2026.02.17
Photograph of Raymond Duchamp-Villon Torse de Jeune-Homme (1910) Philadelphia Museum of Art Alexina and Marcel Duchamp Papers
Raymond Duchamp-Villon's Torse de Jeune-Homme was among the many works exhibited at The Armory Show, 17 February 1913 - 15 March 1913. According to the Ephemerides, Torse de Jeune-Homme is a "portrait of [Marcel] Duchamp inspired by the young warrior--armless, eagerly striding forward--a fragment of the pediment of Athena's temple, Aegina, which is conserved at the Glyptothek in Munich." If this assertion is true, there would then be, pretty much, no doubt of Marcel's having visited the Glyptothek while he was in Munich the summer of 1912, and, therefore, having also seen the Barberini Faun. Additionally, and again if the Ephemerides assertion is true, Raymond Duchamp-Villon was quite the astute observer because the Aegina pediment fragments were, in 1910, still displayed in a reconstructed form; not until 1963 were the Aegina pediment fragments displayed as fragments alone.
 
I'm wondering whether the Ephemerides assertion is a kind of 'reconstructed form' as well. . . . Belvedere Torso, wo bist du[feld]?
2023.02.17
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project
17 February 2023 Friday
Ichnographia Campus Martius Tab VII second state
2021.02.17
Untitled
2019.02.17
Mary Boone's 180 Hours of Community Service
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today [14 February 2019] that Manhattan art gallery owner MARY BOONE was sentenced to 30 months in prison for filing false tax returns as part of a multi-year tax fraud scheme that cost the U.S. Treasury over $3 million.
BOONE artificially inflated the Gallery’s stated expenses and, to a lesser degree, the Gallery’s stated income, in order to fraudulently generate business losses when, in reality, the Gallery was generating profits each year. In furtherance of this aspect of the tax fraud scheme, BOONE engaged in complex financial machinations and further falsification of the check registers that BOONE provided to her accountant. For example, in 2011, BOONE transferred approximately $9.5 million from one business bank account to another, and falsely characterized these transfers as tax-deductible business expenses, such as commissions to artists, on the check registers that Boone provided to the accountant.
In addition to the prison term, Judge Hellerstein ordered BOONE to serve one year of supervised release, including 180 hours of community service. Boone previously paid court-ordered restitution to the IRS in the amount of $3,097,160, which represents the additional tax due and owing as a result of BOONE’s filing of false individual and corporate income tax returns for calendar years 2009, 2010, and 2011.
On 17 February 2019 architect/artist STEPHEN LAUF commenced an art project spending 180 hours painting on Mary Boone Gallery advertisement pages taken from Art in America and Artforum International magazines.
Initially, each magazine page painting took about an hour to finish, although eventually, as the paintings became more involved, some took two to several hours to complete.
Ultimately, the 180 hours of painting concluded 2 October 2020, manifesting a total of 94 individual paintings.
Mary Boone's 180 hours of community service hour 2
Mary Boone's 180 hours of community service hour 4
2016.02.17
House for Otto 6
House for Otto 7
2005.02.17
it's all just gridlock vs. rush hour in Lagos, Nigeria, u know
Did Albrecht Zweistein really say "God plays I-Ching" when I wasn't looking?
"Vhair iz za Zenter?"
"Wat cen'er? You mean the shoppin' cen'er?"
"Za Zenter of Baghdad!"
"Dis, is it."
—Baghdad Cafe
Personally, I'd say bag dat and I'm a Ghanor.
Re: Laylah Ali
It's now confirmed that the stray kitten I [saved from dying of asphyxiation by cutting loose the rubber washer around its neck and] was feeding two summers ago has been living since in Antoinette's garage with the broken/cracked-open door. I really think my fattening up the kitten (with daily milk, cheese and turkey breast) helped his inevitable survival challenge. I sense the cat doesn't remember me though, or remembers me as the gift that suddenly stopped giving. Others think I hate cats and dogs, but I don't. It's just that they give me severe asthma, thus I have to keep my distance. I now call the cat Fat Chance von Middle-Class Black Neighborhood.
