Yasumasa Morimura Catalogue

Selected Articles

Brenson, Michael. "When self-consciousness became king," The New York Times, February 18, 1990. p. 35.

Lutfy, Carol. "Morimura: Photographer of Colliding Cultures," International Herald, 1990.

Messler, Norbert. "Berlin: 'Metropolis'," Artforum, Summer, 1991. pp. 101-3.

Graham-Dixon, Andrew. "Worlds Apart," The Independent, November 12, 1991. p. 16.

Hagen, Charles. "Yasumasa Morimura at Luhring Augustine," The New York Times, November 29, 1991. p. C26.

Buck, Louisa. "A Double Take," The London Times Sunday Magazine, December 8, 1991. pp. 66-9.

Levin, Kim. "Voice Choices: Yasumasa Morimura," The Village Voice, December 10, 1991.

MacRitchie, Lynn. "Japanese artists tune into the west," The Financial Times, January 3, 1992. p. 7.

"Japan Today," Flash Art, March-April, 1992.

Hegen, Charles. "Reinventing the Photograph," The New York Times, January 31, 1993. pp. 1-29.

"New Season Shows at the Foundation Cartier," Flash Art, May-June, 1993. p. 102.

Stapen, Nancy. "At the ICA, it's guys as dolls," The Boston Globe, March 7, 1993. pp. B31, 36.

Katheson, Kathy. "Are you what you wear?," The Improper Bostonian, March 17-30, 1993. p. 12.

Dougherty, William. "OCA's 'Dress Codes'; Where Guys Are Dolls," Harvard Crimson, April 8, 1993.

Baker, Kenneth. "When clothes don't make the man," San Francisco Chronicle, May 24, 1993.

"Yasumasa Morimura: New Image Technique," BT, July, 1993. pp. 1-9.

Drucker, Johanna. "Simulation / Spectacle: Beyond the Boundaries of the Old Avant-Garde and Exhausted Modernism," Third Text, Summer, 1993. pp. 3-16.

Perree, Rob. "Morimura Dringt de Westerse Kunst Binnen," Kunstbeeld, No. 5, 1993. pp. 36-8.

Miller, Francine Koslow. "Currents '93: Dress Codes," Artforum, November, 1993.

Bryson, Norman. "Mother (Judith II)," Artforum, January, 1994. pp. 70-1.

Harrison, Helen. "Wit on Wry: Humor in Photography," The New York Times, December 26, 1994.

Lipson, Karin. "A Barrel of Photographic Laughs: Absurdity on Film," Newsday, December 31, 1994.

Rugoff, Ralp. "Playing Ourselves: Images from the Act of Life," L.A. Weekly, February 4-10, 1994.

Cotter, Holland. "Lest We Forget: On Nostalgia," The New York Times, May 27, 1994. p. C24.

"Japan's Avant-Garde Makes Its Own Points," The New York Times, September 16, 1994. p. C25.

Plagens, Peter. "Living on Tokyo Time," Newsweek, September 26, 1994. p. 65.

Stevens, Mark. "Made in Japan," New York, September 26, 1994. pp. 109-10.

"From Beyond the Pale," Flash Art, November-December, 1994. p. 36.

Friis-Hansen, Dana. "Yasumasa Morimura, Rembrandt Room," Frieze, January, 1995. pp. 57-8.

Weil, Benjamin. "Territories: Yasumasa Morimura," Atlantica, January, 1995. pp. 138-43.

Bryson, Norman. "Morimura 3 Readings," Art+Text, No. 52, 1995.

Turner, Elisa. "Exhibit Shows How Many Artists Stand on Duchamp's 'Leg'," The Herald, December 3, 1995. pp. 11-21.

Cantor, Judy. "The Artist Stripped Bare," The New York Times, February 8, 1996. pp. 63-5.

Gumpert, Lynn. "Glamour Girls," Art in America, July, 1996. pp. 62-5.

Benaim, Laurence. "La Mode en Capitales," Le Monde, October 10, 1996. p. 1.

"Style and Gossip," Marie Claire, November, 1996. p. 85.

Brubach, Holly. "But Is It Art?," The New York Times Magazine, November 17, 1996. p. 67.

"The Hugo Boss Prize," Guggenheim Magazine, Fall, 1996. p. 8.

Bloom, Amy. "A Face in the Crowd," Vogue, December, 1996. pp. 292-7.

Cotter, Holland. "A SoHo Sampler: Short List for Prize," The New York Times, November 22, 1996. p. C26.

Holch, Allegra. "Pleats Please: A Canvas for Guest Artists," Womens Wear Daily, October 8, 1996. p. 20.

Smith, Roberta. "Seeing 3 Images in One Face," The New York Times, 1996.

Smith, Roberta. "Seeing 3 Images in One Face," Elle: Special Feature, No. 145, December 6, 1996.

"Sleepy-Time Art," The New York Times Magazine, December 8, 1997.

Schjeldahl, Peter. "Who's the Boss?," The Village Voice, December 24, 1997.

Hicks, Robert. "A Japanese View of Western Film Goddesses," The Villager, December 25, 1997.

Annear, Judy. "Peepshow: Inside Morimura's Looking Glass," Art Asia Pacific, No.13, 1997.

Johnson, Ken. "Eyes on the Prize," Art in America, April, 1997. pp. 41-45, 135.

Avgikos, Jan. Artforum, April, 1997. pp. 90-1.

Kutner, Janet. "Looking back while moving ahead," The Dallas Morning News, May 25, 1997.

Greco, Stephen. "Art & Fashion's Delicate Dance," Artnews, September, 1997. pp. 120-3.

Kutner, Janet. "Shutter to think this is reality," The Dallas Morning News, p. 1C, October 4, 1997.

"Yasumasa Morimura," Juxtapoz, Winter, 1997. pp. 23-5.

Danto, Arthur C. "On the Rights of those Photographed," Tema Celeste, March-April, 1998. p. 40.

Barclay Morgan, Anne. "Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose," Camera Austria, 59-60, 1998. pp. 133-4.

Farmer, John Alan. "Devotion," art journal, Spring, 1998. pp. 68,75.

"Summer Preview," Artforum, May, 1998. p. 70.

"Flash Art News," Flash Art, May-June, 1998. p. 46.

Madoff, Steven Henry. "Pop Surrealism," Artforum, October, 1998. p. 120.

Juxtapoz Erotica, Volume II, 1998. p. 56.

Donovan, Sharon. "Cajun Modern," Metropolitan Home, March- April, 1999. pp. 136-7.

D, P. "Putting Themselves in the Picture," The Art Newspaper, No. 95, September, 1999. p. 72.

"Male/Female," Aperture, vol. 156, Summer, 1999. p. 58.

Glueck, Grace. The New York Times, October 8, 1999. E37.

Halle, Howard. "Dude Looks Like A Lady," Time Out New York, Issue No. 209, September 23-30, 1999. p. 62.

Madoff, Steven Henry. "Time Magazine," September, 1999. pp. 25-26.

"October Art Listings," Shout Magazine, October, 1999. p. 14.

"Visiting New Chelsea with Cecilia Dean," Marie Claire Japan, No. 7, December, 1999. pp. 52-3.

"Gallerioita kerroksittain," Taide Art Magazine, June, 1999. pp. 20-1.

Kirby, David. "Marilynmania," Artnews, vol. 99 no. 9, October, 2000.

Threadwell, Meg. "Mona Takes Tokyo," Artnet Magazine, March 13, 2000.

"Art at Work. Fourty Year of the JP Morgan Chase Collection," The Chase Manhattan Corporation, 2000. pp. 218-9.

Williams, Gregory. "Making History," ArtByte, Vol. 2 No. 5, January-February, 2000. 60-7.

Goodman, Jonathan. "Yasumasa Morimura, Daughter of Art History," Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 26, 2000. p. 70.

New Observations, Issue #124, Winter, 2000.

Poshyananda, Apinan. "Positioning Contemporary Asian Art," Art Journal, vol. 59, no. 1, Spring, 2000. pp. 10-3.

"Las mil caras de la Historia," Photo Periodico, Ańo III, No. 9, June, 2000. pp. 12-3.

MacCash, D. "New developments, CAC surveys the state of the art of photography," The Times Picaynne, July 14, 2000.

Princenthal, Nancy. "Yasumusa Morimura At Luhring Augustine," Art in America, December, 2001. pp. 110-1.

Halpert Hay, Peter. "Image Conscious. Contemporay Dealers look at-and to-photography," Art & Auction, December, 2001. pp. 72-4.

Kim, Jinyoung. "Four Portrait Photographers," Haute, Volume 8, No. 85, October, 2001. pp.80-4.

Espinoza, Micheal. "Senora Morimura, The next best thing to being Frida Kahlo is being Frida Kahlo," Detour, 2001. p. 135.

Smith, Roberta. "Yasumusa Morimura, Art in Review," The New York Times, September 21, 2001. E30.

"Crossculture Facts: Yasumusa Morimuras Rollenspiele, Frida Kahlo, Actress, Daughter of Art History," Artinvestor, No. 3, 2001. pp. 30-4.

Nakamura, Marie-Pierre. "New York Femmes," Art Actuel, No. 16, September-October, 2001. pp. 64-5.

Bishoff, Dan. "face to face with some startling visages," The Sunday Star-Ledger, April 8, 2001.

