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SELECTED WRITINGS BY THE ARTIST

“Three Lectures at the Menil Collection.” Santa Monica, CA: Charles Ray Studio, 2018.

“The man from Saint-Denis.” César, La Rétrospective. Centre Pompidou, 2017.

“A Questionnaire on Materialisms, Charles Ray.” October, Winter 2016.

“Making And Looking.” Wall Street Journal, February 6 – 7, 2016

“Hudson, 1950-2014.” Artforum, September 2014.

“There Is No Color in the Great Outdoors.” Raw Color: The Circles of David Smith. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2014.

“Anthony Caro 1924-2013.” Artforum, February 2014.

Young man by Charles Ray. New York: Olympic Productions/Matthew Marks Gallery, 2014.

“Mr. Kawamoto and His Haunted Neighborhood.” Anew, Fall–Winter 2013.

“Chris Burden: Extreme Measures.” Artforum, September 2013.

“The Artist’s Artists: Best of 2010.” Artforum, December 2010.

Charles Ray. New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2009.

Log. Los Angeles: Self-published, 2009.

“Log.” Domus, November 2007.

“1000 Words: Charles Ray Talks about Hinoki.” Artforum, September 2007.

A four dimensional being writes poetry on a field of sculpture. Matthew Marks Gallery;  Steidl, 2006.

“My Warhol: A Project for Artforum.” Artforum, October 2004.

“If You Ask Me.” New York Times, December 29, 2002.

“Thinking of Sculpture as Shaped by Space.” New York Times, October 7, 2001.

“Before and After.” Frieze, 2001.

“Picture.” Frieze, January/February, 2000.

“Passages Stuart Regen.” Artforum, January 1999.

“The Most Beautiful Woman in the World.” Parkett, Fall 1993.

“Four Artists Curated by Charles Ray.” FOREHEAD 2, 1990.

Spazio Umano/Human Space, April, Vol 4. 1989. ill.

Spazio Umano/Human Space, January, Vol 1.1988. ill.

“A Portfolio.” FOREHEAD 1, 1987.

“New Work.” New Orleans Review, Summer 1980.

SELECTED BOOKS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Ardenne, Paul. L’image corps: Figures de l’humain dans l’art du 20e siecle. Paris: Editions du Regard, 2001.

Arte Contemporanea. Electa, Spain: La Biblioteca di Republica-L’espresso, 2008.

Au-del & Atilde; du spectacle. Vol. 1. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2000.

Bankowsky, Jack, Thomas Crow, Nicholas Cullinan, and Michael Fried. Sculpture After Sculpture: Fritsch, Koons, Ray. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2014.

Bankowsky, Jack, and Alison Gingeras, eds. Where Are We Going?: Selections from the François Pinault Collection. Venice: Palazzo Grassi, 2006. 

Barron, Stephanie, and Michael Draguet, eds. Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2006.

Barnes, Lucinda, and Dennis Cooper. Charles Ray. New York: Orange County Museum of Art, 1990.

Benezra, Neal D. Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century. New York: Edition Cantz, 1999.

Blackman, Susan, ed. Mattress Factory: Installation and Performance, 1982-1989. London: Mattress Factory, Limited, 1991.

Blume, Eugen. Friedrich Christian Flick Collection Im Hamburger Bahnhof. Cologne: SMB Dumont, 2005.

Bonafoux, Pascal. L’Autoportrait au XXe siecle. Paris: Diane de Selliers, 2005.

Bonami, Francesco. Times Arte Da la Los Angeles. Oslo: Norstedts Forlag AB, 1999.

---. Campo 6 : Il Villaggio a spirale. Milan: Skira Editore, 1996.

Bonami, Francesco, and Gary Carrion-Murayari. 2010 Whitney Biennial. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art; New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2010.

Bonami, Francesco, Raf Simons, and Maria Luisa Frisa, eds. The Fourth Sex: Adolescent Extremes. Milan: Charta, 2003.

Bonami, Francesco, and Alison Gingeras. Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault collection. Venice: Punta della Dogana, 2009.

Brooks, Adam. Subjective Realities: The Refco Collection of Contemporary Photography. Danbury: Art Data Interactive, 2004.

