| 2024 | ‘That Goes In There: Jane Savidge On The Art Of This Is Hardcore’, The Quietus, 10 March 2024 |
| 2023 |
Kat Herriman, ‘Cecily Brown, John Currin, and More Star Artists Reinvent the Card Play Genre in a New Show’, Cultured, 21 September 2023 Rebecca Schiffman, ‘A Rear View of Art History’, Hyperallergic, 18 May 2023 |
| 2022 |
Alain Elkann, ‘John Currin’, Alain Elkann Interviews, 20 November 2022 ‘John Currin at Sadie Coles’, The Week, Issue #140, 19 November 2022, p.34 Rosanna McLaughlin, ‘John Currin’s Paintings Are Disgusting and Amoral. That’s Why They’re So Good’, ArtReview, 14 November 2022 Dan Nadel, ‘John Currin: Mastering the big dumb idea’, Blau International, No. 7, Winter 2022-2023 Stuart Jeffries, ‘John Currin: ‘Misogyny’s kind of a dumb word. I don’t hate women. I hate men’, The Guardian, 14 October 2022 Michael Pearce, ‘Painting Naked Women in the Nude Millennium’, MutualArt, 09 September 2022 Robert Leonard, ‘John Currin’, VAULT, Sex Issue, No. 38, May-July 2022, pp. 58-63 |
| 2021 |
Jerry Saltz, ‘John Currin is the Caligula of Painting’, Vulture, 12 November 2021 Emily Dinsdale, ‘John Currin captures the desolate mood of porn as classical art’, DAZED, 30 September 2021 Phong H. Bui, ‘In Conversation: John Currin with Phong H. Bui’, The Brooklyn Rail, September 2021 Natasha Stagg, ‘John Currin: Monuments to Lust’, Gagosian Quarterly, Fall 2021 Francesca Gavin, ‘Frame Academy’ How to Spend It, Financial Times, Spring Arts Special, 27 February 2021, pp. 32 -33 |
| 2020 |
Michael Pearce, ‘A John Currin Thanksgiving’, Mutual Art, 04 November 2020 Allese Thomson, ‘Mask 4 Masc’, Garage Magazine, Issue 18, 17 May 2020 Frances Colpitt, ‘John Currin: My Life as a Man’, artillery, 07 January 2020 |
| 2019 |
Richard Patterson, ‘John Currin’s “My Life as a Man”’, Glasstire, 21 December 2019 James Tarmy, ‘Currin, Feinstein Talk Future of Art and Culture’, Bloomberg TV, 07 November 2019 Darryl Ratcliff, ‘Can a white male painter create feminist work? John Currin has long tackled #MeToo themes’, The Dallas Morning News, 07 November 2019 Michael Pearce, ‘A John Currin Thanksgiving’, Mutual Art, 04 November 2020 Claire Selvin, ‘John Currin Talks ‘Othello,’ ‘Existential Inauthenticity,’ and Contemporary Art: ‘I Think Most Things Are Ugly and Stupid’’, Artnews, 23 October 2019 Emma Specter, ‘Mirror Images’, GARAGE, No. 17, October 2019, pp. 44-45 Alison Gingeras, ‘John Currin Men’, Gagosian Quarterly, Fall 2019, pp. 50-56 Julia Felsenthal, ‘With a New Show at Dallas Contemporary, John Currin Considers His Life as a Man’, Vogue, 17 September 2019 Adriane Quinlan, ‘Artist’s Questionnaire: For His First Museum Show in 15 Years, John Currin Turns His Gaze to Men’, The New York Times Style Magazine, 13 September 2019 Catherine D. Anspon, ‘Artist Known For Voluptuous Women Turns His Sights on Men — a New Type of John Currin Show’, Paper City., 3 September 2019 Marc Jacobs, ‘JOHN CURRIN TELLS MARC JACOBS WHAT PAINTING MEN HAS TAUGHT HIM ABOUT HIMSELF’, Interview, 04 September 2019 Rachel Tashjianm ‘John Currin, Painting's Male Provocateur, Turns His Brush To Men’, GQ, 3 September 2019 Emma Specter, ‘How John Currin's Freaky-Ass Paintings Helped Me See Myself’, GARAGE, 21 June 2019 Hans Ulrich Obrist, ‘John Currin: Classical Painting for Obscene Canvas’, Numéro, 26 March 2019 Image of the Day: John Currin, Crystal’s Friend, 2011’, Elephant, 16 January 2019 |
| 2018 | Louise Benson, ‘Great Big Boobs: The Joyrful Vulgarity of John Currin’, Elephant, 27 May 2018 |
| 2017 |
Brett Littman, ‘Drawing is a First Date’, Gagosian, Fall 2017 Sarah Cascone, ‘John Currin Painted Jennifer Lawrence for the Cover of Vogue’s September Issue’, Artnet News, 09 August 2017 Hugo Hess, ‘John Currin’, Widewalls, 30 March 2017 Bill Powers, ‘John Currin Talks X-Ray Vision and X-Rated Art (and Sits for a Photo By Richard Prince’, GQ Style, 20 March 2017 Catherine Wood, ‘John Currin’, Kaleidescope, Spring 2017 |
| 2016 |
