2026.03.19
Belated Happy "A Nude Reclines" Day notes
A Revenge in Two Acts
1912.03.18
"a nude never descends the stairs--a nude reclines"
rejection leads to withdrawal
1912.06.21-
a summer in Munich (or two months, at least)
--living with a husband and wife, engineer and seamstress
--in a room gotten to through the seamstress's workroom
--did Duchamp actually see a bride (to be) stripped bare in the seamstress's workroom? did he spy the bare bride-to-be through a crack of his door?
--a trip to the Glyptothek; the shock of the Barberini Faun; "Ah yes, ha ha, 'a nude reclines'"; laughing the rest of the day too
--the [unique] Munich works[, a great reward]
late 1912-early 1913
from Munich to Lequeu? maybe, maybe not
1913.02.17
Armory Show, Nu descendant... scandalous media darling and overnight success, albeit Duchamp in absentia
1913-1914
remembering Marshall "Major" Taylor and the media sensation that came with him. (find date[s] when Duchamp was back home then)
post July 1913
bicycle wheel (the ur-readymade)
January 1914
"to [have] the apprentice [in] the sun--Duchamp as a fledgling media sensation.
May 1917
the R. Mutt hoax--revenge against he who said "a nude never descends the stairs--a nude reclines", end of act [one]
1917-1946
the hoax is obviously a success
1946-1966
secretly working on Étant donnés--revenge against he who said "a nude never descends the stairs--a nude reclines"; act two
[exeunt]
lobby poster
"Ah yes, ha ha, 'a nude reclines'"; laughing the rest of the day too
all in a day's work
"As soon as the paint was dry to the touch, Jackson broke down the stretcher, rolled the canvas, and transported both to Peggy's apartment building on East Sixty-first Street. When he reassembled it in the low, ground-floor elevator lobby, however, he discovered it was too long-by almost a foot. Sleepless, distraught, and close to panic, he telephoned Peggy at the gallery. "He became quite hysterical," Peggy recalled. That was before he began to drink. Knowing that Jackson would be in her apartment that day, and "knowing his great weakness," Peggy had hidden her liquor before leaving for the gallery. But Jackson soon found it. His calls became more and more frantic. He pleaded with her to "come home at once and help place the painting." Finally, she called Marcel Duchamp and David Hare and persuaded them to rescue Jackson. "Peggy wanted us to tack it up," Hare recalled, "but it missed by eight inches so we cut eight inches off from one end. Duchamp said that in this type of painting it wasn't needed. We told Jackson, who didn't care." By then, Jackson was too drunk to care. Weaving and incoherent, he walked into the apartment where Connolly's party was already under way, crossed the room, unzipped his pants, and peed in the marble fireplace.
The demons were loose again."
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, Jackson Pollack: An American Saga (New York: Harper Perennial, 1991) pp. 468-9.
In Memory of the Superfluous Eight Inches also known as Sir Unbekannt zu Mirr
2025.03.19
451 Rhawn Gallery
14:55
2024.03.19
a work within
This One's for George
 
pages within
Contrast to the Fictitious Blonde
 
pages within
Contrast to the Fictitious Blonde
2006.03.19
non-event cities
I don't know about you, but as far as architectural history is concerned, I think it's worth remembering that demolition of the Liberty Bell Pavilion is set to begin on the third anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq.
2005.03.19
3D CAD Model
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2003.03.19
finally filling in the blanks
All I got is this lousy manifest limitation.
It had something to do with memory, but I forgot what that was.
20 March 2003 is the first official Calendrical Coincidence Day.
20 March 1778 Benjamin Franklin and Louis XVI meet at Versailles for the first time. Wonder what was on the menu then? A decisive diplomatic moment in the (USA) war of independence.
Marcel Duchamp said someting about "Where do we go from here" in Philadelphia 20 March 1961.
etc.
I find Uranus in Pisces inspiring.
Re: Taboo
Survivor Iraq reality TV
[too taboo or too ironic or too much art?]
"Bring me your torch."
"The tribe has spoken."
[remember it's all a game to see who wins $1,000,000.]
1992.03.19
No Doubt The Artist Suffered As Well
1951.03.19
1951. Monday, New York City
After telephoning Philadelphia in the afternoon and finding that Fiske Kimball is away, Duchamp writes to him concerning their proposed trip to Milford [27.1.1951]. Miss Dreier has asked him to organize any day, except Tuesdays and Thursdays, in the first fortnight of April. "If you want to travel by train, the better day would be Saturday," explains Duchamp, "when there is a train leaving Grand Central at 12:50pm arriving in Milford 2:30." If Kimball prefers to go by car, Duchamp suggests meeting him in New York at eleven-thirty or noon, so as to be with Miss Dreier at about two-fifteen.
Ephemerides
1945.03.19
1945. Monday, New York City
In the catalogue of the second Jackson Pollock [18.5.1943] exhibition opening at Art of the Century, there is an invitation to see the twenty foot mural at Peggy Guggenheim's apartment, 155 East 61st Street. "I had a vision," said Pollock of the painting which he made one night in fifteen hours. "It was a stampede... Cows and horses and antelopes and buffaloes. Everything is charging across the goddam surface." The day he came to install it in the hallway of Peggy's house, the artist discovered that it was too long. He telephoned frantically to Peggy, asking her to return home and help him install the canvas. Eventually Peggy persuaded Duchamp and David Hare to come to the rescue. In this type of painting those eight inches of canvas were not needed, declared Duchamp, and the superfluous strip of mural was cut off.
Ephemerides
1917.03.19
1917. Monday, New York City
Marcel has lunch again at Manguin's [5.3.1917] with Roché. After dinner with Juliette and Albert Gleizes [i.e., he who said, "a nude never descends the stairs--a nude reclines" [18.3.1912]], they go on to the Arensbergs', where they discuss a bulletin for the forthcoming Independent Artists' exhibition [13.3.1917].
Ephemerides
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