Bürgi, Bernhard, Douglas Druik, Michael Fried, and Charles Ray. Charles Ray: Sculpture, 1997 – 2014. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2014.

Cameron, Dan. The Savage Garden: Landscape as Metaphor in Recent American Installation. 1st ed. Madrid: Fundation Caja de Pensiones, 1991.

Cameron, Dan, Jeffrey Deitch, and Alison M. Gingeras. Monument to Now: The Dakis Joannou Collection. New York: Jeffrey Deitch, 2004.

Campany, David, ed. Art and Photography. New York: Phaidon, 2003.

Carandente, Giovanni, and Anthony Caro. Anthony Caro and Twentieth-Century Sculpture. New York: BPR, 1999.

Celant, Germano. Looking at Fashion: Biennale di Firenze. Milan: Skira Editore, 1997.

Coetzee, Mark. Not Afraid: Rubell Family Collection. New York: Phaidon Press, 2004.

Coetzee, Mark, ed. Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection. Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2007.

Crow, Thomas E., Sabine Eckmann, and Joanne Heyler. Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections LACMA. Danbury, Conn.: Harry N. Abrams, 2001.

Danto, Arthur C., and Judy Chicago. Mortality Immortality?: The Legacy of 20th-Century Art. Edited by Miguel A. Corzo. New York: Oxford, 1999.

Darling, Michael, and Michael N. Holte. Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection. Colorado Springs: Rubell Family Collection, 2007.

Davis, Mike. Sunshine and Noir: Art in L.A., 1960-1997. Humlebaek: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 1998.

de Corral, María, and John R. Lane. Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 2007.

Delahunty, Gavin, Mark Godfrey, and Charles Ray. Charles Ray. Athens: The George Economou Collection, 2017. 

Dennison, Lisa. Wall Rockets. New York: The FLAG Art Foundation, 2008.

Du yodel a la physique quantique . . . . / From Yodeling to Quantum Physics . . . , Vol. 1. Paris: Palais de Tokyo and Archibooks, 2007.

De Brugerolle, Marie. Feminin-Masculin, le sexe de l’art. Paris: Parachute Contemporary Art, 1996.

Deitch, Jeffrey, and Stuart Morgan. Everything That’s Interesting is New. New York: D.A.P., 1996.

---. Post Human. New York: Southgate, 1994.

Drucker, Johanna. Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Fairbrother, Trevor J., and Sarah Vowell. Family Ties: A Contemporary Perspective. Translated by Sarah Vowell. New York: Peabody Essex Museum, 2003.

Ferguson, Bruce W. New Art. Danbury: Harry N. Abrams, 1990.

Foster, Hal. Philosophical Objects: An Essayon the Sculpture of Charles Ray. Santa Monica, CA: Charles Ray Studio, 2019.

Gagnon, Paulette. Culbutes - Ouvre d’impertinence. Montreal: Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal, 1999.

Gioni, Massimiliano, Gary Carrion-Murayari, Jenny Moore, and Margot Norton, eds. NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star. New York: New Museum, 2013.

Glimcher, Marc. Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-based Art. New York: PaceWildenstein, 2005.

Grenier, Catherine. Los Angeles 1955-1985. Paris: Centre Pompidou and Panama Musées, 2006.

Grenier, Catherine. L.A.: Birth of an Art Capital 1955-1985. New York: Chronicle Books, 2007.

Grosenick, Uta, and Burkhard Reimschneider, eds. Art at the Turn of the Millennium. Los Angeles: Taschen, 1999.

Guidi, Anna C. La “documenta” di Kassel. Milano: Costa & Nolan, 1997.

Heiser, Jörg. All of a Sudden: Things that Matter in Contemporary Art. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2008.

Jahresbericht des Vereins Kunsthalle Bern. Bern, Switzerland: Kunsthalle Bern, 1994.

Janus, Elizabeth, and Kathy Acker. Veronica’s Revenge: Contemporary Perspectives on Photography, the Lambert Art Collection. Edited by Elizabeth Janus. New York: Scalo Verlag, 1998.

Kalb, Peter, and H. H. Arnason. History of Modern Art: Painting Sculpture Architecture Photography. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2003.

Kelly, Mike. The Uncanny: Sonsbeek 93. Arnhem: Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, 1993.