1992.02.17
 
920217n1.db studio still life 1 floating shapes
920217n2.db still life 1
1966.02.17
1966. Thursday, New York City
"...For two months we have lots of secret things going on," writes Teeny to her daughter Jackie. "The house where Marcel's studio is was sold to the Spanish grocer down the street... so he had but one idea to get out as soon as he could. Today Grosso comes for the last load so the clearing out, packing and moving is almost over. Marcel has worked like a dog since Christmas, squeezing it all in with everything else and I have helped as much as I could. You can imagine after being in the old place for over 24 years [1.10.1943] what it was like and there wasn't one studio there were two! He has taken a tiny place at 80 E[ast] 11 St[reet]. A kind of office building with elevator and service. The man who owns it seems awfully nice and Marcel's name is not on the board so no one knows he is there, which is what he wants. You are again the only person I'm telling because I feel someone in the family besides me should know it. Remember only to all others it's a secret.
"All in all I think it is for the best lately he hated walking so far on very cold days and climbing 4 straight flights up, and now that it is almost over we are both so relieved and pleased. I just hope that it has not tired him too much. He has been absolutely wonderful and worked like a young man and accomplished everything he wanted to do.
"The sky is blue blue and we are beginning to feel Spring in the air...
"PS The gravures [8.2.1966] have just arrived!! Marcel says 'Many many thanks to Jackie for her diligence'."
Ephemerides
1963.02.17
1963. Sunday, Utica
Commenting that it is a tour de force to have collected more than 325 of the works that were in the 1913 show, Duchamp adds: "Having
heard so much of the Armory Show, all my life, I am thrilled to at last see it, for my Columbus Day was June 15, 1915."
Ephemerides
1913.02.17
1913. Monday, New York City
In the evening at the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington and 25th, the Association of American Painters and Sculptures opens its "International exhibition of Modern Art". The Armory Show, as it is known, has been organized with private funds by a small group of artists with the specific intention of breaking American complacency and apathy to Modern Art.
. . .
A third of the 1,300 works exhibited are from Europe. Crossing the Atlantic the previous September to make the selection, Walt Kuhn visited a number of European capitals and was then joined by Arthur Davies in Paris, where their colleague Walter Pach guided them in a whirlwind tour of the studios, galleries and collectors early in November.
When the Americans visited 7 Rue Lemaître, they chose nine paintings by Jacques Villon and five works by Duchamp-Villon including Torse d'un Jeune Homme, a portrait of Duchamp inspired by the young warrior--armless, eagerly striding forward--a fragment of the pediment
of Athena's temple, Aegina, which is conserved at the Glyptothek in Munich.
Davies was particularly impressed by the work of the youngest brother [Marcel] and commented: "That's the strongest expression I've seen yet!" In Duchamp's absence (he had just enrolled at the Ecole des Chartes [4.11.1912]) four of his canvases were selected: Le Roi et la Reine entourés de Nus vites [9.10.1912]; Portrait de Joueurs d'Echecs [15.6.1912]; Nu descendant un Escalier, No.2 [18.3.1912] and Jeune Homme
triste dans un Train.
The latter is a full-length self-portrait (entitled Nu in the catalogue) of Duchamp travelling alone on a train from Paris to Rouen; he
has identified himself by including his pipe and his cane [13.5.1911], which are quite clearly drawn in the composition based on the relativity of objects in movement.
. . .
The painting that steals the show, however, is Duchamp's Nu descendant un Escalier.
Ephemerides
Marcel Duchamp Portrait de Joueurs d'Echecs October - November 1911
Marcel Duchamp Jeune Homme triste dans un Train December 1911
Marcel Duchamp Nu descendant un Escalier No.2 January 1912
Marcel Duchamp Le Roi et la Reine entourés de Nus vites May 1912
It is worth noting that, by the end of the International Exhibition of Modern Art's three city tour, all four of Marcel Duchamps paintings were sold, and this immediate and unquestionable proof of Duchamp's commercial viability is most likely the reason Duchamp chose, and hence designed, the artistic life that he soon thereafter led.
1564.02.17
Death of Michelangelo
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