Vik Muniz Catalogue
Vik Muniz
Selected Articles
"Vik Muniz at Stux,"  Arts Magazine,  March, 1989.
Alleti, Vince.  "Constructed Illusions,"  The Village Voice,  November 20, 1990.
Baker, Kenneth.  "Eccentric and Entertaining Pieces,"  The San Francisco Chronicle,  April 7, 1990.
Bonetti, David.  "The Inevitability of Vik Muniz,"  San Francisco Examiner,  April 6, 1990.
Cyphers, Peggy.  Arts Magazine,  May, 1990.
Faust, Gretchen.  "Vik Muniz,"  Arts Magazine,  May, 1990.
Lieberman, Rhonda.  "Vik Muniz at Stux,"  Arts Magazine,  January, 1990.
Melrod, George.  "Vik Muniz: Stux Gallery, New York,"  Sculpture,  November-December, 1990.
Jouannais, Jean Yves.  "Vik Muniz,"  Art Press,  December, 1991.
Levin, Kim.  "Choices,"  The Village Voice,  April 2, 1991.
Lieberman, Rhonda.  "Stuttering,"  Flash Art,  April-May, 1991.
Cotter, Holland.  "Three Shows Celebrate the Spirit of Fluxus,"  The New York Times,  October 23, 1992.
Hagen, Charles.  "The Encompassing Eye: Photography as Drawing,"  Aperture,  Fall, 1992.
Huitorel, Jean-Marc.  "Life Size,"  Art Press,  October, 1992.
Kahn, Wolf.  "Connecting Incongruities,"  Art in America,  November, 1992.
Vescovo, Marisa.  "Vik Muniz a Torino,"  La Stampa,  April 27, 1992.
Hagen, Charles.  "Vik Muniz,"  The New York Times,  February 5, 1993.
Levin, Kim.  "Vik Muniz: In Brief,"  The Village Voice,  February 16, 1993.
Vescovo, Marisa.  "Post Verbum?,"  Tema Celeste,  June, 1993.
"Public Mirrors (or ‘How to Steal a Masterpiece’),"  Bomb Magazine,  n. 2, 1993.
Muniz, Vik.  "As Time Goes By,"  Parkett,  no.36, 1993. pg.48-50. 
Muniz, Vik.  "Mirrors; Or, 'How to Steal a Masterpiece',"  Blind Spot,  vol. II, 1993.
Muniz, Vik.  "The Unbearable Likeness of Being,"  Parkett,  no.40/41, 1994. pp. 136-9. 
"Choices,"  The Village Voice,  March 21, 1995.
Hagen, Charles.  "Mixing Humor with the History of Photography,"  The New York Times,  March 24, 1995.
Katz, Vincent.  "Vik Muniz at Brent Sikkema,"  Art in America,  December, 1995.
"Choices,"  The Village Voice,  December 3, 1996.
"Vik Muniz at Rena Bransten,"  San Francisco Examiner,  May 10, 1996.
Mahoney, Robert.  "Vik Muniz: Sugar Children,"  Time Out New York,  December 19, 1996.
Muniz, Vik.  "Surface Tension,"  Parkett,  no.46, 1996. pp. 56-9. 
"Organized Confusion,"  The Village Voice,  December 2, 1997.
"200 Images Leisurely Chatting,"  The New York Times,  January 31, 1997.
"New Photography 13,"  The New York Times,  November 7, 1997.
Grundberg, Andy.  "Sweet Illusion,"  Artforum,  September, 1997.
Katz, Vincent.  "The Cunning Artificer,"  On Paper,  March-April, 1997.
Kismarik, Susan.  "Vik Muniz: New Photography 13,"  MoMA Magazine,  Fall, 1997.
Kandel, Susan.  "Artful Illusions and Serial Masquerades Spring to Life,"  Los Angeles Times,  April 4, 1997.
Kurjakovik, Daniel.  "Wesenchau,"  Kunst Bulletin,  January, 1997.
