Duchamp After Unbekannt
Stephen Lauf




2026.02.08
Re: Can you tell me more about you?
The following is my latest message to Mathieu Mercier:
Hi Mathieu, so both the 2015 and 2019 editions are labeled ©2015 in the colophon? What is the difference then between the two editions? I'd just like to know (and make record of) which edition I now have. As to telling you more about me, I've decided to take your question and make it a regular feature of Duchamp After Unbekannt. Right now I'm about to enter what will probably be the last active decade of my life (b. 20 March 1956, Philadelphia). I've been producing art, almost entirely for myself, since 1983, the majority of which is documented at museumpeace.com. That said, I'm happy to now know your artwork as well. Yours truly, Steve
ps
Outside of two Temple University Architecture Department Alumni Exhibitions 1983 and 1984 (both of which I took part in organizing); an exhibition of Anonymous Saint in Bikini While Jesus is Walking on Water and the Dark Shadows series in the "Tunnel" at Kurt's gay bar and disco, Philadelphia, Labor Day weekend 1985; various shows at Venue (my first DIY gallery), Philadelphia 1993-1994; and various shows at 451 Rhawn Gallery (my second DIY gallery) 2024-2025; the inclusion of The Timepiece of Humanity Gauge within the Star Vengeance exhibition at GES-2 House of Culture, Moscow, 19 October 2023 - 21 January 2024, is the only time, so far, that a work of mine has been exhibited in a bona fide institution of art. And, on that last note, I mean, how unbekannt can you get?

for @goodnightgallery

Humble Hummel

for the record


When you clicked on the above two URLs posted at artforum/talkback you got:

And when you clicked on 'office baroque broke' and i heart berlin' you got:




2025.02.08
451 Rhawn Gallery

@walkaroundphiladelphia stopped by 451 Rhawn Gallery after walking the Bustleton Station to Fox Chase segment, and, believe it or not, they're looking at Humble Hummel up in the I-beam niche.



2022.02.08

Pennypack [Creek] Park



2009.02.08

Stimulus Package



2005.02.08
Re: Lenin museum as precursor of Neo-avant-garde art   Unbekannt
do you think maybe Matthew Barney watched Fellini Satyricon a little too much?

Re: Lenin museum as precursor of Neo-avant-garde art   Unbekannt
Warhol first saw a Lichtenstein painting in the back room at Castelli. He immediately saw the similarity with what he was doing at the same time (Popeye and Dick Tracy), but saw that Lichtenstein was doing it better, like "he even did the dots!" (or something like that).
Then Warhol went home to his mother and cried. Mrs. Warhola told me that herself. We used to collect stamps together in my basement. I traded my Poland for her Czechoslovakia. I painted her nude too. She said, "My Anditchko will kill you in the head!"
All three of us liked to dance to the Liechtensteiner Polka (mein Schatz) when we had a Rausch. eins zwei drei ...
Now they're watching reruns of the original Man Show.

Re: Lenin museum as precursor of Neo-avant-garde art   Unbekannt
your veiled attempts versus Giovanni Battista?
everything has it's context
Gosh do I miss those Intergraph 12 button cursors. does anyone else know how to work in the "user defined" mode?
pizza pizza daddio
let's monkey it
pizza pizza daddio
let's mash it
pizza pizza daddio
let's jerk it
pizza pizza daddio
let's stomp it
how many 12 step programs have you failed?
be honest now

assterisk 4 u   Unbekannt
"you can drip on me, only if you are above me"
I luv it when you go all empirical on me

boy you drink a lot of coffee   Unbekannt
Das bist du... img/american-idle.jpg
me [drip] like a horse   extras/photos/hung.jpg



2004.02.08
Re: Neo Goth
For the record, Stilicho was half Vandal, half Roman, whereas Alaric was a Visigoth.



2003.02.08
Re: WTC Proposals
[someone did their homework]
web search
intelligence gathering (in Wildwood hot tub?)
reenactment
where does Gidget go?

Re: You gotta keep makin' the art...
Been there, done that (again and again).
Reenacting Barney.
Reenacting Wagner.
Reenacting Piranesi.
Reenacting Helena and Eutropia.
Never a shortage of bombast.
Who said Art is a boy's name?
or
Is it true (some) snails breed themselves?


1993.02.08

93020801.db   Cracks


1967.02.08
1967. Wednesday, New York City
The Hares and the Wusts are guests for dinner at 28 West 10th Street.
Ephemerides


1960.02.08
1960. Monday, New York City
"I feel very honoured by the news of my election as a member of the Department of Art in the National Institute of Arts and Letters [2.2.1960]," writes Marcel to the president, Glenway Westcott, thanking him for the insignia and the yearbook of the Institute.
*
Teeny and Marcel take the train to Philadelphia which leaves New York at a quarter to twelve.
Ephemerides




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