Wangechi Mutu Catalogue

Selected Articles

Sirmans, Franklin. "Surely it Cannot Burn so Long," Time Out, November 25-December 2, 1999.

Oguibe, Olu, and Enwezor Okwui. "Reading the Contemporary, African Art from Theory to the Marketplace," 1999. p. 10.

Ziolkowski, Thad. "The Magic City," ARTFORUM, October, 2000.

Sonkin, Rebecca. "Good Rap," Art News, April, 2001. p. 41.

Murray, Soraya. "Africaine," Nka Journal, Fall/Winter, 2002. pp. 88-93.

Barliant, Claire. "Africaine," Art on Paper, July/August, 2002.

Banai, Nuit. "Body of Evidence," One World, August/September, 2002. pp. 124-125.

Cotter, Holland. "From the Ferment of Liberation Comes a Revolution in African Art," The New York Times, February 17, 2002.

Budick, Ariella. "Identity, a Concept Explored in 2 Harlem Shows," Newsday, February 1, 2002.

Cunningham, Bill. "Old and New," The New York Times, January 27, 2002.

Murray, Soraya. "Africaine," Nka Journal, Fall/Winter, 2002. pp. 88-93.

Williamson, Sue. "Looking Both Ways," Artthrob, December, 2003.

Sirmans, Franklin. "Portfolio," Grand Street, Fall, 2003.

Pagel, David. "Harrowing, hallucinatory visions," Los Angeles Times, October 24, 2003.

Martin, Courtney. "Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti," Flash Art, October, 2003.

Fleey, Peter. "Black President," Frieze Magazine, October, 2003.

Koirala, Snigdha. "Black President," BOMB, Fall, 2003. p. 17.

Cotter, Holland. "King of Music," New York Times, July 18, 2003.

Ashford, Doug. "Off The Record," Time Out Magazine, May 8-15, 2003.

Cotter, Holland. "Off The Record," New York Times, May 16, 2003.

Croal, Aida Mashaka. Africana, March, 2003.

Oneacre, Alison. "Hallowed Walls," Women's Wear Daily, February 3, 2003.

Kerr, Merrily. "Extreme Makeovers," Art on Paper, July/August, 2004. pp. 28-29.

Leitzes, Cary Estes. "Body Politic," ArtReview, September, 2004.

Ciuraru, Carmela. "Cutting Remarks," ArtNews, November, 2004. pp. 116-117.

Kelly, Kevin. "Reward for Creative Touch," Daily Nation (Lifestyle Magazine), August 11, 2004.

Saltz, Jerry. "Borough Hall," Village Voice, May 3, 2004.

Smith, Roberta. "Emerging Talent and Plenty of It," The New York Times, March 12, 2004.

Martin, Courtney. "Looking Both Ways," Flash Art, January/February, 2004.

Worman, Alex. "L.A. Confidential," artnet.com, January 24, 2004.

Daily, Meghan. "Peter Norton- Collecting with a Conscience," Guggenheim Magazine, Winter Issue, 2004. p. 30.

Graham-Dixon, Andrew. "All Stuck and Scribbled," The Sunday Telegraph, U.K., December 19, 2004. p. 112.

"A-Z London," The Art Newspaper, no. 153, December, 2004.

Cripps, Charlotte. "Work at the Cutting Edge," The Independent Review, U.K., December 2, 2004. p. 18.

"Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing," BBC News UK edition, December 13, 2004.

Paul, Jonathan S. "Places, Everyone," The New York Times Style Magazine, Winter, 2005.

Smith, Roberta. "Where Issues of Black Identity Meet the Concerns of Every Artist," The New York Times, November 18, 2005.

Ellis, Patricia. "Wangechi Mutu - The Triumph of Painting," The Saatchi Gallery essay, 2005.

Kapferer, Roland. "Africa Remix," Frieze, Issue 92, June-August, 2005. p. 156.

ArtReview Future Greats, December, 2005. p. 99.

Adjaye, David. "Top Ten," Artforum Top Ten, November, 2005.

Pollack, Barbara. "Panic Room," Time Out New York, January 13-19, 2005. p. 55-56.

"Amazing Grace," Miami Monthly, August, 2005.

de La Forterie, Maud. "Africa Remix Continental," Art Actuel, Issue #38, May-June, 2005. pp. 47-50.

Sheets, Hilarie M. "Using Art to Build Pride," The New York Times, June 1, 2005.

Korotkin, Joyce B. "Fight or Flight," Tema Celeste, May-June, 2005. pp. 76-77.

Fricke, Kirsten. "Sex Sells," Beautiful Decay, December, 2005.

"Artists on the Verge of a Breakthrough," New York Magazine, March 7, 2005.

Myers, Holly. "Artists at Play in The World," Los Angeles Times, Friday, February 25, 2005.

"Arty Hour," The Herald, August 12, 2005.

"Painted Ladies," SouthBank, March, 2005.