"Choices,"  The Village Voice,  September 29, 1998.
"Muniz Wets the Appetite for Images in Chocolate,"  The San Francisco Chronicle,  April 16, 1998.
Finkel, Jori.  "Vik Muniz: Photographs,"  On Paper,  July/Aug, 1998.
Gallo, Ruben.  "Aperto Brazil,"  Flash Art,  October, 1998.
Goldberg, Vicky.  "Of Fairies, Free Spirits and Outright Frauds,"  The New York Times,  weekend section, front page, February 1, 1998.
Goldberg, Vicky.  "It’s a Leonardo? It’s a Corot? Well, No, It’s Chocolate Syrup,"  The New York Times,  weekend section, September 25, 1998.
Grundberg, Andy.  "Seeing is Believing,"  The New York Times,  December 6, 1998.
Holliday, Taylor.  "Vik Muniz: A Closer Look, Some Second Thoughts,"  The Wall Street Journal,  October 20, 1998.
Kino, Carol.  "Beyond the Edges, An Insider’s Look at Early Photographs,"  Time Out Magazine,  December, 1998. pp. 17-31. 
Leffingwell, Edward.  "Through a Brazilian Lens,"  Art in America,  April, 1998.
Miller, Kenneth.  "Sugar Snaps,"  Life Magazine,  March, 1998.
Wallis, Stephen.  "Photo Opportunity,"  Art and Antiques,  September, 1998.
Crosby, David.  "Vik Muniz,"  Zoom,  February, 1999.
Dowell, Bill.  "A Postmodern Photographer Who is Reshaping His Medium,"  Time Magazine International,  Latin American Leaders for the N, May 24, 1999.
Fortes, Marcia.  "XIV São Paulo Biennial,"  Frieze,  February, 1999.
Hirsch, Faye.  "Rethinking Genres in Contemporary Photography,"  Art on Paper,  January, 1999.
Linfield, Susan.  "Sweet Deception,"  Art News,  February, 1999.
Tsai, Eugene.  "Force of Nature,"  Artnews,  May, 1999.
"A Postmodern Photographer Who is Reshaping his Medium,"  Time Magazine –Leaders of the Millenium -Special Issue,  May 24, 1999.
"For Muniz, The Medium is the Message,"  The Village Voice,  May 23, 2000.
Anton, Saul.  "Your 15 Minutes Are Up: Vik Muniz Pops Pop’s Balloon,"  Time Out New York,  May, 2000.
"Talks About Clayton Days,"  Artforum,  October, 2000.
Cahill, Timothy.  "Artist of Illusion,"  Times Union,  December 17, 2000.
Cirenza, Fernanda.  "Esse Obscuro Objeto do Desejo,"  Follha de Sao Paulo,  September 5, 2000.
"Party Time: Inside and Out, Playful Wit Reigns at Skidmore’s New Museum,"  The New York Times,  December 22, 2000.
Frobes-Cross, Huffa.  "Bard Photo: Faculty Muniz and Shore Exhibit Work in New York City,"  The Bard Free Press,  May 16, 2000.
Goldberg, Vicky.  "How Worshipers, Too, Can Denature Nature,"  The New York Times,  September 8, 2000.
Johnson, Ken.  "Vik Muniz,"  The New York Times,  May 26, 2000.
"For Muniz the Medium is the Message,"  The Village Voice,  May 23, 2000.
Levin, Kim.  "For Muniz the Medium is the Message,"  The Village Voice,  May 23, 2000.
Lewis, Jo Ann.  "Painting Takes a Belated and Welcome Back Seat to New Media,"  The Washington Post,  December 10, 2000.
Lopez, Nayse.  "Imagens que vacinam,"  Jornal do Brasil,  January 4, 2000.
Magill, Mark.  "Vik Muniz,"  Bomb Magazine,  Fall, 2000.
Mahoney, Robert.  "Vik Muniz, UBU Gallery, New York and Brent Sikkema, New York,"  Art on Paper,  2000.
Morris, Stacey.  "Art With a Tang,"  The Post-Star Glen Falls,  October 26, 2000.
"Vik Muniz faz arte com o imaginario infantil,"  O Estado de S. Paulo,  September 5, 2000.
Temin, Christine.  "New Museum Debuts with Sound, Muniz,"  The Boston Globe,  November 12, 2000.
Wagman, Virginia.  "Work of Noted Photographer is About Image?,"  The Honolulu Advertiser,  February 13, 2000.
Zamudio, Raul.  "Vik Muniz: Operations with/in Photography,"  NY Arts,  June, 2000.
Abreu, Gilberto de.  "Em Busca da Visibilidade,"  Jornal do Brasil,  March 23, 2001.
Calas, Terrington.  "Vik Muniz,"  The New Orleans Art Review,  November/December, 2001.
"Marilyn allo Zucchero,"  L’Espresso,  April 19, 2001.
Cantillo, Luis.  "Sólo Dibujo,"  Villega Editores,  2001.
Chagas, Tonica.  "Vik Muniz: Ele e o primeiro brasileiro a realizar uma individual no Whitney Museum,"  O Estado de Sao Paulo,  January 27, 2001.
Cordeiro, Veronica.  "VIK Muniz: Fotografias Tridimensionales,"  ArtNexus,  no.41, August-October, 2001.
Dykstra, Jean.  "Dust to Dust,"  Art on Paper,  March/April, 2001.
"Vik Muniz,"  El Pais,  February 16, 2001.
Feitelberg, Rosemary.  "His Head’s in the Clouds,"  Women's Wear Daily,  January 31, 2001.
Gullar, Ferreira.  "As Camadas do Real,"  Revista Bravo,  April, 2001.
Hackett, Regina.  "Muniz’s works in chocolate are as dandy as candy,"  Settle Post,  November 9-15, 2001.
Glueck, Grace.  "Why, It’s the Stuff of Minimalism: Giving the Dust Mote Its Due at the Whitney,"  The New York Times,  March 2, 2001.
Hirszman, Maria.  "Retrospectiva traz a magia de Vik Muniz ao Brasil,"  Caderno 2- O Estado de São Paulo,  March 22, 2001.
Lobato, Eliane.  "Alquimista das Imagens,"  Revista Isto E,  March 28, 2001.
MacCash, Doug.  "He Plays With Food for Artistic Effect,"  2001.
Moraes, Angelica.  "As Ilusoes de Vik Muniz,"  Bravo,  March, 2001.
Nakamura, Marie-Pierre.  "¿Vik Muniz?,"  Art Actuel,  March-April, 2001.
"Nothing to Sneeze At,"  New York Magazine,  February 12, 2001.
Solomon, Deborah.  "Ars Brevis?,"  The New York Times Magazine,  February 11, 2001.
Schwender, Martha.  "Sweeping Survey,"  Artforum,  January, 2001.
"American Visionaries: Selection from the Whitney Museum of American Art,"  Whitney Museum of American Art,  2001. p. 214. 
Saltz, Jerry.  "Dust to Dust,"  The Village Voice,  March 21-27, 2001.
Blind Spot,  issue 20, 2002.
Demby, Eric.  "Dessert Oasis,"  Time Out Magazine,  September 26-October 3, 2002.
Grosenick, Uta, Burkhard Riemschneider (eds).  "137 Artists in the Rise of the New Millennium,"  Art Now,  2002. pp 312-5. 
Vogel, Carol.  "Academy of Music in the Land of Sweets,"  The New York Times,  The Arts Section, September 30, 2002. pp. 1, 5. 
Muniz, Vik.  "Pictures of Ink,"  New York,  April 18, 2002.
Barro, David.  "Es necesario conceder poder ao espectador,"  El Cultural,  November 12, 2003.
