2026.07.25
unexpectedly 'found' today within one of my bookshelves
 
I purchased Bruckmann's illustrated Guide to Munich and its Environs (1902) via eBay sometime 2004 or 2005 in conjunction with my then work on the 'novel' The Odds of Ottopia where the posthumous Marcel Duchamp is a prominent member of the "Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club". Since the posthumous Ludwig II King of Bavaria and his posthumous brother Otto (also) King of Bavaria are also prominent members of the "Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club" the guide book was purchased with regard to the two last Bavarian kings, and, besides, back then I knew virtually nothing of Duchamp's time spent in Munich summer 1912. Although the building where Duchamp lived in Munich, 63-65 Barer Strasse, was destroyed by the bombings of World War II, if the addresses are today still the same as in 1912, then the location of Duchamp's Munich stay can be pinpointed.
2025.07.25
451 Rhawn Gallery
 
Stephen Lauf Given: 1. The Extra Rest Room, 2. The Final Chapter Aspirations 2025.07.25 - 2025.09.25
Stephen Lauf recipe for a birthday cake? 2025.07.25
Stephen Lauf Virtual Museum 045 2003.09.06/2005.10.05
Stephen Lauf Virtual Museum 098 2003.09.07/2005.10.05
Stephen Lauf Family of Bandits 2025.07.25
2024.07.25
more Duchampiana
 
 
Fox Chase Farm
 
2021.07.25
date of compilation...
 
...and, as yet, still untouched further
2020.07.25
Mary Boone's 180 hours of community service hours 145 146 147
2017.07.25
zero six four
2013.07.25
Traditional/Classical Architecture- Part 2
Personally, I would like a truly eclectic house...
...showing my love of all architectur[al education].
2007.07.25
Verb: Featured Discussion
The real funny thing is that any good design, whether avant-garde or not, is soon enough reenacted.
I wonder how much reenactment is actually involved in legitimacy.
2004.07.25
CSI: Philadelphia
Fresh fingerprints were placed upon a Duchamp Bride painting in unwatched gallery sometime Friday early afternoon 23 July 2004 while two female guards gossiped in Spanish in adjacent Brancusi gallery.
Professor Aplomb in the Hall with the revolver.
Overweight Cardinal gets stuck in confessional after hearing his own sins.
Marcel and Paul laugh their 'nudist camp' asses off.
Lawbreakers? Armed with only paint and paste? or More??
And Duchamp arranged the Arensberg collection within the Philadelphia Museum of Art, hence the Brancusi gallery next to the Duchamp gallery.
The gossiping guards were in the door (to the Brancusi gallery) between two Matisse paintings.
Thumb, index and middle finger of left hand.
[Damn, I should have spun that bicycle wheel!!!]
2001.07.25
Piranesi, Duchamp and Mustard
My original Piranesi, Duchamp and Mustard post was sent to the avant-garde list because the post as written was first submitted to the online critical forum Open Source Architecture: The Future Art Space (see the EYEBEAM ATELIER post to this list 9 July). I am not an official participant of this forum, but I have already submitted a post or two as an 'outsider'. Since this forum is moderated, I had a strong feeling that the PD&M post would not make it through to the web board, and I was right. Sending the note here as well was more or less a precautionary cyberspace measure.
The point of my original point was to test the limits of so-called Open Source Architecture, particularly with regard to whether the moderators of the forum could readily identify cyberart that was not of the (already) prescribed interface format (you know, web art that is really more like second rate movie credits sequences from the 1960s, etc.). Apparently there is a need to educate people that not all cyberart is interface/software driven. Sometimes the reality of well chosen words sent around the globe at super high speeds can be art too. [Maybe only a licensed architect that doesn't build but rather paints, collages (etc.) and likewise generates online museums recognizes the art there though.]
Of course, I'll continue sending submissions to Open Source Architecture over the next 10 days, but I'll do my best to not make them art as well. I'll plainly try to express where I think the course of the discussion there is proceeding realistically, and where it seems to be misguided.
So what does 'Piranesi, Duchamp and Mustard' mean? The answer is Philadelphia (in Pennsylvania). It was in Philadelphia May 1999 that the director of Quondam - A Virtual Museum of Architecture (www.quondam.com) discovered that Piranesi's Ichnographia Campus Marius is actually a print executed in two (heretofore unknown) states. This discovery was made in the Univ. of Penn's Fine Arts Library, a building designed by Frank Furness which in the 1960s housed Louis I Kahn's master architecture class and today houses the Louis I. Kahn Archives. The Piranesi Campo Marzio discovery occurred exactly between those two 'Kahn' spaces.
The largest collection of Duchamp art in the world is at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Furthermore, whenever you're in Philadelphia, make sure you see the back door of the Étant donnés by simply going to the Brancusi galleries adjacent to the Duchamp gallery where you will find a door with "2 KEY" scratched in above the lock. This is the door to what is still the most UNOPEN artwork of the 20th century.
Mustard is what Philadelphia's for many decades now traditionally spread on their street vendor bought soft pretzels.
Stephen Lauf
1942.07.25
1942. Saturday, New York City
" ... Some news from this country which, like Switzerland, has no knowledge of restrictions," writes Duchamp to Jules Bublin, Roché's banking friend in Geneva. Undoubtedly destined for Roche, the news is that while Peggy Guggenheim is in Cape Cod with Max Ernst she has lent him her house in Beekman Place [22.7.1942], "spacious and ideal for the summer"; the fabrication of 50 Bo îtes-en-Valise is getting under way; he will not be going to California, but Arensberg may come to New York or Boston and Peggy's museum is due to open in October...
Ephemerides
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