Dr. Andrew Wasserman

Biography

• PhD, 2012, Stony Brook University
• MA, 2008, Stony Brook University
• BA, 2006, Johns Hopkins University

Details

Professional experience

Selected publications

Book

The World Atlas of Public Art (Yale University Press, 2024)

Recent Articles and Essays

“Stamm Beyond SoHo” in Ted Stamm: Series (Hatje Cantz, 2023)
“Not a Monument, As Such: Richard Hunt’s Public Art” in Richard Hunt: MONUMENTAL (Kaneko, 2023)
“And the Mural Came Down: Race, Removal, and Reckoning in the Sunshine City,” The Art Bulletin 104, no. 4 (December 2022)
“How to Destroy a Mural,” Source: Notes from the History of Art 41, no. 2 (Winter 2022)
“‘Our Guys’: Endless Service at the Circle of Heroes,” The Avery Review 50 (December 2020)
“A Pretty Good Idea: Bernard Lown’s Nuclear Test Thermometers,” Art Journal 79, no 1 (Spring 2020)
“Public Defenders: Alan Gussow’s LifeYards,” Archives of American Art Journal 59, no. 1 (Spring 2020)
“Why is This a Good Thing for Us? Challenging Public Sculpture and Contesting Territory in 1970s New York,” Journal of Urban History 44, no. 6 (November 2018)
“Just Dust: The Material Matter of Angelo di Benedetto’s Justice Through the Ages,” American Art 32, no. 1 (Spring 2018)

Research and professional interests

• Late modern and contemporary art and architecture
• American art and architecture
• Public art, monuments, and memorials
• Museum studies and histories of institutions and arts patronage