Press & Media

“What was best at the Art for Art’s Sake 2011 block party,” The Times-Picayune

October 4, 2011

Last night’s Art for Art’s Sake block party was a pleasant blur. With the temperature in the sweet seventies and not a cloud in the autumn sky – really, not one – it was the perfect night for an art promenade. Read my AFAS preview here. Julia Street was crowded, but not as cramped as August’s White Linen Night. Lines at the outdoor bars were minimal and the food I sampled – macaroni and cheese studded with lobster – was outstanding. It would have been a great night out, even if the art had not been completely captivating.

“When John Waters Met The Art Grannies,” guardian.co.uk

April 23, 2009

At the Marianne Boesky gallery in New York’s Chelsea art district, the open-plan office zone is separated from the exhibition space by a wall with an open end, so shoptalk can be overheard from the public area.

“Levity and Lace”, New Orleans Art Review

November 29, 2007

NOW, ASK YOURSELF, honestly, what kind of art would you imagine you would find when you read that an exhibition involving Waters and Flood was opening at the Arthur Roger Gallery this month? As the second year of post-Katrina consciousness is now underway, I imagined that I would find a gallery filled with personal reminiscences constructed from the debris that littered the streets or photographs of people and places that had survived or not, or perhaps some before and after scenes. As a matter of course I visited the gallery website in preparation for my visit and, oh, was I surprised to see that the exhibition has nothing to do with Katrina or disaster or recovery or other such themes.

“Levity and Lace”, New Orleans Art Review

January 23, 2007

NOW, ASK YOURSELF, honestly, what kind of art would you imagine you would find when you read that an exhibition involving Waters and Flood was opening at the Arthur Roger Gallery this month?

“John Waters: Unwatchable ‘The art world needs satirists like John Waters’ “, Green Cine

May 17, 2006

Given the prices that art brings these days, and the reverence paid to art (sometimes exceeded by the reverence paid to the pursuit and purchase of art), the art world needs satirists like John Waters.

“The Art Showman”, Artnet

July 23, 2004

John Waters loves the art world. His delinquent, satirical vision has inspired generations of artists and outsiders. Next month, the New Museum of Contemporary Art presents “John Waters: Change of Life,” Feb. 7-April. 15, 2004, an exhibition of 80 photographs and other works.

“Filmmaker John Waters brings photographic art to Soho”, The Villager

March 23, 2004

“I always feel that if you asked me what movie that is from that the work has failed,” says filmmaker John Waters about his new photography retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.

“Cuts off the Heads, Loves the Elbows John Waters as a Legitimate (but Please, Not Respectable) Photographer”, New York Times

February 8, 2004

As a filmmaker, John Waters could always see both the trash in glamour and the glamour in trash. His earlier, underground movies, starring the plus-size drag queen Divine (who died in 1988), are as exuberant in their devotion to the outré as they were, and in some ways still are, shocking.