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Andrew Wasserman
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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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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
How has no one yet mentioned
Snoopy, not abandoned in the vestibule
November 22, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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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
onceatrophic.bsky.social
Ok parking brag
November 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
onceatrophic.bsky.social
Also maybe at some point CAA will make its way over here…
November 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM