2026.09.26
Giovanni Battista, even
Jean-Jacques Lequeu 102 Elevation of a detached altar in the Greek manner . . . . 103 Elevation of the font of the church of St John the Baptist . . . . 1791(?)
yesterday a year ago
Stephen Lauf Discussing the Tails of David and Goliath 2025.05.02
Stephen Lauf Is This What It Means To Pamper Your Public? 2025.05.02
form follows function in the fourth dimension?
Jean-Jacques Lequeu 174 The Cow Barn faces south on the cool meadow. 1777(?)
2023.09.26
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project:
26 September 2023 Tuesday
George's next CD was Eruption by Mountain, and the songs did indeed play during an eruption in the house. I have no idea of the actual song titles, but it would have been apt if one of them was "Lots of unloading off the chest."
When it comes to the Bianconi vs Piranesi 'Circus of Caracalla' affair, the picture that has, in due course, become clear in my mind is one of Piranesi being more or less completely innocent throughout the affair.
Piranesi knew nothing about Pierre-Adrien Pâris copying Francesco's plan drawing of the Circus of Caracalla, nor about all that Francesco had told Pâris about the Circus of Caracalla ruins. Furthermore, Piranesi, and more than likely Francesco as well, knew nothing about the arrangement (or was it contract?) between Pierre-Adrien Pâris and Giovanni Lodovico Bianconi regarding Pâris producing drawings of the remains and plan reconstruction of the Circus of Caracalla.
When Bianconi first saw (which we have to assume that at some point he did) that Piranesi already had a Circus of Caracalla plan that was virtually identical to the Circus of Caracalla plan that Pâris drew, Bianconi immediately, albeit also wrongly, assumed that Piranesi also got the plan from Pâris, but there is no evidence that Bianconi ever confronted Piranesi over the similarity of the plans, nor is there any evidence that Piranesi ever knew of the arrangement between Bianconi and Pâris.
2021.09.26
Fox Chase Farm
Getting to go out for a bit, but not without trepidation.
2004.09.26
Arcadia University
  
  
Olafur Eliasson Your Colour Memory 2004
2003.09.26
metabolism
The product of catabolism (destructive metabolism) is energy, which in turn induces anabolism (creative metabolism).
Human biological waste matter is largely an end product of assimilation. Uric acid, however, seems to be a by-product of metabolism.
1984.09.26
1966.09.26
1966. Monday, Neuilly-sur-Seine
"We received this morning the big collection of clippings very amusing to read (pro and con)," writes Duchamp to Hugh Shaw, Exhibitions Organizer of the Arts Council of Great Britain, one of those involved in mounting the exhibition at the Tate Gallery [16.6.1966].
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1961.09.26
1961. Tuesday, Paris
Accompanied by Nancy Thomas of the BBC and Richard Hamilton, the Duchamps fly to London.
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1945.09.26
1945. Wednesday, New York City
At eight o'clock Marcel dines with the Kieslers at 56 Seventh Avenue.
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1924.09.26
1924. Friday, Paris
"At last I have seen something turning," writes Duchamp to Jacques Doucet [22.9.1924]. As the motor is due to be fitted the following day, Duchamp proposes to take Doucet on Monday to see the optical machine in its "raw state".
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1912.09.26
1912. Thursday, Berlin
After being based in Munich [1.7.1912] for two months, Marcel has spent the first three weeks in September visiting Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, and Dresden and is now back in Berlin.
"Once again, here I am growing accustomed to life in Berlin," writes Marcel from the Hotel zum Goldenen Löwen, 55 Judenstrasse, to his
brothers Gaston and Raymond. "The second impression is better than at first sight. Probably because I have visited a few paintings: always the museums, which are marvels of installation--why is the Louvre so badly arranged?
"And then the Berlin Secession, which finally enabled me to see the face of young French painting abroad. One room was reserved for Friesz, Marquet, Valtat, Herbin and 4 Picassos. It gave me very great pleasure to find Cubism again, it was such a long time since I had seen it. And that went not a little way, to my indulgence for Berlin.
"I take the bus, trams, as if I have always lived here. The metro does not have the same importance here as in Paris. There is only one long line
and a transversal, again most agreeable. "The horse-drawn buses, because there are still a lot of them here, resemble in their small size our Auteuil-Saint Sulpice (with a small exaggeration).
"Les Linden or les Linden!" exclaims Marcel, referring to his mother's first cousin, Armande van Linden, and her family. "The lime trees in question are missing. It's a very wide boulevard and not very long. Only the Tiergarten is nice.
"I received official notice that my drawing [Vierge No.1; 7.8.1912] pleased the jury of the Salon d'Autornne. Much good it may do me! At last I have found the Gil Blas and I hope to follow with interest the opening of the 'automne', by our friend V[au]xelle no doubt.
"I am writing to you from a so-called 'literary' cafe. There are, above all, lots of women who are not at all 'literary'.
"I hope that my friend [Bergmann?] will join me again here at the beginning of next week and will show me the 'night-life' in Berlin. It's a speciality.
"I hope to return to Paris around the 10th," Marcel says, and tells his brothers that on his way back he will probably stop in Cologne. "I am beginning to have a real need," he declares, "to see some friends' faces again..."
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