2026.02.27
Today's question for AI is also a work of art entitled Ultimately, Duchamp After Unbekannt made me do it.
In the January 2024 issue of Art Forum International . . . completely forgot about this, but, it turns out, finding things that I've forgotten about is very much a reward in and of itself. Anyway, the following is what I had already intended to work on today:
In my current efforts to reorganize the various bookshelves around my house, I came across the binder filled with dot-matrix and laser printed texts from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Among these texts are several laser print-outs of the cracks self portrait, which includes the sentence: "This self portrait is for another tribute to the Large Glass and I like the creative process that is operating with it right now." The existence of this tribute, working title Discus/Cracks, began 6 October 1995, was competed 27 December 1995, and then largely neglected for most of the following 30 years. On 30 July 2025, Discus/Cracks was taken apart at 451 Rhawn Gallery in order to reassemble it--differently--within Given: 1. The Extra Rest Room, 2. The Final Chapter Aspirations. Since the closing of 451 Rhawn Gallery 30 September 2025, Discus/Cracks is again unassembled with pieces--physical and digital--all over the place, thus I now intend to rework all of it under a new title: About to be thrown out of the oblivion, even.
 
 
2025.02.27
451 Rhawn Gallery
2011.02.27
The display and organization of books on a shelf
I don't know if they still do it, but The Face magazine used to have a small picture of the cover on the spine.
bilocation syndrome?
2006.02.27
27 February
271, 272 or 273 AD
Constantine born at Naissus (today's Nish, Serbia).
[Virtually all historians believe this is the first and only time Helena gave birth, but another story is told within The Odds of Ottopia.]
Today 1700 years ago, Constantine is celebrating his birthday with his father (and maybe even with his unknown-to-him-half-sister who is presently his father's second wife) somewhere in Britannia, very possibly at today's York.
2003.02.27
Re: WTC design study
Now I get it. The whole WTC design event so far is more than anything a museum of lobbies(?).
Ms. Curious:
"So what do you do?"
Mr. Nimiety:
"I collect museums."
2002.02.27
Match of the axis of life and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway
2001.02.27
RE: decon/Brown
The absence of his mother's virginity after he was born bothered Freud a lot. Plus, he was likewise upset because his father clearly wasn't (a) God. Poor Sigmund, that he came into this world as a mere mortal and not as the Messiah was so undeniably self evident. But that certainly didn't stop SF from establishing a new religion of the Self, complete with a Trinity of ego, id, and super-ego. [cf. Civilization and its Discontents is full of metabolic (i.e., dualistic creative/destructive) thinking.]
I've decided to temporarily (or perhaps indefinitely) repress my thoughts on "white thinking" and on reenactment as a prevalent modus operandi within design and on the long standing existence of diversity within all architectural history. Instead I shall work hard at keeping my mind inactive thus allowing my body to metabolize, assimilate, fertilize, electro-magnetize, and osmosify without my imagination having to do so as well.
repressed history?
"Since about 1960, Modern Architecture, or the International Style and its related models, has changed dramatically. It has evolved into a new style, a "Late" version of its former [or quondam] self, and, at the same time, has undergone a mutation to become a new species--"Post"-Modern. Such changes in architectural history have occurred before--Late-Minoan, Late-Gothic, Late-Baroque are all examples of historical periods when a previous style was exaggerated--and Late-Modern architecture also exaggerates the period it comes after, the Early- and High-Modern architecture produced from 1920 to 1960. By contrast, Post-Modern architecture is a more definite split from preexisting tradition, just as the Renaissance broke away from the Late-Gothic: but it is a selective, not total, rejection of the previous era. Post-Modern architects are trained, after all, by Modern architects, and they have to adopt contemporary constructional methods; so there are several important ways in which they too are an evolutionary species."
first paragraph of "The Evolution and Mutation of Modern Architecture" in Charles Jencks, Architecture Today, 1982 (published in Britain as Current Architecture).
but then again...
"An essential reason for using symbolism today is that it can provide a diversity of architectural vocabularies appropriate for a plurality of tastes and sensitive to qualities of heritage and place. This use suits the need to respond in our time to both mass culture and pluralistic expression. Today the world is at once smaller and more diverse, more interdependent yet more nationalistic; even small communities seriously maintain ethnic identities and carefully record local history. People are now more aware of the differences among themselves yet more tolerant of these differences."
Robert Venturi, "Diversity, relevance and representation in historicism, or plus ca chance..." in Architectural Record, June 1982.
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