2026.04.03
this morning
Terry O'Neal Rachel Welch on the Cross Los Angeles 1970
Stephen Lauf Modern Oblivion 1984.01.0x - 1991.03.18
overnight occurrence
2025.04.03
mapping Lenape infrastructure...
...still in use throughout Philadelphia and beyond
late in the evening...
 
...at home
2024.04.03
Everything Has Its Price 004
2019.04.03
Mary Boone's 180 hours of community service hour 41
2018.04.03
POPICA 018
2017.04.03
zero one two
2005.04.03
Books to give parents so they understand what architecture is
Why not scare your parents even more? Give them nightmares even --
Philippe Duboy, Lequeu: An Architectural Enigma (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1987).
Forget the cute "queer eye" advise, and even "extreme makeover" advise is just a commercial for Sears and plastic surgery. Go straight for the lobotomy.
2002.04.03
Re: [art] being/appositional [to architecture]
David wrote:
it depends on how abstruse and removed from the common use of the word [i.e., apposition] you would like to get...and beyond that, how much faith you have in that interpretation.
Steve replies:
Personally, I do have faith in 'apposition' being apposite the notion of art being a successive layer to architecture. Moreover, common usage of 'apposition' does not necessarily preclude successive layers of meaning being added to the common usage.
My line of questioning was not directed so much to the usage of the common word, rather to the notion of successive layers relative to the makeup of art vis-à-vis architecture, a reality that exists no matter what word is used to describe it. [And if anyone can offer a better word that applies to this reality, then please do.]
If all this questioning and labeling is 'uncommon', then all the more reason for opening it to "public disputation."
As Lao-Tzu said, "If the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. And if the belt fits, the belly is forgotten."
Or as I once wrote in a square poem, "All reality is relative to the vastness of its container."
Re: [art] being/appositional [to architecture]
Probably my favorite "Venturi appliqué" is the (now derelict) Best Showroom.
By the way, Steve Izenour once said, "I happen to think the only way you preserve a place like this [i.e., Wildwood, New Jersey], or like Las Vegas, is through photographs."
apposition beach, apposition eye
In Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1969) you will find the following definitions:
apposition beach : one of a series of beaches successively formed on the seaward side of an older beach
apposition eye : a compound eye that is characteristic of diurnal insects and in which entering light reaches the retina of each ommatidium as a single spot and the image is a composite of all the spots
Re: [art] ? [architecture]
Back in the early 1990s, when the only 'architecture' I was doing was to build 3d cad models on a computer screen, I was also devoting a lot of my time to painting (yet, even my paintings started as cad data files--I composed or traced image line work using a digitizing tablet, plotted out the image as enlarged segments on either mylar or canvas paper, then attached the pieces to large 7.5'x4' framed homasote supports, and then painted away). I might be the only person alive to have used architecture cad software and hardware in this way.
In just doing a web search of Warhol's Last Supper (appositional) paintings, I was quickly reminded of what I and Ron Evitts were doing on Saturday, 29 September 1994.
Hey Ron, remember all the different (art and architecture) things we talked about on DIA's roof while lounging in West's Rest?
Franz West Rest (New York: installation on the roof of the Dia Center, September-October 1994 and April-June 1995).
1985.04.03
The Dark Shadows Series
PRF Complete
1956.04.03
1956. Tuesday, New York City
Following the session on Thursday at the [Philadelphia] museum, Peter Juley would like to have the two oil paintings transported to New York. Duchamp has alerted Marceau by telephone but has forgotten to mention the question of costs. Not knowing whether Juley intends paying or not, Duchamp tells Marceau that "in any case" he personally will pay for the return transport. He adds that the colour transparency of the Large Glass, which is to be used for the "Three Brothers" catalogue, "is very, very beautiful."
Ephemerides
1945.04.03
1945. Tuesday, New York City
Duchamp takes the Chilean artist, Roberto Matta, to New Haven and by chance they meet George Heard Hamilton. As Hamilton is interested in Matta's painting The Bachelors Twenty Years later, he has an opportunity to talk to the artist about it.
The painting was included as one of the illustrations in Duchamp's Glass:...An Analytical Refection by Katherine S. Dreier and Matta which was published by the Société Anonyme in 1944.
Ephemerides
 
Roberto Matta The Bachelors Twenty Years later Philadelphia Museum of Art 2003.06.06
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