2017 Macel, Christine. Viva Arte Viva: 57th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, 2017.

2015 Zweifel, Stefan. John Waters – How Much Can You Take? Kunsthaus Zürich, 2015.

2006 Richardson, Brenda. Unwatchable. New York and Zurich: Marianne Boesky Gallery and de Pury & Luxembourg, 2006.

2003 Heiferman, Marvin and Lisa Phillips. John Waters: Change of Life. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003.

2003 Art - A Sex Book by John Waters and Bruce Hainley. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2003

2003 Leighton, Tanya and Pavel Büchler. Saving the Image – Art After Film. “John Waters,” Interview by Bill Horrigan and Sarah Rogers. Glasgow: Centre for Contemporary Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2003

2002  Iida, Takayo. Screen Memories. Edited by Eriko Osaka and Yuka Kotakemori. Tokyo: Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, 2002

2001 Waters, John. Literatur Beaux-Arts Filosofia, “Whatever Happened to Showmanship”, February 2001

2001 Exit, Image and Culture: Off Screen - Fuera De Escena “My Little Movies (The Director’s Cut) – Mis pesqueñas peliculas (la versión del director),” Interview by Juan Guardiola. Madrid: Olivares and Associates, 2001

1999 Waters, John. 12 Assholes and a Dirty Foot. Toronto: Little Cockroaches Press 13, April 1999

1998 Transcript – A Journal of Visual Culture, Vol. 3, Issue 3 “The Only Thing in a Movie Scene That You Are Not Supposed to See, John Waters,” Interview by Robert Hill (transcript). Scotland: School of Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, June 1998

1998 Horwath, Alexander and Bert Rebhandl. Ghost Story – Afterimages of Film. Vienna: Kunstlerhaus, 1998

1997 Abrams, Janet, ed. Rethinking Design 4: Medium. “John Waters: Director’s Cut.” Designed by Pentagram, Mohawk Paper Mills, October 1997

1997 John Waters- Director’s Cut. Zurich: Scalo, 1997

Articles and reviews

2016 McAdams, Shane: ,Macho minimalism reborn with wit at Suburban’, Journal Sentinel, 22 April 2016

2016 Dath, Dietmar: ‘Dr. Dreck’, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, no 94, 22 April 2016, p. 14

2016 Cohn, Paulette: ‘John Waters Turns 70’, Biography, 22 April 2016

2016 Sisley, Dominique: ‘John Waters had curated his own art exhibition’, Dazed Digital, 20 April 2016

2015 Wolgamott, L Kent. "His Filthy World: John Waters on his life, movies and the Howdy Doody show," Journal Star, April 18, 2015

2015 Bernstein, Felix. “Breaking Camp: John Waters After Divine,” Hyperallergic, April 4, 2015

2015 Russeth, Andrew. “John Waters at Marianne Boesky,” ARTnews, February 24, 2015

2015 Colucci, Emily. “Will You Be Mine, ‘Beverly Hills John’?,” Filfthy Dreams, February 13, 2015

2015 Cohen, Brianna. “John Waters “Beverly Hills John”,” Art Markit, February 2015

2015 Tracy, Liz. “John Waters Thinks “Face-Lifts are the New Horror”,” Broward Palm Beach Blog, February 13, 2015
2015  Laster, Paul. “John Waters, “Beverly Hills John”,” Time Out New York, February 4, 2015

2015 Yerebakan, Osman Can. “New York – john Waters: “Beverly Hills John” at Marianne Boesky Gallery Through February 14, 2015,” Art Observed, February 2, 2015

2015 Movie and Sports Exhibitions Shine At Chelsea Winter Shows, Glenwood NYC, January 30, 2015

2015 McDonald, James. “17th annual benefit for Visual AIDS,” Out, January 29. 2015
2015 Ebony, David. “David Ebony’s Top 10 New York Gallery Shows for January,” Artnet News, January 27, 2015

2015 Chu, Christie. “Buy an Ed Ruscha or Hans Haacke Artwork for $85,” Artnet News, January 23, 2015 ArtAddict Staff. “John Waters,” ArtAddict, January 2015

2015 Sullivan, Maureen. “X-rated to G with John Waters,” Artlog, January 15, 2015
2015 New York Photo Review Staff. “John Waters Beverly Hills John,” The New York Photo Review, January 2015