Adrian Searle, ‘John Currin Review – Meta-Painter Dances on the Knife Edge of Taste’, The Guardian, 25 November 2016 Francesca Marini, ‘John Currin Paintings’, Gagosian, September-October 2016 Mary Gray, ‘‘Art + Culture’, John Currin in Florence, An interview with the American artist’, The Florentine, 13 June 2016 Martin Knas, ‘Five Facts About John Currin’, IDOL Magazine, 22 February 2016 |
| 2015 |
Shelia Heti, ‘John Currin on the Fun, Beautiful Things’, Momus, 24 June Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, ‘John Currin’, Art in America, vol. 103, no. 5, May 2015, p. 166 Derek Blasberg, ‘John Currin Q&A’, NOW, 19 February 2015 |
| 2012 |
Catherine Wood, John Currin ‘Four Painters Four Perspectives: John Currin in Conversation with Catherine Wood’, Kaleidoscope, Issue 17, Winter 2012 / 2013, p.34 – 51 Alli Sharma, ‘Garageland Reviews: Figuring It Out with Some Incongruous Nudes’, Garageland Magazine, 06 July 2012 ‘News: John Currin’, Because Magazine, 01 July 2012 |
| 2009 |
Robert Pincus-Witten, ‘John Currin: Andrea Rosen Gallery’ (Review), Artforum, October 2009, p. 234 |
| 2008 |
Cecily Brown, ‘Painting Epiphany: Happy Days Are Where Again?’ Flash Art, vol. XLI, no. 261, July-September 2008 (reprint from Flash Art, no. 200, May- June 1998) Sarah Kent, ‘John Currin: The art of porn’, Art World, June/July 2008 Mark Rappolt, ‘Special Focus: Review Marathon, London’, ArtReview, July – August 2008 Helen Sumpter, ‘Press the Flesh’, Time Out London, 17 – 23 April 2008, p.55 ‘Critics Choice: Galleries, John Currin’, Time Out London, 17 – 23 April 2008, p.62 Waldemar Januszczak, ‘Art: John Currin’, The Sunday Times Culture, 13 April 2008, p.16-17 ‘Critics Choice, John Currin’, Evening Standard, 8 April 2008 Sian Pattenden, ‘Sex? Who cares! We're British’, The Guardian, 3 April 2008 Ben Lewis, ‘Sex with nothing new to say’, Evening Standard, 3 April 2008 ‘Critics Choice’, Time Out, April 2008 David Usborne, ‘The filth and the fury’, The Independent, 16 March 2008 Eva Kartcher, ‘Der Seher: John Currin’, Vogue Deutsch, June 2008, p.184-187 Mark Rappolt, ‘Once More with Feeling: John Currin’, ArtReview, April 2008, p. 50-59 Ben Lewis, ‘Review: John Currin’, Monopol, Nr.6, June 2008 Jackie Wullschlager, ‘Don’t Miss John Currin’, The Financial Times 2008 |
| 2007 | Jennifer Higgie, ‘John Currin’, Frieze, March 2007 |
| 2006 |
Peter Schjeldahl, New Classic, The New Yorker, 4December 2006 Sarah Kent, ‘Death Becomes Him’, Time Out, 22 – 29 November 2006 Sarah Lucas & John Currin, ‘Women’, Wrong Times, October 2006 Eric Troncy, ‘Currin Affairs’, Numéro Homme, Autumn – Winter 2006 Morgan Falconer, ‘Painting People: The State of the Art’, ArtReview, October 2006 ‘Seeing the Light’ The Guardian Weekend Supplement, 20 May 2006 Gabriel Coxhead, ‘Crossing the Line’, FT Magazine, 25/26 March 2006 |
| 2005 |
David Rimanelli, ‘The Nude Stripped Bare’, Tate Etc, issue 5, Autumn 2005 Giancarlo Politi, ‘John Currin: An Interview by the Readers of Flash Art’, Flash Art International, July – September 2005 Pierre Doze, ‘La Toile Triomphe’, Citizen K International, Summer 2005 |
| 2004 |
Jerry Saltz, ‘Super Babylon’, Modern Painters, December – January 2004 Aleid Ford, ‘Fishing in the Renaissance’, Italy, November 2004 ‘Power 100’, ArtReview, November 2004 Ana Finel Honigman, ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’, ArtReview, Volume LIV July/August 2004 Sarah S. King, ‘SITE Sanat Fe’, Art in America, June/July 2004 Raphael Rubinstein, ‘A Painter in Midcurrent’, Art In America, June/July 2004 Marc Spiegler, ‘The illusion of youth’, Art and Auction, June 2004 Bruce Wolmer, ‘Editor’s notebook’, Art and Auction, June 2004 Arty Nelson, ‘Hunters and Gatherers’, www.laweekly.com, 28 May- 3 June 2004 Karen Wright, ‘Enablers All’, Modern Painters, Summer 2004 Roger Bevan, ‘Contemporary art smashes the $100 million barrier’, The Art Newspaper, No. 148 June 2004 Jeffrey Kastner, ‘Deviation Standard’, Artforum International, May 2004 David Joselit, ‘Apocalypse Not’, Artforum International, May 2004 Colin Gleadell, ‘Fair gains all round’, ArtReview, Volume LIV, May 2004 ‘Working Mothers’ and ‘Reeling It In’, Art and Auction, May 2004 Adrian Dannatt, ‘Has Adam Sandler sold his John Currin?’, The Art Newspaper, No. 146, April 2004 Wolfgang Tilmans, ‘Page 3 Stunnas’, G2, The Guardian, Monday 19 April 2004 Eva Karcher, ‘Zuruck Zum Salon’, Deutsch Vogue, April 2004 Polly Devlin, ‘The Generation Game, Vogue, April 2004 ‘London Sales Preview’, Art and Auction, February 2004 Nicholas Wapshott, ‘They’ve got views under your skin’, The Times, 7 January 2004 Lucy Watson, ‘Art of the year: John Currin at the Serpentine, London’, GQ, January 2004 Martin Herbert, ‘No sex please’, Contemporary, Issue 59, 2004 Marcus Verhagen, ‘Bad Skin’, Contemporary, Issue 59, 2004 |
