2025.10.21
    
. . . since I'm now beginning to imagine Étant donnés at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as the counterpoint to the Barberini Faun at the Munich Glyptothek, I wonder if the hole in Étant donnés's brick wall references the post-WWII bombed out Glyptothek--remember, Duchamp started working on Étant donnés in 1946.
2024.10.21
451 Rhawn Gallery
2017.10.21
POPICA 003
2009.10.21
Really, what boundaries have you pushed?
Getting back towards Logan Circle, I go into the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, where I haven't been in over ten years, and haven't been in while empty in 25 years. For some reason, I found it to be enormous inside. I guess it just is enormous, and actually quite nice architecturally, very Renaissance Rome. I notice within one of the side chapels is the chair used by Pope John Paul II while he was in Philadelphia 1979. Since no one else was around and the railing to the chapel was only 2 feet tall, I decided to go sit in the chair myself. I found those few seconds sitting to be quite intense, so I got up quickly because otherwise I would have gotten way too comfortable.
Well, what do you do after having sat in one of the Pope's chairs? To be honest, I was in a very good mood the rest of the day.
2009.10.21
Really, what boundaries have you pushed?
...maybe there's a subconscious trend.
16 August 1977
There's that open door at the end of St. Peter's Colonnade which opens up to a long corridor and ultimately the Scala Regia. As usual, a Swiss Guard was there standing at attention. I walked up the few steps anyway. The guard remained motionless until I reached the threshold, when he very subtly dipped that spear/ax thing about a quarter inch in my direction. Then I winked at him and returned back to the crowd.
2009.10.21
Really, what boundaries have you pushed?
And the Laszlo Toth Award for Pushing Boundaries goes to...
2008.10.21
californication
Did Ruskin really say something like 'there would be no memory without architecture'?
So young, attractive, underemployed-West-Coast-transplant-architects go around quoting Ruskin? REALLY!?!
The guy I sat next to in fourth grade went into the movie business--lighting--first in New York and then Hollywood. Last time I saw him was circa Christmas 1987 at Dirty Frank's in Philly. Funny thing is, he came back talking just like they do in the show.
2003.10.21
Re: human apparent asymmetry
What's interesting about the double organs of the kidneys and the lungs is that both organs carry out a lot of osmosis, thus it might just be that the design of these organs reflect the balancing operation that they largely perform.
osmosis : diffusion of fluid through a semipermeable membrane from a solution with a low solute concentration to a solution with a higher solute concentration until there is an equal concentration of fluid on both sides of the membrane.
2003.10.21 14:28
artist's statement about his least proficient art
Basically a curatorial exercise giving the stupid stuff that I haven't actually thrown away or destroyed a chance at having an audience, or at least making it more visible.
2001.10.21
Rudi Gernreich: Fashion Will Go Out of Fashion installation
1993.10.21
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