2026.03.31
manifested the latest readymade while cleaning the garage even
Fountain
2025.03.31
in the works
15:34
2024.03.31
re finding stuff
 
 
   
2011.03.31
is American Architectural Academia about to crumble?
"...The virtual takeover of art teaching by the universities in this country has coincided with the dying out of teaching methods passed down from the medieval guilds to the apprenticeship system of the Renaissance and, after, to the nineteenth-century beaux-arts academies in Europe, and this has had a profound effect on the kind of art that gets produced.
"Can there be any doubt that training in the university has contributed to the cool, impersonal wave in art of the sixties?" the critic Harold Rosenberg observed in 1970. In order to become an academic discipline, art had to be intellectualized. Craft and technique were subordinated to verbal analysis, problem solving, and critical theory. University-based art teaching, in fact, became more and more like scientific research, with the pursuit of ideas as its primary goal.
Calvin Tomkins, "Can Art Be Taught?" in The New Yorker (2002.04.15).
2006.03.31
Questions about Typography of Architecture
look, it's the Duchamp font on the Duchamp font...
Lost ! Need help!!
I was at Potsdamerplatz in May 1990, not at the concert though. The piece of the Berlin Wall on my front window sill is from Potsdamerplatz, my father picked it up. This was my father's trip, I was merely the driver. In a day or two we were on our way back to the Lauf family farm in Poland. Once the Soviets were in control of Eastern Europe beginning right around now 1945, all the ethnic Germans of Eastern Europe lost everything that was theirs, hence I'm directly related to a lot of people that were in refugee camps more or less exactly 60 years ago, that is, if they weren't shipped to Soviet labor concentration camps in Southern Ukraine to mine coal 1945-50. And as to artists in such situations, the first time my father ever saw my mother she was on a stage in a concentration camp in Southern Ukraine, she was playing Donya and he couldn't take his eyes off her. My father was also 'lucky' in that he was soon transferred to construction rather than mining, but my mother mined for five years, however, she too was 'lucky' in that she did immediately accept the opportunity to learn Russian and hence became the leader of her women's barracks, and thus, weekly, went shopping for everyone at the local Bazaar.
You know there's this very overgrown little necropolis in Poland a little east of Konin that no one goes near anymore. Otto Lauf the Eldest is buried there.
Yeah scars, what about them did you want to know? Like I guess it really is true that the child of a mother who once suffered from malnutrition might develop schizophrenia.
2005.03.31 14:48
genius loci today?
Is the modus operandi of genius loci today manifest by the notion of thinking locally and acting globally?
Is that how genius a loci artist operates?
Is that how terrorists operate?
Is that how a super power wishes to operate?
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tout fait
Why Duchamp?: The Influence of Marcel Duchamp on Contemporary Architectural Theory and Practice
toutfait.com/duchamp.jsp?postid=4312&keyword
2005.03.31
Marcel Duchamp is a high standing member of the Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club. New member Walter Hopps was extremely unexpectedly thrilled to be present up front and center for Duchamp's and Jennewein's "Nudist Camp at the Philadelphia Museum of Art" 20 March 2005.
[From now on, any work regarding Duchamp and Architecture must demonstrate a thorough knowledge of The Odds of Ottopia and Leaving Obscurity Behind. Indifference to this notice is much more than chancy, even.]
ref:
wqc/20/1965.htm
wqc/26/2517.htm
wqc/26/2532.htm
wqc/26/2535.htm by Rita Novel
2004.03.31
Re: Diane Arbus at LACMA
Duchamp and Jennewein have asked Arbus to help them compose "Nudist Camp at the Philadelphia Museum of Art" for the upcoming Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club Convention. Arbus hasn't answered their request yet, however.
2003.03.31
finding fraud, damning the mediocre
"I'm for Duchamp." I find him a pretty good job, a man who was frustrated by the utter fraud of art in general, and decided to try to damn the mediocre. He did paintings too, alas.
Re: stuff that really is life changing
At the Yale Center for British Art in the large window of the top floor gallery facing closest to the New Haven Green there, in the general lower right corner of the large window, are the scant remains of what looks to be a mosquito embedded in the glass. I call it Teeny.
Definitely among of the stuff that changed my life.
2000.03.31
journeys out of the body (into hyperspace?)
All of the recent 'scientific' discussion here reminded me of a particular passage I read in Rudolf v. B. Rucker's Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension (Dover, 1977). I bought the book in 1978 just before I went to rural Missouri to work on a HABS (Historic American Building Survey) team for the summer. My work-mates/room-mates in Perry, MO thought I was pretty nutty to be reading this stuff, but I was genuinely interested. Anyway, a passage from the book's annotated bibliography has always stuck in my mind because of its intrigue--Rucker writes:
Robert A. Monroe, Journeys Out of the Body, (Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1973).
So you're tired of just reading about 4-D space and want to go see it for yourself? This book tells you how to get there. Unfortunately, it is also a blueprint for insanity.
Monroe describes a fairly effective method of inducing a state in which one has the feeling of being able to leave one's body, move through walls and so on. Although he never refers to the fourth dimension, the idea of investigating the sort of "astral travel" he describes with an eye to interpreting the observed phenomena in terms of hyperspace is a tempting one.
The technique is basically to "wake up inside your dreams." It is not uncommon for one to have this experience during a daytime nap: that is, that one is awake and aware although one's body is still asleep. If on begins to look for this experience it begins to happen more often, and then astral travel is not far behind.
I worked on this for a few months once, but finally had to give it up as the experiences were so deeply frightening and disturbing. To be fully conscious and aware, and to know that one is in a dream world where anything can happen, to try to wake one's body up and not be able to--aaauugh! Indeed, reading the book, one gets the impression that Monroe finally scared himself into a heart attack.
But forewarned is forearmed, and perhaps some intrepid reader will be able to make something of the old theory that we have souls that move in hyperspace.
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I should mention that Rucker's book is a very good, plain English science book that is all about "geometry, relativity, and the fourth dimension," and not some sort of 'new-age' book.
I have never pursued finding Monroe's book, but there may be some renewed interest now.
1984.03.31
2 = odd, Dick
detail
detail
1968.03.31
1968. Sunday, New York City
[This day is the last possible time that Duchamp could have seen (or worked on) Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau / 2° le gaz d'éclairage.]
...Marcel leaves 28 West 10th Street with Teeny to spend the summer in Europe.
Around midnight the Duchamps arrive at 5 Rue Parmentier, Neuilly, where they will stay for a couple nights before continuing their journey to Monte Carlo.
Ephemerides
1950.03.31
1950. Friday, New York City
Invited by Fiske Kimball to speak at the "Diamond Jubilee", Duchamp declines saying that "since a deplorable experience dating from 1916" he has made it a rule never to speak in public. Explaining that he agreed to attend the "Western Round Table on Modern Art" [8.4.1949] because "the sessions were private and limited to a friendly discussion", Duchamp declares, "I remain true to saying: 'stupid as a painter' and I apply it willingly to artists who believe that they can say something otherwise than in their ideographical language."
Ephemerides
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