the hotel and watched Fernwood Tonight for the first time.
Italian Study Tour Journal
1967.08.09
1967. Wednesday, Cadaqués
Following his difficult negotiations with Editions Alecto, Richard Hamilton has written at length to Marcel, who says: "I am perfectly willing to go along with you in this adventure," (to make two separate details of the Large Glass on glass), and suggests a formula for them to co-sign the edition.
"It doesn't often happen that you have to wait until the age of 80 just to read the 'perfect echo' sentences of what you feel," writes Marcel to Monique Fong. "Thank you then for having succeeded." In "Marcel Duchamp" by Monique Fong, which was published in the May-June issue of Les Lettres Nouvelles, the author has included Duchamp's statement: "Esotericism should not be mental, it should have ritual [14.11.1952]."
Ephemerides
1952.08.09
1952. Saturday, New York City
The tête-à-tête at 210 West 14th Street starts in gaiety until Marcel starts questioning Monique Fong about MT and says that she cannot continue that sort of game...
Ephemerides
1950.08.09
1950. Wednesday, Paris
Gaby Picabia, who has also been keeping the Hoppenots informed of the deterioration in Mary Reynolds' condition [17.7.1950], follows up a recent letter to Marcel with a telegram.
Ephemerides
1946.08.09
1946. Friday, Chexbres
Writes to thank Ettie Stettheimer for the surprise case delivered to him on the Brazil [3.5 .1946]. He kept several bottles "for the family", Marcel recounts, "who, on my arrival in Paris, drank the champagne to your health."
Of Europe after the war: "...there is no famine," says Marcel, "many impoverished or poorly paid people who subsist with difficulty--the prices, the salaries and the black market--you know the story. In Paris the trees are greener than ever," he explains, "because car fumes and chimney smoke have not stopped them growing in their own way during the war."
Very distressed at the death of Alfred Stieglitz, Marcel remarks: "New York without Stieglitz is no longer our New York," and he asks Ettie to send his condolences to Georgia O'Keeffe. Providing he can get his visas without delay on his return to Paris, Marcel still hopes to be back in New York for Florine's exhibition [1.3.1946] which is due to open on 1 October.
Ephemerides
1919.08.09
1919. Saturday, Paris
After an absence of four years, Duchamp finds Paris "very difficult, very funny, very curious". It was extremely hot when he returned to the capital a few days ago and the streets were deserted. His first objective was to find Picabia at his new address in Rue Emile-Augier where he now lives with Germaine Everling [13.8.1918]. Gaby Picabia, in the last month of pregnancy with Picabia's fourth child, is still occupying the large apartment at 32 Avenue Charles-Floquet near the Champ-de-Mars and has happily invited Duchamp to stay with her until his return to New York.
Ephemerides
1917.08.09
1917. Thursday, New York City
Very late at night Duchamp writes to Ettie Stettheimer at Lake Placid in the Adirondack Mountains, to tell her of his visit the day before to Tarrytown: the corn he enjoyed for lunch, his proposal to draw the sisters' portraits, and the outing in the evening with Avery Hopwood, for whom he has developed a "tremendous liking".
"Obviously the house was incomplete without you," he writes gallantly, "this resolute voice, that resounds from the terrace without ever an echo daring to counterbalance it with a slightly different solution, was missing." He is not doing anything different and says: "I have a kind of diminishing interest for the few rare things which attracted me. This to allow you to scorn a little more from the heights of your good health, from your mountains. I have done my best to write to you a really empty letter, don't be cross with me, it's the most sincere expression of my feeling at the moment."
Ephemerides
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