2026.09.08
worm's eye view...
...but not the spectator's?
2025.09.08
451 Rhawn Gallery
Stephen Lauf Ridiculously Expensive 2001.07.16
Stephen Lauf full disclosure the completion of Given: 1. the extra restroom, 2. the final chapter aspirations 2025.09.08
2017.09.08
zero eight seven
zero eight eight
2013.09.08
What is talent?
(You could say) Talent is what makes hard work seem effortless.
2000.09.08
thanks, I
I like the notion of Quondam being a virtual place in architectural history because that's exactly what it is, and, more than likely, always will be.
1966.09.08
1966. Thursday, Paris
While Duchamp is still in Cadaqués, an interview he recently accorded Claude Rivière is published in Combat. Discussing mainly contemporary art, the journalist's first question is:
"What can you say about the direction of art today?"
"I cannot say anything. I do not think, I do not judge. Art is anything. One can choose of course. One starts with a frame of mind, chosen materials, with the subject but in fact the principal factor in art today is boredom."
Does Duchamp think this situation will last long?
"That doesn't matter! This situation exists... What is important to me is to see it existing."
Is today's approach really sincere ... ?
"Bah! Isn't insincerity often the same thing as sincerity?"
Doesn't he think that artists today take the easy way out by using manufactured objects?
"But what have I done myself? ...In music we find investigations parallel to those of painters. John Cage pursues his search for silence, even Erik Satie did not go as far as him. Cage performed a boring repetitive music which lasts for 8 hours [Vexations by Satie, in New York on 9-10 September 1963]... There again you see, it's boredom that dominates... "
Claude Rivière remarks that Duchamp has had enormous influence on the present time...
"Who can know the extent of my influence? Not me, in any case, but I am sure that Pop Art was inevitable. It's more interesting than the Op [Art] and, more than [Op], the Pop opens a new vision and affirms a scission. It's this scission which is important."
"To me your work appears to be more sumptuous than what you see in Pop Art," claims the journalist.
But someone comes to collect Duchamp and, smiling, he tells Claude Rivière before he goes: "You see art never saved the world. It cannot."
Ephemerides
1951.09.08
1951. Saturday, New York City
As the list of items purchased for the Arensbergs between 1935 and 1940 that Marcel made for the Californian tax department was unsigned and appeared to be incomplete [15.8.1951], Walter has sent him a typewritten one, which Marcel has completed and corrected before signing and returning it. "If there should be some other questions," he writes in an accompanying note, "don't hesitate to squeeze my recollections (as vague as they are!) What a nuisance!"
Ephemerides
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