Berwick, Carly.  "Choose Your Own Illusion,"  Artnews,  Vol. 102, no. 9, October, 2003.
"Vik Muniz inmortaliza en imaxes os obxectos que crea para destruír,"  El Correo Gallego. Santiago de Compostela, Spain,  December 19, 2003.
De la Nuez, Iván.  "El Otro Rostro del Che,"  El Paíz,  November 22, 2003.
Di Genova, Arianna.  "Ritratti esplosivi del quotidiano,"  Il Manifesto,  October 5, 2003. P. 17. 
Magni, Paola.  "Al Macro Quattro artisti a confronto: A via Reggio Emilia Quattro critici (Celant, Eccher, Cherubini e Hasegawa) presentano il lavoro di altrettanti artisti (Muniz, Bianchi, Pivi e Hatsushiba),"  Il Giornalede Roma,  September 29, 2003. p. 41. 
Marocco, Terry.  "Riscio, zebre e Pelé in camicia di coriandoli,"  Vivereroma,  September 26, 2003. p. 11. 
Pancotto, Pier Paolo.  "Macro, dalle zebre al cioccolato,"  L’Unita,  October 5, 2003. p. 29. 
"El sirope según Vik Muniz,"  La Razón,  December 12, 2003. p. 47. 
Tanguy, Sarah.  "Sweet Tooth,"  D.A.P,  2003.
"Season Opener,"  TV Guide,  October 11-17, 2003.
"Los mundos de Vik Muniz y Van Eeden,"  La Voz de Galicia,  December 19, 2003.
"Art Talk,"  Artnews,  v. 103 no. 7, Summer, 2004.
Robertson, Rebecca.  "Secrets of their Success,"  ArtNews,  October, 2004. p. 44. 
Kamari, Avvaiyar.  "Flawless?,"  New York Moves,  Issue 19, September, 2005.
Spangler, Nicholas.  "Look in the sky: Partly cloudy, completely art,"  Miami Herald,  February 10, 2006.
Wilson, Eric.  "Using a White Shirt as Their Canvas,"  The New York Times,  May 11, 2006.
Richard, Francis.  Artforum, Artguide,  2006.
New York Times Magazine,  April 15, 2007. cover page. 
New York Times Magazine,  October 14, 2007. cover page. 
Nelson, Robert.  "Modern take on torture is tangled thrill,"  Metro Age,  May 5, 2007. p. 20. 
"The Title of This Photograph Is Marilyn Monroe, Actress, New York City, May 6, 1957,"  New York Magazine,  May 14, 2007.
"Culture-Watch, The Illusionist,"  Departures Magazine,  May-June, 2007. p.156. 
"Vik Muniz in Moscow,"  Artnet Magazine,  November 26, 2007.
Lubow, Arthur.  "After Frida,"  New York Times,  March 23, 2008.
Sudarsky, Noah Marcel.  "The Matchmaker: Vik Muniz on guest-curating his MoMA show,"  New York Magazine,  December 14, 2008.
Esquire Magazine,  75th Anniversary Issue, October, 2008. p. 201. 
Falconer, Morgan.  "Vik Muniz,"  Art World,  issue 8, December-January, 2008-2009. pp. 98-101. 
Amorim, Claudia.  "Mostra de Vik Muniz inspira roteiro com programas em que a reciclagem está em alta,"  O Globo,  January 23, 2009.
Banu, Georges.  "Une femme est une femme,"  Ligne 8: Le journal de l’Opéra National de Paris,  #25, May-July, 2009.
Pollack, Barbara.  "What a Dump!,"  ARTnews,  vol. 109 no. 9, October, 2010.
"UNESCO to name three Brazilians as Goodwill Ambassadors,"  UN News Centre,  May 23, 2011.
Burns, Charlotte.  "Vik Muniz leads Rio's regeneration: The artist is part of a creative group developing a cultural quarter in Lapa,"  The Art Newspaper,  July-August, 2011.
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