Andrew Wasserman

We used to be a society!!!

Also for something more architectural: Hiroshi Sugimoto/New Material Research Laboratory’s Enoura Observatory is, in part, oriented to the solstices www.sugimotohiroshi.com/winter-solst...

The brand new Eliasson installation in Helsinki: Long Daylight Pavilion olafureliasson.net/artwork/long...

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)

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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.

A pleasingly rotund, stylized bronze sculpture of a cat standing by Richard Recchia, 1931.

LOOK AT THIS ABSOLUTE UNIT

Cover of the day

How to Hibernate.

Scanned by us from the 1952 book Animal Fair, by the Provensens.

It’s time.

I know, girl. I know.

Sam Gilliam, Arc III, 1970, Acrylic on unstretched canvas

From the museum label: ‘Sam Gilliam pushed American art in a radical new direction when he removed the canvas from the stretcher, allowing it to drape in loose folds on the wall. While acknowledging his debt to Hans Hofmann in his treatment of radiant color that washed across his paintings, Gilliam explained further, "What was most personal to me were the things I saw in my own environment-such as clotheslines filled with clothes." Two years after Arc II was completed, Gilliam was among the artists representing the United States at the Venice Biennale, the first African American to receive this important recognition.’

The MFAH also installed this very cute in comparison Gilliam just around the corner

Painting but also the reverse of painting but also also still painting

Phenomenal

Painting

But really PAINTING

I mean look at this painting

Like… just… PAINTING

PAINTING

Sam Gilliam, Double Merge (Carousel I and Carousel II) (1968), Acrylic on canvas

From the museum label: ‘Sam Gilliam brought a radical freedom to his unstretched drape paintings, liberating his canvases from the frame and the wall. Double Merge brings together two complementary elements: one canvas is more loosely rendered, with uninterrupted watery swaths of purples, yellows, pinks, blues, and greens, while the other has a more staccato effect with drips, stains, and brushstrokes scattered across its generous expanse. Gilliam later recalled, "The year 1968 was one of revelation and determination— something was in the air, and it was in that spirit that I did the drape paintings."’

approaching Carousel I and Carousel II

A v good gap

Sam Gilliam’s Double Merge (Carousel I and Carousel II) at the MFA Houston

I know, girl. I know.

Bluesky moderation warning label

Too real, girl. Too real.

I know, girl. I know.

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Harry Bertoia’s Untitled (Broccoli) (c. 1965), patinated bronze

Schurz High School, 1910, by the 🐐 Dwight Perkins

👋 new platform, new name, same brand

Barnett Newman’s Broken Obleisk in front of the Rothko Chapel

Still broken

Obelisk: broken

Plaque embedded into the pavers around the reflecting pool

It truly is a perfect sculpture

Downtown Houston skyline

SOM X 3

in june 2025 a pile of white house bricks sold at auction for $10,370, on account of their extreme rarity greg.org/archive/2025...

I know, girl. I know.

A pathway through private oil money manicured lawns with a branch hanging over the path with a sign in the middle that also supports the underside of the branch

LOW BRANCH

A perfect sign

This is how you blurb

A couple more teasers for my new book, coming April 2026.

Extremely boring academic rant but: every time I learn that my article or edited volume chapter is stalled bc they can’t find reviewers or a reviewer said yes and then vanished, I feel like a chump for saying yes to review requests as often as I do AND thinking the deadlines provided actually matter

writing is prolly this whole 50K word thing is going in the bin.