Kries, Mateo, Janna Lipsky. Konstantin Grcic – Panorama. Weil am Rhein, Germany: Vitra Design Museum, 2014.

Kvaran, Gunnar B., ed. Charles Ray: Black & White. Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, 2006.

Lemoine, Colin. Art Lovers: Stories of art in the Pinault Collection. Paris: Lienart Éditions; Monaco: Grimaldi Forum, 2014.

Living in the Material World: “Things” in Art of the 20th Century and Beyond. Tokyo: National Art Center, 2006.

Loock, Ulrich. The 1980s: A Topology. Porto, Portugal: Serralges Museum of Contemporary Art, 2006.

McElheny, Josiah, Michael Lobel, and Siri Engberg. Lifelike. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2012.

Miller, Dana, ed. Whitney Museum of American Art: Handbook of the Collection. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 

MoMA Contemporary Highlights. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2008.

Moorhouse, Paul, Michael Fried, and Dave Hickey. Anthony Caro. London: Tate Gallery, 2005.

Murakami, Takashi. Mixing Memory and Desire: Neues Kunstmuseum Luzern. Lucerne: Neues Kunstmuseum Luzern, 2000.

Obrist, Hans-Ulrich, and Francesco Bonami. Dreams. Torin: Fondazione Sandretto, 1999.

Oliva, Achille Bonito, Helena Kontova, and Venice Biennale. Aperto ‘93 Emergency/Emergenza (Flash Art International). Milan: Giancarlo Politi Editore, 1994.

Perchuk, Andrew, and Helaine Posner. The Masculine Masquerade: Masculinity and Representation. Edited by Andrew Perchuk. New York: MIT Press, 1995.

Rales, Emily Wei, and Charles Ray. Charles Ray. Potomac, MD: Glenstone Museum, 2018.

Rales, Emily Wei, and Jeffrey Weiss. If we could imagine. Potomac, Md.: Glenstone Foundation, 2008.

Rinder, Lawrence. Tim Hawkinson. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art and Harry Abrams Inc.,

Roselione-Valadez, Juan, ed. Beg, Borrow, and Steal. Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2011.

Schimmel, Paul, et al. This is Not to be Looked At. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008.

Sobel, Dean. Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1997.

Spector, Nancy et al. Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2004.

Starr, Sandra L. Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art. Detroit: James Corcoran Gallery, 1988.

Tallman, Susan. Silent and Violent: Artists’ Editions for Parkett. New York: Parkett, 1996.

Teaching Artists: The UCLA Faculty of Art and Design. Los Angeles: Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, 1986.

Tobler, Jay. The American Art Book. New York: Phaidon Press, 2001.

Tucker, Marcia. Choices: Making an Art of Everyday Life. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1986.

Vo, Danh, Caroline Bourgeois, Elizabeth Lebovici and Amy Zion. Slip of the Tongue. Venice: Marsillio Editori, 2015. 

Weaver, Suzanne, and Lane Relyea. Come Forward: Emerging Art in Texas. New York: Texas A&M, 2003.

Weinberg, Adam D., Jean-Christophe Ammann, and Mario Kramer. Views from Abroad 2: European Perspectives on American Art. Danbury, Conn.: Harry N. Abrams , Incorporated, 1996.

Weintraub, Linda. In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art History Classes/Creative Options for Studio Art Classes. New York: D.A.P., 2003.

Wolf, Sylvia, and Andy Grundberg. Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Prestel, 2002.

Wye, Deborah, and Susan Tallman. Parkett Collaborations and Editions since 1984. New York: Parkett Verlag AG, 2001.

SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

Adams, Brooks. “Shock of the Mundane.” Vogue, March 1990.

Akers, W.M. “It’s Members-Only at These Museum Events.” The New York Observer, 12 April 2010, 46.

Aletti, Vince. “Critic’s Notebook: Medium of Exchange.” The New Yorker, 30 August 2010, 16.

Abramovich, Alex. “Termite Art and the Modern Museum.” The New Yorker, February 28, 2019.

Applefield, David, ed. “Charles Ray: Shelf.” Frank, Summer 1985.

Arning, Bill. “Charles Ray.” Honcho, November 1998.

Artner, Alan G. “Deceptively simple: Charles Ray hints at humor, flirts with darkness.” Chicago Tribune, May 23, 1999.

Auerbach, Lisa A. “Charles Ray at Regen Projects.” LA Weekly, October 31, 1997.

Bankowsky, Jack. “Best of 2015.” Artforum, December 2015, 210-211.

Baker, R. C. “Best in Show.” The Village Voice, December 12, 2007.

Belcove, Julie. “Charles Ray.” W Magazine, November 2007.

Benezra, Neal. “Mind over Matter.” Artnews, May 1999.

Benhamou-Huet, J. “Fashions.” Art Press, July 2003.

Benson, Frank. “The Artists’ Artists.” Artforum, December 2015, 107.

Bernhard, Brendan. “English as a Foreign Language.” LA Weekly, March 5, 1999.

Birnbaum, Daniel. “Walking and Thinking and Walking Incandescent.” Frieze, September/October, 1996.

Birnbaum, Daniel, and Lars Nittve. “Ultra Swede.” Artforum, January 1996.

Blake, Nayland. “Defying the Style.” Interview, July 1998.

Blas, Parrington. “Question about Abstraction.” Figaro, October 27, 1980.

Bonami, Francesco. “Una scultura come un fantasma.” La Stampa, July 30, 2003.

---. “Charles Ray.” Art in America, September 1992.

---. “Charles Ray: A Telephone Conversation.” FlashArt, Summer 1992.

“Broad View.” Los Angeles Times Magazine, February 3, 2008.

Brougher, Nora Halpern. “Charles Ray: Not Merry Go Round.” Flash Art, November/December, 1990.

Brown, Gerard. “Discussion After The Show: The ICA’s Exhibit of Objects Created by Performance Artists Begs for Interpretation.” Philadelphia Weekly, October 25, 1995.

Bruck, Connie. “The Art of the Billionaire: How Eli Broad took over Los Angeles.” The New Yorker, 6 December 2010, 50-61.

Bustos, Clara Isabel de. “Once creadores muestran en Madrid su vision particular del arte de los noventa.” ABC, January 22, 1991.

Cahill, Zachary. “A Sculptural Differential.” Interview of Charles Ray. Mousse, December 2013.

Calas, Terrington. “Question About Abstraction Explored.” Figaro, October 27, 1980.

Callahan, Joe. “Controversial Art Exhibit Shocks.” Bi-College News, September 30, 1995.

Cameron, Dan. “Backlash.” Artforum, May 1993.

Canning, Susan M. “Charles Ray: Whitney Museum of Art.” Sculpture, November 1998.

Carey-Kent, Paul. “Fragile at Frieze.” Art World, December 2008-January 2009, 124.

Castenfors, Marten. “En utstallning utover det vanliga: Den amerikanska konstnaren Charles Ray gor var varld mer oforutsagbar.” Suenska Dagbladet, March 12, 1994.

Cembalest, Robin. “Fast forward.” Artnews, November 1993.

“Charles in Charge.” Detour, June /July 1998.

“Charles Ray in Rooseum Spotlight.” Flash Art News, May 1994.

“Charles Ray.” Time Out New York, February 4, 2015. 
“Charles Ray.” The New Yorker. February 23, 2015, p. 65.  

“Charles Ray.” Artforum. October, 2011, p. 265

“Charles Ray.” The New Yorker, 22 June 2009, 14.

“Charles Ray.” High Performance, 1983.

“Charles Ray at Feature.” Artforum, April 26, 1986.

Chattopadhyay, Charlotte. “New Directions in Non-Objective Sculpture.” Sculpture, July/August, 2001.

---. “Charles Ray at MOCA.” Artweek, January 1999.

Cothier, Peter. “Charles Ray: Edgy, Provocative Presences.” ARTnews, July 3, 2015.

---. “Charles Ray: In the Black.” Artspace, September/October, 1990.

---. “Charles Ray: Edgy Provocative Presences.” Artnews, December 1987.

Cohen, David. “When the Rule Ruled.” New York Sun, March 3, 2005.

Collings, Matthew. “A Shuffle on the Wild Side.” Modern Painters, Spring 1996.

“Confetti: Charles Ray.” Label, Autumn 2003.

