2025.12.11
It was early this morning that I finished reading Chris F. Westbury's novel The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (2014). It's a fun enough book, but not without its sprinkling of factual errors and creative liberties. It is also one of those novels that seem to be written for an easy transference into a movie screenplay, in which case, I would turn the story into a questionably romantic comedy along the lines of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. For example, instead of Zip and Ish's little performance in front of Brancusi's Bird in Space, they would enact Museum Study 6.2: on any given January 19 go stand in front of The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even and laugh and make several vulgar remarks. And, after the traveling trio complete their tour of the Duchamp gallery, it is in the back corner of the neighboring Brancusi gallery that Kelly, climatically though inadvertently, discovers Étant donnés' back door.
 
2024.12.11
451 Rhawn Gallery
2020.12.11
     
process/progress
2018.12.11
15:24
2008.12.11
project
a collection of Demos’ use of ‘reenactment’--Artforum, Duchamp in Exile.
2007.12.11
Crazy/Hilarious Story About My Sister's New (soon to be Ex) Boyfriend!
"And then I posted the whole stupid story on archinect."
2002.12.11
think you'll like this
Late yesterday afternoon I went the Phila. Museum of Art, specifically to photograph the Constantine tapestries in the Great Hall--for Christmas the PMA lights up the columns of the Great Hall, thus adding illumination to the tapestries. Since I got to the museum at 4:30 and it closes at 5:00 I only took pictures of the Marriage of Constantine and Fausta tapestry (for now). I then had about 20 minutes to take some more (random) pictures within other parts of the museum. I went to a gallery that last time I was there was under installation--alas it still is. This put me in a fortuitous direction because I then started to go through some galleries I really haven't been paying much attention to over the last few years. I made a "discovery" which then reminded me of other art I should be taking pictures of--this is the part I'm sure you will like. After the museum closed I went to the front courtyard and took pictures of the Duchamp gallery from outside, etc.
Re: think you'll like this
The PMA has for almost two years now dedicated an entire gallery/room to the works of Jasper Johns, and Johns plays the biggest role in this, as virtually all the pieces in the gallery are works that Johns has kept for himself. Johns is (I'm sure) making sure his 'treasured' works are very close to Duchamp.
2000.12.11
Histoire Duchamp
Histoire Duchamp--a crazy art book...
1993.12.11 - 1994.08.04
page one of gallery self portrait randomly camouflaged
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