2026.09.27
location of Étant donnés, etc.
Rudolf Siemering Washington Monument 1897 . . . . location of Étant donnés within the Philadelphia Museum of Art indicated by the pink circle
Stephen Lauf Standing on Rocky's Footprints 2003.09.10
Siemering's Washington Monument on Eakins Oval in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art carries a strong resemblance to the Nationaldenkmal Kaiser Wilhelms I formerly (now destroyed) in Berlin which Duchamp briefly wrote about on a postcard (depicting the Nationaldenkmal Kaiser Wilhelms I) to his grandmother 1912.09.27.
I possess a photograph of cousin-once-removed Anna Able with her brother Wilhelm and two of my mother's hometown (Brestowatz, Serbia) classmates posed in front of Berlin's Nationaldenkmal Kaiser Wilhelms I, circa 1941. Contemporary with my mother in Munich, Anna was employed as a domestic by some wealthy Berlin household. I no longer remember the position Anna held, but my mother was then cook for the Baron von Ow family. Both Anna and my mother were sixteen or seventeen years old at that time. I twice stayed with Anna and her husband Klaus Timtschyschyn at their Munich apartment July 1963 and Christmas-New Years 1975-1976.
2025.09.27
451 Rhawn Gallery
at home
2022.09.27
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project:
27 September 2022 Tuesday
It's been starting to feel like I'm losing touch with Piranesi, and that itself is worrisome.
But wait a minute. That feeling makes perfect sense, because right now in 1778 Piranesi is very likely beginning to show signs of fading away from this life (so to speak).
Last Friday night I wondered whether Piranesi, while looking through his works for instances of ancient circuses, was at the same time sending Francesco out to the various sites to see if there was any new data to record. That would explain why it's otherwise 'quiet' at the workshop.
Then it dawned on me how Francesco's been the leading animating force of this story.
2021.09.27
pages from an as yet unfinished book entitled Chris Top Her Wool
2020.09.27
Mary Boone's 180 hours of community service hours 167 168 169 170
1999.09.27
class
Class: I guess, now-a-days and all-around, class is largely measured by what one buys [or is bumped up into].
1967.09.27
1967. Wednesday, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Thanks Arne Ekstrom for transferring $1,000 to his bank, and confirms that he has spoken on the telephone to M. Meunier, who is to collect three Valises from Lefebvre-Foinet and transport them to New York.
Ephemerides
1961.09.27
1961. Wednesday, London
Following the interview with Katharine Kuh in New York [29.3.1961], Duchamp is filmed at a second session in conversation with Richard Hamilton for the BBC's "Monitor" programme, directed by Nancy Thomas.
Ephemerides
1957.09.27
1957. Friday, New York City
Now that Frank Anderson Trapp has returned from abroad, Duchamp informs him of Marceau's concerns for lending to Amherst College [29.6.1957J, and wonders whether he can delay opening the revival of the Armory Show, "to have better chances of success with Philadelphia."
Ephemerides
1924.09.27
1924. Saturday, Paris
Duchamp is due to visit the mechanic to see the motor fitted to the optical machine being constructed for Jacques Doucet.
Ephemerides
1912.09.27
1912. Friday, Berlin
On a card representing the imposing memorial to Kaiser Wilhelm I, Marcel writes to his grandmother Nicolle and the Paulin Bertrands in Neuilly: "This is to give you an idea of the modern Berlin style, a mixture of Greek, rococo and, dominating all architecture, the souvenir of the sovereign of each period. I will be returning to Neuilly in a few days, happy to find the calm there again to work."
Ephemerides
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