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451 Rhawn Gallery
2022.12.31
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project
31 December 2022 Saturday
Death of Pope Benedict XVI.
Miers Fisher is a good writer, and it's fortunate for me that a good writer has lived here in retirement, leaving behind journals of a near ideal retirement.
Piranesi's final project is also the 'missing link' between Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Francesco Piranesi. Yes, the link, but equally the son's clean break from the father in terms of two distinct careers. I say this because Piranesi's final project is now showing me Francesco's distinct career clearly.
So how many popes are in this story now? Miltiades, Sylvester, Adrian IV, Pius VI, and now Benedict XVI as well.
And now imaging Barbara Walter's New View: Eutropia, Helena, Melania the Younger, Laura Piranesi, Hélène Gregoroffsky Fisher, and, of course, Braines, she of "ungovernable temper."
2003.12.31
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Lock of Étant donnés' back door exactly 51 years after Duchamp was here supervising the unloading of the Large Glass
1975.12.31
 
Olympic Park Munich
1961.12.31
1961. Sunday, New York City
In preparation for the "informal talk" he has been invited to give in Palm Beach on 15 February, Duchamp sends Henri Marceau a list and says: "I would like to know how many colour slides you have at the Museum pf Philadelphia to illustrate this lecture." In addition to the slides, Duchamp also wants to purchase a photo of Glissière con tenant un Moulin à Eau en Métaux voisins [11.12.1919]. "Tomorrow is 1962," he adds, "with my best wishes."
Ephemerides
1952.12.31
1952. Wednesday, New York City/Philadelphia
It has snowed abundantly in the night. Duchamp travels to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to supervise the unloading of the Large Glass, which was brought safely by truck the previous day from Milford.
from the Katherine S. Dreier Estate, Duchamp proposes the "enormous painting by an unknown German, in the enormous golden frame", still in the garage at Milford, to Henri Marceau, who accepts it and agrees to pay the transport.
While he is at the museum, Ingersoll and Marceau take Duchamp to see the rooms for the Arensberg collection which are "ready to receive the final coatings on the walls and the installation of the floors.
Ephemerides
1924.12.31
1924. Wednesday, Paris
On the last night of their season at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, after preforming Relâche [4.12.1924] the Ballets Suédois present Cinésketch, written specially for the occasion by Francis Picabia and directed by René Clair.
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When the lights go up for Act Three, in the kitchen there is a tableau vivant of Lucas Cranach's Adan und Eva: below the shadowy tree of life with its forked-tongued serpent, are two slender figures, the make bearded, both standing motionless in exact exchange of gesture and regard.
It is an apparition only. René Clair controls the light from high in the rigging loft. Brogna Perlmutter (with whom he has fallen in love) plays Eve to Duchamp's Adam. The Cranach is the one which Duchamp saw and was moved by in the museum at Leipzig [25.8.1912].
Ephemerides
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