2026.01.15
451.rhawn.gallery . . . in honor of readymade's 110th birth/first-mention day (1916.01.15) we offer DICK MUTT UNEARTHED
2025.01.15
  
451 Rhawn Gallery
2005.01.15
"The Bilocating Barnes Foundation"
UPDATE
LEAVING OBSCURITY BEHIND
The 2005 Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club Convention
"The Bilocating Barnes Foundation"
Saint St. Catherine de Ricci, Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Louis I. Kahn
is now scheduled for 13 February 2005.
This presentation is an evolution of "Reenactionary Bilocating Architecturism," the previously slated paper by St. Catherine de Ricci and Louis I. Kahn.
"That was Henri (Matisse) on the phone. He's thrilled about this new bilocating Barnes idea."
"That's great, dear. Now see if you can find out where the Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer was originally published. We know it's the first US electrical journal, beginning it's publication on 18 January 1840, but I can't find out where exactly that happened."
"You're funny! You know I'm presently completely useless with my having to reenact my first feeling of mental illness 18 January 1871 at Versailles."
"You're funny too! You just got sick because it wasn't you they were crowning German Emperor!"
"Ha! Ha! And who's great idea was it for Ned and Eva to renew their 18 January 1912 marriage vows next Tuesday at the New Town Hall of Germantown? Get it? A reenactment inside a reenactment that reenacts a reenactment of something talented ancient Greeks once earned."
"Oh, that's right! Your Uncle Otto was the first King of Modern Greece, wasn't he?
2001.01.15
[virtual] museum
Does anyone know where the paintings of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art were kept during W.W.II?
Answer
It's all gone now, but it really was spectacular. My brother first took me there in the early 1970s, just after he got his driver's license. I have a few pieces of the place in my dining room, basement and garage--trophy's of teenage vandalism. One of the pieces is a 4'x1.5' flat slab of marble that in turn became the support for one of my 1984 (metabolic) artworks: Anonymous Saint In Bikini While Jesus Is Walking On Water.
2000.01.15
pretty [scary] hybrid?
The following is an anecdote relative to the (new) notion of beauty (and aesthetics), etc.:
While still an architecture student, I spent the summer of 1978 working for the Historic American Building Survey (HABS) stationed in Perry, Missouri, a very small town (pop. 931) 30 miles west of Hannibal (of Mark Twain fame). It was then that the city of St. Louis (120 miles south) became the 'big city' destination on several weekends. What struck me the most in St. Louis was Eero Saarinen's Gateway Arch--not only is it an incredible sight from a distance, but even more amazing when perceived while walking around its base, (and I won't elaborate here about the "otherness" of its elevator ride up to the top observation room inside, which I believe I heard is something you can't do anymore).
On what was my third visit to St. Louis, I was with several of the other student architects I lived and worked with--it was their first trip. We were all around the same age and education level, i.e., early twenties and full of youthful over-confidence. I distinctly remember being asked by Mike, "So, what do you think of the arch?" (Mike and I were room mates, and we often 'discussed' architecture). I said, "I think the arch is very pretty." Well, Mike quickly told me that one just does not use the word 'pretty' when referring to architecture!--(apparently) pretty has such lowly connotations. I briefly argued that I thought 'pretty' was the best word to describe how I saw the arch, largely because I see its 'prettiness' as pretty much undeniable. I was confident I used the right word to describe how I felt about the arch.
Today, just two weeks into the 21st century, I looked up pretty in Webster's Third International Dictionary:
pretty 1 a : marked by or calling for skillful dexterity or artful care and ingenuity, esp. in coping with some difficult or complicated matter.
I am thus (finally) completely convinced I saw the arch for what it is, and then also described how I saw the arch in a most fitting manner.
Now being somewhat older (and hopefully somewhat wiser), if I were today asked what I thought of the arch, I'd say, "The St. Louis Arch is very likely the prettiest architecture-sculpture hybrid I will have ever seen[ographia]."
1968.01.15
1968. Monday, New York City
In the morning the Duchamps travel to Philadelphia by bus, "now the best way, for the train is so frustrating," according to Teeny. They have lunch in the country with Bonnie Wintersteen and get back to New York "just in time" for a friend who comes to supper.
Ephemerides
1956.01.15
1956. Sunday, New York City
Produced and directed by Robert D. Graff, the thirty minute film A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp, which was shot at the Philadelphia Museum of Art [3.8.1955] the previous July during two very hot days, is broadcast by NBC Television in the series: "Conversations with the elder wise men of our day."
Ephemerides
1916.01.15
1916. Saturday, New York City
"Now that you have been up to my place you have seen a bicycle wheel and a bottle rack in the studio. I had bought it as a ready made sculpture, and I intend to do something with the said bottle rack..."
"For example I have a large snow shovel at the foot of which I have written: In advance of the broken arm... don't struggle too much to understand the meaning, romantic, Impressionist or Cubist--that has nothing to do with it: another 'readymade' is called: Emergency in favour of twice..."
Ephemerides
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