2026.08.13
Did you know that...
 
...the last page of Alexander Roob's The Hermetic Museum: Alchemy & Mysticism pictures Duchamp's Door: 11, rue Larrey (1927)...
 
...and that Duchamp's Chocolate-grinder and Roto-reliefs are also illustrated within the volume? No doubt you'll now be able to sleep better at night.
The oracle has spoken:
"The underground business is very interesting because an artist may be a great genius today, but he is spoiled and contaminated by the sea of money around him, his genius will completely melt and become zero. There may be ten thousand geniuses today but they will never become geniuses, unless they have luck and very great determination." No doubt you'll now be unable to sleep better at night.
Stephen Lauf Good News, Bad News 2026.08.13
2025.08.13
451 Rhawn Gallery
2017.08.13
in the 'studio'
2008.08.13
product endorsements by starchitects
There was that ad of a half dozen or so young architects showing off their underwear. Hilarious image of architects caught with their pants down. I saved the magazine pages for some future readymade artwork entitled As if it's only a metaphor.
has the sun finally set on oma?
This appeals to me. The overlay of generative elements and the resultant hyper-figure/hyper-ground.
 
I like this too.
 
2007.08.13
2D CAD database
07081301.db Villa Stein des Monzie in Terrain elevations perspectives
2004.08.13
Re: Is Bonsai an art, Dix?
Otto was surprised to learn that Otto Dix now-a-days (or is it daze?) enjoys Bonsai as expressionist art. Apparently, the Bonsai play a role in some new quasi religious allegory painting series entitled Posthistoric Virtual Art History.
Remember when zip posted a link to bonsai-kitten.com or something like that? A survivor of Artforum/talkback history.
2002.08.13
Re: universality / particularity [was: church plans (was: synagogues)]
My favorite commonality within ancient myths are the metabolic (i.e., creative and destructive) twin brothers within many, many creation myths. Campbell often mentions these, but doesn't really focus on or highlight them as the distinct seminal(!) phenomenon it is. Cain and Abel, Romulus and Remus, etc.--even schizophrenia + architectures by the brothers metabolic for those that remember.
Duchamp and Reenactment
Looking through the 'arts & literature' sections of Tout Fait, it is clear that many Duchamp inspired artworks are indeed reenactments of one kind or another. It all fits though since even Duchamp reenated his work--the readymade redux, Boite edition, Green Box, etc.
2001.08.13
Museum Collecting archive
A collection of the digital images of the various museums that will be featured in Museum Collecting.
A sampling of some unusual aspects...
                                      
1984.08.13
2 = odd, Dick
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1977.08.13
August 13, 1977. Saturday, Rome
Campidoglio was the Campidoglio. Il Gesu closed on us. I and two older American women got lost in the monastery. Saw Massimo and got in the courtyard. Missed Farnese. Piazza Navona was full of dopers and foul looking degenerates left over from hippy days. It was also high noon, extremely hot and hardly any shade. We ate lunch there sitting on a stoop and sidewalk. Some slimy girl stole one of R.'s peaches. I couldn't wait to leave the place. It was trashy.
But the big story today is Santa Maria della Pace. P. was giving a lecture while three fuck-ups were shooting heroin in the doorway. P. thought they were eating lunch and was jabbering right in front of them. It turned everybody's stomach.
Pantheon was next. It was the Pantheon (dirty like the rest of the neighborhood). I think idealism fell out the bottom today.
Italian Study Tour Journal
1959.08.13
1959. Thursday, Paris
"Re-read it all and your new ending indeed more finalizing and summarizing than the first," writes Duchamp to Patrick Waldberg, referring to "Marcel Duchamp. L'Unique et ses propriétés", which is to be published in the October issue of Critique. "Nothing to point out," continues Duchamp, "except a great pleasure to look at myself in the mirror." Paris is "cool and pleasant", he tells Waldberg and they are hoping to visit Dorothea and Max
Ernst at Huismes on 20 August for a few days.
Ephemerides
1924.08.13
1924. Wednesday, Paris
Duchamp has an appointment to meet Jacques Doucet at Man Ray's studio to discuss progress on the optical machine [8.8.1924].
Ephemerides
1917.08.13
1917. Monday, New York City
With Roche, Marcel visits Isadora Duncan and becomes "pretty drunk".
Ephemerides
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