2026.01.24
Box of the Mid-70s
  
First Year Architecture Fall Semester 1975
2025.01.24
451 Rhawn Gallery
20:12 negative rendition
2007.01.24
The age of technological revolution is 100 years dead
"In the future your whole life will be a phone call."
2005.01.24
Re: Who is the greatest figurative painter alive?
I've been thinking about sculpture lately, at least virtually.
   
2004.01.24
Re: the New ICA
My thesis project (Temple University Architecture Program 1981) was a new building for the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art. It took up most of the block on the south side of Rittenhouse Square (Street) between 17th and 18th Streets, just behind the Philadelphia Art Alliance (where Anne Tyng once lectured to an audience of five people (including me) circa 1980). The ICA building's design comprised a collage of various building types, inspired by Kahn's Convent for the Dominican Sisters and Stirling's Science Center in Berlin, in the flavor of a virtual museum of architecture you could say. In 1993-4, I owned and operated Venue, a contemporary Philadelphia art gallery just around the corner at 1732 Spruce Street.
 
Otto, the great virtual King of Bavaria, is the eleventh main character of "My Rita Novel Idea". All the other main characters are Otto's best friends, and they all visit Otto with adequate regularity. Otto now-a-days lives in a museum he's gradually manifesting for himself, and is quite busy this year organizing the next Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club Convention, which will (probably) be held just outside Philadelphia.
2003.01.24
Re: I've been shut out at artforum
I did read the introduction and the conclusion of Formless by the way, and I'm glad I did. On the issue of sacred and profane, however, I will point out that while Bataille's perspective is sound, it nonetheless is devoid of the second birth notion. Not that that is therefore an error on Bataille's part, more just a distinction that can(/must?) be made between Bataille and Eliade (for example). Also, I got a hint of reasoning that Bataille envisioned an uncanny sameness(?) or reciprocity(?) between extreme 'profane' and extreme 'sacred'--I like to think it's because when something gets very extreme (in either 'direction') it's the extreme-ness itself that becomes the overriding issue.
Re: Favorite Artist?
I like exploring limits via (my) art. I seem to have touched upon some of your tolerance. While finding your tolerance is not exactly my objective, I now have more data about limits, especially within this corner of the art world. I could be clever and say "sad little self promotions" is my form of self abjection, and in some ways that's true. But, on the other hand, my self promotion is not so little, and your attention helps to confirm that.
In defense of the links I've posted here, I'd say almost all of them have been fairly specific to the issue being responded to. For example, the issue of carjackings was brought up and thus I responded with a story I wrote that centered around a carjacking. Della Francesca was brought up, and I responded with a large portrayal of Helena Augusta, the woman credited with actually finding the True Cross because The Legend of the True Cross is della Francesca's largest work.
Extremes are interesting because they involve both the wholly outer and the wholly inner. All and nothing are both extreme cases.
Finally, besides exploring extremes, I participate in online forums as a (personal) art project. I like talkback because it is so art scene-centric. You should try the late-antiquity list. I took things so far there right after 9-11 that some came to essentially ask that I be 'damnatio memoriae'-ed. I'm rather proud of accomplishing the trek into that territory because damnatio memoriae was a quintessential late-antiquity practice. Mind you, I raised legitimate late antique issues, particularly the dating of Helena Augusta's death and the correct chronological sequence of Eusebius' Vita Constantini Book III, which shook up some otherwise staid thinking.
I favor Piranesi because he treated historiography as art, the same way he treated archaeology as art. What he did came right before the distinct rise of science, and it's separation from art. I want to learn how to do such work again, thus I've been working at reenacting Piranesi for almost 15 years now. Piranesi primarily utilized two mediums, etching/engraving and publishing. I too utilize publishing as a medium, but in conjunction with html.
2003.01.24
Re: Favorite Artist?
What is Jonathan Borofsky doing these days. He didn't turn into Tom Friedman, did he?
Are the Beuys back in town?
Care to see my fine collection of Heilman-C ads?
The Face June 1995 Bjork cover
p. 54 quotes Bjork: "I was born to be in love. I'm obsessed with it, but I'm a bit fickle. I want to meet someone."
turn the page, and guess who's there.
Matthew Barney as Loughton Candidate.
it must be magic.
Meanwhile, the relic head of Helena, my favorite paradigm shifter of all time, resides at Trier. Some pope took her sarcophagus for himself, but now it's in the Vatican Museum. Big purple thing, marble from a specific place in Egypt, you know.
no, this won't go on till you're blue in the face.
"Du bist tausend Kunstler!" said Oma.
 
2001.01.24
AD[vocating] PUBLICITY
I went to the store and asked how much authenticity cost?
The attendant laughed and asked exactly what authenticity was I looking for?
I said, "good, old-fashioned authenticity."
And the attendant said, "Oh, you mean like when the men that wrote 'all men are created equal under God' were the same men that owned several hundred slaves?"
I said, "Gosh, that sounds real expensive. Got anything affordable?"
"Yes," said the attendant, "there is an ongoing sale on authentic double standards. It's your basic two-for-one price."
After thinking a moment I answered, "You know what, I'll skip on the authenticity. Instead I'll buy that new book, Publi/City: Towards a new product placement. I think it's from some virtual publisher called Quondam."
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