| 2024 | ‘Programme 2024’, e-flux, 19 February 2024 |
| 2023 | Enuma Okoro, ‘Bear witness to both your challenges and triumphs’, Financial Times, 24 November 2023 |
| 2021 |
Erica Campbell, ‘Peek Inside the Artful Studio Where Interscope Artists Make Music’, Architectural Digest, 27 September 2021 Beatriz Colón, ‘Before summer ends, see these five temporary art installations in New York’, Cultured, 07 July 2021 Linda Yablonsky, ‘A Ghost Forest and a predator: New York public art grows a conscience’, The Art Newspaper, 25 June 2021 Rosalba O'Brien, ‘Giant Drone Sculpture menaces New York City, with intent’, Reuters, 07 June 2021 ‘Artist Sam Durant Sends a Message With An Enormous Absracted Drone For New York’s High Line Plinth’, ARTFIXdaily, 02 June 2021 Will Gleason, ‘A Giant Drone Being Installed on the High Line Will Hover Over 30th St Until August 2022’, Time Out, 16 April 2021 Helen Holmes, ‘A Drone Sculpture by Sam Durant Will Soon Hover Over New York’s High Line’, Observer, 15 April 2021 Nick Garber, ‘This Giant Drone Will Soon Soar Over High Line’, Patch, 15 April 2021 Gabriella Angeleti, ‘Sam Durant to create drone sculpture for the High Line’s next plinth commission’, The Art Newspaper, 14 April 2021 Hilarie M. Sheets, ‘With a Drone on the High Line, an Artist Re-emerges From Controversy’, The New York Times, 14 April 2021 |
| 2020 |
Florian Göttke, ‘Contra Cancel Culture’, Metropolis M, No.6, Dec, 2020, pp. 30-32 Gareth Harris, ‘Q&A | Drawings of ‘eruptions of violence’ against statues fill Sam Durant’s new book’, The Art Newspaper, 10 July 2020 |
| 2018 |
Henri Neuendorf, ‘Here Are the 150 Artists Making Billboards for Every US State as Part of Hank Willis Thomas’s Midterm Election Project’, Artnet News, 09 October 2018 LACMA Receives Gift of Sam Durant Electric Sign’, Philanthropy News Digest, 6 July 2018 ‘The Art of “Difficult Things”’, The Argonaut, 16 May 2018 |
| 2017 |
‘Previewed: Sam Durant, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, 7 January – 4 February 2017’, Art Review, 69: 1, January–February, pp. 35-38 A. Miranda, ‘Datebook: Objects that remix African and American, paintings of Shagri-La, Peter Saul before he was pop’, Los Angeles Times, 5 January 2017 |
| 2016 |
Nancy Shohet West, ‘In Concord, a New Kind of Lyceum Invites Conversations on Race’, Boston Globe, 15 September 2016 Gabriella Angeleti, ‘Jeppe Hein and Sam Durant Create Reflective Works for Historic Sites in Massachusetts’, The Art Newspaper, 05 August 2016 |
| 2015 |
Sam Durant, ‘From the Past, Another Future?’, Torrent, No.3, Linda Jensen and Daniel Kurjakovic (eds.), Winter 2015, pp. 61–82 Rachel Vigoda, Madeline Presland, ‘Walk through Sam Durant’s ‘Labyrinth’ for Open Source’, Metro US, 12 October 2015 John Metcalfe, ‘An Artist Built a Jail Outside Philadelphia’s City Hall’, City Lab, 08 October 2015 Robin Scher, ‘It Is a Revolutionary Idea that Beauty Should Be Available to All: Sam Durant on “Labyrinth”, his New Public Artwork in Philadelphia and Mass Incarceration’, ARTnews, 02 October 2015 |
| 2014 |
Peter Plagens, ‘The Poetry of Stuff and Abstract Nagivation’, Wall Street Journal, 10October 2014 Alanna Martinez, ‘Pausing to Talk Shop: Sam Durant and Robin D.G. Kelley on Surrealism at Paula Cooper’, Observer, 09 September 2014 Ashton Cooper, ‘23 Questions for History-Inspired Sam Durant’, Blouin Art Info, 08 September 2014 |
