2026.10.03
it's all work after all
2025.10.03
be it ever so humble...
...you can guess the rest
2024.10.03
451 Rhawn Gallery
2007.10.03
Apocalyptic Urbanism
Just wait:
Due to global warming Greenland becomes prime real estate. As a result Denmark becomes one of the northern hemisphere's big oil-rich nations. Jet-setters winter in Dubai and summer in Greenland.
I've never set foot on Greenland, but I have been there (back in 1963). Our plane needed fuel, so we landed somewhere in Greenland. It was night, so you couldn't see much, but I distinctly remember a single light burning over the door of a small building next to the runway. I remained enchanted.
Almost 20 years ago over dinner at Copa 2 I told Tony Drexel Biddle to buy land in Greenland. He laughed it off. I'm laughing now.
2003.10.03
Spectacular Silence
I live in a very quiet place, and I love it--although it was hardy quiet this past summer with basketball being played at least 18 hours a day almost right in front of my house. Hurricane Isabel knocked down the basket, and the teacher's strike ended, so it's real quite (during most of the day) again. The basketball playing wasn't all bad, except at seven in the morning and 3 o'clock at night, and I prefer hearing my new next door neighbor who's blind and plays the horn.
Quiet's cool because it actually lets you hear noise from far away, albeit quietly. Whenever I hear the freight train that's a half mile away, that means it's about to rain. Lunchtime out front offers the happy cacophony of many children in a school yard, reverberating from on top of the other side of the valley. Hearing the constant flow of the Roosevelt Boulevard (US Rt. 1, twelve lanes of traffic also on top of the other side of the valley) at night when the windows are open really puts you to sleep.
Quiet's spectacular precisely because of the things it lets you hear otherwise.
Re: paper
Here are questions I would ask:
In what ways has Modernism become a tradition? And in what ways hasn't Modernism become a tradition?
1953.10.03
1953. Saturday, Philadelphia
Among those attending the opening of "Before Columbus: Pre-Columbian Sculpture from the Arensberg Collection" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art are Duchamp and Man Ray.
Ephemerides
1949.10.03
1949. Monday, New York City
"Many thanks for having taken the train tickets [23.9.1949]: the Roomette will be filled with smoke," writes Duchamp to Katharine Kuh, who has made arrangements for him to travel to Chicago on 18 October. "I feel very sorry," he adds, "that the Arensbergs won't be there for the opening. Am writing them."
Ephemerides
1945.10.03
1945. Wednesday, New York City
Dines with the Kieslers at 56 Seventh Avenue.
Ephemerides
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