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Andrew Wasserman
@onceatrophic.bsky.social
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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/
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
On the way back upstate after holiday with family, we stopped at the International Museum of Dinnerware Design in Kingston. Their current show is all about the picnic! 🤗 I asked about the institution’s history + the lovely proprietor told me his wife helped start the ceramic museum @ Alfred Uni 🍶✨
Arne Jacobson metal coffee set A display case featuring Wasara biodegradable dinnerware A gallery-wide shot of the picnic show, featuring lots of little astroturf assemblies :) Close-ups of some picnic collections — sets of dishes, ceramic foods, etc
November 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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mlobelart.bsky.social
Karon Davis, Descendant, 2025, sculptural portrait of the artist's son holding up a miniature statue of Confederate general John Hunt Morgan on horseback
November 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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mlobelart.bsky.social
Anita Steckel, Giant Horse, 1979
Giant horse against NYC skyline
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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zachmortice.bsky.social
I am big mad b/c ppl have been sleeping on Felix Candela / Chapel of Nuestra Señora de la Soledad /
November 29, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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jeremymillar.bsky.social
I saw some rather beautiful paintings by Bob Thompson today at Maximilian William.

Thompson died in Rome in 1966, at the age of 28.

Perseus and Andromeda, 1964
151.4 x 182.2cm
A figurative painting showing, in flat colours, a red Perseus falling headlong towards a sea-monster, while in the foreground, an orange Andromeda stands on the shore. The painting is clearly based on one by Titian, from 1554–56, although here Perseus's sword is replaced by what looks like a yellow sea bird.
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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ykomska.bsky.social
Leonora Carrington’s magical scraping on tempera, cats and all. One doesn’t feel like Loopings at anything for a while after seeing it. Ladies Run, There Is a Man in the Rose Garden, 1948
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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meganlcook.bsky.social
If medieval guilds and fraternities had inflatable balloon technology, they would have gone so hard. Gigantic balloon of the side wound of Christ, St Lucy with her eyes as two separate balloons, Margaret and her dragon
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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neilpbardhan.bsky.social
Be grateful for the Thursday scream! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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johannawinant.bsky.social
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University

www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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sarcher.bsky.social
If you want “This Article: The Book” I have incredible news for you! Currently available in hardcover for $20.79 a.co/d/6fnZjVI 🩵💛
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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jogardnerhugg.bsky.social
New Museum Of Mexican Art Exhibit Explores How Mexican Railworkers Put Chicago On The Map
In "Rieles y Raíces: Traqueros in Chicago and the Midwest," the museum delves into the impacts and real-life stories of Mexican railworkers in the Chicago area. It runs through April 26.
blockclubchicago.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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greg.org
TIL the Felix Gonzalez-Torres work on the back cover of The Paris Review was listed as Untitled (Dolphin Halos), 1990, a work mentioned nowhere else in the artist's oeuvre. And the TOC was illustrated by GLORY, a Donald Moffett bowling ball sculpture with a single, enlarged hole. what does it MEAN?
side by side images of the pale blue cover of the fall 1991 issue of the paris review. the front cover on the left has the magazine title and a bright photo of felix gonzalez torres' untitled perfect lovers, a sculpture made of two identical round black-rimmed wall clocks. the back cover on the right is two identically sized, similarly abutting circles of greek vase style dolphins, a motif felix used in several other works, but not in a pair like this. and never with the title, untitled (dolphin halos), which is what they were called here. the mysteries continue to unfold the fall 1991 issue of the paris review sits on an enzo mari autoprogettazione tabletop of handfinished pine, open to the illustration facing the table of contents, which is a bowling ball with a single, enlarged hole in the center, and the letters GL and RY on either side, so that the hole helps spell GLORY, and I do not think it's a finger that hole's been sized for. the caption below the glory hole bowling ball gives the titles of felix gonzalez-torres's artworks on the covers, tho one has a different date, and the other no longer seems to exist in felix's oeuvre. adjust your dissertations accordingly
November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
onceatrophic.bsky.social
Oh hey my book is part of this sale: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

If you’ve been thinking ‘I wonder what I should get my sister’s short husband* this year,’ let me recommend this beauty of a book!

*or any similarly sized relative
Amy Sherald’s Untitled mural Ned Kahn’s Rain Oculus Monica Bonvicini’s She Lies Cai Guo-Qiang’s Sky Ladder
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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atrubek.bsky.social
Look, you can have a cover letter or a project proposal or a sample of the work in progress. But not all three! There’s only so much rewriting of the same thing I can do
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
onceatrophic.bsky.social
MAYBE… 💥🍄☁️
onceatrophic.bsky.social Andrew Wasserman @onceatrophic.bsky.social · Sep 19
After a 50 min meeting with an editor yesterday, I just sent them the full book proposal and two chapters. Will this lead to anything? Who knows… but maybe…?? 💥🍄☁️
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
up with public service art!

blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/21/c...
Chicago Artist Starts His Own Postal Service — And Will Deliver And Read Mail To Anyone For Free
A whimsical yet very serious public art project by Logan Square artist Charlie Dean is gaining traction as an alternative to a paid postal service, designed to be used for monumental conversations or ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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jeremymillar.bsky.social
Some details
A close-up of a Howardena Pindell painting, made up of many thousands of dots, dark and light. There are also drips which sit on the surface of an otherwise hazy background. A close-up of a Howardena Pindell painting, made up of many thousands of dots, dark and light. There are also drips which sit on the surface of an otherwise hazy background.
November 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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jeremymillar.bsky.social
My goodness, some of the Howardena Pindell paintings now at @whitecube.com are just stunning

Untitled, 1972
A hazy mainly dark blue — but also pink, and green and ochre — painting on a white gallery wall. It is made up of thousands of spray-painted dots.
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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icpetrie.bsky.social
"To whomever owns this eyesore — which has been a vacant lot since at least 2016 — I beseech you to gift it to Luardo, who’s shown more interest in it and has done more to improve it than you ever have."

@farfarraway.bsky.social's not wrong!
The artist behind the ‘Boob Garden’ and ‘Rave Coffin’ strikes again with ‘Crab Couch’ in South Philly
A piece of crabby patio furniture is artist Rose Luardo's latest installation at the vacant triangle lot on Washington Avenue she calls "Capt. Jesse G's Crab Shack Gallery."
www.inquirer.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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jasonthorne.bsky.social
The 9.5 metre tall “Seated Bear With Friends” by artist Dean Drever, overlooking the new park and playground at the Crosstown development in Toronto.
A large bronze bear sculpture sits prominently, depicting the bear in a seated position. The background features modern high-rise buildings and a partly cloudy sky. The sculpture is mounted on a black base.
November 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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dael.bsky.social
This is a great article to keep in mind if the Museum of the City of New York ever comes around demanding your (unpaid) labor, historians, or asking for cash donations.
noethematt.bsky.social Matthew Noe 🔜 MICE @noethematt.bsky.social · 11d
"The director of the Museum of the City of New York, Stephanie Hill Wilchfort, said she no longer needs to hire copy editors to work on annual reports. [She is turning to AI.]"

This should be embarrassing to admit.

nymag.com/intelligence...
‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
nymag.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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sarcher.bsky.social
You can. Should you?
A high concept geometric midcentury Christmas tree made from yarn, wood and ornaments in blue and green from House Beautiful circa 1960
November 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
onceatrophic.bsky.social
Ok let’s actually work on this chapter for real now
Black and white photograph of the 1982 version of the Shadow Project. I will finish this chapter before the end of the year bc someone will publish this book even if they don’t know that yet
November 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM