2026.03.27
Don't Tell Anyone You Saw This 01 still at an early stage
Don't Tell Anyone You Saw This 02 into it's final stage
question and answer
Who are the Prophets of Ojai?
AI Overview
The "Prophets of Ojai" most famously refers to the spiritual movement centered around Jiddu Krishnamurti, who was identified by Theosophists Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater in the 1920s as a coming "World Teacher" or messiah. He established a base in Ojai, California, specifically at a home called Arya Vihara.
Jiddu Krishnamurti: Originally groomed by the Theosophical Society, he later rejected the role of messiah, disbanded the sponsoring organization (Order of the Star), and taught independent, profound philosophy, emphasizing self-knowledge and freedom from dogma, rather than accepting a prophetic role.
Theosophical Context: The Theosophical Society established Ojai as a "spiritual Mecca" in the 1920s, drawing thinkers and seekers to the area, solidified by Krishnamurti's presence and lectures in the Oak Grove.
Associated Figures: During this era, figures like Aldous Huxley, occultist Jack Parsons, and other philosophers were associated with the spiritual scene in Ojai.
2025.03.27
451 Rhawn Gallery
16:11
2023.03.27
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project
27 March 2023 Monday
rare
things that are rare
The discovery of Piranesi's final project is a rare thing.
A discovery that no one was even looking for, including myself.
A discovery of something that no one even knew was there to find, again, including myself.
and yet
A discovery that validates so much of my life's work.
A discovery that, in a relatively short span of time, manifests the place for so many pieces.
I'm bearing witness to what a discovery manifests.
We're bearing witness to what a discovery manifests.
2007.03.27
Finally A Thread Created For Architectural Topics.
My brother told me that after Sex in the City the next show he watched was Sex in the Country. I went to bed before him, so I don't know if he made that up or not.
"That guy" in renderings
That's Dick Hertz.
2005.03.27
Quoting the curator who died 20 March 2005
"It was full of things--very neat, but stuffed to the point where it could make some people nervous."
Quoting the curator who died 20 March 2005
"Both men had unusually private studio lives--very few people got down into Cornell's basement workroom, and Duchamp did most of his later work in a secret studio that perhaps only three people even knew about."
moving along (down the Parkway)
There were claims that Duchamp suggested the mobile form to Calder. In the thirties, Calder was in Paris, making his wire portraits of Josephine Baker and others. Clay Spohn, a very curious artist from San Francisco who was a conceptual bricoleur and who did some of the first assemblage art in California, was also in Paris at that time, and he knew both Calder and Duchamp. Spohn told me that he had actually been the one to suggest the idea of the mobile to Calder. I had heard that it was Duchamp, and asked Marcel about that. He laughed and said, "Oh, people have always misunderstood. Spohn, this strange American whom I enjoyed very much, suggested to Calder that he take the little parts and balance them on wires to make these contraptions. What I did was to name it. What I invented was the word mobile."
Walter Hopps, "Gimme Strength: Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp Remembered" in Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp ...In Resonance (Houston: Menil Foundation, Inc., 1998), p. 74
2004.03.27
Re: aesthetic knowledge
There was a congregation of Serbian Orthodox Christians in my mother's hometown of Brestowatz, Yugoslavia, and my grandmother, as a young girl/woman, was the nanny at the Serbian priest's household. About 20 years ago, my grandmother taught me the names of the priest's five children, but I don't remember them anymore. On 1 January 1945, when all the ethnic Germans of Brestowatz and other neighboring towns were being loaded into boxcars for shipment to labor [coal mining] camps in southern Soviet Ukraine, my mother tells me that the only person there that was protesting was a Serbian Orthodox priest, who continually cried, "What are you doing with these people?" until someone hit him, told him to shut-up and pushed him away.
1992.03.27
Still Life 1
1968.03.27
1968. Wednesday, New York City
In the afternoon Duchamp attends the second day of the symposium which commences at the Museum of Modern Art at three-thirty. The panellists discussing Surrealist Art are David Hare, the critic Hilton Kramer and Nicolas Calas.
Ephemerides
1952.03.27
1952. Thursday, New York City
"I feel very guilty to have brought so much trouble in your life by the loan of Sweeney's show [10.3.1952]," writes Marcel to Lou and Walter Arensberg. "First of all let me thank you du fond du cœur for having made it possible to have two of my things in the exhibition."
On giving their agreement to make the additional loan of Mariée [25.8.1912] to "L'Œuvre du XXème Siècle" which James Johnson Sweeney is organizing for the Congrès pour la Liberté de la Culture in Paris, Walter nevertheless reminded Marcel: "You gave your whole-hearted approval to the restrictions which we made at the time of the gift [to the Philadelphia Museum], and I also recall that long ago when we first loaned anything of yours we always felt obliged to obtain your permission first, and this because of your own reactions to lending [8.11.1918].
Marcel reveals to his friends that Beatrice Wood has written asking him when he will come to live in California, and confesses: "I can't imagine myself playing chess with the Prophets of Ojai!"
Ephemerides
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