2026.08.14
Underground Art
detail of Time (magazine), May 6, 1946, p. 66.
Washington society is full of good neighborliness for Maria Martins Pereira e Souza. Washingtonians missed her last week. The small, dynamically sociable adornment of Brazil’s U.S. Embassy was in Manhattan for the opening of her fourth U.S. sculpture show. With a gay, glistening grin, Senhora Martins--who signs her work "Maria"--told a reporter that "art is the underground of the world, and we will win in the end."
As an up & coming member of that underground, black-haired Maria is not unknown to the authorities. Her jacaranda wood version of St. Francis is one of the few contemporary sculptures in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Museum. Some critics are convinced that her more recent, and more abstract, work must be as distinguished as it is difficult to understand.
At first glance Maria's most startling new effort (titled Impossible--see cut), looked like a disagreement between two anthropomorphic snowstorms, but Maria had a less literal explanation for it. Said she: "The world is complicated and sad--it is nearly impossible to make people understand each other."
2025.08.14
451 Rhawn Gallery
Stephen Lauf prevanishing point 2025.08.14
2024.08.14
first time at...
...what became 451 Rhawn Gallery
2022.08.14
works within This One's for George
page painting 160
page painting 161
1984.08.14
2 = odd, Dick
detail
detail
1983.08.14
beginning of:
Stephen Lauf Self Portrait [1] 1983.08.14
1977.08.14
August 14, 1977. Sunday, Rome/Lido
The Roman beach was very middle class. The Tyrrhenian was very salty and great to float in. We left the beach at about 5:30. We stood the whole way home on the subway.
...ate dinner on the other side of the river. First night the group split into smaller groups. Took a walk to see St. Peter's for the first time. It was a great experience to see the (not floodlit) dome looming in the darkness. The piazza was practically empty [about a dozen people including a father and his young son on a small bicycle], and the architecture had this yellow glow from the few lights that were on.
Standing at the center-point of the colonnade was inspirational.
The colonnade is huge, and so is the basilica.
Italian Study Tour Journal
1918.08.14
1918. Wednesday, New York City
After living for more than three years in New York [15.6.1915], Duchamp embarks on the SS Crofton Hall to sail south to Buenos Aires. He takes with him his precious working notes for the Large Glass (left for the meantime in Arensberg's care [11.8.1918]) and Yvonne Chastel, who has decided to accompany him [8.7.1918].
Ephemerides
|