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roussel in cleveland

dbv — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:03:36 +0000

An article on Raymond Roussel appeared on page 62 of the 18 December 1910 edition of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, entitled “Yes He Really Likes to Work”:

“Raymond Roussel is the most fortunate young millionaire of Paris. He has no handicaps.”

how to address a letter

dbv — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:08:37 +0000

(Letter from Pablo Picasso to Gertrude Stein, from Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities.)

iconoclasts

dbv — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:31:14 +0000

(Head of Aphrodite with cross carved in it; 1st century, Parian marble, found near the Tower of the Winds, in the Roman Agora in Athens. Usually in the National Archeological Museum in Athens; currently at the Onassis Cultural Center as part of “Transition to Christianity: Art of Late Antiquity, 3rd–7th Century A.D.”.)

beached whale near beverwijk

dbv — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:30:37 +0000

(Jan Saenredam, Beached Whale near Beverwijk, 1602.)

red cabbages, rhubarb, and orange

dbv — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:58:39 +0000

(Charles Demuth, Red Cabbages, Rhubarb and Orange, 1929, Met)

jargon 38

dbv — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:08:36 +0000

(The Roman Sonnets of Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, translated by Harold Norse, preface by William Carlos Williams, introduction by Alberto Moravia. Published by Jonathan Williams, 1960; cover by Ray Johnson.)

manuel puig lived here

dbv — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:35:38 +0000

83-52 Talbot Street, Kew Gardens, New York. Right around the corner from the very nice Kew Gardens Cinema, which probably still looks like it did when Puig would have visited it.

truth in painting

dbv — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 03:03:58 +0000

(Jan Gossart, Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, ca. 1520–2, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemaldegalerie, Vienna.)

rejections

dbv — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:09:53 +0000

(David Markson’s list of the rejections of Wittgenstein’s Mistress, from the back of the program of the memorial service at NYU’s NY Institute for the Humanities.)

the sand mines of tetelpa

dbv — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:14:28 +0000

(Juan O’Gorman, 1942, MoMA)