| 2013 |
Barbara Cassavecchia, Sam Durant: Propaganda of the Dead’ Art Review, vol. 65, no. 9, December 2013, p. 140 Coline Milliard, ‘Sam Durant on Scaffolds, Fountains, and Abstracting the Political’, Artinfo.com, 21 May 2013 |
| 2012 | Sam Durant and Luis Camnitzer, ‘The Church of Ethical Cynicism’, Mousse, no. 32, February – March 2012, pp. 198–203 |
| 2010 |
Christopher Knight, ‘Zombie Architecture?’, Culture Monster, Los Angeles Times, 01 November 2010 Claire Gilman, ‘Marking Politics: Drawing as Translation in Recent Art’, Art Journal, Fall 2010, Vol. 69, No. 3, 2010, pp. 118-121. Joshua Decter, ‘Sam Durant: Paula Cooper Gallery’, Artforum, Summer 2010 Robin Laurence, ‘From Frisking Poses to Tangled Flags’, Straight, 18 February 2010 Jennifer Moss, ’Inaugural show at Audain Gallery reaches out to Downtown Eastside neighbours’, The Vancouver Sun, 04 February 2010 |
| 2009 |
.Charles Gaines, ‘Reconsidering Metaphor / Metonymy: Art and the Suppression of Thought’, Art Lies, Winter 2009, No. 64, pp. 48-57. Christopher Knight, ’It’s freedom, or something like it’, Los Angeles Times, 17 April 2009, p. D14. Kelsey McKinnion, ’Culver City: Fresh Paint’, C Magazine, April 2009, p. 28. Jenni Sorkin, ‘Ours’, Frieze, March 2009, pp. 162-163. Andrew Beradini, ‘2008 California Biennial’, Frieze, March 2009, pp. 150-151 |
| 2008 |
Christopher Knight, ‘Don’t take it lying down’, The Los Angeles Times, 05 November 2008, p.E1, E6 Kelly Klaasmeyer, ‘How Bizarre: A CAMH exhibition unearths this country’s strangeness’, Houston Press, 26 June - 02 July 2008 Richard Jinman, ‘Controversy hangs around Biennale poster’, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 June 2008 ‘Biennale ‘controversial’, Australia World News, 18 June 2008 ‘Exhibit set to spark controversy’, The West Australian, 17 June 2008 Scott Webel, ‘The Old, Weird America’, Fluent~Collaborative, 13 June 2008 Sarah Gajkowski-Hill, ‘Visual Art Review: Old Weird America’, Arts Houston, June 2008, pp. 44-45. Adam Jasper, ‘More Than Spin: Sydney Biennale’, Art Review, June 2008, p.38 Virginia Billeaud Anderson, ‘Old, Weird America explores American folklore’, Houston Weekly, 20 May 2008 Joseph R Wolin, ‘Reviews: Unmonumental’, Modern Painter, May 2008 Michelle Grabner, ‘Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramic’. X-TRA, Spring 2008, pp. 54-57 Anthony Gardner, ‘Preview: Biennale of Sydney’, Artforum, May 2008 Katie Sonnenborn, ‘Makers and Modelers’, Frieze, March 2008, p.182. Carol Vogel, ‘Inside Art: Finalists Named For Huge Boss Prize’, New York Times, 04 January 2008 |
| 2007 |
Christine Lindey, ‘Iraq War: A vital theme’, Morning Star, 04 June 2007 ‘Memorial to the Iraq War’, Metro London, 24 May 2007 Allie Bogle, ‘Sam Durant’, Artrillery, May 2007, p.33. ‘Sam Durant’, The New Yorker, 30 April 2007, p. 8 Robert Hanks, ‘The Art of War: Bringing the Dead Home’, The Independent, 27 April 2007, pp. 2-4. Morgan Falconer, ‘Sam Durant’, Time Out New York, 19-25 April 2007, p. 72 Lloyd Dykk, ‘A not-so-hokey look at the dark side of the Pilgrims, The Vancouver Sun, 30 March 2007 Clint Burnham, ‘Sam Durant’, Akimbo AKIMBLOG, 29 March 2007 David Pagel, ‘Exposing myths of the Pilgrims’, Los Angeles Times, 16 March 2007 Ilaria Bombelli, ‘Sam Durant’, Flash Art, no. 262, February-March 2007, p.110. Malik Gaines, ‘Sam Durant: Shaping History’, Art Review, February 2007, no. 08, pp. 50-57 Stefano Castelli, ‘Sam Durant’, Exibart.com, 18 January 2007 Jeff Dersken, ‘The Poetics of Bad History’, Vancouver: CJ Press, 2007 |