Andersson, Ruben. "Mixed Bag of African avant-garde," The London Globe, March 20, 2005.

"Continued and Recommended," ArtScene, vol. 24, no. 7, March, 2005.

"Future Greats 2005," ArtReview, vol. 9, December, 2005. p. 99.

Harrison, Sara. "Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing," Art Monthly, February, 2005.

Brownell, Ginanne. "Front and Center: In London, it's the year of African art," Newsweek, www.msnbc.com, February 17, 2005.

"Post-Black, Post-Soul, or Hip-Hop Iconography: Defining the new Aesthetics," The International Review of African American Art, vol. 20, no. 2, 2005.

Rosenberg, Karen. "Artists on the Verge of a Breakthrough," New York Magazine, March 3, 2005.

eleven eleven {1111}, Journal of Literature and Art. California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California, 2005.

Colpitt, Frances. "A Slow-Motion Biennial," Art in America, October, 2006. p. 69-75.

Vogel, Carol. "Where Bel Canto Meets Paintbrush," The New York Times, August 15, 2006.

Berwick, Carly. "Jungle-Punk Princess Populate Wangechi Mutu's Solo NYC Debut," Bloomberg.com, May 31, 2006.

"1111," Journal of Literature and Art, vol. 3, 2006.

Helfand, Glen. "Voluptuous Horror," The San Francisco Bay Guardian, vol. 40, no. 14, January 4-10, 2006.

Guner, Fisun. "Bold New Portrait of America," Metro, October, 2006.

Reynolds, Nigel. "Saatchi is Ready for another Sensation," Daily Telegraph, May, 2006.

Wright, Karen. "Saatchi Exhibits Totemic Art, Superrealist Penis," Bloomberg.com, November, 2006.

Martin, Courtney. "Site Santa Fe: 6th International Biennial, 'Still Points of the Turning World'," Contemporary, no. 86, 2006. p. 64.

Carver, Jon. "Still Points of the Turning World," Art Papers, November/December, 2006. p. 69.

Murinik, Tracy. "Afro-Alien Exquisite Corpses," Art South Africa, Spring, 2006. pp. 26-29.

Klopper, Sandra. "Distant Relatives/Relative Distance," Art South Africa, Spring, 2006. pp. 64-65.

Walker, Hollis. "Colonial apparitions," Pasatiempo, July 7-13, 2006.

Morrill, Apollonia. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2006 Annual Report, 2006. p. 46.

Zing Magazine, Issue 21, 2006-2007.

Stephen, Janine. "Written on the body, a culture's desires," Business Day, February, 2007.

Ogunnaike, Lola. "A Museum Grows in Brooklyn," The New York Times, March 28, 2007. p. H16.

Cotter, Holland. "Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage," The New York Times, January 29, 2007. p. E1.

Pearson, Tony. "Wangechi Mutu," Time Out London, December 12, 2007.

Wullschlager, Jackie. "Mutations of the Femme Fatale," Financial Times, December 1, 2007.

Eshun, Ekow. "The Art of Darkness," Vogue, pp. 131-32, November, 2007.

Mullins, Charlotte. "Painting People," Figure Painting Today, p. 10, 2007.

Row, D. K. "In praise of bolder women," The Oregonian, Art Section, October 29, 2007. p. 7.

"Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice," The Big Bend Sentinel, Arts Section, September 20, 2007. p. 7.

Nolan, Joe. "Wangechi Mutu: Sleeping Heads Lie," Number: an independent arts journal, no. 58, Spring, 2007.

Chandler, Mary Voelz. "Inside The Box, New museum building squares up space for art, education, community," Rocky Mountain News, August 23, 2007.

Fox, Catherine. "Artists on the Move in Film and Video," The Atlanta Journal Constitution, February 17, 2008.

Cox, Lorraine Morales. "Transformed Bodies, Colonial Wounds & Ethnographic Tropes: Wangechi Mutu," n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal, vol. 21, January, 2008.

Heartney, Eleanor. "Make it New," Art in America, April, 2008.

Wilson, Rise. "All Hail the Queen," Black Renaissance Noire, vol. 8, issue 1, Winter/Spring, 2008.

Watson, Simon. "Wangechi Mutu: Mass in Time of War," Whitewall: The Unseen World of Contemporary Art, issue 9, Spring, 2008.

Politi, Gea. "Wangechi Mutu," Flash Art, no. 259, 2008. p. 136.

Finch, Charlie. "Lighter Than Eros," ArtNet Magazine, November 12, 2008.

Dewan, Shaila. "New Orleans Rising, By Hammer and Art," The New York Times, Arts Section, October 28, 2008.

Bookhardt, D. Eric. "The Big Easel," Gambit Weekly, October 28, 2008. p. 19-24.

Kimani, Martin. "WANGECHI MUTU: The Historical Future of a Contemporary Artist," Juxtapoz, 2008. p. 70-81.

Browne, Alix. "Cuff Love," New York Times Magazine, October 6, 2008. p. 74-75.

