2026.09.23
finding (kind of) and reading (kind of) and taking (kind of)
Last night I saw what looked like a 3/4 profile view of Duchamp's face looking down at Diana bathing, yet today I'm not seeing it anymore (or am I?).
Jean-Jacques Lequeu A drawing representing with figures, by what tints, and how one should wash the plans, elevations, and profiles of opaque bodies: pistons 1794
"Read as a whole, Diderot's article Encylopedie serves as the User's Manual for all Duchamp's work..." --Duboy
"A good mind (and we must assume this quality in an editor) will manage to put each thing in its place, and there is no reason to fear that his own thoughts are sufficiently disordered, or his taste sufficiently poor, to mix disparate meanings for no good reason. But it would also be unjust to blame him for vagaries that would only be the necessary consequence of the diversity of topics, the imperfections of the language, and the misuse of metaphors, which transport a single word from an artisan's shop to the benches of the Sorbonne, and lump the most dissimilar things under a single label." --Diderot
"One must know how to dismember a work skillfully, manage its distributions, present its outline, give an analysis of it in the body of an article, the references of which will indicate the rest of the object. The idea is not to break its joints, but to distend them; not to separate the parts, but to disassemble them and scrupulously preserve what artists call reference marks." --Diderot
"After treating the encyclopedic material in general, the reader might wish that we should enter into the examination of each of its sections in particular; but it is for the public, and not for us, to judge our labor and that of our colleagues." --Diderot
"We must especially avoid obscurity, and remember at every line that a dictionary is made for everybody, and that the repetition of words that would be annoying in a book for entertainment becomes a character of simplicity that will never displease in a large one." --Diderot
"It's now time to take 22 February 2026 seriously." --Unbekannt
"The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at it the Mona Lisa becomes a man. It is not a woman disguised as a man; it is a real man, and that was my discovery, without realizing it at the time." --Duchamp
 
Jean-Jacques Lequeu Agdestis or Agdistis, son of Jupiter, he was man and woman all at once. c. 1800 (?)
Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you
You're so like the lady with the mystic smile
Is it only 'cause you're lonely they have blamed you
For that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile?
Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa?
Or is this your way to hide a broken heart?
Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep
They just lie there, and they die there
Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa?
Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art?
Stephen Lauf Phantom Opera Buffs 1985.04.11
"It's now time to take the feast of St. Sylvester 1924 and 2025 seriously." --Unbekannt
2025.09.23
451 Rhawn Gallery
 
2023.09.23
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project:
23 September 2023 Saturday
Some discoveries may come at the end of a quest, but the 14 May 1999 discovery that Piranesi's Ichnographia Campus Martius exists in two different printed states is when a quest began. A quest can conclude with a discovery, but a discovery can also initiate a quest. The quest initiated by the 14 May 1999 discovery of Piranesi's Ichnographia Campus Martius existing in two different printed states--Why did Piranesi change all the circus plans within the Ichnographia Campus Martius?--concluded 13 September 2023 with these words: "He [Pierre-Adrien Pâris] just didn't give [Francesco Piranesi] any credit for it." The story of my quest is done, and completely to my satisfaction. I now know how and why Piranesi came to erase/change and re-engrave the circuses of the Ichnographia Campus Martius. The journey took 24 years and 4 months, and it's mission is now written down and fulfilled. Hence, commencement of the epilogue.
Bianconi's Doctoring Piranesi episode thirteen: "Premium Epilogue Gasoline, for the smoothest ride to eternity"
2020.09.23
2D and 3D CAD data
20092301.db Maze House site maze plan model
2005.09.23
Official Archinect Haiku Thread
twelve eleven ten
nine eight seven six five four
three two one zero
2004.09.23
Art damaged at Nazi-row exhibition
CNN
Yelling loudly, the 35-year-old woman attacked "Office Baroque," a cutout section of wall by American artist Gordon Matta-Clark, doing a series of head-over-heels flips before landing on the work in a handstand, punching both her arms through the drywall, said Klaus Dieter Lehmann, president of Berlin's Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.
She then ran across the large room, pushing over a section of a spray-painted truck called "Graffiti Truck," also by Matta-Clark, bending back the metal roof.
thanks, I needed a title
Prince of Traffic
As far as I got last night. Still needs some touching up, then on to parts 2 and 3.
Don't be so insecure, 'Jeff', you're a fetish of mine too.
1993.09.23
2D CAD data
93092301.db Timepiece Omnibus
1961.09.23
1961. Saturday, Paris
For Jean Larcade [2.8.1961] Duchamp signs a declaration authorizing the Galerie Rive Droite, 23 Faubourg Saint-Honoré, to reproduce eight copies of Feuille de Vigne femelle [12.3.1951] in bronze, reserving one copy for himself and one for Man Ray.
Ephemerides
1958.09.23
1958. Tuesday, Paris
At eleven in the morning Duchamp is due to be in attendance, with or without the author, for the opening of what he describes as "the circus" at Trianon Press, to provide some prepublication publicity for Robert Lebel's book, the text of which is still not printed.
Ephemerides
1957.09.23
1957. Monday, New York City
"Period of inactivity after the chess tournament [2.9.1957]," writes Marcel to Roché. "I have received a little book, an English translation of
25 pieces of paper from the green box, by a professor friend at Yale, George Hamilton," he announces. Promising to send Roché a copy of From the Green Box published by the Readymade Press, Marcel adds: "Very good layout, , pleasing..." The book with Fawcus is advancing slowly, but there is "no question of going to Paris this year", Marcel says, "we are still full of Mexico [6.4.1957]."
Ephemerides
1951.09.23
1951. Sunday, New York City
At the Arensbergs' request, still in quest of details for their tax demand [15.9.1951], Marcel sends them the address of J. B. Neumann, from whom they purchased a Robert Delaunay. "If I am not mistaken you have had St Severin since before 1935," Marcel writes, adding, "...I can also see [Neumann] if you want me to."
Ephemerides
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