2022
Smith, Melissa. "For Some American Artists, Recognition by Mainstream Art Institutions Is a Means to an End: Building Their Own Alternatives," artnet, December 23
"Church for Sale Works from the Haubrok Collection and the Nationalgalerie Collection," Exhibition Catalogue, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
2021
Almino, Elisa Wouk and Matt Stromberg. "Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for August 2021," Hyperallergic, August 10
Gregg, R., and Villarejo, A. "The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema," Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
Buchman, Dr. Lorne. "Creative Uncertainty: How We Make to Know," Thames & Hudson, London, UK
2020
Valentine, Victoria. "Online: 5 Gallery Exhibitions Focus on Artists Amy Sherald, Charles Gaines, Genevieve Gaignard, Edgar Arceneaux, and The Racial Imaginary Institute," Culture Type, October 30
Goldstein, Caroline. "‘I Was Brought to Tears’: Watch Artist Edgar Arceneaux Reinterpret a Tragically Misunderstood 1980s Performance," ArtNet News, July 9
Easton, Makeda. "Black graduates make up just 1% of ArtCenter alumni. Can an exhibition fix that?" Los Angeles Times, March 2
2019
Obioha, Vanessa. "Review: ‘Boney Manilli’ Finds an Inquisitive Audience in Lagos," This Day, May 17
Bleiberg, Laura. "‘Artist in residence’: How one phrase is powering L.A.’s cultural explosion," Los Angeles Times, April 25
Gelt, Jessica. "Mike Kelley Foundation grants: 10 winners split $400,000 to make daring art," Los Angeles Times, April 11
2018
Paul, Crystal. "Edgar Arceneaux’s labyrinthine ‘Library of Black Lies’ invites endless interpretation," Seattle Times, December 19
Castro, Alexander. "Performance revisits an infamous TV moment for Ben Vereen," Providence Journal, November 28
Borchert, Gavin. "Henry Art Gallery's New Senior Curator on the Role of Art in Challenging Times," Seattle Magazine, November
Cascone, Sarah, "Editors’ Picks, Print Week Edition: 21 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week," artnet news, October 22
"150+ Artists and Billboard Locations Announced As Part of The Largest Public Art Project in U.S. History," ArtFix Daily, October 19
Clendenen, Dustin. "Update: For Freedoms Arrives in L.A. Ahead of Nov. 6 Midterm Election," LA Weekly, October 23
Cooper, Matt. "The week ahead in SoCal theater, Oct. 14-21: 'Winter Solstice,' 'Dear Evan Hansen' and more," LA Times, October 12
"Los Angeles Performance Practice Presents the LAX Festival," Broadway World, October 4
Fernandez, Jacqueline. "5 theatre performances, from life at a cutthroat New York magazine to a Pulitzer Prize-winning play," The Eastsider, October 19
"Brown Arts Initiative Announces Fall 2018 Programming Highlights Presented at Brown University," ArtFix Daily, September 11
Almino, Elisa Wouk. "Ten Days of Local Performance Art Throughout Downtown LA," Hyperallergic, October 10
"Sept. 22: CalArts Alum Presents Financial Workshop at Broad Museum," SVC News (web), September 20
Stromberg, Matt, "A Workshop for Artists to Mindfully Manage Their Finances," Hyperallergic (web), September 19
Wilson, Emily, "Blackface betrayal and ‘Black Lies’ in Edgar Arceneaux’s new YBCA installation," 48hills (web), March 15
Ahn, Abe, "The Politics and Repercussions of Color in Two Exhibitions," Hyperallergic (web), March 13
Janiak, Lily, "YBCA's 'Until' unearths racist nightmare, immerses you in it," San Francisco Chronicle, February 24
Fancher, Lou, "A show about a controversial Ben Vereen incident gains new controversy," The Mercury News (web), February 21