| 2006 |
Ken Johnson, ’Notes from the Wunderground, and more’, Boston Sunday Globe, Arts & Entertainment, 31 December 2006 Cristina Travaglini, ‘Sam Durant’, Mousse, no. 5, December 2006, pp. 6-9 Bertrand Delux, ‘Sam Durant’, 02, December 2006, p. 62 Ken Johnson, ‘He Reconstructs Dioramas to Deconstruct Historical Myths’, Boston Globe Living Arts, 22 November 2006 |
| 2005 |
Goings On About Town: Sam Durant’, The New Yorker, 24 October 2005, p. 20 Martha Schwendener, ‘Reviews: Sam Durant’, Time Out New York, 20 - 26 October 2005, p. 71 Jerry Saltz, ‘Blood Monument’, The Village Voice, 19 - 25 October 2005, p. 76 Ken Johnson, ‘Reviews: Sam Durant’, The New York Times, 02 October, p. B28 David Pagel, ‘A lens and a mirror’, Los Angeles Times, 07 September p. E3 Alex Wagner, ‘Re-Visionist: Sam Durant's American History’, Fader, July/August, p. 50 Mariuccia Casadio, ‘Artists On Art In 2005 (Sam Durant-Dee Williams)’, Vogue Italia, February 2005, p. 342 Christina Kline, ‘Reviews: Sam Durant’, Art Papers, January/February, p. 54 Mariuccia Casadio, ‘Sunset Rising’, Vogue Italia, January 2005, pp. 370-376 Charlotte Laubard, ‘Dossier Alterminimal’, 02 Revue D'Art, No. 34 2005, p. 22 |
| 2004 |
Shana Nys Dambrot, ‘Sam Durant at Blum & Poe’, Artweek, December/January, pp. 17-18 Jan Tumlir, ‘Review: Sam Durant’, Artforum, December 2004, p. 202. Mark Wilshire, ‘Review: Rear View Mirror’, Art Monthly, November 2004, p. 281. Hal Foster, ‘An Archival Impulse’, October, vol 110, Fall, pp. 3-22. David Pagel, ’Solidarity in rock throwing’, Los Angeles Times, 24 September 2004, pp. E28-E29. Studio, Israeli Art Magazine, May/June 2004, pp. 12-17. Karin Higa, ‘Interested In Signs: Sam Durant In Conversation’, Wrong Times, Summer 2004, p. 8. Arthur Danto, ‘The Kids Are Alright’, The Nation, 17 May, pp. 32-36 Christopher Knight, ’Binary days at the Biennial’, Los Angeles Times, 11 April, 2004, p. E43 Renato Diez, ‘Alla Bienale del Whitney: Torna la Pittura’, Arte, April, pp.104-111 Michael Kimmelman, ‘Touching All Bases At the Biennial’, The New York Times, 12 March, 2004, p. B25, B36. Roberta Smith, ‘Emerging Talent, And Plenty of It’, The New York Times, 12 March, 2004, pp. B25, B30. Christopher Knight, ‘Coastal Confluence’, Los Angeles Times,01 February 2004, p. E41, E48, E49. Matthias Herrmann, ‘Monica Bonvicini/Sam Durant’, Camera Austria, 86, pp. 29-39 Ursula Maria Probst. ‘Break It/ Fix It’, Derive, 15/2004, p. 27 Mary Leclere, ‘Speaking of Others’, Afterall,Issue 10 2004, pp. 82-91. Jonathan Flatley,’ The Agency of Letters’, Afterall, Issue 10 2004, pp. 92-98. |
| 2003 |
Von Johanna Hofleitner, ‘Den Raum buchstablich zerlegen’, Die Presse, November 29-30, 2003. Markus Mittringer, ‘Sprache und Architektur in ratlosem Gegenuber’, Der Standard, November 28, 2003, p. 26. Jeremy Deller, ‘Strange Fruit’, Dazed and Confused, October 2003, Vol. 2, Issue 6, p. 140-147 Art Review, July/August 2003, p. 47. Christian Rattemeyer, ‘Die Neue Referenzklasse Sam Durant in Los Angeles und Düsseldorf’, Texte Zur Kunst, June 2003, p. 209-214. Carly Berwick, ‘Sam Durant’, Vogue Hommes International, Spring/Summer 2003, pp. 150-151. Dan Fox, ‘Like a rolling stone’, Frieze, April 2003, pp. 70-73. Malik Gaines. ‘Sam Durant’, Tema Celeste, February 2003, pp. 64-69. David Joselit, ‘Sam Durant at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles’, Artforum, January 2003, pp. 130-132. |
