2025.12.30
 
Preview of the forthcoming MARCEL DUCHAMP exhibition, January 2026 issue of Artforum International
2024.12.30
451 Rhawn Gallery
2021.12.30
Prince of Traffic superimposed with the Sacophagus of Maria, Wife of Honorius
2012.12.30
In the future, everything will be a museum.
I believe in multiple choice:
a. Welcome to the Hotel Zeitgeist.
b. In the future, everything will be a Zeitgeist Museum.
c. In the future, everything will be a museum shop.
d. One museum fits all Zeitgeists. (Period rooms of the world unite!)
e. In the Zeitgeist, everything will be the future.
2008.12.30
Charcoal with Carbon and Midnight is the New Black
Clorox 2: The Movie
remember "Ich fahr liebstens schwarz."
2006.12.30
Any archinecters from Philadelphia?
I actually enjoyed my time at Meyerson Hall [1985-87], but then again they were paying me to be there rather than me paying them to be there. I even had one of the coveted balcony offices, Room 320 if memory serves correctly.
Gosh, those new 1985 color Intergraph workstations were cool, as was the computer room itself. It was like sitting in a refrigerator all day. Maybe that's why I'm so well preserved.
2005.12.30
Genetic Engineering 001
Genetic Engineering 003
1999.12.30
sculpture versus architecture
A quick answer to the series of serious questions raised by Marcus and "Pavilion" is that the notion of hybrid is very much alive in architectural discussions and debates today. Is "Pavilion" clearly a sculpture/architecture hybrid? And if so, are hybrids a 'category' that aesthetics must begin considering?
I'm a hybrid of a very mixed sort. My father was an ethnic German born and raised in Poland; my mother is an ethnic German born and raised in Yugoslavia (the aftermath of WWII eradicated both my parents worlds); my brother was born in Bavaria (the only born German in my family); and I am born and raised in Philadelphia. My German relatives (in Germany) see me as a "typical" American, yet they are at the same time astounded that I'm fluent in Modern German, plus that I am also somewhat fluent in a Danube-Schwabian dialect, a 'language' that as far as Germany today is concerned is dead. Moreover, my German accent (when I speak German) gives Germans pause. From what I gather, Germans find my accent strange yet also familiar. And to complete my hybrid reality, apparently when I speak English, it's with a Philadelphia accent.
There are lots and lots of hybrids out there. Yes, the categorization of the hybrid is not easy, and even most times messy, but please let's not ignore the hybrid by simply not seeing it for what it really is.
1960.12.30
1960. Friday, Paris
"I used it also with the idea, and very important, of introducing laughter in the best sense of the word. Not course laughter or mockery, but humour. I considered that all the past, except Rabelais and Jarry, was made of serious people who considered that life was serious and that serious things had to be produced so that serious posterity comprises all that these serious people of the time had made. I wanted to be rid of all that as well..."
and
"It starts from a humoristic formula which is a necessary foundation of the readymade. It must not be a serious thing, the gaiety of the choice must intervene."
Ephemerides
1952.12.30
1952. Tuesday, Milford
Before noon Duchamp arrives from New York to supervise the loading of the Large Glass onto the truck, which has come to 130 West River Street with three strong men from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. When the Glass is safely on board, Duchamp rides back with the cargo as far as New York.
Ephemerides
1933.12.30
1933. Saturday, New York City
"Mrs Rumsey has been to the exhibition a third time [28.12.1933] and at last decided to buy La Muse endormie," writes Marcel to Brancusi. A deal has been agreed to give her the marble sculpture in exchange for the same subject in plaster, which she already owns, for $1,000.
As the Brooklyn Museum of Art or the Philadelphia Museum of Art [18.12.1933] might be interested in La Colonne du Baiser, Marcel asks Brancusi to let him know by letter immediately if it could be made in cement or some artificial stone and be sold for $1,000, the price for the sculpture in plaster.
Ephemerides
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