Yu, Brandon, "Drama re-creates Ben Vereen's controversial blackface performance," San Francisco Chronicle, February 14
Musiker, Cy, "What Viewers Didn't See Changed Everything for Ben Vereen," KQED Arts (web), February 14
Edalatpour, Jeffrey, "TBCA Takes on the History of Blackface, in Until, Until, Until…," SF Weekly (web), January 24
2017
Krieger, Deborah, "At OCMA, It's A Masterful Reinstallation of the Permanent Collection," White Hot Magazine, December
Vogel, Wendy, "Post-Truth Detroit," frieze (web), November 8
MacDonald, Cara ,"Artist Unveils MLK-Inspired Sculpture at U Law School," The Daily Utah Chronicle (web), October 25
Horst, Aaron, "Edgar Arceneaux Until, Until, Until…," Art Review, September
Tylevich, Katya, "Reconsidering Ben Vereen’s Blackface Performance at Regan’s Inaugural Gala," KCET (web), July 31
Walters, Sydney, "Edgar Arceneaux’s Until, Until, Until… at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," Art and Cake (web), June 28
Black, Ezrha Jean, "Edgar ARceneaux – Until, Until, Until…," Artillery (web), June 22
Mizota, Sharon, "Review: Ben Vereen, Ronald Reagan and the travesty of blackface, potently remembered," Los Angeles Times, June 16
Shifflett, Jonathan, "An experimental play reinterprets Ben Vereen’s controversial 1981 homage to Bert Williams," KPCC The Frame (radio and web), May 30
L'Official, Pete, "When Ben Vereen Wore Blackface to Reagan's Inaugural Gala," The New Yorker, January 6
Wagley, Catherine, "5 Free Art Shows to See in L.A.This Week," LA Weekly (web), January 18
Miranda, Carolina, "Culture and Trump: Artist Edgar Arceneaux on inauguration day at LACMA recalls Regan’s inaugural gala," Los Angeles Times (web), January 21
Swenson, Kirsten, "Reviews: Edgar Arceneaux at MIT List Visual Arts Center," Art in America (web), January 11
Womack, Catherine, "The Library of Black Lies Critiques How We Imagine African-American History," LA Weekly (web), February 15
Garner, Anna, "Labyrinths, Libraries, and Lies – Edgar Arceneaux at The Main Museum," Art and Cake (web), February 25
2016
Smee, Sebastian, "At MIT, there’s smoke and fire," The Boston Globe (web), October 20
Taylor, Phil, "Reviews: Edgar Arceneaux at Galerie Nathalie Obadia," Artforum, April
Miranda, Carolina, "Mayor Eric Garcetti announces artists for L.A.’s first public art biennial to be held this summer," Los Angeles Times (web), April 12
Murray, Nick, "Edgar Arceneaux Brings MLK Back to Riverside Church," The Village Voice (web), April 29
Valentine, Victoria L., "New Season of ART21 Features African American Artists Edgar Arceneaux, Nick Cave, Stan Douglas, and Theaster Gates," Culture Type (web), March 26
Delmont, Matthew F., "Why America Forgot About ‘Roots’," The New York Times, May 28
"Art in the Twenty-First Century," ART21
Wagley, Catherine, "Wasteland: New Art from Los Angeles curated by LAND," Contemporary Art Review LA, June 30
Enholm, Molly, "Report: Los Angeles," art ltd., July
"A Nation Engaged: ‘I feel most American when I’m not in the States’," The Frame, Southern California Public Radio, October 12
Glass, Liz, "Edgar Arceneaux: Written in Fire and Smoke," Daily Serving (web), December 6
Hopkins, Christopher Snow, "Re-performing the Histories of African American Public Figures," Hyperallergic (web), December 14
Williams, Maxwell, "Claire Danes to Host Prestige PBS Art Program," The Hollywood Reporter (web), May 26
2015
Dawsey, Jill, Laugh-In: Art, Comedy, Performance, exhibition pamphlet essay, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, January 23
Jocks, Heinz-Norbert, Eine un-westliche Moderne auf den Fersen der eigenen Tradition, Kunstforum International, February - March
