2026.09.01
Stephen Lauf waiting . . . 2026.09.01
a very close-yet-distant relative to . . .
Stephen Lauf Kaleidoscopic Lacunae 2001.06.22
2025.09.01
451 Rhawn Gallery
Stephen Lauf . . . just realized, at this moment in time, Duchamp is thinking, "451 Rhawn Gallery has a suspicious character. Cosmodada, my ass . . . is even a crack." 2025.09.01
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2009.09.01
Palais Imperial de Dolma Baghtche
found this on a floppy disc--Verbatim Datalife MF2-HD...
17 July
Rubens is making final preparations before he sets out for Rome where he'll be sketching for the next two weeks--drawings/designs for the DEATH DO US PART tapestries.
18 July
Constantine hasn't been to Rome since 326 AD, but this year he will participate in reenacting the closing of his Vicennalia there. Apparently, he was really impressed that finally someone modern figured when and how Helena and Fausta died. (He's still completely tight-lipped about where the spiral columns came from though.)
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In general news....
Gordon's paper for the Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club Convention is now entitled "Learning From Lacunae".
Tertullian and John the Baptist Piranesi will be conducting almost daily Vicennalia tours.
Marie Antoinette is getting a real kick out of how Martha Stewart is reenacting her these days--so Hameau Tableau. She's also wondering if 6 October will again have some significance.
Rita Novel can't make it Rome, but her cousin, Rita Spectacle aka Four Eyes aka 20-20-20-20 hindsight will be there and on duty.
Did you know that Dennis Joseph Cardinal Dougherty was on the cover of TIME magazine 15 February 1937? (Wouldn't you know it? The fat cat now wants that reenacted!) I don't think Eva knows yet, but rumor has it that "God's Bricklayer" likes marriage so much he now wants a couple other wives. Apparently he's been asking if Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas are available. (Maybe Dennis can somehow become the new 'poster child' for obesity as a disease.)
Surprising auction outcome for Eva's auction catalogue...
...Great Isfahan wo bist du?
ciao 4 now
fashion tip (of the iceberg)
arbitration and arbitrariness blurred
reality being relative to the vastness of its container
arbitration and arbitrariness come into focus as instinct
realms juxtaposed
"the time it takes to do this" as continuum
i.e., "...to compose this novel in a real/virtual manner. Do you assume this intention needs support from the living?"
background music: ...sounds a blur (in a good way) between Saussure and the debunked Blavatsky, but to no surprise as I have heard the two in the same breathe before.
1977.09.01
September 1, 1977. Thursday, Rome
[Since this was (supposed to be) my last morning in Rome, and our flight back to the States was rescheduled for later in the early evening, I decided to do a morning walking tour on my own. I took the bus to the Porta Pia, and from there I walked down Via Venti Settembre to San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, where I went inside and lit a candle for a safe flight back home. From San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane I walked up Via delle Quattro Fontane and Via Sistina to the top of the Spanish Steps. Went down the Spanish Steps and took Via Babuino to Piazza del Popolo. Stopped half way between the Spanish Steps and Piazza del Popolo to look, one last time, at the sidewalk outside the nonexistent Pensione For You, where I spent my first hours in Rome three weeks earlier. Crossed through Piazza del Popolo, then through the Popolo gate, up Via Flaminia a few blocks, turned left onto Via P.S. Mancini and down a couple blocks to the Villa Hélèna.
By late afternoon we were all on our way back to Ciampino airport, but almost as soon as we got there we were told that our flight had already left at its original departure time. Near panic, lots of confusion, and some of the other students had barely any money left. (Not sure when it happened, but we did learn that we missed our flight because when the pensione manager at Villa Hélèna called the airport the day before to confirm our flight home schedule, instead of calling Ciampino Airport he called Leonardo Da Vinci Airport where a flight from Rome to New York City was departing that early evening.) Anyway, we, all the students of the group, were provided lodgings in a youth hostel for the night.]
Italian Study Tour Journal
1935.09.01
1935. Sunday, Paris
"Complete failure" announces Marcel in an express letter to his partner Roché, who is at Saint-Martin-en-Haut on the edge of the Massif Central. After three days open to the public, Marcel has sold only two sets of his Rotoreliefs [30.8.1935] to friends, and a single disc to a stranger. Deciding to stop all further expenditure, Marcel says: "I will return the paper taken conditionally (1,350 francs) and we will try to recover the rest of our capital [20.7.1935] by selling in 'artistic' circles."
To avoid having to attend his stand every day during the whole month of the Concours Lépine, Marcel engages a "secretary".
Ephemerides
1921.09.01
1921. Thursday, Paris
"It is really fine here, in spite of being my country," says Rrose Sélavy who has adopted the new spelling of her name [10.7.1921]. She tells
the Stettheimer sisters: "[Marsden] Hartley. Man Ray. I've seen. The whole of Greenwich Village is walking up and down Montparnasse. Met McBride by chance at the Rond-Point des Champs-Elysées." Although enjoying the French wine, Rrose hopes, without really knowing why, to return to New York in December: "Paris is deadly dull after a while."
With her camera, Rrose has been searching for "some cinema effects [28.7.1921]..." she tells the sisters. "I hope to bring some footage back to New York."
Having organized, through Albert Gleizes, for Florine to have an exhibition of her paintings at the Galerie Povolozky, Rrose asks her to send fifteen canvases or more to Robinot at the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées and promises to try to arrange for her to be represented at the Salon d'Automne.
Ephemerides
1915.09.01
1915. Wednesday, New York City
Two articles about Duchamp are published today.
One appears in the September issue of Vanity Fair, for which Duchamp's portrait photograph was made [28.7.1915]. The journalist says that the artist who painted the "Nude descending a Staircase", the picture which "made such a turmoil here a couple of years ago [17.2.1913J... speaks English like an Englishman" and is not tender about having the artist" card-indexed and thrust into pigeonholes by those who talk about them".
The other, entitled "A Complete Reversal of Art Opinions by Marcel Duchamp, Iconoclast", is published in the September issue of Arts and Decoration.
Ephemerides
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