| 2003 |
Roberta Smith, ‘Rising artist moves to big-league dealer’, International Herald Tribune, 27-28 December 2003 Peter Schjeldahl, ‘Irresistible: John Currin at the Whitney’, The New Yorker, 15 December 2003 Simon Wallis, ‘John Currin, New York’, The Burlington Magazine, December 2003 Jemima Montagu, ‘In view: John Currin, Serpentine Gallery’, Modern Painters, Winter 2003 Matthew Collings, ‘Diary: John Currin’, Modern Painters, winter 2003 Michael Kimmelman, ‘From good to awful and back again: John Currin’, International Herald Tribune, 27 November 2003 Charlie Finch, ‘Defending John Currin’, artnet.com, 10 November 2003 Victoria Pedersen, ‘Flirting with the Masters’, Art + Auction, November 2003 ‘Power Shower’, Art Review, November 2003 Robert Cumming, ‘John Currin’, ArtReview, November 2003 Emmanuel Cooper, ‘Unsettling portraits’, Tribune, 17 October 2003 ‘Exhibition of the Week: John Currin’, The Week, 4 October 2003 ‘It’ll go gold’, i-D Magazine, October 2003 ‘Art: Critics’ Choice’, Time Out, 24 September - 1 October 2003 Germano Celant, ‘John Currin and Rachel Feinstein (interview), Interview Magazine, vol 33, October 2003 Sadie Coles and Andrew Hale, ‘Details Art: This Month: London’, GQ, October Louisa Buck, ‘London Diary: Amanda Sharp bares all for John Currin’, The Art Newspaper, No. 140, October 2003 Dafydd Jones, ‘Party: John Currin’, Art Review, October 2003 Murray Healey, ‘John Currin’, Pop, Perfect, No. 7, Autumn-Winter 2003 Alex Holroyd, ‘A disconcerting combination’, The Morning Star, 30 September 2003 Jessica Lack, ‘Exhibitions: John Currin’, The Guardian, G2, 29 September 2003 Catharine O’Shea, ‘John Currin / Serpentine Gallery’, What’s On, 24 September 2003 Martin Coomer, ‘Hidden depths’, Time Out, 24 Sept.-1 October 2003 Charles Darwent, ‘It’s a brilliant kind of death knell’, Independent on Sunday, 21 September 2003 Andrew Lambirth, ‘Slick and Distasteful: John Currin’, The Spectator, 20 September 2003 Nicky Haslam, ‘Arty Animals: The private view at John Currin’s show’, ES Magazine, 19 September 2003 Rachel Campbell-Johnston, ‘Of coarse, he’s being ironic…’, The Times – T2, 17 September 2003 Jessica Lack, ‘Exhibitions: John Currin’, The Guardian, G2, 15 September 2003 Laura Cumming, ‘They’re not just Pretty Faces’, The Observer Review, 14 September 2003 Fisun Gϋner, ‘Satire or a bit of sauce?’ Metro, 12 September 2003 William Packer, ‘The Critics: John Currin, Serpentine Gallery’, The Financial Times, 11 September 2003 Adrian Searle, ‘John Currin’, The Guardian, 10 September 2003 Richard Dorment, ‘Perfectly pointless lives’, The Daily Telegraph, 10 September 2003 Andrew Renton, ‘In love with beauty’, Evening Standard, 9 September 2003 Martin Gayford, ‘Critics Choice: Opening this week, John Currin at the Serpentine Gallery’, The Sunday Telegraph, 7 September 2003 Jarvis Cocker, ‘They’re not grotesque-they’re are beautiful’, The Guardian - G2, 3 September 2003 Louisa Buck, ‘John Currin: Sadie Coles HQ’, The Art Newspaper, September, No. 139, 2003 Louisa Buck, ‘Exhibition Diary: John Currin, Serpentine Gallery’, The World of Interiors, September 2003 David Rimanelli, ‘Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago’, Artforum, September 2003 Jessica Berens, ‘We are not amuse’, The Observer Magazine, 31 August 2003 Christa D’Souza, ‘A head for figures’, The Telegraph Magazine, 30 August 2003 Holland Cotter, ‘Where Small Shows Offer Big Ideas’, The New York Times, 15 August 2003 Jessica Berens, ‘We Are Not a Muse’ The Observer Magazine (London), August 2003 Hephzibah Anderson, ‘Art’ The Exciting standard (London), August 2003 Mary Voelz Chandler, ‘Aspen Exhibit a Testament to