2026.07.23
two more pages of Duchamp & Ich
2025.07.23
451 Rhawn Gallery
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Stephen Lauf Coonhurst Manner 2025.07.23
 
Stephen Lauf Uninvited Guests 2025.07.23
2024.07.23
commencing work on Reenacting the Largest Painting in the World
2020.07.23
Mary Boone's 180 hours of community service hours 132 133 134 135 136 137 138
2001.07.23
for the love of email or ...
I was hoping to send an email today to Professor John Wilton-Ely, the long standing Piranesi scholar. I am postponing my letter however, because he is today on his way to spending the rest of the summer at his Tuscany home, and I don't think he has access to email there. The reason for my email is to tell him I received the copy of his 1983 article on Piranesi, and to thank him for sending it to me. Wilton-Ely's package arrived at my house today, and I was surprised that he too finds fault with Tafuri's interpretation of Piranesi's Campo Marzio.
The correspondence between Wilton-Ely and myself began about a month ago. I recently found his webpage and email address through a series of fortuitous events. I took a change and sent him an email asking him if he knew that Piranesi's Ichnographia of the Campo Marzio exists in two printed states. About a week later Wilton-Ely replied by email and said he did not know that the Ichnographia was in two states, and that I appear to have made a remarkable discovery. In a subsequent email I supplied him with the data I have 'published' (via design-l and quondam) so far, and he in turn promised to send me a copy of his 1983 paper. A note Wilton-Ely sent along with the paper said he looked forward to 'continuing things' in September.
As you might well imagine, I'm very pleased with having made such a positive connection, and the reason I'm sharing all this here is because Design-L is one of the few (cyber)places where the "remarkable" Piranesi discovery was first (and immediately!) published. Of course, it can be well argued that cyber publishing lacks peer review, and is therefore not to be altogether trusted, but, then again, cyber publishing, especially via email lists that automatically archive, offers the satisfying aspect of verifiable and timely public record, as well as the invitation for (peer) review.
2000.07.23
data filters
I've found that the best defense against "drowning in protoinfo" is to manifest one's own (hopefully triumphant flow of) content--simply a matter of toggle switching from passive voice to active voice. Drowning becomes less of a danger once you're part of the current.
1964.07.23
1964. Thursday, Paris
While Duchamp is in Cadaqués, the interview he gave to Otto Hahn is published in L'Express with the subtitle: "Why a painter, that the Americans hold equal to Picasso, has not painted for forty years." Despite his reputation across the Atlantic, comments Hahn, Duchamp remains misunderstood in France and his nihilisme d'affirmation has hardly influenced the Ecole de Paris. Duchamp doesn't propose a style of painting but an attitude of mind. Believing that painters don't have to die at their easel because generals don't die on the battlefield, Duchamp divides his time between Paris, New York and Cadaqués, leading the life of an Oculist Witness.
Ephemerides
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