2026.04.09
Happy Birthday to the 109 year old hoax
three coins in the Fountain, almost . . . one scent indeed . . . yet it still makes no sense . . . pay as you like, the viewer decides
and Happy 76th Birthday to famous last words
"I cannot speak in public because I don't believe in it."
Sarah Bernhardt alias Marcel Duchamp
www.duchamparchives.org
2025.04.09
451 Rhawn Gallery
2017.04.09
09:18
2015.04.09
Virtual Painting 207
2005.04.09
Appositional Facial Hair Reenactment / Sloppy Seconds
2004.04.09
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
  
   
2003.04.09
The Gospel according to SARS?
Oh yes, US history is very different, very metabolic. Destroy one indigenous civilization because Europeans own the land now, and, by the way, are also creative in the process of owning said land.
2000.04.09
Philadelphia
Arbor Street
image play
1950.04.09
1950. Sunday, New York City
After declining the invitation to speak in Philadelphia [31.03.1950], Duchamp has received another letter from Fiske Kimball enquiring whether he will not reconsider his decision. "Your insistence touches me profoundly," says Duchamp, "but doesn't manage to convince me. I cannot speak in public because I don't believe in it." Excusing himself, Duchamp begs him to pardon "a topsy-turvy prima donna" and signs himself "Sarah Bernhardt alias Marcel Duchamp".
Ephemerides
1917.04.09
1917. Monday, New York City
The discord amongst the officers and directors of the Society of the Independent Artists [5.12.1916] dominates the atmosphere at the Grand Central Palace until the opening hour of the exhibition. The subject of the dispute is Fountain, the entry sent by Richard Mutt from Philadelphia, who has paid his $6 membership fee and has the right to exhibit. Its defenders maintain that there is nothing immoral in the sculpture and to refuse it would be against the very principles upon which the exhibition has been organized: "No jury, no prizes." Its detractors led by William Glackens, president of the society, who considers it the product of "suppressed adolescence", believe the object to be indecent and certainly not a work of art.. Reminded of the cartoon strip characters Mutt and Jeff, George Bellows suspects that someone has sent it as a joke.
Ephemerides
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