2026.08.21
scanning VVV Number 2-3, etc.
2025.08.21
451 Rhawn Gallery
2017.08.21
virtual paintings
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2014.08.21
Inspirational Images
The shell of the Cut & Paste Museum is the outer plan of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and inside are (at the same scale) pieces of Schinkel's Altes Museum, Stirling/Wilford's Museum for Nordrhein Westfalen and Hejduk's House 10: Museum. And if you look closely, you'll see the in situ plan of Duchamp's Étant donnés.
2008.08.21
peter's canon
You know "immaculate conception of art" actually means art conceived free of original sin, which, in and of itself, is a hilarious idea.
2005.08.21
Why do you think you're creative?
I like all the direct answers so far, yet I didn't expect so many to indirectly answer that they think they're creative because of what some other people think creativity is--that's more like being un-creative, isn't it?
I especially like the notion of "I think I'm creative because I'm sinister" because it demonstrates that acting creatively is not always manifest within a morally "correct" context.
1977.08.21
August 21, 1977. Sunday, Florence
First day in Florence.
Palazzo Medici
San Lorenzo
Medici Chapel
David
Thinking of Pisa and sketches by Kahn, he probably took off his glasses to sketch. Doing that he would probably get a very abstract vision because his eyes were very bad. I wonder if it's true.
It was raining when [we were] at the palazzo Medici. There were four rain spouts pouring run-off directly into the court. It was very dramatic and sensible...
Mass in San Lorenzo--people are everywhere. The pews are very functional.
Uffizi was shorter than I thought it was from the pictures I have seen. The open arcade at the end was also nicer than expected.
Italian Study Tour Journal
1960.08.21
1960. Sunday, Cadaqués
Further to questions from Pontus Hulten about loans for the exhibition "Bewogen Beweging", which he is organizing with the Stedelijk Museum, Duchamp promises to write to Henri Marceau at the Philadelphia Museum concerning Nu descendant un Escalier, No.3 [29.4.1919] and Broyeuse de Chocolat, No.2 [8.3.1915].
If Maria Martins does not wish to lend Moulin à Café [20.10.1912], which is in Brazil, then there is the facsimile reproduction in the Boîte-en-Valise. Agreeing to a reconstruction of Roue de Bicyclette [15.1.1916], Duchamp also says: "A reproduction in reduced scale of the big glass is all right--Don't bother sending it to me."
Ephemerides
1955.08.21
1955. Friday, Basswood Lake
Inspired by the moonlit lakeside scene viewed from the houseboat, Marcel takes a sheet of pale blue blotting paper and with ink, pencil, talcum powder and a bar of chocolate draws his impression of the flaxen moon glinting in the still waters as it emerges from the forest and dedicates it [Clair de lune sur la baie à Basswood] in French to Margerie and Brookes Hubachek, his hosts.
Ephemerides
1952.08.21
1952. Thursday, New York City
Just prior to leaving for Cazenovia where he will play in the annual tournament of the New York State Chess Association, Duchamp receives a letter from Fiske Kimball of the Philadelphia Museum of Art regarding Le Roi et la Reine entourés de Nus vites [9.10.1912], but does not have time to reply to it.
Ephemerides
1936.08.21
1936. Friday, Hollywood
After a fortnight [6.8.1936] with Louise and Walter Arensberg, Marcel boards a train to return east.
Ephemerides
1918.08.21
1918. Wednesday, at sea
"The sea is very calm, and I only have light in the evening in a very hot and stuffy smoking room on account of the submarines [18.8.1918]," writes Marcel to Walter and Lou Arensberg from the SS Crofton Hall after a week at sea. There is no one to play chess with but, he says, "I am working on my papers, which I am putting in order. ... No seasickness yet."
Ephemerides
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