2015 Sancken, Kristin. “JOHN WATERS ASKS “MUST I GIVE MY ENTIRE LIFE’S WORK A FACELIFT?,” Whitewall Magazine, January 22, 2015

2015  Kinsella, Eileen. “John Waters on Profanity, Plastic Surgery for Pets, and Justin Bieber, Artnet News, January 21, 2015

2015 Mackey, Chloe. “John Waters Photoshops Himself For His Latest Exhibitions, Pokes Fun of Hollywood,” Opening Ceremony, January 14, 2015

2015 Payne, Solana. “NEW JOHN WATERS EXHIBIT,” Blacklist, January 13, 2015

2015 Purple DIARY – JOHN WATERS “BEVERLY HILLS JOHN” at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, Purple DIARY, January 13, 2015


2015 What if Intellectuals were treated like celebs?, The Art Newspaper, January 9, 2015


2015 Visionaire Recommends, Visionaire, January 9, 2015


2015 Wolfe, Alexandra. “John Waters Looks For Trouble,” Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2015


2015 Clarke, Bill. “Director John Waters Has A New Art Exhibit,” Hollywood Reporter, January 9, 2015 Fletcher, Adam. “john waters opens “Beverly hills john” in new york,” i-D, January 9, 2015


2015 Tarpinian, Katherine. “We Talked to John Waters About Facelifts, ‘Kiddie Flamingos,’ and His New Art Show,” The Creators Project, January 8, 2015

2015 Vogelson, Nick. “John Waters on Justin Bieber, Ansel Adams, and His New Show,” Document Journal, January 6, 2015


2015 DeVito, Lee. “John Waters to perform this year’s Dirty Show ... obviously,” Metro Times, January 6, 2015

2015 Tashjian, Rachel. “Start Your Year with an Unhealthy Dose of John Waters,” Vanity Fair, January 6, 2015

2015 Munro, Cait. “15 Things We’re Excited For in 2015,” Artnet News, January 1, 2015

2014 Bradley, Paige. “John Waters,” Artforum, December 29, 2014


2014 Johnson, Ken. “‘Disturbing Innocence’,” The New York Times, December 25, 2014


2014 Hayes, Britt. “John Waters is Remaking His Obscene Classic ‘Pink Flamingos’ With a Cast of Kids,” Screen Crush, December 24, 2014


2014 Shrayber, Mark. “John Waters Remade Pink Flamingos...With Kids!,” Jezebel, December 23, 2014

2014 John Waters reveals sequel to ‘Pink Flamingos’, Curatorial Collective, December 23, 2014

2014 Rickman, James. “Kiddie Flamingos” is a Real Thing Happening at John Waters’ Next Art Show,” Paper Magazine, December 23, 2014

2014 Tracer, Dan. “John Waters to Release Family-Friendly Remake of Pink Flamingos, You Know, For Kids,” Queerty, December 23, 2014

2014 Cooper, Anneliese. “Earthquakes Threaten “David,” $100M Cézanne Sold in Secret, and More,” Artinfo, December 22, 2014

2014 Scharper, Julie. “John Waters creates a version of shocking cult classic ‘Pink Flamingos’ -- for kids,” The Baltimore Sun, December 22, 2014


2014 Holcomb-Holland, Lori. “It’s ‘Pink Flamingos,’ But, You Know, For Kids,” The New York Times, December 21, 2014

2014 Saltz, Jerry. “John Waters is a National Hero,” Vulture, December 17, 2014

2014 Rickman, James. “ John Waters on Toy Guns, Satanic Nativity Scenes and Spreading Peverted Holiday Cheer in Troubled Times,” Paper Magazine, December 10, 2014

2014 Soloway, Diane. “Family Affair,” W Magazine, December 2014

2014 Cooper, Anneliese. “John Waters Offers Useful, If Filthy, Advice at FotoFocus,” Artinfo, October 12, 2014

2014 Pinkerton, Nick. “Water’s World,” Artforum, September 5, 2014

2014 Grow, Kory. “John Waters Looks Back: ‘I Was Worse Than Ed Wood’,” Rolling Stone, September 5, 2014

2014 Dollar, Steve. “John Waters Retrospective Opens at Film Society of Lincoln Center,” The Wall Street Journal, September 4, 2014

2014 Ryzik, John. “Stories Writ in Eyebrow Pencil – John Waters Riff on His 50-Year Retrospective,” The New York Times, September 4, 2014