Conner, Jill. “Breaking Through Cultural Amnesia: A Review of 2010, the Whitney Biennial.” Whitehotmagazine.com, April 2010.

Conte, Paolo. “Il Ragazzo con la Rana cambia Venezia.” Corriere Della Sera (Italy), 3 June 2009, 1, 35.

Cook-Deegan, Robert. “Private Parts.” The Sciences, March/April, 1994.

Cooke, Lynne. “New York and Los Angles; Charles Ray.” Burlington Magazine, October 1998.

Cooper, Dennis. “Charles Ray with Dennis Cooper.” Index, January/February, 1998.

---. “An Interview with Charles Ray.” Grand Street, Winter 1997.

Corrias, Pilar. “The Banal That Turns Disquieting: A Discussion on the Work of Charles Ray.” Diss, 1993.

Cotter, Holland. “Probing Fringes, Finding Stars.” New York Times, April 15, 2005

---. “Retrieving Magic From the Vault.” New York Times, January 5, 2001

Crow, Kelly. “The Whitney Biennial Lightens Up.” The Wall Street Journal, 19 February 2010.

Csaszarm, Tom. “PerForms: Janine Antoni, Charles Ray, Jana Sterbak.” Sculpture, March 1996.

Damsgard, Helle. “Charles Ray.” Index, June 1994.

Darling, Michael. “Charles Ray.” Frieze, March/April, 1998.

Davis, Ben. “It’s not the Size.” Artnet.com, 12 March 2010.

Deithcher, David. “The Last Picture Show.” Artforum, February 2004.

Dezeuze, Anna. “Exhibitions.” Art Monthly, September 2010, 22-24.

Dickerson, Paul. “Charles Ray.” Bomb, Summer 1995.

Diehl, Carol. “Two Lonely Guys.” Civilization, October/November, 1998.

Doupas, Vassillios. “Charles Ray: The George Economou Collection / Athens.” Flash Art, February 22, 2018.

Doran, Anne. “Charles Ray, Matthew Marks.” Art in America, February 2013.

Drohojowska, Hunter. “Helter Skelter: LA Raw.” Artnews, April 1992.

---. “Charles Ray’s Way.” LA Weekly, April 15, 1983.

Dudar, Helen. “Picturing the American Century.” Smithsonian, December 1999.

Duncan, Michael. “Charles Ray at Regen Projects.” Art in America, March 1998.

---. “Just Aghast: The Temporary in MOCA’s Permanent Collection.” LA Weekly, November 8, 1996.

Dunne, Carey. “All in the Smooth, White, Vacant-Eyed Family of Contemporary Figurative Sculpture.” Hyperallergic, July 21, 2016.

Ericsson, Peter. “Seeing White.” Transition: An International Review, Fall 1996.

Estep, Jan. “Going Both Ways: An Interview with Charles Ray.” New Art Examiner, July/August, 1999.

Farago, Jason. “Charles Ray: Sculpture review – Chicago’s figurative king crashes through art taboo.” The Guardian, June 13, 2015. 

Feavar, William. “Reawakening Beauty.” Artnews, October 1999.

Ferguson, Bruce. “Everything That’s Interesting is New.” Flash Art, March/April, 1996.

Firpo, Erica. “Easy on the Eyes, Challenging to the Brain: Charles Ray Dominates the Space at-and Around-MOCA.” Los Angeles Downtown News, November 16, 1998.

Foumberg, Jason. “Charles Ray’s Controversial Sculpture Debuts at the Art Institute of Chicago.” Chicago Magazine, June 16, 2015. 

Fricke, Harald. ““NowHere’ Louisiana Museum.” Artforum, November 1996.

Fried, Michael. “Charles Ray, Matthew Marks.” Artforum, February 2013.

Fried, Michael, and Charles Ray. “Anthony Caro: Early One Morning . . .” Tate etc., Spring 2005.

Frimbois, Jean-Pierre. “Charles Ray.” Art actuel, March/April, 1999.

Galloway, David. “Documenta: Missing Edge.” International Herald Tribune, June 27, 1992.

Gaines, Malik. “Charles Ray.” Contemporary, 2004.

Gandee, Charles. “People are talking about.” Vogue, March 1993.

