2026.07.14
more pages from Duchamp & Ich
2025.07.14
451 Rhawn Gallery
2024.07.14
weird-ass painting
I think the now-finished weird-ass painting may have just gotten a little weirder. That, or anything's an improvement, right?
2023.07.14
out back at night
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2016.07.14
Noah's Ark replica opens in Kentucky biblical theme park to "compete with the Disneys and the Universals"
Does anyone know if this (religious) theme park is tax exempt?
If you really want to see religious reform, take away the tax-exemption status.
Do any of you even know why organized religions are granted tax-exempt status? Like what exactly is the origin of such a law?
Noah's Ark replica opens in Kentucky biblical theme park to "compete with the Disneys and the Universals"
...thanks much for the information. However, the Walz vs. Tax Commission case does not actually explain why religious organizations are granted tax-exemption (separation of church and state is not the issue). And the "power to tax is the power to destroy" is only a made-up argument.
The "tradition" of granting religious organizations tax-exemption began with a law under emperor Constantine I which proclaimed the newly sanctioned Christian church tax-exempt. I remain curious whether there is anything directly related to religious organization tax-exemption in the US Constitution. Note, too, how one of the Justices saw religious organization tax-exemption against the first amendment.
2014.07.14
East Jerusalem Light Rail Attacked
...I can't believe you just wrote "if Israel wanted to they could vaporize Palestine." The vaporization of Palestine already happened. Although I don't feel close to the situation now, there was a time (the late 1970s) when I had a brief conversation with the last Palestinian Governor of Galilee. We discussed an urban design school project which I was working on with his niece (whose family fled Palestine into Lebanon and even there lost their farmland in southern Lebanon to Israel). I showed him how our study area comprised three areas of distinct characteristics. He heard me out and then simply said, "The three areas must be autonomous!" I had no idea then what he was really implying, but his niece right away said, "Oh Uncle, stop." The other time we spoke was on the phone, where I left a message for his daughter. Judging by how he relayed my message, I don't think he was too thrilled about his daughter going out with an American.
The ex-Governor and his wife were brutally murdered in their Philadelphia suburb home in 1986. There are still some suspicious aspects to the murders, and it is even possible that these deaths could be added to tammuz's list above of deaths by terrorists.
2009.07.14
NEW and BORING toilet central
So, doesn't everyone deserve a toilet that will kiss their ass?
He laid the first stone of the historic Bastille (Paris) April 22, 1370. The building was finished in about four years. This work brought upon him the animosity of the people. He was condemned by the bishop of Paris and himself imprisoned in the Bastille, March 1, 1382. He mustered an escape to Dijon, where he died soon after.
In my studio you will be asked to design a building that everyone will hate to the point where you, the architect, will be imprisoned within it.
2008.07.14
bored with modern & contemporary, yet?
...and yet much of Michelangelo's architecture was all about the improper use of moldings...
2005.07.14
color theory
Yes, the best color theory is to live it.
2003.07.14
Re: WHAT SHOULD I PAINT?
You could paint the plan/map of Earth's most notorious fault lines at reduced scale on canvas. And then paint a series of fault cross-sections. Or you could make up the plans/maps and cross-sections of notorious fault lines. Or just take my suggestions as a cracked default.
Now I have a question:
What shouldn't I paint?
2001.07.14
Philadelphia Museum of Art
1947.07.14
1947. Monday, New York City
At ten in the morning, accompanied by Maria Martins, Marcel calls on Stefi Kiesler for half an hour.
Ephemerides
1945.07.14
1945. Saturday, West Redding
Spending a weekend at The Haven, one of the last before the house is sold, Dee learns from George Heard Hamilton's letter to Miss Dreier that Matta's Bachelors Twenty Years After has recently been acquired for the Yale University Art Gallery.
During the day, Dee's throat becomes inflamed, making it painful to swallow, which greatly alarms Miss Dreier.
Ephemerides
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