Arceneaux, Edgar, "Muse: The Severed Foot," Art in America, March
Arceneaux, Edgar, Blood and Refuse, Art in America, September
Battaglia, Andy, "At Performa, A Festival of the Unexpected," The Wall Street Journal (web), October 30
"The 30 Most Exciting Artists in North America Today: Part Two," Artnet News (web), December 24
McGarry, Kevin, "In San Diego, Art is a Laughing Matter," New York Times T Magazine Blog, January 23
Basha, Regine, "La Biennale de Montral: L'avenir (looking forward)," Modern Painters, January
Krasinski, Jennifer, "Pulling the Plug," Artforum (web), December 29
"Something to Laugh About: La Jolla exhibit to explore stand-up comedy in contemporary art," La Jolla Light, January 21
Top 5: January 21, 2015, Glasstire, January 21
2014
Mizota, Sharon, "Exploring King's legacy across time: Edgar Arceneaux at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," Los Angeles Times, September 24
Rowell, Charles Henry, "Edgar Arceneaux," Callaloo: Art & Culture in the African Diaspora, Vol. 37, No. 4
Shaw, Catherine, "The 10th Shanghai Biennale ponders a post-industrial China," Wallpaper, November 28
Schad, Ed, ArtReviewed: Edgar Arceneaux, ArtReview, December
dArenberg, Diana, "Shanghai and the Social Factory," Christies, December 17
Evans, Ariel, "Los Angeles: Edgar Arceneaux," Modern Painters, December
Caldwell, Ellen, "Edgar Arceneauxs A Book and a Medal at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," New American Paintings, September 24
David, Soleil, "Edgar Arceneaux's Newest Exhibit Draws on MLK's Ideas and Legacy, 24700," News from California Institute of the Arts, September 18
Williams, Maxwell, "Intertwined Histories: Edgar Arceneaux Re-imagines Martin Luther King," KCET Artbound, September 11
Goldman, Edward, "Tearful Goodbye to Ensor, Happy Hello To, KCRW," September 9
Berardini, Andrew, "No Longer Lonely (but maybe still a bit brutal): September Openings Across Los Angeles," ArtSlant, September 4
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter, "Coming Soon! Hunter Drohojowska-Philp offers a preview of some unexpected offerings this fall," KCRW, September 4
Miranda, Carolina, "Datebook: Arts fall season begins this weekend the best openings," Los Angeles Times, September 4
"Edgar Arceneaux: A Book and a Medal: Disentanglement Equals Homogenous Abstractions," Glasstire, August 28
2013
Barnes, Tim, "Review: Edgar Areneaux, 'A Time to Break Silence,'" Wow 24/7, October 28
"Now See This," Art Review, Summer
Sutton, Kate, "Edgar Arceneaux at Maccarone," Artforum, February
2012
Mutatis Mutandis: Group show curated by Catherine David opens at Viennas Secession, artdaily.org, July
Boucher, Brian, "Maccarone to Expand in West Village," Art in America, April 13
Aivazian, Haig, "Edgar Arceneaux's Untitled," Manifesta Journal, Issue #15
2011
Wagley, Catherine, "Watts Towers at Pacific Standard Time: How the towers legacy is more confusing than you think," LA Weekly, December 15
Elliot, Bobby, "The Bearden Project: A Family Affair," The Huffington Post, December 7
Bodin, Claudia, "L.A. cool," Art Das Kunstmagazin, October
Bohem, Mike, "Watts House Project Lands $370,000 Grant," Los Angeles Times, September 20
Biro, Matthew, "Edgar Arceneaux, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit," Artforum, May
Douglas, Sarah, "L.A. on The Hudson: The West Coast Challenges The East," Modern Painters, May
Hodges, Michael H., "MOCAD exhibits manipulate time, scale," The Detroit News, March 10
Myers, Holly, "Edgar Arceneaux," Art Review, Issue 49, April
Kilston, Lyra, "Edgar Arceneaux," Art in America, February 8