Currin’s Technique’ Rocky Mountain News (Denver), 17July 2003 Go Figure: John Currin Provokes Art World by Painting Female Form’ Rocky Mountain News (Denver), 17July 2003 Andrew Long, ‘John Currin Grows Up’, Departures, May-June 2003 Margaret Hawkins, ‘Fantasy Fuels Artistic Fire’, Chicago Sun-Times, 11 May 2003 Alan G Artner, ‘The Twists, Turns of John Currin’, Chicago Tribune - Tempo Section, 8 May 2003 ‘Who’s Talking: Jarvis Cocker with John Currin’, Vogue, May 2003 Julia Caniglia, ‘Grand Master Flash’ Travel and Leisure, vol 33, May 2003 Joseph Hooper, ‘Brushing up’, Elle, May 2003 Thomas Connors, ‘Keeping it Currin’, Frontdesk, May 2003 Alexi Worth, ‘Preview: John Currin, MCA Chicago’, Artforum, May 2003 ‘John Currin, MCA, Chicago’, The Art Newspaper, No. 136, May 2003 Julia Caniglia, ‘80s again’, Artforum, March 2003 Lisa Vincetti, ‘Stealing Beauty’, Shelter, Spring 2003 ‘John Currin’, Canadian Art, Spring 2003 The Arts Newspaper, No. 133, February 2003 Tim Griffin, ‘Drawing Now’, Art Forum, January 2003 Linda Nochlin, ‘New tricks for an old dog: the return of painting’, Contemporary, No. 58, 2003 Brian Muller, ‘212121 Painting, from Postconceptualism to Recontextualism’, Contemporary, No. 58, 2003 Eliza Williams, ‘London: Serpentine - John Currin / London: Sadie Coles HQ - John Currin’, Contemporary, Issue 57, 2003 Melissa Gronlund, ‘Drawing Now: Eight Propositions’, Contemporary, No. 47/48, 2003 Marcel Andino Velez, ‘Strasznie tadnie i okropnie drogo: John Currin’, Prze Kroj, No.49, 2003 Mark Gisbourne, ‘John Currin: monograph’, Contemporary, issue 53/54 2003 Sotiris Kyriacou, ‘New York: Whitney Museum’, Contemporary, issue 57, 2003 Brooks Adams, ‘Picabia, The New Paradigm, 2003 Maxine Kopsa, ‘Wish you were here’, Metropolis M, No. 5, 2003 |
| 2002 |
‘Curating Painting-A Panel Discussion with Peter Pakesch, Douglas Fogle, and Lauri Firstenberg’, Flash Art, November – December 2002 Howard Halle, ‘Papering the House’, Time Out, New York, 7-14 November 2002 Daniel Kunitz, ‘Drawings that Provoke Exasperation and Admiration’, The New York Sun, 7 November 2002 Peter Schjeldahl, ‘The Drawing Board’, The New Yorker, 4 November 2002 Jerry Saltz, ‘Good on Paper’, The Village Voice, 30 October - 5 November 2002 Roberta Smith, ‘Retreat from the Wild Shores of Abstraction’, The New York Times, 18 October 2002 Natasha Edwards, ‘Cher Peintre, Lieber Maler, Dear Painter’ Art Forum, October 2002 Alison M. Gingeras, ‘John Currin: The Backdoor Man’, Flash Art, Vol. XXXIV, No. 226, October 2002 Kate Bush, ‘Cher Peintre, Lieber Maler, Dear Painter’, Artforum, October 2002 Suzanne Muchnic, ‘John Currin: Regen Projects’ Artnews, October 2002 ‘Are Brush and Pigment Passé?, Tate, September – October 2002 A.M. Homes, ‘Currin Affairs’, Vanity Fair, Issue 505, September 2002 A.M. Homes, ‘Currin Affairs’, Vanity Fair, September 2002 David A. Greene, ‘Taking on the Masters’, Modern Painters, Autumn 2002 ‘Cher peintre peins-moi’, Modern Painters, Autumn 2002 David Pagel, ‘Humor on Currin’s Palette Imparts Power to His Work’, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2002 Robert Storr, ‘John Currin’, Artpress, June 2002 Michael Craig-Martin, ‘details, close-ups and surfaces’, Modern Painters, Spring 2002, Vol.15 Sibylle Sibylle Berg, ‘Viele bunte Bilder, darauf:/Lots of Colourful pictures in Them:.’ David Frankel, ‘John Currin’, Artforum, March 2002 Harriet Zinnes, ‘John Currin’, NY Arts, February 2002 Flash Art, January – February 2002 Jeffrey Deitch, Flash Art, December – January 2002 Keith Seward, ‘Currin’s Nudes/Currins Akte’ Parkett no.65, 2002 Mark Van de Walle, ‘Against Nature/Gegeb die Natur’ Parkett, no.65, 2002 ‘John Currin’, Art in America: 2002 Annual Guide, 2002 David Rimanelli, ‘Entries’, Artforum, 2002 |
| 2001 |
Holland Cotter, ‘The Gift of Art Ready to Be Opened’ The New York Times, 21 December 2001 Howard Halle, ‘The Irony Chef’ Time Out New York, 29 November 2001 Franco Fanelli, Vernissage, November 2001 Mark Sladen, ‘Young Americans’, Blue Print, November 2001 Mia Fineman, ‘Married to Each Other to Art and to Art History’, The New York Times, 28 October 2001 Rocco Moliterni, La Stampa, 14 October 2001 Ludovico Pratesi, Il Venerdi di Repubblica, 12 October 2001 David Lefkowitz’ Edgy: Painitg at the Edge of the World at Walker Art Center’ New Art Examiner, vol 29, September – October 2001 Katy Siegel, Artforum, No.10, Summer 2001 John Currin, ‘Passages: Awkward Sage’, Artforum, Summer 2001 |