| 2002 |
Christopher Knight, ‘In a Distinctly American Groove’, Los Angeles Times, 02 November, 2002, pp. E1, E10, E11. Doug Harvey, ‘Sam & Dave: The Politics of Mixology’, LA Weekly, October 18-24, 2002, pp. 32-33. Bob Nickas, ‘Preview Fall 2002: Sam Durant at The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles’, Artforum, September 2002, pp. 72-73. Patricia Rosoff, ‘Sign Language’, The Hartford Advocate, 25 July 2002, p. 21. Gina Greenlee, ‘Like, Man, What is This Sign Trying to Tell Me?’, The Hartford Courant, 16 July 2002, p. A9. Merrily Kerr, ‘From the Observatory at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York’, Flash Art, May/June 2002, p. 82. |
| 2001 |
Alex Coles, ‘Revisiting Robert Smithson in Ohio: Tacita Dean, Sam Durant and Renee Green’, Parachute 104, Fall 2001, pp. 128-137. ‘Sam Durant at Emi Fontana’, Flash Art, August-September 2001, pp. 97-98. Kristine Kern, ‘Kritisk kunst’, Politiken, 31 March 2001. David Pagel, ‘Exhibition Accents a Modern Masterpiece’, Los Angeles Times, 21 March 2001, p. F18. Stuart Comer, ‘Sam Durant Interviewed by Stuart Comer’, Untitled, Spring 2001, pp. 7-9. |
| 2000 |
David Pagel, ‘Durant’s Pretend Theme Park Sends History Rockin’, Rollin’, Los Angeles Times, 03 November 2000, p. F24. John Russell, ‘The Proliferation of New Ways to Draw’, The New York Times, 18 August 2000. Frank-Alexander Hettig, ‘Sam Durant’, Metropolis M, June-July 2000, pp. 50-53. James Meyer,’Impure Thoughts: The Art of Sam Durant’, Artforum, April 2000, pp.112-117. Kentaro Ichihara, Sam Durant’, Bijutsu Techo, March 2001, pp.146-152. Clayton Campbell, ‘Sam Durant at Blum & Poe’, Flash Art, January/February 2000, p. 118. Jan Tumlir. ‘Baldessari’s Urn:’90’s Art in Los Angeles’, artext, November 2000 - January 2001, pp.42-51. Lane Relyea, ‘Less a Review Than a Long Digression On Sam Durant’s Showat Blum & Poe’, Xtra, Volume 3, 2000, Issue 2, pp.8-10. |
| 1999 |
Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Kunstforum, December/January 1999-2000, p. 348. Julie Joyce, ‘Sam Durant at Blum & Poe’, Art issues, November/December 1999, p. 45. Christopher Miles, ‘Sam Durant, Blum & Poe’, Artforum, November 1999, p. 148. Stefan Romer, ‘What Your Children Should Know About Conceptualism’, Neuer Georg Schollhammer, ‘A Living Theater’, Springerin, September/November 1999, pp. 72-73. Gregor Janssen, ‘Zum Sleep-In auf dem Holzschuppen’, die tageszeitung, September/November 1999, pp. 72-73. David Pagel, ‘Sam Durant Takes a Look Back(ward) at Social History’, Los Angeles Times, September 24, 1999, p. F26. Christopher Knight, ‘Publicly Funded Artists Rise to Challenge’, Los Angeles Times, June 4, 1999, p. F16. Manuel, Bonik‘Entropy at Home’, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum’, Flash Art, March/April 1999, p. 44. Charles Labelle, ‘Escape Trajectory, Mike Davis’s latest book, Ecology of Fear, envisions Los Angeles as a disaster-prone city of suspicion’, World Art, Issue 20, 1999, pp. 40-45. |
| 1998 |
Brian Baltin, ‘Small is Psychedelic, Los Angeles under a microscope’, LA Weekly, 27 November - 03 December 1998, p. 47. William Wilson, ‘Lilliput’: Small Art in the Big City of L.A’, Los Angeles Times, 24 November 1998, pp. F10-F11. Lisa Anne Auerbach, ‘Trash’ at L.A. Municipal Art Gallery’, LA Weekly, April 3-9 1998, p. 55. Christopher Miles, ‘Sam Durant: Going With the Flow’, Art/Text, November 1998 - January 1999, no. 63, pp. 48-53. |
