2026.02.18
The Golden Lucky Bums
The Center City Campus of The Acropolis of Contemporary Art asked Duchamp to perform a readymade intervention, and Marcel simply replied, "Oui oui."
2025.02.18
451 Rhawn Gallery
Everything Has It's Price 001
Ready for Take Off
2024.02.18
 
further work on Contrast to the Fictitious Blonde
2019.02.18
Mary Boone's 180 hours of community service hour 5
Mary Boone's 180 hours of community service hour 8
2016.02.18
Rem Koolhaas to deliver keynote on day 3 of AIA National Conference
"Delirious Philadelphia" is certainly a topic to conjure with. I even wonder if that's really what Koolhaas will talk about. But, if Philadelphia is discussed in a 'delirious' fashion, then there's a whole lot of ground to cover.
Does anyone else remember the day the person Kevin Spacey portrayed in a Clint Eastwood movie visited Philadelphia? It started with "Butch Menace, please come to the information desk" being called out several times on the public address system of Philadelphia International Airport. The main objective of the visit was to inspect the other "Napoleon" at the Athenaeum. (Kevin should make an effort to visit the Athenaeum as well, because then he too would be one of the very few people in our time to have been in the presence of both Napoleons.)
2014.02.18
What's the next architecture-related outrage going to be?
In the future, some world organization will survey every person on the planet with the question:
Outside of your own profession (if you have one), what profession is most effective at and/or most capable of improving your life?
After the results are published, architects the world over are outraged that their profession was never mentioned, not even once.
2013.02.18
the architecture of gentrification
European colonization of the greater part of the rest of the world.
What are architects immediately critical of when entering a building?
I just finished writing a novel where 20% of the world's population employs an architect--after cell phones, i-pads, etc., architects have become the must-have life accessory--most consult their architects on a daily basis. Then, of course, the competition among architects is fierce, thus the book is like The Gong Show meets Fantasy Island.
2007.02.18
what is today's movement?
pigeon-hole-ism
what is today's movement?
Name any current mathematical, scientific or philosophical theory, and there's an architecture that will try to reenact it.
Look at the architecture of Mies, Le Corbusier (especially the late works), and Kahn (especially the early works), and there's a lot of contemporary architecture reenacting all that.
Philip Johnson's architecture is one reenactment after another.
Frank Gehry's architecture evolves via reenacting itself.
You want something original? Just reenact with a twist.
twist
–verb (used with object)
1. to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
2. to form by or as if by winding strands together.
3. to entwine (one thing) with another; interlace (something) with something else; interweave; plait.
4. to wind or coil (something) about something else; encircle; entwine; wreathe.
5. to alter in shape, as by turning the ends in opposite directions, so that parts previously in the same straight line and plane are located in a spiral curve.
6. to turn sharply or wrench out of place; sprain.
7. to pull, tear, or break off by turning forcibly.
8. to distort (the features) by tensing or contracting the facial muscles; contort.
9. to distort the meaning or form of; pervert.
10. to cause to become mentally or emotionally distorted; warp.
11. to form into a coil, knot, or the like by winding, rolling, etc.
12. to bend tortuously.
13. to cause to move with a rotary motion, as a ball pitched in a curve.
14. to turn (something) from one direction to another, as by rotating or revolving.
15. to combine or associate intimately.
–verb (used without object)
16. to be or become intertwined.
17. to wind or twine about something.
18. to writhe or squirm.
19. to take a spiral form or course; wind, curve, or bend.
20. to turn or rotate, as on an axis; revolve, as about something; spin.
21. to turn so as to face in another direction.
22. to turn, coil, or bend into a spiral shape.
23. to change shape under forcible turning or twisting.
24. to move with a progressive rotary motion, as a ball pitched in a curve. 25. to dance the twist.
–noun
26. a deviation in direction; curve; bend; turn.
27. the action of turning or rotating on an axis; rotary motion; spin.
28. anything formed by or as if by twisting or twining parts together.
29. the act or process of twining strands together, as in thread, yarn, or rope.
30. a twisting awry or askew.
31. distortion or perversion, as of meaning or form.
32. a peculiar attitude or bias; eccentric turn or bent of mind; eccentricity.
33. spiral disposition, arrangement, or form.
34. spiral movement or course.
35. an irregular bend; crook; kink.
36. a sudden, unanticipated change of course, as of events.
37. a treatment, method, idea, version, etc., esp. one differing from that which preceded.
38. the changing of the shape of anything by or as by turning the ends in opposite directions.
39. the stress causing this alteration; torque.
40. the resulting state.
41. a twisting or torsional action, force, or stress; torsion.
42. a strong, twisted silk thread, heavier than ordinary sewing silk, for working buttonholes and for other purposes.
43. the direction of twisting in weaving yarn; S twist or Z twist.
44. a loaf or roll of dough twisted and baked.
45. a strip of citrus peel that has been twisted and placed in a drink to add flavor.
46. a kind of tobacco manufactured in the form of a rope or thick cord.
47. a dance performed by couples and characterized by strongly rhythmic turns and twists of the arms, legs, and torso.
48. the degree of spiral formed by the grooves in a rifled firearm or cannon.
49. Gymnastics, Diving. a full rotation of the body about the vertical axis.
50. a wrench.
note to self: reenactment with a twist, is that what Hejduk's architecture is really all about?
2004.02.18
Re: www.nla.gov.au/history/images/sheep.jpg
Back in January 1987, I bumped into an original copy of the Magna Carta in that building (the quondam Australian National Capitol).
1952.02.17
1952. Monday, New York City
Travels to Philadelphia to meet Fiske Kimball who has offered to show him the proposed distribution of the Arensberg Collection on the drawings of the galleries [12.2.1952]. The plan is to give "a room to each artist represented by a certain number of works" and to present the outstanding pieces in the large central room, which Duchamp finds "very satisfactory".
Ephemerides
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