| 2000 |
Jennifer Higgie, ‘John Currin’, Frieze, September – October 2000, issue.54 Patricia Ellis, ‘Spotlight: John Currin’, Flash Art, October 2000, No. 214 David Bonetti, ‘Trendy Currents at SFMOMA’, San Francisco Examiner, 7 July 2000 Christopher Bollen, ‘Innuendo’, Time Out (New York), 29 June - 6 July 200 Samantha Ellis, Evening Standard, Friday, 9 June 2000 Sue Hubbard, ‘John Currin: Sadie Coles’, The Independent on Sunday, 4 June 2000 Ayuka Mizoguchi, ‘John Currin: Sadie Coles HQ’, London Zok, June 2000 Jessica Lack, ‘Bodies of Work’, The Guide, 6-12 May 2000 Martin Herbert, ‘John Currin: Sadie Coles HQ’, Time Out, 24-31 May 2000 David Kirby, ‘Beauty and the Bimbo’, ARTnews, May 2000 Matthew Licht, aka Reny Fleur, ‘Art ‘n’ Shit: Painting Floppers for the Pleasure of It’, Juggs, May 2000 Robert Rosenblum, ‘John Currin’, Bomb, Spring 2000 Peter Rostovsky, ‘History Lesson: John Currin; Andrea Rosen, New York’, zingmagazine, issue 12, Spring/Summer 2000 Michael Kimmelman, ‘A New Whitney Team Makes Its Biennial Pitch’, The New York Times, 24 March 2000 Dan Garnier, ‘1530-1999 A Giant Stop for Civilization…Cranach/John Currin’, ARTnewroom.com, 2 March 2000 ‘The Information’, Esquire, March 2000 Alan E.H. Emery, ‘The Consultation in Art’, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London, January – February 2000, Vol. 34, No. 1 Ingrid Sischy, ‘Gotta Paint,’ Vanity Fair, February 2000 Edward Leffingwell, ‘John Currin’, Art in America, February 2000 Katie Clifford, ‘John Currin’, Artnews, January 2000 ‘Innuendo’, The New Yorker, 2000 Kunie Sugiura, ‘Very New Art: Very New York’, Tools, 2000 |
| 1999 |
Carol Vogel, ‘Choosing a Palette of Biennial Artists’, The New York Times, 8 December 1999 Bill Arning, ‘John Currin’, Time Out (New York), 2-9 December 1999 Tim Griffin, ‘Pretty Vacant’, Spin, December 1999 Mario Naves, ‘A Postmodern Rockwell Endorsed by Juggs Magazine’, The New York Observer, 26 November 1999 ‘John Currin’, The New Yorker, 22 November 1999 Jerry Saltz, ‘The Redemption of a Breast Man: Sanctify My Love’, The Village Voice, 17-23 November 1999 John Goodrich, ‘John Currin’, Review, 15 November 1999 Michael Kimmelman, ‘John Currin’, The New York Times, 12 November 1999 Adrian Dannatt, ‘Our Choice of New York contemporary and modern galleries’, The Art Newspaper, November 1999 Reproduction of LAug.hing Nude and The Go-See, Harper’s, November 1999 Landers with Demetrio Paparoni), Tema Celeste, October – December 1999 Ello Cappuccio, ‘Tutti Figli di Duchamp’, Tema Celeste. October – December 1999 Reproductions of two paintings, Zoo, Issue3, October 1999 Terry Sullivan, ‘Our Bodies, Our Selves’, Photo District News, September 1999 Jerry Saltz, ‘A Group Show in Connecticut Gets a G Rating’, The Village Voice, 24 August 1999, Vol. XLIV, No.33 ‘Out of Town’, The New Yorker, 23 & 30 August 1999 William Zimmer, ‘The Body, Ever the Subject, Never Out of Style’, The New York Times, 8 August 1999 ‘Metropolitan’, Vogue, August 1999 Roberta Smith, ‘In Connecticut, the Scars of War, the Works of Peace’, The New York Times, 30 July 1999 Mauricio Velazquez de Leon, ‘Tiempos dificiles para el desnudo’, Cultura, 27 July 1999 Shannon Hicks, ‘Aldrich Exhibit Exposes Attitudes About the Nude in Art’, The Newtown Bee, 23 July 1999 Bill Arning, ‘Body Politics’, Time Out (New York), 8-15 July 1999 Frank Merkling, ‘Summer’s Heat Inspires Aldrich Show: A Celebration of Nudes’, The News-Times, 2 July 1999 Douglas P. Clement, ‘Uncensored: In Ridgefield: The Nude From Classic to Risque,’ The Fairfield County Times, July 1999 The Wilton Villager, 3 June 1999 Naomi Sanders, ‘John Currin at Regen Projects’, Art Issues, Summer 1999 Barry Schwabsky, ‘John Currin at Regen Projects’, Artforum, May 1999 Rosa Venus, ‘An Artist in his Studio: John Currin’, Flaunt, April 1999 Peter