2014 Varinsky, Dana. “Catching Up with John Waters,” Time Out New York, September 3, 2014

2014 John Waters Hitchhikes Across America and Lives to Write About it, NPR, interview, June 10, 2014

2014 Miller, M.H. “One Man’s Trash Is Now a National Treasure: John Waters Discovers America,” New York Observer, June 9, 2014

2014 Parker, Guy. "Candid Camera: John Waters and Bad DIrector's Chair," ARTslant, February 27, 2014

2014 Kiyozumi, AJ, “John Waters at Sprüth Mages,” Berlin Art Link, February 10, 2014

2014 Abeltshauser, Thomas: “Der Herr des schlechten Geschmacks”, Monopol No 2/2014, February 2014, pp. 36-47.

2014 Vorreyer, Thomas: “John Waters mit This Filthy World auf Tour”, Spex, Online, 6 January, 2014

2013 Trebay, Guy: “John Waters Offers Season’s Greeting With a Wink”, The New York Times, Online, 6 December, 2013

2013 Thompson, Elizabeth: “John Waters on his One-Man Christmas Show and the Horrors of Living Nativity Scenes”, Paper, Online, 9 December, 2013

2013 Waters, John: “John Waters,” Artforum International, vol. 52, no 4, December, 2013, p. 57.

2012 King, Jennifer, “Houston: John Waters, McClain Gallery,” Artforum, Summer 2012

2012 Daniel, Drew, “Experience & Innocence,” frieze, June 2012

2012 Jurgensen, John, “John Waters: Subversive Success,” The Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2012

2012 Young, Susan C., “D’oh! Newsmakers who’ve created a stir on ‘The Simpsons’,” MSN, February 17,2012

2012 Stanley, Caroline, ”Check Out John Waters’ Inspiration Board,” Flavorwire, February 7, 2012

2012 Fernandez, Jay A. and Daniel Miller, “Anchor Bay Films Grabs Rights to Sundance Horror Film ‘Excision’,” The Hollywood Reporter, February 7, 2012

2012 Wilberding, Kurt, “Gallery Hoopping with John Waters,” The Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2012

2012 John Waters’ Claim to Fame, GayRVA.com, January 24, 2012

2012 The Campy and Kitschy Films of John Waters, GayRVA.com, January 23, 2012

2012 John Waters- Looking Through a Glass or Onion, Time Out Perth, January 23, 2012

2012 Sundance at a Glance, Spread Art Culture, January 20, 2012

2012 Fitts, Alexis, “Meet the Filth Master: John Waters to be Featured at the Sonoma International Film Festival,” Sonoma Patch, January 5, 2012

2012 King, Loren, ”Conversations with Provincetown’s divine John Waters collected in new book,” Wicked Local Provincetown, January 5, 2012

2012 Carrier-Botts, Emily, “Film Festival honors Waters: ‘Pop of Trash’ to perform,” Sonoma News, January 5, 2012

2012 Kleinschmidt, Janice, “Deep Waters: James Egan has the film impresario John Waters covered,” Palm Springs Life, January 2012

2011 Kois, Dan, “The Top 10 Top 10 lists of 2011,” The 6th Floor: NY Times, December 29, 2011

2011 A Typically quirky, raunchy John Waters Christmas, the Baltimore Sun, December 22, 2011

2011 Top 10 Holiday Cards We received this year—From John Waters to Phyllis Diller to The White House, Paper Magazine, December 21, 2011

2011 Crook, Phillip B., “’Flue Queen’: John Waters Explores Having Sex in a Chimney,” The Huffington Post, December 19, 2011

2011 Kirschbaum, Jed, ”A John Waters Christmas,” The Baltimore Sun, December 19, 2011

2011 Goings On About Town: Night Life, Rock and Pop, The New Yorker, December 19, 2011

2011 A John Waters Christmas, Flavorpill, December 19, 2011

2011 Becker, Chris, “The Awkward, sometimes pious, mostly hilarious & occasionally arousing holiday CD ever: It’s A John Waters Christmas,” Culture Map: Austin, December 18, 2011

