2025.11.04
change of venue
2025.11.04
451 Rhawn Gallery: the last exhibit, the cracks of The Large Glass on the floor and the Sistine Ignudi on the ceiling . . . a virtual work in progress.
2017/2025.11.04
11:31
2023.11.04
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project
4 November 2023 Saturday
Thanks to a search of the word 'lenses' within an online pdf of Joseph and His Brothers...
So, then, when Joseph had thus spoken with the eleven, they went out thence together from where he had revealed himself, to Asenath the maiden, his wife, to bow before her. And they saw their nephews Manasseh and Ephraim with the Egyptian youth-lock on their heads. Through the whole great house there was a bustling and much joyous laughter, for all the household staff had listened at the doors and Joseph needed to make no announcement, no, for everybody knew and one shouted to another that the provider’s brothers were come and the sons of his father had found their way hither from Zahi-land. It was the greatest fun for them all, especially because they could count on cakes and ale being given out to celebrate the event. But the scribes from the office had also listened and spread the news throughout the city, and it would have rejoiced the nimble Naphtali’s heart to see it run like a forest fire throughout all Menfe so that everybody was quickly on an equal footing of knowledge; they all knew something at the same time; that the troop of brothers of Pharaoh’s universal friend had arrived at his house. There was much jumping for joy in the streets and a crowd in front of Joseph’s house in the best suburb of Menfe shouting hurrahs and demanding the sight of him surrounded by his Asiatic kin. They were finally gratified: the twelve showed themselves on the terrace. What a pity Menfe’s folk knew not how to manipulate light-rays as we do, so that
the group could be perpetuated in a photograph! They were satisfied with their own natural lenses and did not miss anything, because they could not even conceive of such an idea.
Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers (1948), p. 1119.
 
2015.11.04
 
15110401.db Section House working model
2013.11.04
Why won't you design what we (the public) want?
Was just inspired to write a 'historical' novel where Schinkel uses the 'influence' of the Crown Prince to get to do the designs he, Schinkel, wants. The Crown Prince figures out Schinkel's stratagem and thus starts changing his mind like every week or so as to what style a project should be designed in, just to drive Schinkel a little crazy, but also to see just how clever Schinkel can be. Schinkel, in turn, figures out the Crown Prince's stratagem and hence the architecture just starts getting more and more weird. Wolfhilde von Schlittenfahrt, the sexy, new intern in Schinkel's office quickly becomes aware of the dueling stratagems and immediately starts 'busting' in her own stratagems. Add to that that both Schinkel and the Crown Prince are obsessed with the life and works of Heinrick von Kleist and participate in a secret Von Kleist Society where all forms of strangeness ensue. Working title: Kohlhaas wo bist du?
2013.11.04
Why won't you design what we (the public) want?
During the reign of (emperor) Augustus, there came a delegation from India to Rome. Augustus was busy building Rome into a "stone" city at the time. The design of the tomb of Augustus is uncannily similar (even very similar in size) to the Great Stupa in India. I think the delegation brought along drawings to show where they came from. I guess you really wouldn't be an emperor if, after seeing someone else's great thing, you didn't immediately think, "I want one of them too."
2012.11.04
The Language of Architecture
For the most part, spoken languages still relate to quite specific geographic locations. Up until roughly 100 years ago, specific geographic locations, too, had their distinct architectures. Colonialism began to usurp 'native' architectures with European architectures. In the mid-20th century the 'International Style' became an architectural Esperanto.
Is architecture today composed mostly of many, many personal languages?
Otherwise:
Are most of architecture's languages now lost?
What present architectures still relate to specific geographic locations?
What architectures are bilingual?
What architectures are multilingual?
What architectures exist also in translation?
What architectures now exist only in translation ?
What architectures are lost in translation?
Who speaks slang architecture? And is slang architecture ever appropriate?
Does anyone ever order language-salad architecture? Maybe that tastes best on Pentecost.
"I love my architect[ure]s because they often manage to say something I haven't heard before."
2003.11.04
Re: The Disney on PBS >> the ABC of politics
It is a serious mistake to contend that paganism was never organized--just look at the religion of ancient Egypt to see organization of the highest and even most refined kind. And how many Roman Emperors were deified subsequent to their death?
2003.11.04
Re: artist's statements
gladstonegallery.com requested that the items I inserted at eBay on Sunday be removed on grounds (according to eBay) "that the listing or the item itself infringes their copyright, trademark, or other rights." The listings have been removed, but you can still see the images at: www.museumpeace.com/ebay.
All these items were listed as Cremaster reproductions, which they are, but the fact that they are reproductions clipped from various issues of Artforum magazine probably should have been included within the item description. [Is it copyright infringement to sell images cut out of a magazine? Most of the time no. For example, Absolut ads are often sold as collector items.] Anyway, I sent an email to info@gladstonegallery.com asking them to request the removal of one 'Cremaster' item that was mistakenly(?) not removed, just so there is no possibility of me being further implicated. I also told 'info' that the reproductions will be henceforth artistically altered ("just as Barney does himself with Raiders imagery") and again inserted for auction at eBay--birth of an apposing Cremaster series.
I like having the opportunity to make these types of (artist's) statements.
1998.11.04
 
Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute
1993.11.04
Growing Pains
1984.11.04
Zip, Senders
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