Schjeldahl, ‘The Elegant Scavenger’, The New Yorker, 22 February & 1 March Christopher Knight, ‘Young Artist Hobnobs With the Old Masters’, Los Angeles Times, 15 February 1999 Teresa Concepcion, ‘Artist John Currin Gives Advice to Students’, The Heart Beat (Sacred Heart Preparatory School) February 1999 Brooks Adams, ‘The Risk of Existence’, Artforum, February 1999 Phoebe Hoban, ‘The Mod Squad’, New York, 11 January 1999 William Zimmer, ‘7 Artists Integrate Color and Rudeness’, The New York Times, 10 January 1999 Michael Lavine, ‘iconograph’, raygun, January 1999 Roberta Smith, ‘Safe Among the Seamless Shadows in Pittsburgh’, The New York Times, 1999 Michelle Grabner, ‘Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings’, Frieze, Issue 49, 1999, p.108-9 Barry Schwabsky, ‘John Currin: Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York’, The Nordic Art Review, No. 1, Vol. 2, 1999 |
| 1998 |
Taka Kawachi, ‘John Currin’, Bijutsu Techo, November 1998 Rosanna Negrotti, ‘States of Mind’, What’s On, 7 October 1998 Stuart Shave, ‘in safe hands’, i-D., October 1998 Zena Farel, ‘All the Young Guns’, Indiaweekly, 17 September 1998 William Packer, ‘The Pointlessness of Irony’, Financial Times, 15 September 1998 Martin Gayford, ‘The art game’, The Spectator, 12 September 1998 David Usborn, ‘Painted Ladies’, The Independent Magazine, 12 September 1998 Adrian Searle, ‘The infants Liam and Noel on the sofa…is this what passes for the new American Dream?’, The Guardian, 8 September 1998 ‘Art: Young Americans 2 Part II’, Metro, 5-11 September 1998 Jane Burton, ‘Mad in the USA’, The Daily Express, 5 September 1998 Alison Smith, ‘Bras and Stripes’, The Face, September 1998 Richard Dorment, ‘A brush with young America’, The Daily Telegraph, 26 August 1998 Michael Kimmelman, ‘In Connecticut, Where Caravaggio First Landed’, The New York Times, 17 July 1998 Cecily Brown, ‘Painting Epiphany: Happy Days Are Where Again?’ Flash Art, no. 200, May- June1998 Matthew Licht aka Reny Fleur, ‘A Classy Show by One of America’s Greatest Artists’, Juggs, May 1998 Dylan Jones, ‘Wimpy Bard’, The Sunday Times Magazine, 29 March 1998 Merlin James, ‘New York Recent Painting’, Burlington Magazine, January 1998 Marisa Fox, ‘High-Art/Low-Lifes’, World Art, Issue 19, 1998 |
| 1997 |
David Rimanelli, ‘Top Ten x 12: The Year in Review’, Artforum, December 1997 Barry Schwabsky, ‘Picturehood is Powerful’, Art in America, December 1997 David Greene, ‘Project Painting’, Frieze, November – December 1997 Roberta Smith, ‘John Currin at Andrea Rosen Gallery’, The New York Times, 7 & 21 November 1997 Victoria Pedersen, ‘Gallery Go ‘Round: True American Eccentrics’, Paper, November 1997 Art in Review: Realism Reconsidered from Three Angles: ‘Projects-John Currin ‘John Currin at Andrea Rosen Gallery’ The New York Times’, November 1997 Howard Halle, ‘Thanks for the Mammaries’, Time Out (New York), 30 October - 6 November 1997 Holland Cotter, ‘Fervidly Drafting the Self and Sex’, The New York Times, 10 October 1997 Katharine L. Bradley, ‘In the Galleries’, Art & Auction, October 1997 Peter Schjeldahl, ‘Project Painting’, The Village Voice, 30 September 1997 Roger Bevan, ‘The Man and his money’, The Art Newspaper, September 1997 Anne Doran, ‘Projects 60: John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton, Luc Tuymans’, Time Out (New York), 21-8 August 1997 Roberta Smith, ‘Realism reconsidered from three angles’, The New York Times, 1 August 1997 Peter Schjeldahl, ‘The Daub Also Rises’, The Village Voice, 29 July 1997 Martin Herbert, ‘John Currin: Sadie Coles HQ’, Time Out (London), 30 April - 7 May 1997 Hester Lacey, ‘A legend in her own gallery’, The Independent, 27 April 1997 Simon Grant, ‘Exhibitions: John Currin’, The Guardian: The Guide, 19-25 April 1997 Slavoj Zizek, ‘The Lesbian Session’, lacanian ink, 1997 Mark Van der Walle, ‘Contract with a Coldhearted Muse’, Parkett, No. 50/51, 1997 Roger Bevan, ‘London Diary’, The Art Newspaper, January 1997 |
| 1996 |