Gardner, Colin. “Four examples of illusion.” Artweek, October 27, 1984.

Gartenfeld, Alex. “The Incredible Shrinking Art World.” Interview, March 2010, 82.
________. “Whitney Museum of American Art.” ArtinAmericaMagazine.com, 30 May 2010.

Geer, Suvan. “Marked By Art: Charles Ray at Newport Harbor Art Museum.” Artweek, September 6, 1990.

Gefter, Philip. “The Next Big Picture.” The New York Times, January 26. 2014.

Geldzahler, Henry. “A Charmer with a Photo Fixation.” Graphis, July/August, 1992.

Genta, Umberta. “Charles Ray: Using Time.” Interview of Charles Ray. Flash Art, January 2013.

Gerstler, Amy. “Art Attack.” Los Angeles Times Magazine, November 1998.

“Getty Museum Puts Sculpture by Celebrated…Artist Charles Ray on View.” Artdaily.org. 27 July 2011.

Gioni, Massimiliano. “Human and All Too Human.” Artspace, July 22, 2015. 

Glanzer, Elizabeth. “Charles Ray: Evolving Anxiety from the Shadows.” Orange Coast Daily Pilot, August 5, 1990.

Glueck, Grace. “Five by Five.” New York Times, June 14, 2002.

Goldberger, Paul. “Klauss Kertess: The Art of His Choosing.” New York Times Magazine, February 26, 1995.

Golden, Thelma. “Best of 2015.” Artforum, December 2015, 200-201.

Goldstein, Andrew M. “What ‘Skin Fruit’ Says About Jeff Koons.” Artinfo.com, 5 April 2010.

Goodman, Jonathan. “Charles Ray: Matthew Marks.” Sculpture, April 2010, 74-75.

---. “Constant Confusion, Charles Ray at the Whitney Museum.” Contemporary Visual Arts, Fall 1998.

Graffeo, Christopher. “Briefly-Loved Things: reviewing the 2010 Whitney Biennial.” Artseditor.com, 5 April 2010.

Hackett, Regina. “Charles Ray Still Snubs Convention.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 3, 1992.

Hainley, Bruce. “Charles Ray: Regen Projects.” Artforum, January 1998.

Halle, Howard. “2010, Whitney Biennial.” Time Out New York, 4-10 March 2010, 34-35.

---. “ ‘Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection.’” Time Out New York, 18-24 March 2010, 44.

---. “Charles in Charge.” Detour, June/July 1998.

---. “Charles in charge.” Time Out New York, June 18, 1998.

Hambourg, Maria M. “Charles Ray: Untitled.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Fall 1996.

Harvey, Doug. “The Great Unknown: A Mullican Stew.” LA Weekly, October 28, 2005.

---. “The Charles Ray Experience: At MoCA and Beyond.” LA Weekly, December 4, 1998.

---. “Pos. and Neg.; Up and Down with Sunshine & Noir.” LA Weekly, November 6, 1998.

---. “Charles Ray at Regen Projects.” Art Issues, January/February, 1998.

Hawkins, Margaret. “Tipping the scales.” Chicago Sun-Times, May 21, 1999.

Heartney, Eleanor. “Identity Politics at the Whitney.” Art in America, May 1993.

“Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 1990’s.” The MOCA Contemporary, December/January, 1992: 7.

Herstatt, C. “Let’s Entertain: Kunst Macht Spass.” Kunstforum International, June/July, 2001.

Hess, Elizabeth. “Up Against the Wall.” Village Voice (New York), March 16, 1993.

---. “Coming Up Empty.” Village Voice (New York), May 9, 1989.

Hine, Thomas. “’Embracing the Contemporary’ a glimpse into PMA’s Ambitious Expansion plan.” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 26, 2016.

Hirsch, Jeffery. “Works in Progress: A Portfolio.” L.A. Style, June 1990.

Hollander, Kurt. “Under the Influence.” Poliester, Fall 1997.

Holte, Michael N. “Charles Ray: Slow Dissolve.” Art Review, February 2007.

Hoving, Thomas. “Art for the Ages.” Cigar Aficionado, Summer 1995.

Hughes, Robert. “Sculptural One-Liners.” Time, June 29, 1998.

