2026.01.02
Change of Venue 002
2024.01.02
15:17
2023.01.02
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project
2 January 2023 Monday
I get to look at the beginning of 1778, now, with a much more informed and clear knowledge of the last five months of 1778--lots of artifacts and information that were not part of Piranesi's 1778 history before.
"The plan of the Certosa and the map of Francesco Piranesi" is a very appropriate history to henceforth integrate with the history of Piranesi's final project.
Ask yourself how much work Laura, Francesco and practically the whole workshop were doing in 1778 while Piranesi worked on "Caracalla," when he wasn't also battling illness and pain. Piranesi stuck with "Caracalla" because there, at least, he learned or discovered something new virtually everyday. It was the disregard for overriding symmetry that fascinated him the most. He even said it all himself, "Curious and interesting work."
"Why hasn't anyone else seen this before?"
And then there was Francesco's ecstasy over "independence," even to the point of a disregard for Italian.
Disregard for symmetry, disregard for the Italian language, were these functions of independence?
2017.01.02
 
21010201.db Park/Palace of Versailles Ichnographia Campus Martius plans
2007.01.02
what motivates you youngin's
Originally...
"Please God, don't let Steve Lauf publish this picture." 2001.10.02
As if youngin's somehow have a monopoly on being unmotivated. From where I'm sitting there's still a whole lot for them to learn in that department.
what motivates you youngin's
Here's some major league lack-of-motivation:
At the second to last office I worked for I didn't even bother to pick up my final pay check.
At the last office I worked for I was there 15 days, 5 of which I called in sick, and then I just didn't go in anymore. One of the partners called to see if I was coming in, and I simply answered no. I think I left a final paycheck there too. As I suspected, they needed the money more than me anyway.
2005.01.02
Re: Animal House
Watched Russian Ark last night for the first time. I live in a 'hermitage' too. Maybe a movie in 90 seconds?
Had dinner last night with someone who was, exactly 60 years ago, on a freight train headed for a Soviet labor/concentration camp...
   
Virtual Museum 314
2003.01.02
Eutropia looking directly at Helena
Eutropia looking directly at Helena...
...and Helena is looking directly back at Eutropia as well.
pretending something happens
a. so touching
b. so moving
c. so clinical
d. so expensive
e. so Roman Catholic
www.museumpeace.com/01/0001
Pollock taking a piss in Guggenheim's fireplace.
Stirling taking a piss on Rudolph's glass door facing the Yale architecture faculty party going on inside.
Pretty much anything Disney does in the name of theme park entertainment.
That spontaneous online double theater where being FOG said "Too much white thinking manifests extinctions."
Oh, and Heliogabalus marrying a vestal virgin.
1996.01.02
metabolic imagination
..metabolism as an operational mode of the imagination. …part of our imagination is simultaneously destructive and creative, and calling this process metabolic. Assimilation already has a meaning beyond its physiological function, but metabolism does not.
1962.01.02
1962. Tuesday, New York City
"Very good idea," Duchamp tells Serge Stauffer who has proposed to try solving the problem of the Glider [12.11.1961] with the help of his printing students and to produce enough to be included in future copies of the Boîte-en-Valise [7.1.1941]. Saying the 200 examples would be sufficient and offering to assist financially. Duchamp confirms that he has ordered a photograph from Philadelphia. He also promises to send Stauffer a photograph of Stéréoscopie à la Main [4.4.1919] and, although he does not have a single copy of the Architectural Record [25.6.1937], to send documents with details of the Large Glass if he finds them again.
Ephemerides
Page 53 of Architectural Record May 1937
1951.01.02
1951. Tuesday, New York City
Duchamp authorizes another replica of a readymade for the next in the series of historical exhibitions at the Sidney Janis Gallery. After the replica of Fountain, which was shown in "Challenge and Defy" [25.9.1950]. Janis has the privilege of being the first to exhibit the talismanic Roue de Bicyclette [15.1.1916] in "Climax in XXth Century Art: 1913". Duchamp has assembled the two elements which Janis purchased recently in Paris, but since the fork supporting the wheel is slightly curved, this third version is not an exact copy of the one made by Duchamp for his studio at 33 West 67th Street.
Also included in the exhibition is 3 Stoppages Etalon [19.5.1914] from Miss Drier's collection.
Ephemerides
Museum of Modern Art
Marcel Duchamp Bicycle Wheel New York, 1951 (third version, after lost original of 1913)
Metal wheel mounted on painted wood stool, 51 x 25 x 16 1/2" (129.5 x 63.5 x 41.9 cm). The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection. © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Estate of Marcel Duchamp
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