2011 Edelson, Sharon, ”John Waters Puts His Own Slant on the Christmas Special,” WWD, December 13, 2011

2011 Feldman, Adam, “The Hot Seat: John Waters,” Time Out New York, December 12, 2011

2011 Perry, Kevin, “London gets a John Waters Christmas,” GQ, December 5, 2012

2011 Reed, James, “Twisted holiday tales in ‘A John Waters Christmas’,” The Boston Globe, December 4, 2011

2011 Waters, John, “The Best Films of 2011,” Artforum, December 2011

2011 Edgecliffe-Johnson, Andrew, “Still Waters,” Slate, November 20, 2011

2011 Siegler, Mara, ”John Waters Sings Justin Bieber’s ‘Drummer Boy’ on the Subway,” NY Mag, November 16, 2011

2011 Berman, Judy, “Art inspired by John Waters’ Favorite Muse, Divine,” Flavorwire, November 15, 2011

2011 Pini, Gary, ”Occupy Wall Street’s International Day of Action + John Waters’ Christmas Show = Eight Items or Less,” Paper Magazine, November 15, 2011

2011 Goings on About Town: Galleries – Downtown, The New Yorker, May 9, 2011, p. 13

2011 Role Models, Art Review, April 2011, p 59.

2011 Combs, Marianne, “No, it’s no joke – John Waters to lord over Walker”, MPRnews, April 1, 2011,

2011 Smith, Tim. “’Seeing Now’ is a potent and powerful tour of American photography,” The Baltimore Sun, February 17, 2011.

2010 Mollet, John. John Waters: The Icon,” Whitewall, Fall 2010, p. 74 - 77

2010 John Waters, Artforum, December 2010, pp 43

2010 Rugarber, Laura A. “John Waters on Role Models, Baltimore and Why Pornography is Art,” The Wall Street Journal, October 7, 2010.

2010 Piepenburg, Erik. “Loving the Lowbrow (It has its own hall of fame)” New York Times, September 2, 2010.

2010 Yardley, Jonathen “John Water’s “Role Models” reviewed by Jonathen Yardley” The Washington Post, June 20, 2010.

2010 Role Models, The Washington Post, June 2, 2010.

2010 Waters, John. “Role Models,” TimeOut New York, May 20-26, 2010.

2010 Giuliano, Mike. “Visual Arts: Navigating Murky Waters at C. Grimaldis,” Howard County Times, February 11, 2010

2010 Wexler, Laura. “Artist Provocateur,” Style Magazine, February, 2010

2009 Levi, Lawrence. "Inside Man," Modern Painters, September, 2009

2009 Maul, Tim. “John Waters,” Art in America, June/July, 2009

2009 John Waters, The New Yorker, April 27, 2009

2009 Kley, Elisabeth. “Gotham Art and Theater,” artnet, April 24, 2009

2009 Gartenfeld, Alex. “Now Water-Based,” Interview, April 8, 2009

2009 Walters, Ben. “When John Waters met the art grannies,” The Guardian, April 9, 2009

2008 Bonetti, David. “Waters’ campy humor is not for weat stomachs,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 12, 2008

2007 Waters, John. “Best of 2007: Film,” ArtForum, December 2007, pp.61

2007 Waters, John. “Guest Lecture,” Artillery, September 2007, pp. 28-29

2007 Messing, Nicholas. “John Waters: Everything is Eliminated,” Provincetown Magazine, June 14, 2007

2006 Sonnenborn, Katie Stone. “John Waters Artiste-Directeur,” Pitch, Fall 2006, pp. 16-19

2006 Baker, R.C. “Laugh Till You Cry,” The Village Voice, May 10-16, 2006

2006 John Waters, The New Yorker, May 8, 2006.

2006 Robinson, Andrew. “Shocking, Awful Delights,” Gay City news, May 4-10, 2006.

2006 Valdez, Sarah. Reviews, Paper Magazine, April 2006, p. 140

2005 Wyszpolski, Bondo. “John Waters: Change of Life,” The Easy Reader (Los Angeles), December 8, 2005

2005 Reynolds, Christopher. “Newport Beach loves that dirty Waters,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 11, 2005

2005 Knight, Christopher. “Waters’ stills do run deep,” Los Angeles Times, November 6, 2005, p. E59

2005 Sokol, Robert. “Still Life: Bridging Art and Film Leaves an Untroubled Waters,” Pink, Fall 2005

2005 Reynolds, Christopher. “Provocateur Waters charms the O.C.,” Los Angeles Times, October 31, 2005

2005 Strohl, Mike. “Life After Trash,” Metropolitan Magazine, May/June, 2005

2004 Cotter, Holland. “Review: Election,” The New York Times, October 19, 2004

2004 Pollack, Barbara. “John Waters at the New Museum,” Art in America, September 2004

2004 Paper’s Top 20, Paper Magazine, September 2004

2004 Kelsey, John. “John Waters, New Museum of Contemporary Art,” Artforum, Summer 2004

2004 Spinelli, Claudia. “Kunst: Ekelhaft Gut,” Die Weltwoche, May 27, 2004

2004 Hackett, Regina. “Movie director John Waters' art is in the spotlight at Greg Kucera,” Seattle Post Intelligencer, April 9, 2004

