2026.06.01
brand new(s)
monumentally unbekannt one
monumentally unbekannt too
 
a pair for the ages
what I said about Rachel Harrison's art at artforum/talkback 2002.11.11
What I find inspiring about Rachel Harrison's art work (at least what is pictured in Artforum November 2002) is that I can now look at my entire house as a museum containing/exhibiting numerous paintings, sculptures, photographs and installations.
[joke]
What comes after house/palace?
Museum.
What comes after museum?
Pre-shrine.
what I said about Étant donnés' back door at artforum/talkback 2003.03.24
   
what 'Kiss My Abstract' said after what I said about Étant donnés' back door at artforum/talkback 2003.03.24
[Kiss My Abstract aka?] Rachel Harrison The Help May 4 – June 16, 2012
Greene Naftali is pleased to present The Help, an exhibition by Rachel Harrison. The Help marks the New York artist’s sixth solo show at the gallery since 1997 and the first since If I Did It in 2007. The exhibition shares its title with Harrison’s photograph of the back door maintenance entrance to Duchamp's Étant donnés, which is visible in the exhibition galleries of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and alludes to the entangled roles of the Artist, the Muse, and the Help. The twelve sculptures on view in the exhibition combine formalist inspiration and tragicomic epiphany and are imbued with Harrison’s signature sense of slapstick timing. The Help also introduces a group of drawings in which Harrison explores the passion and pathology of the tortured artist, a figure suspended between the pressures of ambitious creative vision and the public hunger for performance.
2017.06.01
zero four four
2015.06.01
The Golden Ratio: Relevant or not?
a : b :: b : a+b
The Golden Ratio: Relevant or not?
1 ÷ .618 = 1.618
or
233 ÷ 144 = 1.618
The Golden Ratio: Relevant or not?
1 ÷ .618 = 1.618 = .618 + 1
They call it the golden ratio, but I think it might just be the basic mathematics of a Black Hole (and the position of the navel to the overall height).
The Golden Ratio: Relevant or not?
architect IQ test
true or false
1 ÷ .618 = .618 + 1
multiple choice
1.618 = x, where x is:
a. 1 ÷ .618
b. 1 + .618
c. all of the above
d. none of the above
The Golden Ratio: Relevant or not?
"All reality is a wave-length."
2012.05.31
What's Rachel been reading
Hi Steve:
I was reading the May 28 New Yorker when I nearly fell out of my chair. Read the attached review of the Rachel Harrison show and you may have a reaction yourself. What are the odds she DIDN'T read about the back door at Quondam....almost nil, I should think.
Things are getting back to a semblance of normal, although I feel as I've stepped through a threshold and as usual there's no going back. What I mostly feel is a big void where there once was my dad, which is stronger than with any other passing away (Leslie was maybe the closest to it). I'll get in touch with you about doing another walk in the woods and/or scenic drive soon.
Hope all is well,
Tony
 
2012.06.01
Re: What's Rachel been reading
Hi Tony,
Thanks for the heads-up, but there really isn't anything I can do about it. Besides Museumpeace and Quondam, I made 'news' of Étant donnés' back door at the online Marcel Duchamp bulletin board (2002) and at artforum.com/talkback (2003), where I also commented on Rachel Harrison's work. I don't think anyone within the art world (or general public for that matter) would be aware of the back door if I hadn't publicized its existence via the internet 10 years ago.
I understand completely about the void you feel since your Dad's passing. I'm finding that it's just like they say--only time will heal that.
I'm slowly but surely getting things done within the house, and I foresee being mostly done by the end of October--there's going to be a lot I can't do once the central air-conditioning is running all day.
Just give me a call whenever you'd like to get together again.
Steve
ps 2020.12.12
I'm now thinking that 'Kiss My Abstract' at artforum/talkback was actually Rachel Harrison, just like 'DuChamp' was actually T. J. Demos.
ps 2026.06.01
And I'm now thinking that 'zipthwung' at artforum/talkback was actually David Rimanelli, just like 'all i got was this lousy' was actually Jerry Saltz.
2008.06.01
The Official Paradigm Shift thread
"On the one side was Nature: the curves of the waves, the line of the unfolding leaf, the pattern of the crystal. All these might be studied, and in some way architecturally employed--no matter how--so long as the knowledge and the love of them were evident."
Geoffrey Scott, The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste, (1914), p. 68.
2006.06.01
Villa Hélène
The last time I was in Rome I was staying at the Villa Hélène, Via P. Stanislao Mancini, 20, near the Tiber just a few blocks outside the Popolo Gate.
AP wrote: "all the obvious stuff...also, be sure not to miss St. John Lateran, if you're into the whole church thing...beautiful church, across the street are the Scala Santa - steps that once lead to Pontius Pilate's home in Jerusalem. History suggests that Jesus scaled these steps just before his judgement. St. Helena brought 'em back to Rome, along with other relics...you can only scale the steps on your knees, typically stopping at each for prayer..."
According to Hans A. Pohlsander, Helena: Empress and Saint (1995), p. 81: "A short distance from the Basilica of St. John Lateran, in the Piazza San Giovanni, we find the Scala Santa, a building erected by Domenico Fontana under Pope Sixtus V (1585-1590). It is a place of pilgrimage, where the faithful ascend the central stairs of the building only on her knees. The 28 marble steps of these stairs were salvaged from the original Lateran Palace. According to tradition they were brought by Helena from the palace of Pontius Pilate in Jerusalem. This tradition can be traced back no further than the 13th century."
You know, it really wasn't St. Helena that brought the steps to Rome because it was really Helena's granddaughter Helena, the youngest of Constantine and Fausta's children and the wife of (first cousin) Julian the Apostate. While Julian was busy rebuilding the Jewish Temple of Jerusalem, Helena had the Pontius Pilate palace steps shipped to Rome for safekeeping at the Domus Fausta, her mother's quondam palace at the Lateran.
2004.06.01
Re: artists faces within their own work
You mean one of the Schwarz reenactments of Duchamp's In Advance of the Broken Arm?
Does the PMA even own one of these reenactments?
Hey DuSnatch, whose critical thinking are you reenacting?
2003.06.01
Re: Maint Stream Art, Folk Art, and Kitsch
Try thinking beyond the stereotype.
Also try thinking about what is not expected.
Doing/being what is not expected is my (personal) operating system.
2002.06.01
Cape May, New Jersey
   
by the pool
1993.06.01
2D CAD databases
93060102.db ignudi left
93060103.db ignudi right
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