2026.06.23
One of John Schiff's photographs...
...of Marcel Duchamp's Sixteen Miles of String installation at the "The First Papers of Surrealism" exposition is featured on page 86 of VVV No. 2-3 upside-down. Since Duchamp was one of the editorial advisors of VVV No. 2-3, I believe the inverted image manifests a direct Duchamp intention, because I also believe if the image being inverted reflects a printing error, then Duchamp would have subsequently called the inverted image a "by chance" readymade.
Stephen Lauf Anyway You Look, He's Never Without Strings Attached: another addition to the otherwise Complete Works 2026.06.23
160 + 65 = 225 by Marcel Duchamp 1965
duchamparchives.org: Duchamp, Marcel. [Brown bag inscribed with numbers and signed]. Readymade? Photo by John D. Schiff
Stephen Lauf I'm Calling It As I See It: 1. 160 + 65 = 225 2. by Marcel Duchamp 1965 2026.06.23
List of unbekannt works within Duchamp After Unbekannt
960. View On
961. Return to Prior Level
962. 18040701.db Appian Way Las Vegas Strip 1972 plans orthagonal images
963. zero one eight
964. Photo Odd Camp 3
965. DEC computer desk at home
966. The present meaninglessness of The Vault
967. zero two zero
968. The Stone and the Flesh
969. End of Plot
970. three coins in the Fountain, almost
971. Virtual Painting 207
972. Arbor Street
973. image play 2000.04.09
974. image play 2000.04.09
975. image play 2000.04.09
976. Virtual Museum 243
977. sketching Picassos
978. Locks=SN, UN, GR or Pakistan Postage
979. Virtual Museum 019
980. Virtual Museum 038
981. Virtual Museum 039
982. [title lost]
983. Virtual Museum 040
984. Virtual Museum 041
985. Virtual Museum 042
986. Virtual Museum 043
987. page painting 170
988. Gordon Matta-Clark Room 1
989. 3D CAD databases 2002.04.12
990. Readymade Changed 01
991. Readymade Changed 02
992. Virtual Museum 044
993. Virtual Museum 045
994. Virtual Museum 097
995. Virtual Museum 098
996. Gordon Matta-Clark Room 2
997. Virtual Museum 117
998. Virtual Museum 118
999. Virtual Museum 119
1000. Virtual Museum 121 . . . . . .
2025.06.23
451 Rhawn Gallery
 
Stephen Lauf There's No Place Like Home Alone 2025.06.23
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Stephen Lauf No Doubt It's Still Pride Month 2025.06.23
Stephen Lauf Maybe 2025.06.23
2021.06.23
Fox Chase Farm
16:50
2020.06.23
Mary Boone's 180 hours of community service hours 118 119
Mary Boone's 180 hours of community service hour 120
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2005.06.23
original content
I think original content scares people. I think it especially scares people that want to be original themselves. For example, originality in design makes other designers feel inadequate, although mimesis is guaranteed to follow. There is also the guarantee that some will immediately steal the original content and then quickly try to somehow pass it off as their own. [2026.06.23: This presciently describes exactly how Clare Hornsby plagiarized my discovery of Piranesi's final project and then quickly tried to somehow pass it off as her own. It's interesting how, with each time I remember what Hornsby has done, I am increasingly disgusted with Hornsby, and with Piranesi 'scholars' in general. What a truly disgusting group of people.]
original question
One of the reasons that original content scares people is because they immediately recognize that they have no control over the original content. Even before the subsequent mimesis happens, there are those that will right away try to control original content.
Who's afraid of Ezeri Mester?
Hey Swampy!
Wow, exactly three months after the death of a pope there's LIVE 8.
Throngs aimed at the Vatican will then be mirrored by the throngs aimed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in eight days.
Leaving Obscurity Behind really is a novel virtually writing itself. That's why I have time to put together some real books. I mean, starting a novel that bilocates between Philadelphia and Rome, specifically connected via the Vatican and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and then having the Pope die and then LIVE 8 both happening in the "same" place is just about all an author can ask for. And the novel's not even half done yet. Who knows what's gonna happen next, but I'm sure the content will be original!
Pope John Paul II is the latest member of the Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club. He's actually kind of upset that he didn't see the Life of Constantine tapestries when he was alive in Philadelphia, so that's what he'll be doing 2 July 2005.
The guy from Honeywell that tried to give me a "free" home security system earlier this week said my neighborhood is the highest crime area of all Pennsylvania. So I simply told him, "I've lived here all my life. Do you think I'm to blame?"
Re: reading lists
I used to read plays as a teenager. My brother Otto used to write the most obscene plays in the first years of his schizophrenia. I like the format, especially the stage directions. I think the last play I borrowed to read (like maybe five years ago) is The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, by Tennessee Williams. I mostly know this work via the movie Boom starring Burton and Taylor.
1966.06.23
1966. Thursday, London
An example of Objet-dard [6.12.1953], which Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II noticed when she visited the preview exhibition accompanied by Sir Roland Penrose, is sold to Joseph Hirshhorn in the auction held at Sotheby's in London to raise funds for the Institute of Contemporary Arts.
Ephemerides
 
Stephen Lauf A Queen's Gaze 2026.06.23
1941.06.23
1941. Monday, Grenoble
On a final "mission" [25.4.1941] between occupied Paris and the unoccupied zone, Duchamp brings the remaining precious contents for 50 copies of his Boîte-en-Valise [7.1.1941] to Grenoble where he also hopes to obtain his passport and visa [2l.4.1941].
Ephemerides
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