Ligas Losi, Marco. "Don DeLillo," Tema Celeste, Summer, 2001. pp.104-5.

"Japan's Man of Many Faces," Newsweek Magazine, August 6, 2001. p. 5.

Letran, Vivian. "Reworking the Movies Into Fine Art," Los Angeles Times, September 21, 2001.

The Miami Herald, December 1, 2002. p. 8AB.

Tuchman, Phyliss. "A Transforming Experience," Daily News, November 15, 2002. p. 75.

Delbanco, Nicolas. "In Praise of Imitation. On the sincerest form of flattery," Harper's Magazine, July, 2002. pp. 57-63.

Melo, Alexandre. "Arte Pos-11 Septembro," Expresso, April 13, 2002. pp. 71-4.

"This is a Party!," Exit, No. 5, 2002. p. 161.

The Santa Fe's Monthly Magazine of the Arts, February-March, 2002.

Randall Thomson, Teri. "Frida on His Mind," Pasatiempo/The Santa Fe New Mexican, February 15-21, 2002. pp. 18-9, 22.

Hunt, David. "Self Evident. Artists portray their favorite muses: themselves," Smock, Volume 2, No. 1, Winter, 2002. pp. 66-9.

"The Art World II: Border Patrol," The Boston Phoenix, December 12, 2003. p.6.

West, Shearer. "Portraiture," Oxford History of Art, 2003. p. 211.

McQuaid, Cate. "Something Borrowed," The Boston Globe, May 30, 2003. pp.C15-C18.

Penalas, Seve. "Mythology and Genealogy," Self-Portraits, No. 10, 2003. pp. 68-73.

Johnson C, Patricia. "Best of The East," Houston Chronicles, March 2, 2003. pp. 8-9.

Lacayo, Richard. "The Rise and Rise of Asian Art," Times, March 31, 2003. pp. 184-6.

"Amazing Pictures," The Santa Fe's monthly magazine of the arts, February-March, 2003.

"Crossing the Border. Mexican Inspirations at ICA," Museums Boston, Volume 7, No. 2, 2004. p. 46.

Perez, David. "La Certeza Vulnerable. Cuerpo y Fotografia en el Siglo XXI," FotoGrafia, 2004. p.73.

Williams, Gilda. "What Are you Looking At," Tate ect, issue 2, Autumn, 2004. pp. 26-33.

"Dumb Luck: Fate. Fortune, Grace," Conduit, 2004.

Coetzee, Mark. "Not Afraid. Rubell Family Collection," Phaidon, 2004. pp. 68.

"La Gui Cas Madrid para el arte ahora mismo," Obra Social, 2004. p. 49.

"Portraiture," Oxfort History of Art, 2004. pp. 204-211.

"Culture Club," Art & Auction, February, 2004.

"Supernova. Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection," San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, D.A.P, p. 127, 136-7, 2004.

"From the Hall of Montezuma," Boston Magazine, January, 2004. p. 151.

"Global Perspectives," Concierge Magazine, Winter, 2004. p.17.

Morimura, Yasumasa. "Los Nuevos Caprichos," Time Out New York, February 10-16, 2005. p. 71.

Art & Auction, February, 2005. p. 149.

Art Touch, Isssue 2, February, 2005.

Spagnesi, Licia. "L'arte e Pura Illusione," Arte, August, 2005. pp. 36-41.

ARTCO magazine, No. 166, July, 2006. pp.124-7.

Desmond, Michael. "From today photography is dead: Portraiture in the digital age," ART, 2006.

"The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in the Arts since 1960," Hatje Cantz, 2006.

Guillemot, Michel. "L'Art Moderne et Contemporain," Larousse, 2006. pp. 260, 294.

"Impressions of Self," DRIVEN, March, 2006. p. 12.

Richer, Francesca and Matthew Rosenzweig. "No.1 First Works by 362 Artists," d.a.p, 2006.

Bissaker, Nicolas. "Déjŕ vu? Yasumasa Morimua," Sleek, No. 15, Summer, 2007. pp. 56-67.

Drilhon Von-Arx, Frederique. "Yasumasa Morimura: Un diálogo interior con Frida Kahlo," Casas & Gente, Vol. 22, No. 217, 2007. pp. 22-23.

Velasco, David. "Role Exchange: Sean Kelly Gallery," Artforum, Vol. XLVI, No. 2, October, 2007. pp. 372-373.

Spagnolo, Stefano. "Yasumasa Morimura: Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa," Tema Celeste, no. 124, November/December, 2007. p. 117.

Valdez, Sarah. "In the Land of Make-Believe," Art in America, November, 2007. p. 119.

Morimura, Yasumasa. "Yasumasa Morimura on Nightwatching," ART iT, vol. 6, no. 1, 2008. pp. ix.

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