Pirovano, Stefano. "Arte: Incollare I Frammenti Del Mondo," Velvet, no. 23, October, 2008. p. 268-271.

Lieberman, Paul. "Artist Transforms Trailer into a Mobile Art Studio," Los Angeles Times, June 13, 2008.

Corti, Simon. "L'arte nella rete, Speciale Salone Del Mobile," CASAMICA, April, 2008.

Ragusa, Stefania. "WANGECHI MUTU: La donna nera in metamorfosi," Il Manifesto, Alias, Anno 11 – N. 34 (521), August, 2008. p. 22-23.

Stanley, Caroline. "The Beauty Myth," Gen Art Pulse, Los Angeles section, April, 2008.

Bishop, Phillip E. "'OMA's Abstracts in Art' references the past," TheOrlandoSentinel.com, January, 2008.

Volzke, Daniel. "Preview: Wangechi Mutu," Monopol, December, 2008.

Ligon, Glenn. "Civic Engagement: To Miss New Orleans," ArtForum, January, 2009.

Bernoni, Giorgia. "Un Corpo Mutante e Ambiguo," INSIDE ART (Italy), March, 2009.

Halpern, Ashlea. Time Out New York, Out of Africa, Issue 694, January 15-21, 2009. p. 41.

Cotter, Holland. "The Week Ahead: April 26-May 2," The New York Times, April 24, 2009.

MacSweeney, Eve; Annie Leibovitz, photos. "A Fertile Mind," Vogue, April, 2009. p. 190, 248.

Riley, Cheryl R. "Art: Cut and Paste," Uptown, Issue 24, December 2009, 2009. p. 30-31.

Rosenberg, Karen. "Miami Fair: Big pieces, Smaller Prices and Relief," The New York Times, December 5, 2009, 2009. p. C1.

Perr�e, Rob. "Femme Vileine: A meeting with Wangechi Mutu," ZAM AFRICA Magazine, February, 2009. p. 62-71.

Wolff, Zoe. "Motherlode," Tar Mag, Issue no. 2, Spring, 2009. p. 257-269.

Berwick, Carly. "Encouraging Wards," ARTnews, vol. 107, no. 9, October, 2009. p. 66-67.

"Artpace Alumi Update," Artpace, Issue 10, no. 1, 2010.

"Arts and Culture: Wangechi Mutu," BBC World News Service, May 7, 2010.

Cash, Stephanie. "Wangechi Mutu: Terrible Beauty," Art in America, May, 2010. pp. 120-129.

Crow, Kelly. "Wangechi Mutu is Deutsche Bank's Artist of the Year 2010," The Wall Street Journal, February 22, 2010.

Evans, Matthew. "Wangechi Mutu: Between Beauty and Horror," ArtMag, Issue 57, 2010.

"Face to Face," Vogue Italia, no. 717, May, 2010. p. 24.

"Family Skeletons on Display," The Globe and Mail, February 8, 2010.

Goldstein, Andrew. "Wangechi Mutu Wins Deutsche Bank 'Art of the Year Award'," ArtInfo.com, February 23, 2010.

Yablonsky, Linda. "Artifacts: Moths and Mercenaries," T Magazine, November 4, 2010.

Patel, Alpesh Kantilal. "Wangechi Mutu," Artforum.com, November, 2010.

Nys Dambrot, Shana. "Daily Dose Pick," Flavorwire, April 28, 2010.

"Spotlight: Artist of the Year 2010: Wangechi Mutu," ARTnews, 2010.

Sandals, Leah. "Question & Artists: Wangechi Mutu's Beauty Riff Collages," National Post, February 25, 2010.

Row, D.K. "Beauty Amid the Upheaval," The Oregonian, February 22, 2010.

Rylance, David. "Bold New Bodies for a Brave New World: David Altmejd's The Index and Wangechi Mutu's This you call civilization?," Transductions, April 4, 2010.

Hove, Jan Van. "Droombeelden Uit Afrika," De Standard, July, 2010. p. 32.

"The Short List," Portland Tribune, February 25, 2010.

"Prospect.1 New Orleans Shows Public Art as a Form of Civic Engagement," artdaily.org, April 12, 2010.

Tate, Greg and LaTasha Diggs, eds. Coon Bidness: The Critical Ass Issue, February 15, 2011. pp. 22-23, 82.

Cotter, Holland. "Under Threat: The Shock of the Old," The New York Times, April 17, 2011.

"Museo Colecciones ICO Opens The Power of Doubt, an Exhibition Curated by the Influential Hou Hanru," artdaily.org, June, 2011.

Herndon, Lara Kristin. "Wangechi Mutu," ArtPapers, March/April, 2011.

Mumo, Angela. "Wangechi Mutu: Portrait of an Artist," Weekend Star, May 21-22, 2011.

Spence, Rachel. "The Power of Instinct," The Financial Times, April 1, 2011.

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