2026.09.21
"If ornament is [a] crime, then jeu de massacre is surely a deadly medley." --just yesterday
"Locus Solus, or Impressions d' Afrique? ... But this last statement shows how Lequeu's edifice of fiction enabled him, by an extraordinary historical shortcut, to introduce Palladio into his fantastic library as one model among many." --Duboy
At refined parties, where there were no such dancers, the ladies attended the banquet modestly Dressed, but as the feast proceeded they began shedding their outer garments, and towards the end, all heated with the wine, they undressed completely: not only courtesans, but matrons and virgin maids did this in order to make themselves more agreeable and give more pleasure, although they still insisted upon all delicacy and propriety, of which they, were extremely jealous. --Lequeu
"Virgins stripped bare by a bachelor, even: Lequeu!" --Duboy
Good and Ill Fortunes of Piranesi's Theoretical Texts
"All of which serves to confirm the bookish origins of Lequeu's Voyage d'Italie and other manuscript writings. The close resemblance between his composed ornaments and certain plates in the Recueil et Parallèle des édifices en tout genre by J. N. L. Durand reveals yet again the mechanical process of 'rapprochements' to which he subjected both figures and figures of speech: the open secret of his method of composition--seated in a library." --Duboy
 
2025.09.21
451 Rhawn Gallery
2024.09.21
a more interesting negative?
2023.09.21
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project:
21 September 2023 Thursday
2023.09.21 16:21 My first walk in I don't know how long.
The horse trail I took part of my walk on actually has a name--Shady Lane. Virtually no one else knows that, but you'll find the trail labeled as such on old Philadelphia Ward maps of like 100 years ago. A further west portion of Shady Lane is an actively trafficked residential street, while the horse trail Shady Lane is still in its eighteenth-century condition (so to speak). I'm highly confident the young John James Audubon got to know Shady Lane quite well.
They used to say, "All roads lead to Rome."
I remember once reading that some people believe that a rocket taking off from the North Pole, and continuing in an absolute straight trajectory, will eventually reach the Earth's South Pole. The book was about hyperspace and the fourth-dimension, I think.
So take your pick, Rome or the South Pole.
Earlier today, "Shape as sign, ah ha!"
I'm literally falling asleep.
2019.09.21
2D and 3D CAD data
19092104.db GAUAsect10 plans models Customs Office of the Neue Packhof Villa Savoye Tower of Shadows Hurva Synagogue Working Title Museum 003
2001.09.21
a few blocks south of 5th and Wyoming
mural painted spontaneously beginning the afternoon of 11 September 2001, by Lotus and Dan Past Bird, and finished early afternoon 12 September 2001
rear view of 5th and Wyoming from north
1983.09.21
locate element
you certainly count
gash 004
movie: Schinkel book goes to Hollywood
1965.09.21
1965. Sunday, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Receives a telephone call from Arturo Schwarz, who is concerned that on the etching of the Large Glass which Duchamp made during the summer in Cadaqués [14.7.1965], the nine Shots are missing.
Ephemerides
1947.09.21
1947. Sunday, New York City
The reception party for the architect is the same as the one for his departure [27.5.1947]: with Stefi and her two friends Alice and Lillian,
Marcel goes to La Guardia airport to meet Frederick Kiesler, who is due to return on a flight arriving at one-thirty in the afternoon from Paris.
Later that evening, at nine-thirty, Marcel calls on the Kieslers at 56 Seventh Avenue.
Ephemerides
1944.09.21
1944. Thursday, New York City
"Your letter which I kept preciously is dated 24 Nov. 43," writes Marcel to Yvonne whom he last wrote to a year ago [19.9.1943]. And he has finally posted the promised VVV [13.3.1943] today.
As well as issue no. 2/3, Marcel sends Yvonne a copy of VVV no. 4, in which his composition Allégorie de Genre is illustrated. Destined originally as a George Washington cover for Vogue, which the editors rejected, the profile of the first American president's head is composed of iodine-stained absorbent pads covered in gauze and stuck through with 13 nails, the heads of which are each decorated with a glittering gold star. This gory double image of America's glorious Stars and Stripes, and the victor of the American War of Independence, is fixed to the flat, black profile of the country set in a very vivid, almost electric sea of midnight blue.
Marcel has not seen the Arensbergs: "They stay in California," he explains, "I cannot afford the luxury of the voyage... They are very isolated and see hardly anybody except foreigners who ask to visit their collection."
Compared with Paris, Marcel says: "New York obviously has been a paradise for me but the human animal is so stupid that one ends up by no longer seeing any paradise."
As only the letters from America destined for the Calvados and the Manche are permitted in France, Marcel asks Yvonne if she knows of anyone either civilian or in the forces who could transmit a letter to Villon. "Be kind enough then to reply to me by return," he requests, "so that I send you a note to forward to the Villons if it's possible."
Marcel anticipates staying "at least a year" more in New York, forecasting that "even if the war ends tomorrow, people won't be allowed to leave easily..." A further detail about New York: "The burlesques have been withdrawn."
Ephemerides
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