Wright, Travis R., "Life Stories Metro Times," February 4
"Arceneaux/Museum Fur Genewartskunst," The International Review of African American Art
2010
Stillman, Nick, "Edgar Arceneaux, Charles Gaines & Rick Lowe," Bomb, Number 111, p.50-57, Spring Issue
Diehl, Travis, "Critics Pick," ArtForum, November 26
2009
Myers, Holly, "Intelligent, but hardly passionate," Los Angeles Times, September 1
Walker, Alissa, "LA People 2009: Urban Redeveloper Edgar Arceneaux," LA Weekly, April 20
Sciortino-Rinehart, Natalie, "Score & Script: Music in Video," Art Forum, April
Frechette, Zach, "National Volunteer Week: Watts House Project," Good Magazine, April 24
Allsop, Laura, "Future Greats: Edgar Arceneaux," Art Review, Issue 30, p.72, March
Schorr, Max, "Community Leaders Event Recap and Pictures," Good Magazine, March 13
Taft, Catherine, "2008 California Biennial," ArtReview, No. 29, February/March
Bedford, Christopher, "Edgar Arceneaux," Frieze, January/February
Beasley, Mark, "Looking Back: Solo Shows," Frieze, January/February
2008
Chang, Richard, "Visual art/ Top 5 events," Orange County Register, December 26
Burket, Brent, "Miami 2008, Part II," Artcal, December 12
Wagley, Catherine, "The Best Kind of Boring: 2008 California Biennial," dailyserving.com, December 1
Beale, Lauren, "A Lift for 107th Street," LA Times Blog, November 3
Dambrot, Shana Nys, "Edgar Arceneaux: Correlations and Isomorphisms," Art Ltd., November
Melrod, George, "A Questioning Biennial," Art Ltd., November
Mizota, Sharon, "Public Equity: Sharon Mizona on Edgar Arceneaux and Watts House Project," ArtForum, November
"The Orange County Museum of Art Presents the 2008 California Biennial," artdaily.com, October 27
Buitron, Michael, "2008 California Biennial at the OCMA and Beyond," Leap Into the Void (blog), October 25
Knight, Christopher, "Galleries: Continuing," LA Times, October 19
Kilston, Lyra, and Latimer, Quinn, "Los Angeles: Field Guide," Modern Painters, October
Mizota, Sharon, "Eureka moments," LA Times, October 19
Ruiz, Alma, Interview with Edgar Arceneaux, From and About Place: Art from Los Angeles, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, September - November
Knight, Christopher, "Around the Galleries," LA Times, October 3
Melrod, George, California Biennial: Lauri Firstenberg Interview, art ltd., October
Martin, Courtney J., "Critics Pick," ArtForum, October
Copeland, Huey, "The Blackness of Blackness," ArtForum, October
Whats Up, "Collection in Context: Four Decades, The Studio Museum," Harlem Magazine, Summer
Dambrot, Shana, Report: New York City, The Ghost of Jason Rhoades, Art Ltd, July
Eden, Xandra, "The Lining of Forgetting," Witherspoon Art Museum Publication, July
"Arceneaux to Redevelop Watts?," Artnet, June 12
Ammirati, Domenick, "Whitney Biennial 2008 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York," Afterall, May 24
Salsbury, Britany, "Critics Picks: Black Is, Black Aint," ArtForum, May
White, Amy, "The Lining of Forgetting," ArtPapers, May
Patterson, Tom, "Creating Memories: Works by 14 artists comprising a wide-ranging and evocative examination of The Lining of Forgetting," The Winston-Salem Journal, May 11
Vikram, Anuradha, "The LA Annual," Artillery, May/June
Howard Halle, "Whitney Biennial 2008: A Tepid Biennial Inspires neither hate nor love," Time Out New York, March 13
"On Site: Whitney Biennial 2008," Art Observed, March 8
2007
Szupinska, Joanna, "United States Artists winners," Flash Art Online, November 20
Fragoza, Carribean, "LAXART Benefit Art Auction Draws Energetic Crowds and Funds," Flash Art Online, November 16
