2026.04.20
first exhibited 114 years ago today
Although the Spanish public has the privilege of being the first to see Nu descendant un Escalier No.2, the painting passes apparently without comment. Having withdrawn it from the Salon des Artistes Indépendants, Duchamp has sent it together with Sonata to the "Exposición de Arte Cubista" opening today at the Galerie Josep Dalmau.
2025.04.20
In today's wee hours . . .
. . . I read the last sentence of Thierry de Duve's Kant After Duchamp -- "I guess I'm trying to understand why Marcel Duchamp was such a great artist."
Duchamp After Unbekannt, 451 Rhawn Gallery's next exhibition, will endeavor to explain why 'Unbekannt' is such a [fill in the blanks].
   
a sneak peek, CRACK SCAM is in the house.
2024.04.20
Ryerss Museum
2023.04.20
in the recreation room next to George's desk
2012.04.20
Why are we having this conversation?
"In the future, everything (including what I wear) will be an advertisement."
2007.01.16
"In the future, your whole life will be a phone call."
2007.01.24
In the future, everyone will be a self link, with absolutely nothing to be sorry about. Self link architects will be all the rage, even.
2007.10.03
"All the world’s a next stage."
2008.10.13
2007.04.20
Featured Discussion: Volume
 
priceless, of course
2004.04.20
surely touched by Eva Stotesbury
Cenotaph of Gordon Matta-Clark
Ever since All Saints Day 1994, i.e., a couple days after the world's largest building implosion, Gordon Matta-Clark has been 'living' within and around the quondam power-house of the imploded Sears and Roebuck Northeast Distribution Center.
cenotaph 1 : an empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere 2: someplace inhabited by a spirit rather than by a body
Gordon and Otto never met until 1999, when Otto made a visit to Friends Hospital, the first psychiatric hospital of the United States, which is right across the Roosevelt Blvd. from Gordon's "cenotaph". Gordon and Otto instantly became best friends, and Otto especially likes how Gordon still manages to make Ludwig extremely nervous.
1999.04.20
The operation was a success . . .
   
. . . the patient is dead.
1912.04.20
1912. Saturday, Barcelona
Although the Spanish public has the privilege of being the first to see Nu descendant un Escalier No.2 [18.03.1912], the painting passes apparently without comment. Having withdrawn it from the Salon des Artistes Indépendants, Duchamp has sent it together with Sonata [20.11.1911] to the "Exposición de Arte Cubista" opening today at the Galerie Josep Dalmau.
In his preface to the catalogue, Jacques Nayral writes that it is the mathematical which seems to dominate Duchamp's mind and that some of his pictures are "pure diagrams" motivated by the desire to prove and to synthesize. He considers Duchamp "conspicuous by his extreme and speculative audacity" and that Nu descendant un Escalier is an example of his endeavours to explore a "double dynamism, subjective and objective". But these abstract qualities are subdued in Sonata which, he writes, is of quite "Verlainian refinement".
Ephemerides
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