Barry Schwabsky, ‘Picturehood is Powerful’, Art in America, December 1996 Susan Kandel, ‘Posturing in a Most Unusual Fashion’, The Los Angeles Times, 20 June 1996 Roberta Smith, ‘Sugar Mountain’ at White Columns’, The New York Times, 26 April 1996 Stuart Morgan, ‘A Can of Worms’, Frieze, Issue 27, March/April 1996 Maia Damianovic, ‘Le peinture au risque du dilemme’, artpress, March 1996 Peter Schjeldahl, ‘Screenery’, The Village Voice, 7-13 February 1996 John Russell Taylor, ‘Around the Galleries’, The Times, 6 February 1996 McEwen, ‘Keep those mighty metaphors simple’, Sunday Telegraph, 4 February 1996 William Packer, ‘A study in naked nostalgia’, Financial Times, 3 February 1996 Kunie Sugiura, ‘New York’, B.T. Magazine, February 1996 Rosanna Negrotti, ‘John Currin at the ICA’, What’s on in London?, 24 January 1996 ‘ICA’, Time Out (London), 24 January 1996 Waldemar Januszczak, ‘Goya of the Golden Girls’, The Sunday Times, 21 January 1996 Linda Talbot, ‘Patron saint confounded’, Hampstead & Highgate, 19 January 1996 Martin Coomer, ‘Air and grace’, Time Out (London), 17-24 January 1996 Bucks Aylesbury, ‘Exhibition of the Week’, The Week, 17 January 1996 ‘John Currin at ICA’, Design Week, 12 January 1996 James Hall, ‘That’s why the lady has a beard’, The Guardian, 2 January 1996 Waldemar Januszezak ‘Goya of the Golden Girls’ The Sunday Times, January 1996 Louisa Buck, ‘Bare facts: John Currin’s nudes get back to basics’, GQ, January 1996 Olivier Zahm, ‘John John’, Omnibus, No. 15, January 1996 |
| 1995 |
Steve Beard, ‘Arena Recommends’, Arena, Winter 1995 Maiten Bouisset, ‘La collection comme art de vivre/the Collection as Way of Life’, artpress, No. 206, October 1995 Adrian Searle, ‘Try to figure it out’, The Independent, 12 December 1995 James Hall, ‘John Currin at ICA’, The Guardian, 9 December 1995 Ron Moore, ‘Sequence of exhibitions by city and country artists’, Leicester Mercury, December 1995 Keith Seward, ‘The Weirdest of the Weird’, Flash Art, No. 185, Nov/December 1995 Roberta Smith, ‘Art in Review: Currin’s ambiguities - John Currin at Andrea Rosen Gallery’, The New York Times, 17 November 1995 ‘Goings on Around Town’, The New Yorker, 13 November 1995 Robert Mahoney, ‘John Currin at Andrea Rosen Gallery’, Time Out (New York), 1-8 November 1995 Nathan Guequierre, ‘Slavishly Hip, Strangely Satisfying: Painting in the 90’s stresses content over form’, Shepherd Express, 12 October 1995 Jean-Yves Jouannais, ‘John Currin at Frac Limousin’, Art Press, No. 206, October 1995 ‘100 Jaar Stedelijk’, Uitkrant, cover, No. 2, October 1995 Luk Lambrecht, ‘John Currin’, De Morgen, 14 September 1995 James Auer, ‘Art museum exhibit embraces pluralism’, Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, 10 September 1995 Philip Dagen, ‘Des jeunes artstes d’une radicale nouveaute defient les avant-gardes’, Le Monde, 26 August 1995 Elizabeth Lebovici, ‘Currin en Limousin’, Liberacion, 29 July 1995 Jim Demetre, ‘John Currin at Donald Young Gallery’, Reflex, Vol. 9, No. 4, May 1995 Lucy Wilner, ‘Spring Thaw in the Big Apple’, Reflex, Vol. 9, No. 4, May 1995 Greg Burkman, ‘John Currin at the Donald Young Gallery - Titties and Kitsch’, The Stranger, Vol. 4, No. 25, 22-28 March 1995 Regina Hackett, ‘Currin celebrates bad taste’, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 15 March 1995 The Stranger (Seattle), March 1995 Celia McGee, ‘Portraiture Is Back, But, My It’s Changed’, The New York Times, 1 January 1995 Celia McGee, ‘The Resurgence of Portraiture’, The International Herald Tribune, 1 January 1995 Bulletin (ICA Magazine), December/January 1995 |
| 1994 |
Helena Papadopoulos, ‘John Currin’, Arti, November/December 1994 Luk Lambrecht, ‘De kwade geur van de figuratieve schilderkunst’, De Witte Raaf, No. 46, November 1994 Jerry Saltz, ‘A Year in the Life: Tropic of Painting’, Art in America, October 1994 Edith Doove, ‘John Currin at Ado Gallery, Antwerp’, Metropolis M, No. 5, October 1994 Kathryn Hixson, ‘Trouble in Paradise’, New Art Examiner, October 1994 Joshua Decter, ‘Stupidity as Density: American Idiot Culture’, Flash Art, October 1994 Daniela Salvioni, ‘Flash Art News: Aperto -A Stroll Through the Emergency’, Flash Art, October 1994 Ludo Weitzer, ‘The Accidental Tourist’, Flash Art, October 1994 Olivier Zahm, ‘John Currin’, Purple Prose, Fall 