Vogel, Carol, "Whitney Biennial Stretches to Armory," New York Times, November 16
"Artists Announced for 2008 Whitney Biennial," ArtForum (web), November 16
Boehm, Mike, "USA Fellows puts artists in a flattering light," Los Angeles Times, November 15
"Ann Hamilton and Edgar Arceneaux Among Winners of Fifty USA Fellowships," ArtForum (web), November 15
"Continuing and Recommended," Art Scene, September
Myers, Holly, "Social issues leave imprint in Touched," Los Angeles Times, August 22
Mizota, Sharon, "Clarity in every crisis," Los Angeles Times, July 29
Finkel, Jori, "A Reluctant Fraternity, Thinking Post-Black," New York Times, June 10
"Brancusi Report: Last Days in LA," Artslant (web), March
Fogle, Douglas, "Emerging Artists," Frieze, January/February
Moshayedi, Aram, "Charles Gaines + Edgar Arceneaux," Art Papers, January/February
2nd Moscow Biennale, FlashArt online news, January/February
2006
Searle, Adrian, "Rebels without a cause," The Guardian, December 9
Morgan, Jessica, "Best of 2006," Artforum, December
Kushner, Rachel, "On the Ground: Los Angeles," Artforum, December
Myers, Holly, "A take on comedy is out of the routine," Los Angeles Times, November 10
Blumenstein, Ellen, "L.A. Confidential," Monopol, November/December
Chaplin, Julia, "Culver City Art Crawl," Elle, November
Krasny, Marcin, "Czarno na białym (Black on White)," Obieg Magazine, Poland, October 6
Ollman, Leah, "Forks abound in Snake River," Los Angeles Times, October 4
Muchnic, Suzanne, "The Art Explosion," Los Angeles Times, October 1
Kenning, Dean, "Uncertain States of America," Art Monthly, October
Kent, Sarah, "States of the Art," Time Out, September 20
Berardini, Andrew, "Scene & Herd: On the Road," ArtForum (web), September 15
Glover, Michael, "An Orgy of Appropriation," The Independent, September 13
Horowitz, Noah and Sholis, Brian, "The Uncertain States of America Reader," Serpentine Gallery, London
Spaid, Sue, "Whitney Biennial 2006," artUS, July/September, issue 14
Wood, Eve, "Symmetry: Los Angeles," Art Papers, July/August
Smith, Roberta, "Endgame Art? Its Borrow, Sample and Multiply in an Exhibition at Bard College," The New York Times, July 7
Snake River, "Photography Now," July/August/September
Rume und Kulturen verflochten, Krone O, May 19
Ausstellung, O Nachrichten, May 2
Kunst: Snake River im Lentos, Obersterreichblicke, May
Das sterreich-Kalendarium, Reisemagazin, May
Aktuelle Ausstellungen, Neues aus Linz, May
Thek, Franz, Sprache von Fluss und Musik, O Nachrichten, April 29
Hofleitner, Johanna, Der Lauf der Dinge, Schaufenster, April 28
Hutter, Andreas, Das Linzer Lentos als Kino und als Filmproduzent, Neues Volksblatt, April 28
Haderer, Gerhard, Snake River, sterreichisches Pressebro (oepb.at/linz), April 28
CB, Watchlist, Der Standard, April 27
Snake River im Lentos, Tips, April 25
Snake River, Schaufenster, April 21
AMM, "Edgar Arceneaux: The Alchemy of Comedy Stupid," Artkrush, April 19
Artner, Alan G, "Multichannel video work is lacking a punch line," Chicago Tribune, April 13
"Edgar Arceneaux und Charles Gaines: Snake River," freikarte.at, April 3
Klemcke, Elizabeth, "Artists in the House," Brilliant, April
Bush, Haydn, "The silence of standup," Chicago Journal, March 29
Roussel, Noёllie, "Los Angeles: Elsewhere is Everywhere," Art Press, April Issue, pp. 34-44
Martin, Courtney J, "Edgar Arceneaux: New York," Art Papers, March/April Issue, p. 64
Kastner, Jeffrey, "Elective Affinities: The Art of Egdar Arceneaux," Artforum, February Issue, pp. 192-195
Golden, Thelma, "Edgar Arceneaux: The Alchemy of Comedy, Stupid," The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine Collectors Issue, Fall/Winter 2005-06
