2026.02.02
 
According to The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, To Have the Apprentice in the Sun was drawn "January 1914, Rouen". Was the November 1, 1898 edition of the French sports magazine La Vie au grand air, with the image of Major Taylor on the cover, also (still) to be found in the Duchamp family home "January 1914, Rouen"?
ps
I just thought to entitle the above diptych: Balancing Act.
2025.02.02
Heather Diacont Rinehart Extant 451 Rhawn Gallery
2022.02.02
22020201.db Museum of Architecture Venice model work
2018.02.02
13:02
2009.02.02
Venturi's Lieb House (No. 9) to be moved (or demolished)
I'd say that the Lieb House is now a museum piece. That's how the building's context has now changed. Villa Savoye hasn't moved, but its context has changed as well. It hasn't been a residence in many years, and it too is now a museum piece.
It was asked above what's going on at Guild House. According to "on the boards" of the VSBA website, Guild House is undergoing rehabilitation. Just in passing, the physical context of Guild House changed drastically within the first decade of the building's existence. Spring Garden Street was much different/dense in the 1960s and bad zoning decisions changed the street into low-rise warehouses. It's kind of difficult to appreciate Guild House 'in context' now.
For what it's worth, I'm becoming much more interested in architectures within the context of the space-time continuum.
Venturi's Lieb House (No. 9) to be moved (or demolished)
What may be lingering in the background is the notion that the Lieb House was somehow site-specific, and now, without its site, that building is thus diminished. I'd say the Lieb House was/is much more generic than site-specific. And that is where its historical significance comes from--a thoughtful modern design in the generic idiom.
Venturi's Lieb House (No. 9) to be moved (or demolished)
Lost and Losterer
Wolfhilde von Schlittenfahrt wanted me to design her a Master Bath that she could occasionally open to the pub[l]ic. I suggested something like this:
"What Sphinx in here?"
2006.02.02
Their house is a museum, when people come to see 'em
...do I keep my museums more purely virtual?
Real means fairly large amounts of money. Virtual means money amounts not much more than pocket change these days.
Is the House in Ottopia a 21st century play on the Soane Museum?
Thesis Semester [blog] 25 years ago
Today, 2 February is the (new) feast of St. Catherine de Ricci. Catherine died 2 February 1590. My thesis project is seminally a reenactment of Louis Kahn's design of the Motherhouse of the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine de Ricci. I knew nothing of St. Catherine de Ricci in 1981, but I know much more now...
My virtual thesis project for 2006 is entitled "Reenacting Roma Interrotta Sector VI". The design team of RI Sector VI was Romaldo Giurgola, Harold Guida, Sigrid Miller and Giancarlo Alhdeff. This project has everything to do with blending an 18th century sector of Rome with a 20th century sector of North Philadelphia.
2005.02.02
who knew?
Die Künstler sind zusammen im Berlin.
Kinder von Duchamp.
Ich hertz links.
Donner und Blitzen, naturlich.
Re: LOST AND FOUND
Strasse rechts, Strasse links. Kaserne wo bist du?
excerpt from old World War II German soldier joke. something Beuys understood? like "Bekleckert mit dem Dotter von Ei."
Re: what kind of mf forum is this?
Sometimes this forum manifests things earlier than the magazine. [I] like certain key passages in Peter Plagens' "At the Crossroads" (Artforum, February 2005) echo passages in the talkback archive. (side-by-side comparisons forthcoming)
Isn't it the postartist that really manifests the postcriticism? Loopy? Sure is. Like aren't the postcritics really the postartists in the first place?
Now, combine Godfrey's excellent (except at least a footnote to Cindy Sherman is missing) "Image Structures: Photography and Sculpture" with the last line of Demo's on "Experiments with Truth" and you'll see at least "where" I'm at.
If it's cheap you want, go cyberstudio. Canned laughter, even.
Re:appear
St. Catherine de Ricci died after long illness at the age of sixty-eight on February 2, 1590.
Something similar to what is related by St. [Ach du Lieber] Augustine about St. John of Egypt happened to St. Philip Neri and St. Catherine de Ricci. They had exchanged a number of letters, and although they never met in the body she appeared to him and talked with him in Rome--without ever having left her convent at Prato.
Remember, it all about bilocation, bilocation, and bilocation.
hot out of the studio
"Das cracks me up!"
"Yeah, and I'm gonna play insurance fraud."
Won't be seeing the Rubin's drawings show, but am curious if there are any there that were done for tapestries. Also, any twisted column designs?
Re: ART AND MONEY
as my grandmother once asked, "Was ist das Pizza Hut?"
Re: ART AND MONEY
joke from 1986
there: Eva Gabor wigs
not there: baldness
hey, when is talkback going to tell me to get some sleep?
2001.02.02
hello
...a "working title museum"--domain of all tentative works/ideas...
2000.02.02
apples and oranges (as usual)
Three of the most inspirational texts I've ever read were in Oppositions. They are by William S. Huff, and they are his essays on symmetry. I believe Huff was a student of Louis Kahn. [Huff actually worked for/with Kahn, particularly on Tribune Review Press Building and the First Unitarian Church.]
1960.02.02
1960. Tuesday, New York City
Duchamp thanks Henri Marceau for lending the pictures to Bamberger's store [29.1.1960] and informs him of the cracks in the glass which he noticed on Friday.
Following the request to the museum from the New York Graphic Society to make a reproduction of Nu descendant un Escalier, No.2 [18.3.1912], Duchamp tells Marceau that he accepts with pleasure the sum to cover all his rights on the reproduction. He enquires about the dimensions of it and adds: "I would also like them to be interested one day in reproducing the Large Glass [5.2.1923] in an interesting way."
At the end of his letter Duchamp says that he hopes Marceau will have lunch with them on Monday when they come to Philadelphia.
Ephemerides
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