2026.02.06
fun in the museum yesterday
   
More questions for google/AI
Q:
Do you think Duchamp saw the Barberini Faun while he stayed in Munich the summer of 1912?
A:
While there is no direct, documented proof--such as a diary entry, letter, or sketch--confirming Marcel Duchamp visited the Glyptothek to see the Barberini Faun during his 1912 stay in Munich, it is highly probable he did so, or at least was aware of it.
Here is the context regarding why this is likely, along with what we do know about his trip:
Key Points Supporting the Possibility:
Artistic Curiosity: Duchamp went to Munich specifically to explore the "art capital," visiting major museums, including the Alte Pinakothek.
Glyptothek Proximity & Importance: The Barberini Faun is one of the most famous sculptures in Munich's Glyptothek, a major classical museum that an artist interested in form would likely visit.
The "Munich Mystique": His stay was a period of intense artistic reevaluation, where he moved from Cubism toward his "Large Glass" ideas. He was soaking in new visual stimuli.
What We Know He Did Visit:
Alte Pinakothek: Known to have visited for Old Master paintings, particularly influenced by Lucas Cranach the Elder.
Technical Sites: Visited the Deutsches Museum (science/technology) and the Bavarian Industrial Fair.
Lifestyle: Frequented the Hofbräuhaus and Nymphenburg Palace.
Conclusion:
While historians have noted influences from Cranach, local murals, and industrial design during this trip, a visit to the Glyptothek to see its star attraction, the Barberini Faun, fits perfectly with his documented activities, even if it wasn't explicitly recorded.
Q:
Is there a similarity between the Barberini Faun in Munich and the female nude figure within Duchamp's Etant donnes?
A:
While not a direct, documented art-historical citation, there is a striking visual and thematic similarity in the exposed, legs-apart, sleeping/passive pose, connecting the Barberini Faun's drunken stupor to the female figure in Duchamp’s Étant donnés. Both feature vulnerable, splayed bodies in unconventional, confrontational positions that defy traditional, modest depictions.
 
Happy New Year's [Adam and] Eve . . . 31 December 1924/2025
  
@451.rhawn.gallery:
no doubt about it, I  museums!
@marcovayer:
@mathieu_mercier_studio
@451.rhawn.gallery:
@mathieu_mercier_studio started following @451.rhawn.gallery four days ago, and 451 followed back, but I had no idea that the boîte I purchased over a week ago on eBay had anything to do with Mathieu. It's a superb work, so much so that I just purchased another one (both for the same very reasonable price). I now intend to continually 'play' with and within both museums, hence manifesting an ongoing series of Duchamp-Mercier-Lauf Unbekannt Appositions.
@marcovayer:
It's the box of inframince game.
@451.rhawn.gallery:
yes, a game of passing through the inframince from the passive to the active, from spectator to participant, hence operating and manifesting many types of hyper/unbekannt completions.
While just seeing the above image @mathieu_mercier_studio for the first time, I was soon reminded of the somewhat obscure (so-called) Ur-Birth of Venue in a Dream (1993.05.24)--obscure in that I've never before documented the work, and pretty much no one has seen it since its exhibition in Manayunk at VENUE mid-summer 1993.
Enframing and (sort of) memorializing a select portion of a page within an early-1980s copy of GQ magazine, the remaining image is indeed the source of (so-called) Birth of Venue in a Dream, of which the third (of 4) version(s) hangs on the wall beside me as I'm writing this.
2025.02.06
451 Rhawn Gallery
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2017.02.06
   
2006.02.06
Thesis Semester [blog] 25 years ago
Because of Roma Interrotta and related genius loci issues, I've been doing a lot of reading/research, and thus I now know that, when I look out my mother's living room windows, I'm looking at the site where the oldest house [sic] in Pennsylvania once stood.
2003.02.06
various ideas, projects, etc.
Curate exhibitions of work (both real and virtual) within the museum models in Quondam's collection. ...can even alter the museums.
The introduction to Museum as Muse is very good... ...write an essay as to being actively "artistic" with regard to museums--even created museums. Museum as Muse is perfect for Unthinking an Architecture. Damisch's "A Very Special Museum" also needs addressing in terms of Quondam as a virtual museum of architecture.
Not sure where Somewhat Incompletely Louis I. Kahn goes, probably in UaA/Remove...
...the "bombastic piece" series; this is continued within the notion of curating exhibits, i.e., "playing the pre-shrine curator," within the virtual museums. This puts a real different slant on how the shows/works come together. ...make 3d models of the works... ...Whitemarsh Hall and its grounds. Incompletely Kahn is in this as well (as in the cad models in the cad model museums).
There is a strong similarity between Whitemarsh Hall and the final House for Schinkel.
the death of Helena
I don’t think I’ve yet to record the circumstances revolving around the "signs" indicating Helena’s death date/day, 28 July (I think, but will check).
It was a Sunday morning in 2002. Most notably the trapped miners in Pennsylvania were finally rescued, but also Quondam and Museumpeace were down because of some problem at 123ehost, and Anna finally returned my call after almost over 3 weeks--I can easily check when I called Anna and left a message because it’s the day I posted 'Étant donnés's back door' at the Duchamp bulletin board. I even told Anna it was probably the anniversary of Helena’s death (due to Quondam being down was my initial reasoning/surmising), but I became “convinced” when news of miners rescue became known.
1999.02.06
electromagnetism in the body
The human heart is effectively an electromagnet, and thus the area of concentrated electromagnetism within the body.
We all know that the heart is a pump of blood, but rarely is it stated that what the heart pumps is precisely what makes the heart pump. For this reason alone the heart is the most perfect of all (electrical) machines.
Compare the definitions of the heart and the definition of electromagnet in Webster's Third International Dictionary and you will be struck by the fundamental sameness.
So where exactly is the electricity and the magnetism within the heart? Where else but in the blood, the pumps fuel.
Blood contains sodium chloride (salt) which is composed of sodium and chloride ions, electrically charges atoms.
Blood contains iron, a ferrous material whose properties include the ability to spontaneously magnetize.
No doubt, we each contain nature at its best.
Three practical examples:
Strenuous labor, especially work under heated conditions, can cause (so-called) sun stroke. The remedy for sun stroke is salt tablets, which work simply because they replenish the electricity that pours from the body when we sweat.
People with high blood pressure are advised to refrain from salt in their diets. Essentially it is dangerous to increase the corporal "charge" when the pressure is already high.
Women, through their menstrual periods, lose quantities of blood. Women are advised to take iron supplements as part of their diet. It is during their periods that women lose a measurable (but still necessary) portion of their magnetism.
Re: notes from a reading of the Timepiece of Humanity
If the Timepiece of Humanity ever does anything revolutionary, it will be to end once and for all the separation between the body and the mind, because what the Timepiece of Humanity is telling me so far is that the imaginative operations of the mind reflect exactly the physiological operations of the body.
1961.02.06
1961. Monday, New York City
The Duchamps attend the private view of "Paintings from the Arensberg and Gallatin Collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and are invited to dine with Mr Harry F. Guggenheim afterwards.
Ephemerides
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