---. “A Fiesta of Winning.” Time, March 1993.

Hugo, Joan. “Between Object and Persona: The Sculpture Events of Charles Ray.” High Performance, 1985.

Hultkrans, Andrew. “Surf and Turf.” Artforum, Summer 1998.

Huntington, Richard. “Body of Work.” The Buffalo News, May 18, 2004.

Iida, Takayo. “New Figure: Figure/Sculpture.” Bijutsu techo, October 2003.

“In Defense of Literature.” Frank, Summer 1987.

Intra, Giovanni. “La struttura mobile.” Teme celeste, February 1999.

---. “Charles Ray at Regen Projects.” Flash Art, January/February, 1998.

Ise, Claudine. “UCLA/Art: A Portfolio of Unusually Fine Artists.” UCLA, Fall 1998.

Jaunin, Francoise. “Posthuman.” Voir, June 1992.

“Jeff Koons Details Controversial New Museum Show.” Artinfo.com, 12 February 2010.

Johnson, Ken. “51 Contemporary Artists, but Just Three Women.” The New York Times, August 26, 2016, C25.

---. “Charles Ray at Matthew Marks Gallery.” The New York Times, March 12, 2015.

---. “‘Charles Ray: Sculpture 1997-2014’ Is at the Art Institute of Chicago.” The New York Times, May 22, 2015. 

---. “Bringing Heavy Metal to the Met’s Roof.” The New York Times, 30 April 2011, C1.

---. “Charles Ray: ‘Ink Line, Moving Wire, Spinning Spot.’” The New York Times, 15 May 2009, C27.

---. “A Four Dimensional Being Writes Poetry on a Field With Sculptures.” New York Times, July 7, 2006.

Johnson, Steve. “Art Institute of Chicago gets its largest gift ever, including 9 Warhols.” Chicago Tribune, April 22, 2015. 

Johnson, Paddy. “Curators on Display.” City Arts, 23 February 2010, cover, 9.

---. “Magic vs. Mystery in the Art Worlds.” The L Magazine, 6 July 2009. 

Katz, Marisa Mazria, et al. “Objects of Desire.” The Art Newspaper-Art Basel Miami Beach Daily Edition, 4-5 December 2010, 6.

Kazanjian, Dodie. “Ray Beyond Cool.” Vogue, September 1995.

Kelly, Mike. “Foul Perfection: Thoughts on Caricature.” Artforum, January 1989.

Kelsey, John. “Field and Factory.” Charles Ray. New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2009, 57-63.

Kendricks, Neil. “Charles Ray Uses the Art of Thought to Create Sculptures.” San Diego Union-Tribune, November 15, 1998.

Kennicott, Phillip. “The Met looks at the body, stripped of its old ‘whiteness.’“ The Washington Post, March 21, 2018.

Kerr, Merrily. “Charles Ray.” Time Out New York. 10-16 January 2013, 44.

Kertess, Klaus. “Some Bodies.” Parkett, Fall 1993.

Kiehl, David. “Charles Ray.” Art on Paper, November/December, 2007.

Kimmelman, Michael. “How Not Much Is a Whole World.” New York Times, April 2, 2004.

---. “Sending Up Fashion, Sex, Art and His Own Sheepish Persona.” New York Times, June 12, 1998.

---. “A Whitney Biennial That’s Generous, Sensuous and Quirky.” New York Times, March 24, 1995.

---. “At Documenta, It’s Survival of the Loudest.” New York Times, July 5, 1992.

Knaff, Devorah L. “The Wrong Turn Was The Right Move.” Riverside Co. Press Enterprise, August 26, 1990.

Knight, Christopher. “Review: Helen Molesworth’s Final Show at MOCA is the Anti-Celebrity Show We Need Right Now.” Los Angeles Times, October 19, 2018.

---. “Charles Ray’s sculptures cast a forceful modern eye on antiquity.” Los Angeles Times, June 12, 2015. 

---. “A Wooden Creation, as Lovely as a Tree.” Los Angeles Times, May 11, 2007.

---. “Classic Paint Jobs.” Los Angeles Times, June 21, 2006.

---. “Take a Mind Excursion.” Los Angeles Times, October 11, 2005.