| 1997 |
Cathy Curtis, ‘The Cold Shoulder’, Los Angeles Times, 17 October 1997, p. F2. Glen Helfand, ‘Sam Durant and Anne Walsh at Four Walls’, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, 1-7 October 1997, p. 31. Sarah Schmerler, ‘Sam Durant at Curt Marcus’, Artnews, November 1997, p. 226. Simon Sheikh, ‘L.A. From the Sunny Side’, Information, 12 September 1997 Soo Jin Kim, ‘Some Models’, Xtra, Spring 1997, pp. 7-8. David Pagel, ‘Finding Ways to Break Out of a Box of Conformity’, Los Angeles Times, 21 February 1997, p. F28. George Melrod, ‘Sam Durant’, Art & Auction, February 1997, p. 30. Bruce Hainley, ‘The Power of Suggestion’, Artforum, February 1997, p. 82. David A. Greene, Artissues, January - February 1996, p. 46 |
| 1996 |
Christopher Knight, ‘Can Artists Run Their Own Spaces and Find True. BLISS’, Los Angeles Times, 27 December 1996, p. F1, F38. William Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 22 November 1996, p. F24. David A Greene, ed. ‘Art & The Home; Sam Durant: Project’, Art & Design, November/December 1996, pp.23-32. Christopher Knight. ‘Drawing the Conventional Conceptualist’s Conclusions’, Los Angeles Times, 12 November 1996, p. F3. David Pagel. Los Angeles Times, 11 July 1996, p. F5. David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, 25 July1996, p. F13. David A.Greene, ‘LA Story’, Art Monthly, February 1996, pp. 8-10. Lisa Anne Auerbach, Artforum, January 1996, p. 89. |
| 1995 |
Karen Klabin, ‘Safe as Houses’, Detour, November 1995, p.135. Michelle Grabner, ‘The Friendly Village’, Art Muscle, October/November 1995, pp. 13-22. Christopher Knight, ‘Deconstruction’, Los Angeles Times, October 28, 1995, p. F6. Melanie Marino, Art in America, July 1995 Jeffrey Kastner, Frieze, Summer 1995 David Barrett, Frieze, Summer 1995 William Feaver, ‘Strange Habits and Sharp Practice’, London Observer, 23 April 1995 John McEwan, ‘Critic’s Choice’, Sunday Telegraph, 23 April 1995 John O’Reilly, ‘Art for Bart’s Sake’, Modern Review,10 April 1995 Sacha Craddock, London Times, 09 April 1995 Sarah Kent, ‘Art Review’, Time Out, April 1995 Susan Kandel, ‘Grouped Together to Stand Apart’, Los Angeles Times, 12 January 1995 |
| 1994 |
Hamza Walker, James Scarborogh, Brad Killam, Kathryn Hixson and Joe Jarrell. Sculpture, July/August 1994 David Pagel, ‘Self-Help Culture Skewered at FOODHOUSE’, Los Angeles Times, 21 April 1994, p. F7 |
| 1993 |
Robert Pincus, ‘Showcase of an Art Generation has few Flashes of Brilliance’, San Diego Union Tribune, 17 October 1993 Cathy Curtis, ‘Painting Pictures’, Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register, 14 October 1993 William Wilson,’ Biennial Uses Humorous Paradox to Tackle Issues’, Los Angeles Times, 09 October 1993 William Wilson, ‘Private Thoughts Go Public at Newport Harbor’, Orange County Register, 06 October 1993 Kinney Littlefield, ‘A Check of Contemporary Art’, Orange County Register, 01 October 1993 Gregory Crosby, ‘The Professor’s Guide to Vegas Kulcher’, SCOPE, October 1993 Roberta Smith, New York Times, 10 September 1993 |
| 1992 | David Pagel, ‘Overdose of Vagueness’, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 1992 |