2026.08.25
scanning VVV Number 2-3, etc.
2025.08.25
451 Rhawn Gallery
2022.08.25
2017.08.25
zero seven seven
zero seven eight
2014.08.25
23 August
What does concern me is the date stamp that every post automatically receives, thus whatever I 'write' here has a distinct point within the space-time continuum, and a lot of historical ambiguity is eliminated.
2005.08.25
Staged Photographs?
A few years ago I was (yet again) taking pictures within the Duchamp gallery (which is now named Galerie Rrose Sélavy) and a Tiny Tim look-a-like walked in. I took some pictures of him there and then also in the Jasper Johns gallery. I'll try to post them soon.
Has anyone else been to the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh? I was there ten years ago, and within an afternoon I spotted five Warhol look-a-likes strolling through the museum. As I was leaving I asked the young woman at the reception desk if there are often Warhol look-a-likes in the Museum. She answered, "Yes, there are often several in the Museum." Has anyone else been there and seen Warhol look-a-likes?
"To stage or not to stage, that is the question?"
 
1977.08.25
August 25, 1977. Thursday, Pisa
This was the supposed half day trip. It wasn't. Pisa, that is.
The leaning tower was funny.
This is the day I wasn't eating properly.
Italian Study Tour Journal
1912.08.25
1912. Sunday, Munich
On a card decorated with an exquisitely carved portrait bust of a lady from the choir stall of Ulm Cathedral, Duchamp writes to Julia Paulin-Bertrand: "At the same time as yours, I received a very nice card from Bonne Maman telling me of your fears of heatwave. Here continual rain, cold. Completely acclimatized; it still remains for me to understand German better than I do..."
After completing Le Passage de la Vierge â la Mariée [7.8.1912], Duchamp works on the next step, the Bride itself: "a juxtaposition of mechanical elements and visceral forms" which not only incorporates structures from the two drawings entitled Vierge [7.8.1912] but also refines the previous canvas's central motif, the conical shaped Sex Cylinder or Wasp, which is connected by tubes to the Reservoir of Love Gasoline below and by a pole to the Arbour-type shape above. Although this weird machine from "plastic necessity" remains "at rest", it does not prevent its strange qualities from coming to life one night and Duchamp dreams of the Bride becoming a monstrous beetle which lacerates him with its giant elytra.
Abandoning his brushes for certain areas of the picture, which he entitles Mariée, Duchamp uses his fingers to apply the oil paint, creating a rich, glowing surface not unlike the pictures by Lucas Cranach he so much admires. Not only in the Alte Pinacothek, but also in the museums which he visits during the summer (Vienna, Dresden and Leipzig), Duchamp looks at the pictures by Lucas Cranach: "I love those Cranachs... I love them. Cranach the old man. The tall nudes. That nature and substance of his nudes inspired me for the flesh colour."
Ephemerides
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