Andrew Wasserman

Which makes me feel like a robot but also 🤷‍♂️🤖

Learning in my first job the necessity of ‘visiting’ before getting the actual point of the conversation has just caused me to silently build that into any meeting/email outline (because yes same to all of the above). It’s now just 1. Visiting 2. Actual topic 3. Echo something from visit section

Wick!

Why the arts still matter at DePaul Economic constraints that suffocate creative expression and access to artistic skill and imagination are now at the front door of DePaul University.

This oped by DePaul student Jessica Saunders says it all. If you wish to sign to oppose the closure of the DePaul Art Museum, you can sign a letter here (please note it requires a email verification, which often goes to spam): openletter.earth/letter-oppos...

sign to oppose the senseless needless small minded closing the DePaul Art Museum

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Seung-taek Lee, 'Earth Performance,' 1989–96 (2023 reenactment in New York)

Amanda Ross-Ho, 'Untitled Orbit (MANUAL MODE), 2026, at Frieze Los Angeles

writing an intro is a duel between two urges. one tells me I have a very narrow window of opportunity to hook a reader and so I should be compact, punchy, and informative. the other urge I lovingly call "my bullshit"

I know, girl. I know.

I know, girl. I know.

I know, girl. I know.

Paul Thek’s Meat Cable and Meat Cable

Museum label: Paul Thek American, 1933-1988 Meat Cable 1969 Meat Cable 1969 Steel cable with three wax elements

Wait. How many wax elements?

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I will never be as delighted about anything as this ram is just to be vibing

Installation of 7 stone animal sculptures

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Central sculpture from the side

Central sculpture from the back

Edgar Miller’s Animal Court (1937), originally made for the Jane Addams Homes

Hallway with a brick wall on one side

A brick wall w a square outlined in yellow paint and a yellow placard

Look at those bricks!

Placard explaining Chicago Common bricks

VERY into this Chicago Common bricks display at the National Public Housing Museum 🧱🟨🧱

Did a thing this morning. And, no, I cannot explain this lighting fixture.

I also absolutely cannot explain this thing but pretended I could.

If the claw gesture is to be believed, I’m apparently making a really important point about this thing

Truly becoming the most antisocial of all antisocial messages

A great comma

Also: a great comma

View from the side of ‘The street is more important than the museum…’

Boop

LOOK AT THE EXTRA SUPPORT FOR THE T! LOOK AT IT!

Bench with metal letters ‘it’s a joke’

Bench with metal letters ‘how antisocial,’

Bench with metal letters ‘the street is more important than the museum…’

Bench with metal letters ‘the street is more important than the museum…’ from a different angle

Deeply obsessed with MOS and Tony Cokes’ Public Benches

William Wegman’s dogs have no idea you’re laughing at them. Shame on you

Currently on view at Patron Gallery. So… Just saying… It might be… It could be…

Carmen Winant, Today I was reading about Marie Curie, 2021, Steel, paint, jewelry wire, found images, gold chain

Detail of photographic roundel

Detail of two photographic roundels

Carmen Winant, Today I was reading about Marie Curie (2021), Steel, paint, jewelry wire, found images, and gold chain

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🎧 detail

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Jennie C. Jones, Clusterfuck (Noir), (2019), earbuds, latex paint, and twist ties

But really how is it like 20 degrees colder INSIDE the conference center than outside the conference center in Chicago in February?!?

Freezing! At the Conference

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Soo Shin, The Body of a Fly (2019), oil paint on bisque fired clay

Rebekka Federle, Rehearsal VII, 2025 and Rebekka Federle, Rehearsal IX (Bonded Pair), 2025

Rebekka Federle, Rehearsal VII, 2025

Rebekka Federle, Rehearsal IX (Bonded Pair), 2025

Although not a cat painting, can I offer these as the next best thing

I know, girl. I know.

Absolutely but then you’re also stuck looking at [gestures broadly at the disasters everywhere]

From the museum label: ‘In 1992 the artist collective Haha (active 1988-2008) created Flood (1992-95), a hydroponic garden in a North Side storefront maintained by the artists along with twenty to thirty volunteers. The hydroponic system grew greens and medicinal herbs without soil, virtually eliminating the risk of soil-borne bacteria contaminating the food and making it suitable for HIV/AIDS patients' weakened immune systems. For several years, Flood provided bi-weekly meals, educational activities, and public events, as well as information on alternative therapies, nutrition, horticulture, and HIV/AIDS services in Chicago.

Label continued On view here is a selection of images, publications, and ephemera related to the project. Founding Haha members Richard House, Wendy Jacob, Laurie Palmer, and John Ploof chose to display these materials in overlapping stacks to underscore the layered history and legacy of Flood.

Additional view of the case

An additional view of the case