2026.04.02
announcement
451 Rhawn Gallery is proud to announce its henceforth representation of the short-lived Philadelphia Art Museum, which, in turn, will now be the official museum of all things COSMODADA.
Gallery Zebra
14" = 9' scale PAM Gallery Z installation mock-up, subject to sudden changes, for sure.
 
 
2025.04.02
on the street where I live
the performance of this site specific readymade--REALLY BIG SQUIRT, EARTH-SHATTERING EPHEMERAL FOUNTAIN OF RIDGEWAY STREET--went on for about a half the day . . . rare video footage of Really Big Squirt, Earth-Shattering Ephemeral Fountain of Ridgeway Street is available @stephenlauf
2024.04.02
Everything Has Its Price 001
Everything Has Its Price 002
 
Everything Has Its Price 003
2019.04.02
Mary Boone's 180 hours of community service hour 38
Mary Boone's 180 hours of community service hour 39
2018.04.02
POPICA 016
POPICA 017
2008.04.02
what is gothic that is not ornament? what is baroque, if not ornament?
Gothic is a passion play, whereas Baroque is a double theater.
2006.04.02
Why does much 'avant-garde' design these days look straight out of the Sixties?
I more like the notion of being bad in architecture. Talk about voids and opportunities.
Why does much 'avant-garde' design these days look straight out of the Sixties?
Being avant-garde is fucking great because it isn't mediocrity.
Personally, however, I settle for simply radical.
2005.04.02
how should someone feel after visiting a museum?
"Here we suddenly remember that, of course, the very same thing is true for scientists themselves. The most creative ones, almost by definition, do not build their constructs patiently by assembling blocks that have been precast by others and certified as sound. On the contrary, they too melt down the ready-made materials of science and recast them in a way that their contemporaries tend to think is outrageous. That is why Einstein's own work took so long to be appreciated even by his best fellow physicists, as I noted earlier. His physics looked to them like alchemy, not because they did not understand it at all, but because, in one sense, they understood it all to well. From their thematic perspective, Einstein was anathema. Declaring, by simple postulation rather than by proof, Galilean relativity to be extended from mechanics to optics and all other branches of physics; dismissing the ether, the playground of most nineteenth-century physicists, in a preemptory half-sentence; depriving time intervals of inherent meaning; and other such outrages, all delivered in a casual, confident way in the first, short paper on relativity--those were violent and "illegitimate" distortions of science to almost every physicist. As for Einstein's new ideas on the quantum physics of light emission, Max Planck felt so embarrassed by it when he had to write Einstein a letter of recommendation seven years later that he asked that this work be overlooked in judging the otherwise promising young man."
Gerald Holton, Einstein, History, and Other Passions (Woodbury, AIP Press, 1995), pp. 13-14.
how should someone feel after visiting a museum?
...thus it's all the more avant-garde when the design and execution of a museum is not concerned only with forces in equilibrium, forces a rest.
"It is useless to resist us (forces)"
2004.04.02
Re: Is TALK BACK [formerly at artforum.com] historically important?
it's refreshing how cool water does cool things
important or impotent?
hysterical:
meta- or met-
pref.
Later in time: metestrus.
At a later stage of development: metanephros.
Situated behind: metacarpus.
Change; transformation: metachromatism.
Alternation: metagenesis.
Beyond; transcending; more comprehensive: metalinguistics.
At a higher state of development: metazoan.
Having undergone metamorphosis: metasomatic.
Derivative or related chemical substance: metaprotein.
Of or relating to one of three possible isomers of a benzene ring with two attached chemical groups, in which the carbon atoms with attached groups are separated by one unsubstituted carbon atom: meta-dibromobenzene.
"You look familiar. Have we ever meta before?"
Re: Is TALK BACK [formerly at artforum.com] historically important?
today's lessons:
1. the who and why of Jacksonville Pollock
2. salt[z] is a natural form of electricity; that's why it melts ice
3. Michelangelo's ignudi are really wearing Freudian slips; a kind of masking of homosexuality
4. Freud hated his mother because she wasn't still a virgin after he was born. If she remained a virgin, then he could claim himself the Messiah
tomorrow's lessons include:
1. psychology as symptom of mastermind suffering from failed Messiah complex
2003.04.02
Re: The Last Taboo?
...it is a sign of the metabolic imagination more than anything else. (It also demonstrates an inversion of the 'trash into art' phenomenon.) While metabolism incorporates a creative/destructive duality, it also manifests a resultant energy. This is what really happens, (whether you (were taught to) appreciate it or not).
The only effect of affluence here is the greater potential of (acceptable, ha ha) recognition that comes with it.
Re: changing stuff that really is life
My life is my hobby. Everything else is incidental.
1993.04.02
93040205.db Studio
93040206.db Wall
1985.04.02
The Dark Shadows Series
Copy Views
1984.04.02
2 = odd, Dick
detail
1954.04.02
1954. Friday, New York City
In reply by cable to Fiske Kimball's request for him to "come over" to Philadelphia before Easter, Duchamp proposes to arrive at the Museum on Monday before noon.
Ephemerides
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