2026.05.14
Whimsy is as whimsy does?
Or, how much is that doggie innuendo?
2025.05.14
451 Rhawn Gallery
   
where installing art is still in the works, and hopefully everything's up on the walls by Sunday.
2024.05.14
"rare book" collection
Part of my "rare book" collection, including a recently discovered copy of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason that's been chewed on by a mouse!
R.I.P.
My collection of The Face magazine, all purchased new from October 1983 to June 1995, thou not a complete set. Here featuring covers depicting those that have since departed this world (at least those that I know of).
I never tire of seeing...
I never tire of seeing my i-D magazine collection, the self-proclaimed 'worldwide manual of style' and later also 'the indispensable document of fashion style & ideas'. Fun facts, every cover featured one eye open and one not, even the 'Famous for Fifteen Years' cover, and Madonna's first magazine cover was on i-D--I had a copy and sold it for around $120.00 on eBay 20 years ago. Plus, you gotta love the 'Gaultier Jean's' ad from October 1995.
OMG
OMG, I just found out the Sony UCX-S tape ad on the inside cover of the May 1985 issue of i-D magazine has an actual Q-tip taped to it! That Q-tip will be 40 years old next year, yikes!
2014.05.14
14 May
Coincidentally, one of the items the mailman delivered today was a copy of Tracing Eisenman, which I successfully/cheaply bid on last week. To my surprise, the book is signed by Peter Eisenman himself, twice even.
Get it? Peter Eisenman tracing Peter Eisenman, literally.
2009.05.14
Do architects read?
Here's a little of what I read this morning:
"Posthumous fame seems, then, to be the lot of the unclassifiable ones, that is, whose work neither fits the existing order nor introduces a new genre that lends itself to future classification. ... This is what society can least come to terms with and upon which it will always be very reluctant to bestow its seal of approval."
"Mother, I must marry her! She's going to be a famous Posthumous-Modern architect!"
2008.05.14
True discussion/argument among classmates
Humans are perfectly capable of knowing the truth, however, humans that are openly truthful remain a rarity.
If real truthfulness didn't exist, then there wouldn't be anything to lie about.
2007.05.14
2D CAD database
07051401.db Altes Musuem without columns perspectives
2003.05.14
Know your Exit
I knew virtually nothing about Joseph Cornell until I read Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp...in resonance in Spring 2001. (I was/am very familiar with Duchamp, however, because of years of many visits to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.) I found that Cornell and I had/have virtually identical kitchen sinks, and that Cornell's 'studio' looks very much like my basement. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Flushing vis-ā-vis New York City is very similar to Olney vis-ā-vis Philadelphia.
Re: get a journalist ...
Journalists will surely write about your art after it sells for lots of money. That's the only guarantee I can think of.
1999.05.14
Discovery...
...at the Fine Arts Library of the University of Pennsylvania, that Piranesi's Ichnographia Campus Martius had been printed in two distinct states .
Ichnographia Campus Martius 1st state
Ichnographia Campus Martius 2nd state
1990.05.14
Charlottenhof, Potsdam-Sanssouci
Karl Friedrich Schinkel Römischer Bäder - Court Gardener's House 1829-33
1947.05.14
1947. Wednesday, New York City
Duchamp dines at the Mattas' with the Kieslers, and their discussions continue until after midnight.
Ephemerides
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