Andrew Wasserman
@onceatrophic.bsky.social
Art Historian. Etc.
The World Atlas of Public Art (Yale University Press, 2024) now available: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300272581/the-world-atlas-of-public-art/
The World Atlas of Public Art (Yale University Press, 2024) now available: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300272581/the-world-atlas-of-public-art/
CAA has now publicly announced this year’s shortlist. There were so many great books this year!
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
CAA has now publicly announced this year’s shortlist. There were so many great books this year!
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Pity the guy whose job it is to get the missionary to stop talking.
[Diego Valadés, Rhetorica Christiana (Perugia: Pietro Giacopo Petrucci, 1579)]
[Diego Valadés, Rhetorica Christiana (Perugia: Pietro Giacopo Petrucci, 1579)]
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Pity the guy whose job it is to get the missionary to stop talking.
[Diego Valadés, Rhetorica Christiana (Perugia: Pietro Giacopo Petrucci, 1579)]
[Diego Valadés, Rhetorica Christiana (Perugia: Pietro Giacopo Petrucci, 1579)]
Also a v v good Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects project!
The Lefrak Center ice rink at Prospect Park is only $10 (rentals are extra) on weekdays before 7pm and pretty empty during weekdays
November 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Also a v v good Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects project!
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Sandra Vásquez de la Horra makes simple materials — paper, graphite, a little paint — feel magical in her solo show at the ICA LA, where she deftly fuses organic forms and the body.
I write all about it for @kcrw.com's Art Insider:
email.kcrw.com/sandra-vasqu...
I write all about it for @kcrw.com's Art Insider:
email.kcrw.com/sandra-vasqu...
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra makes simple materials — paper, graphite, a little paint — feel magical in her solo show at the ICA LA, where she deftly fuses organic forms and the body.
I write all about it for @kcrw.com's Art Insider:
email.kcrw.com/sandra-vasqu...
I write all about it for @kcrw.com's Art Insider:
email.kcrw.com/sandra-vasqu...
My favorite genre of published exhibition review is the seemingly repurposed unpublished Artforum feature article
November 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
My favorite genre of published exhibition review is the seemingly repurposed unpublished Artforum feature article
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I like when it’s super cold out because it’s a useful reminder that the outside is constantly trying to kill me.
January 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I like when it’s super cold out because it’s a useful reminder that the outside is constantly trying to kill me.
Oh no. OH NO.
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Oh no. OH NO.
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Hobbes must’ve felt like a fucking god telling the illustrator about this insane cover concept
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Hobbes must’ve felt like a fucking god telling the illustrator about this insane cover concept
Honorary ‘I know girl. I know.’
Early Florentine self-portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi on view at Christie's in New York, and up for auction in in February. I just saw it in August and it's very close to her Inclination in the Casa Buonarroti (c. 1615) and other early self-portraits in Florence (thanks, @pjeromack.bsky.social!)
November 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Honorary ‘I know girl. I know.’
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I've been waiting to comment publicly on this until the university made its announcement, but the Department of History at Princeton is devastated by the recent death of our wonderful colleague Alison Isenberg.
Alison Isenberg, distinguished urban historian and co-founder of Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities, dies
A public memorial and celebration of Isenberg’s life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the University Chapel.
www.princeton.edu
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I've been waiting to comment publicly on this until the university made its announcement, but the Department of History at Princeton is devastated by the recent death of our wonderful colleague Alison Isenberg.
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critiquing capitalism from the inside, since 1973; a speedrun through Gerhard Richter's 50+ year history of making Lobby Art greg.org/archive/2025...
November 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
critiquing capitalism from the inside, since 1973; a speedrun through Gerhard Richter's 50+ year history of making Lobby Art greg.org/archive/2025...
Just listened to this and it is PHENOMENAL. A thoughtful and practical explanation of the genre of writing that keeps this dumb field running but NO ONE ever really talks about
So I was a guest, talking about book reviews, on a fascinating new podcast on academic publishing hosted by the talented Lisa Regan, it was a delightful conversation and she got me to tell multiple embarrassing stories (also my god I’m such a Californian) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Stephanie Porras on Book Reviews
Podcast Episode · The Academic Publishing Podcast · 10/21/2025 · 54m
podcasts.apple.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Just listened to this and it is PHENOMENAL. A thoughtful and practical explanation of the genre of writing that keeps this dumb field running but NO ONE ever really talks about
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I love fall, the time when everything becomes beautiful with dying.
November 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I love fall, the time when everything becomes beautiful with dying.
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Oh man. Look at the covers of Artforum and Frieze's November issues. Has this ever happened before, selected the same work for the cover?
November 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Oh man. Look at the covers of Artforum and Frieze's November issues. Has this ever happened before, selected the same work for the cover?
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No memento mori more effective than needing to scroll ever longer to select your birth year.
November 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
No memento mori more effective than needing to scroll ever longer to select your birth year.
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We used to be a society!!!
October 31, 2025 at 12:57 AM
We used to be a society!!!
Shaping up to be another easy, straightforward process of securing image rights/files (the image is a photograph that ran in a regional newspaper in the mid 1960s)
October 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Shaping up to be another easy, straightforward process of securing image rights/files (the image is a photograph that ran in a regional newspaper in the mid 1960s)
Maybe now some editor will want my book…
October 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Maybe now some editor will want my book…
Sending out image request emails that should have been sent out a month ago (whoops). Clicking all the ‘rush order’ and ‘expedited fee’ buttons and sending emails with ‘ASAP’ in them, as though the requests aren’t for an edited volume no one will ever read.
October 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Sending out image request emails that should have been sent out a month ago (whoops). Clicking all the ‘rush order’ and ‘expedited fee’ buttons and sending emails with ‘ASAP’ in them, as though the requests aren’t for an edited volume no one will ever read.
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LOOK AT THIS ABSOLUTE UNIT
October 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
LOOK AT THIS ABSOLUTE UNIT
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How to Hibernate.
Scanned by us from the 1952 book Animal Fair, by the Provensens.
It’s time.
Scanned by us from the 1952 book Animal Fair, by the Provensens.
It’s time.
October 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
How to Hibernate.
Scanned by us from the 1952 book Animal Fair, by the Provensens.
It’s time.
Scanned by us from the 1952 book Animal Fair, by the Provensens.
It’s time.
I know, girl. I know.
October 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I know, girl. I know.