2026.03.09
Nimzo-Indian Defense
The art institution we left behind is the Beaux-Arts system, and the institution we have entered is what I call the Art-in-General system. Right now, the latter is moving swiftly away from the dealer–critic system that defined it since the end of the nineteenth century, into some private collector/celebrity artist/monopolistic gallery/prestigious auction house/Russian oligarch system that has disastrous, predictable and perhaps felicitous, unpredictable effects on contemporary art. (It’s too early to tell, and it depends on whether or not a new avant-garde emerges from our “contemporaneity” in the way the original avant-garde emerged from nineteenth-century academicism.) We may have left the dealer/critic system behind economically, but we still live in the Art-in-General system, and probably for a long time to come, because what defines the latter aesthetically is that in it anything can be art. In Greenberg’s words: "We live in an ocean of art or of the possibility of art. An infinity already there."
Thierry de Duve, Duchamp's Telegram: From Beaux-Arts to Art-in-General (2023), p. 172-3.
like I said yesterday three years ago
"I was trying to verbally formulate my feelings of how culture has changed and how much of the 'fighting' going on is for "control of the narrative."
2025.03.09
451.rhawn.gallery . . . went to @modemodernephilly today and came back to the gallery with this. Yes, a Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 'Barcelona' coffee table, with a beautifully personal provenance. Turns out I first saw this table almost 50 years ago in it's original setting, home of the architect that personally supplied Mies van der Rohe with Cuban cigars, whose daughter, Maria, is the first truly inspirational teacher I encountered as an architecture student.
2019.03.09
Mary Boone's 180 hours of community service hour 32
2017.03.09
13:21
page from Flowers Stamped
2001.03.09
QA 001
...a Duchamp exhibit relating the Duchamp gallery to the classical pediment sculpture group at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
1967.03.09
1967. Thursday, New York City
At five in the afternoon, the Duchamps have an appointment with Monique Fong.
Ephemerides
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