2026.06.29
@vasilikaliman
   
My review of the Marcel Duchamp retrospective at MoMA, NYC is now live on my Substack!
@451.rhawn.gallery:
You[, Vasili Kaliman,] wrote a very, very good review! I suggest you next visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art before 22 August for a rare opportunity to encounter the Large Glass and Etant donnes all by themselves (so to speak). I'd very much like to read your reaction doing that (because you've already proven that it's well worth reading your reaction to Duchamp and his work--especially--in context).
@vasilikaliman:
thank you. I will go to Philadelphia to see this show when it travels there later this year
@451.rhawn.gallery:
Yes, but my point was to (also) see the Large Glass and Etant donnes now in a rare time when a high percentage of the Duchamp works in the MoMA show are not on (otherwise permanent) display at Philadelphia. Thus to see the two great immovable Duchamps all by themselves.
@vasilikaliman:
ah, I see what you mean
VVV Number 2-3 unbound
 
This is a quick digital record of the order in which the bound pages of VVV 2-3 were published. Generating a scanned image of each individual page is next, followed by a digital transcription of the texts. Also, since at least half of the texts are in French, there will be an attempt to digitally translate of the French texts into English. And, beyond all that, there will then be lots of cosmodada data to conjure with.
2025.06.29
Portraits of a Barcelona Coffee Table
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2019.06.29
a work within The Twelve in the Hall
2018.06.29
one zero zero
2017.06.29
zero five eight
2013.06.29
scrap collage
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2009.06.29
READING LIST
slowly trying to accomplish cover to cover...
Walter Benjamin, Illuminations.
Susan Sontag, Against Interpretations.
Joseph Rykwert, The Judicious Eye: Architecture Against the Other Arts.
and the "Bilocation" chapter of Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day.
2003.06.29
Re: Götterdämmerung?
This is getting interesting. Brings to mind the notion/role of the spoil sport (a la homo ludens), i.e., the one(s) not playing by the preferred game/club rules, and, at the same time, manifesting a likewise history/legacy that the club rather not acknowledge.
1965.06.29
1965. Tuesday, Paris
In his gallery at 34 Rue Jacob, Jean Larcade [28.3.1963] exhibits the Boîte-en-Valise [7.1.1941] in his mixed exhibition entitled "Pop Por/Pop Corn/Corny".
Ephemerides
1957.06.29
1957. Saturday, New York City
"About a month ago I went to the Guggenheim Museum and saw the repair made to Nu descendant... [11.3.1957] and I was filled with admiration," writes Duchamp to Henri Marceau of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Not only there remains no trace of the accident but indeed the relining and cleaning gives new life to our dear friend."
Following the visit of Frank Trapp of Amherst College who is planning a "revival" of the Armory Show [17.2.1913], Duchamp urges Marceau in spite of the risk of accidents to lend not only Nu descendant un Escalier, No.2 [18.3.1912] but other pictures from the Arensberg Collection, to the exhibition.
He also tells Marceau that Gabrielle Buffet has enquired whether the three large Picabia's belonging to the museum could be lent to a retrospective exhibition being planned in Paris.
Ephemerides
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