---. “A Statement That’s Broad but Not Bold.” Los Angeles Times, October 9, 2001.

---. “Taking Issues with Ideas about Art.” Los Angeles Times, January 7, 1999.

---. “Charles Ray, Mind-Bender.” Los Angeles Times, November 17, 1998.

---. “Sculpted Wreck Turns Gallery Patrons into Looky-Loos.” Los Angeles Times, October 28, 1997.

---. “Lots of ‘Sunshine’ Little Light.” Los Angeles Times, July 27, 1997.

---. “Toning It Down at the Whitney.” Los Angeles Times, April 16, 1995.

---. “Charles Ray’s Still Lifes.” Parkett, Fall 1993.

---. “Crushed by Good Intentions.” Los Angeles Times, March 10, 1993.

---. “Documenta 9.” Los Angeles Times, July 12, 1992.

---. “The Museum as Stage.” Los Angeles Times, April 26, 1992.

---. “An Art of Darkness at MOCA.” Los Angeles Times, January 28, 1992.

---. “Sculptor Takes Himself Out of Picture.” Los Angeles Times, August 5, 1990.

---. “Bland View of Art served at Biennial.” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, May 7, 1989.

---. “Beneath Art’s Serene, Slick Surface, Danger Lurks.” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, March 22, 1987.

---. “Revolutionary Concept.” The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, March 25, 1988.

Kordic, Angie. “Charles Ray at Matthew Marks Gallery.” Widewalls, February 4, 2015. 

Kotz, Liz. “Video Drone.” Artforum, May 1993.

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---. “It Happens Every Two Years.” Los Angeles Times, March 9, 1997.

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---. “Visual links to the past.” Los Angeles Times. 11 May 2012, D12.

---. “Loose Almost Like Mother Nature’s.” Los Angeles Times, May 5, 2007.

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---. “Body Language.” Frieze, September/October, 1992.

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---. “A Reflective Man of Steel.” Los Angeles Times, August 21, 2005.

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---. “Never Yell “Fire!” in a Crowded Whitney Biennial.” New Art Examiner, May 1993.

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---. “To break and to push against.” Siksi, Nordic Art Review, June 1994.

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---. “Welcome to Manson High.” Newsweek, March 2, 1992.

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---. “Leaping off the Pedestal.” Artnews, June 1998.

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---. “Biennale de Lyon: The Other.” Flash Art, October 1997.

---. “What’s all This Body Art?” Flash Art, January/February, 1993.

---. “Past Sense, Present Sense.” Artscribe International, January/February, 1989.

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---. “MOCA Gets Nasty: Helter Skelter and the Art of Our Times.” L.A. Weekly, January 31, 1992.

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---. “Dude, You’ve Gotta See This: Charles Ray’s Minimalist Installations Are As Mind-blowing As Any Hallucinogen.” New York Magazine, 15-22 June 2009, 138-139.

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---. “Beauty is Back.” New York Times, September 29, 1996.

---. “One Man Show: Klaus Kertess’s Biennial Moyen Sensuel.” Village Voice, April 1995.

---. “Ray’s Tack.” Parkett, Fall 1993.

---. “Missing: The Pleasure Principal.” Village Voice, March 16, 1993.

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---. “Anti-Mainstream Museum’s Mainstream Show.” The New York Times, 4-10 March 2010, 33-35.

---. “Grand and Intimate Modern Art Trove…” The New York Times, 14 May 2009, C1, C5.

---. “Art in Review: Charles Ray.” New York Times, November 30, 2007.

---. “Along the Blurry Line Between Blotto and Buzzed.” New York Times, August 26, 2005.

---. “At The Whitney, A Biennial with a Social Conscience.” New York Times, March 5, 1993.

---. “Body, Body Everywhere, Whole and Fragmented.” New York Times, May 15, 1992.

---. “Turning the Corner on Political Correctness?” New York Times, March 3, 1991.

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---. “All For One and One For All.” Parkett, Fall 1993.

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---. “Documenta IX: Quattro Opere.” Flash Art Italia, Summer 1992.

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---. “Mind Games: Charles Ray and Andrew Wyeth Collide at the Whitney.” New Yorker, July 20, 1998.

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