1994 Luk Lambrecht, ‘Kijk eens door het raam’, De Morgen, 17 September 1994 ‘7 Dagen’, Weekend Knack, 8 September 1994 Eric Bracke, ‘Grote vis in kleine vijer: New Yorkse schilder John Currin in ADO Gallery’, Der Morgen, 17 August 1994 Minnie Gastel, ‘Apocalypse now?’, Donna, July/August 1994 Gabi Czoppan, ‘Aufsteiger des Jahres: Rangliste der 100 Besten’, Focus, No. 27, 5 July 1994 Gilda Williams, ‘John Currin’, Flash Art, 10 June 1994 Eric Troncey, ‘Naakt en kneedbaar’, Metropolis M (cover), June 1994 Maria Giulia Minetti, ‘In primo piano la biennale di venezia e l'arte riparte dai punto cardinali’, L'Uomo Vogue, June 1994 ‘Flash Art News: 'S-Hertogenbosch - Look at the Window’, Flash Art, Summer 1994 Eric Amouroux, ‘Art Dealers - Anvers 93’, Galeries Magazine, Summer 1994 Barbara Steffen, ‘Don’t postpone joy or collecting can be fun’, Austria Kultur, May/June 1994 David Humphrey, ‘New York Fax: John Currin at Andrea Rosen Gallery’, Art Issues, May/June 1994 ‘Flash Art News: Antwerp - Critical Distance’, Flash Art, May 1994 José Lebrero Stals, ‘Frankfurt - Prospect '93’, Flash Art, May 1994 Patrick Pacheco, ‘America's Top 100 Collectors’, Art and Antiques, March 1994 ‘America's Top One Hundred Collectors’, Art and Antiques, March 1994 ‘Just what is it that makes today's home so different, so appealing? at Galerie Holland Cotter, ‘John Currin’ The New York Times’, February 1994 Jonathan Napack, ‘That Outsiderish Mood: That Insider's Move to Christie's’, The New York Observer, 14 February 1994 ‘John Currin at Andrea Rosen Gallery’, The New Yorker, 14 February 1994 José Lebrero Stals, ‘Reviews: John Currin, Ado’ Flash Art, January – February 1994 Jose Lebrero Stals, ‘John Currin at Ado’, Flash Art, January/February 1994 ‘Ikone oder Fleisch und Blut’, art, January 1994 Celia McGee, ‘The Resurgence of Portraiture’ The International Herald Tribune, 1994 Jo Dustin, ‘Critical Distance, Ado Gallery, Antwerpen’ L’Annuel de l‘Art, 1994 ‘John Currin’ The New Yorker,1994 Robert Jan. Muller, ‘John Currin at Ado Gallery’, Metropolis, No. 5, 1994 Jo Dustin, ‘Critical Distance, Ado Gallery, Antwerpen’, L'Annuel de l'Art, 1994 Jennifer Flay’, Purple Prose, No.3, 1994 ‘Project Unite’, Purple Prose, No. 3, 1994 |
| 1993 |
Ken Johnson, ‘John Currin at Andrea Rosen’, Art in America, January 1993 Yves Aupetitallot, ‘Une Èté, Trois Expositions’, 1993 |
| 1992 |
The Paris Review, illus., Winter 1992, No. 125 Peter Borgstrom, ‘Den vite mannens konst har fatt konkurrens’, Dagens Nyheter, 22 November 1992 Jose Lebrero Stals, ‘Double Identity: Johenen & Schottle, Cologne’, Flash Art, October 1992 Brian D'Amato, ‘Spotlight: John Currin’, Flash Art, Summer 1992 ‘New York In Brief’, Flash Art, Summer 1992 Francesco Bonami, ‘U.S. Pain: New American Figuration’, Flash Art, May/June 1992 Stefan Germer & Isabelle Graw, ‘Galerierundgang’, Texte zur Kunst Elizabeth Hess, ‘Difficult Pleasures’, The Village Voice, 21 April 1992 Kim Levin, ‘Art In Brief’, The Village Voice, 21 April 1992 ‘Goings On About Town’, The New Yorker, 13 April 1992 Victoria Pedersen, ‘Gallery Go 'Round’, Paper Magazine - ‘Best Of’ Guide, April 1992 Rainer Metzger, ‘Malerei: Painting as a Matter of Subject’, Flash Art, January/February 1992 Gretchen Faust, ‘Shared Skin: Sub-Social Identifiers’, Arts Magazine, January 1992 |
| 1991 |
Gianfranco Ravasi, ‘Piccoli artisti (under 30) crescono’, Corriere della Sera, December 1991 ‘Review of 7 Women’, Flash Art, May/June 1991 ‘Seven Women at Andrea Rosen’, Flash Art, vol.24, no 158, May- June 1991 Joshua Decter, ‘7 Women’, New York In Review, May 1991 Robert Mahoney, New York In Review, April 1991 ‘John Currin/Robin Kahn’, The New Yorker, February 1991 Tom Grabowsky, ‘Trusting to Sight’, Bay Windows, January 1991 Joanne Silver, ‘There’s More than Meets the Eye to ‘Simple Pleasures’, The Boston Herald, January 1991 |
| 1990 |
Joshua Decter, New York in Review, April 1990 Christine Temin, ‘(not) All on the Surface’, The Boston Globe, 16 December 1990 John Zinsser, ‘Losses in Translation’, Arts Magazine, October 1990 |
| 1989 |
Alexandra Anderson, ‘The Next Generation’, Smart, September/October 1989 |