Campagnola, Sofia, "Focus Los Angeles," Flash Art, January/February Issue, Vol. XXXIX, No.246, pg.68
Helfand, Glen, "Edgar Arceneaux San Francisco Museum of Modern Art," Artforum, January Issue, XLIV, No.5, pg.228
Campbell, Clayton, "The City of Angeles A short survey on the Los Angeles art scene," Flash Art, January/February Issue, Vol. XXXVIII, No.246, pg.77
2005
ODriscoll, Bill, "Sun Set," Pittsburgh City Paper, December 29
Cotter, Holland, "Edgar Arceneaux: Borrowed Sun," New York Times, November 17
Von Ulrich, Gutmair, Macht nur soviel Ihr knnt, Netzeitung, August 21
Gupta, Anjali, "Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970," Art Papers, July/August
Roeske, Sharon, "Art in Black History Month," Arts Houston, February Issue
Brooks Ranallo, Anne, "Gallery 400 gets foundation prize for comedy performance film", University of Illinois at Chicago, February
JB, "Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970," Artforum, January, 72
2004
Gaines, Charles, "Edgar Arceneaux's Search for Meaning Among Infinite Variations," Afterall, September, 64-71
Lorch, Catrin, "Drawings of Removal", pg 76 - 80, AfterAll Magazine, October 2004 issue
"Continuing and Recommended", Artscene, Vol.24, No.2, October
Holte, Michael Ned, "Itineraries", Artforum, August 3
Jones, Leslie, "Edgar Arceneaux / UCLA Hammer Museum," Art on paper, pg. 18, May/June
Myers, Julian, "Edgar Arceneaux / Rodney McMillian at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects / UCLA Hammer Museum," Frieze, May, 92 - 93
Pence, Elizabeth, "Edgar Arceneaux at the UCLA Hammer Museum,"Artweek, April 2004, Volume 35, Issue 3, 21 - 22
Miles, Christopher, "Edgar Arceneaux: UCLA Hammer Museum," ArtForum, March, 190
Knight, Christopher, "A chronicle of race, rage, ritual," Los Angeles Times, February 17
2003
Pagel, David, "Questions, few answers," Los Angeles Times, April 23
Woodard, Joseph, "New social art order," ArtScene, Mach 25 - April 3
2002
"Lateral Thinking - Art of the 1990's," Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Exhibition Catalog, New York, pg. 31-31
Klaasmeyer, Kelly, "Memory Lane," Houston Press, November 7,
Cotter, Holland, The New York Times, August 2, pg.32
Marzahn, Alexander, Basler Zeitung, Feuilleton, March 30/31, pg. 42
Grundy, Timothy, , Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, March 28, Pg. 6
Bartmettler, Yvonne Basler Zeitung, March 21, pg. 12
Imhoff, Dora, March, pg. 424-425
Naef, Maja, Personliche Plne, Kunstbulletin, Mai 2002, pg.45
Schweizer, Klaus, Kunsthalle nachmittags, Basler Zeitung, April 8, pg. 30
Schweizer, Klaus, Ausstellungen, Neue Zuericher Zeitung, April 13, pg. 64
Bertmettler, Yvone, Das Leben Ein Plan, Basler Zeitung, March 30, 42
Caramanica, John, "Hip Hop Don't Stop," Village Voice, January 9 15, 57
Joo, Eungie, "Bring that Beat Back", FYI, Spring, 57
Lopez, Luciana, "Hip Hop Planet", URB 91, March issue, 48
The New York Times, March 1
Dies&Das, weekly exhibition openings directory
Oswald, Anja, "Wenn der Bleistift Rappt," Zitty, October, 80
"Show Stoppers," Juxtapoz, 56
2001
Lang, Peter, 729 Kunstlers Profiling, Blitz Review, December 19
Kareem, Nadra, Artist blurs cultural boudries, Los Angeles Times, September 4
Fricke, Harald, Original wird Falschung, Die Tageszeitung, November 14
Reeves, Mosi, "Bring the Noise", San Francisco Bay Guardian, June 6
2000
Pincus, Robert L., "Life as we know it," The San Diego Union Tribune, October 5, 38
Pincus, Robert L., "Objects D'Curio," The San Diego Union Tribune, 49-50
1999
Sirmans, Franklin, "Edgar Arceneaux," Time Out New York, 72