2004 Interview by Selma Blair. “John Waters: the den mother of society's weird and wonderful outcasts gets a hanging.” Interview, March 2004

2004 Phillips, Tony. “Indie Film's Bad Boy John Waters Talks About His Foray Into the Art World,” IndieWire, March 2004

2004 Stern, Steven. “Camp in Session: John Waters’s photographs give bad taste a good name at The New Museum,” Time Out New York, February 19-26, 2004

2004 Camhi, Leslie. “Still Waters: As a photographer, the filmmaker continues to make deliciously perverse ‘little movies’,” The Village Voice, February 13, 2004

2004 Essence of John Waters: Shock, The New York Times, February 6, 2004

2004 Cotter, Holland. “In Photos as Well as Films, John Waters Blithely Puts His Worst Foot Forward,” The New York Times, February 6, 2004

2004 Rimanelli, David. “Preview Winter 2004: John Waters,” Artforum, January 2004

2003 Hastreiter, Kim. “Booty Call: Dinner Is Served,” Paper Magazine, September 2003

2003 Slonim, Jeffrey. “Waters’ Edge,” Paper Magazine, May 2003

2003 Patel, Alpesh. “Curators Pick: John Waters” New Museum.org, April 2003

2003 Saltz, Jerry. “Film Comment: At the Movies With John Waters” The Village Voice & Artnet, March 12, 2003

2003 John Waters, The New Yorker, March 10, 2003

2003 McCormick, Carlo. “Hot Waters,” Paper Magazine, February 2003

2002 Dawson, Jessica. “The Low Road to High Art: John Waters’s Stills-Lifes,” The Washington Post, November 14, 2002

2002 Newill, Eric. “John Waters: Boom! Town,” Ocean Drive/Art Basel/Miami Beach, p. 82

2002 Hamlin, Jesse. “Film director John Waters’ photography expands scope of his satire,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 20, 2002

2002 Bonetti, David. “John Waters' still images at Bransten are simply divine,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 16, 2002

2002 Stoilas, Helen. “John Waters, Straight,” Art & Auction, January 2002

2001 Cotter, Holland. “Skank,” The New York Times, June 1, 2001

2001 John Waters Photographer, Photo France, January/February 2001

2000 Aletti, Vince. The Village Voice, December 12, 2000

2000 The New Yorker, December 11, 2000

2000 Photography: Still Waters,” New York Magazine, December 4, 2000

2000 Wehr, Anne. Time Out New York, November 16, 2000

2000 Vogue Nippon, January 2000

2000 Shimada, Junko. Studio Voice, January 2000

2000 Shoki, Reiko. Gyozu, January 2000

1999 Tokyo Classified, November 1999

1999 Tatsuta, Atsuko. Figaro, October 2, 1999

1999 Henry, Clare. The Herald, June 18, 1999

1999 Wilson Lloyd, Ann. “An Arts Colony Turns Up the Esthetics for Its 100th,” The New York Times, June 13, 1999

1999 Aubron, Herve. “La cerise sur le scato,” Liberation, May 31, 1999

1999 Ledent, Phillipe. Le Matin, May 1999

1998 Aletti, Vince. The Village Voice, December 1, 1998

1998 John Waters, The New Yorker, November 11, 1998

1998 Yablonsky, Linda. “John Waters “Marks”,” Time Out New York, July 16-23, 1998

1997 Beatrice, Luca. “John Waters,” Blue, December 1997

1997 Shelley, Jim. “Divine madness,” The Guardian Weekend, November 8, 1997

1997 Rian, Jeff. “Biennale de Lyon,” Flash Art, October 1997

1997 Frank, Peter. “Art Picks of the Week,” LA Weekly, July 11-17, 1997

1996 Hitz, Walter and Sahini, Ashkan. “Kunst wird,” Amica, May 1997

1996 Hermes, Manfred. “Face Lifting,” SPEX, May 1997

1996 Photographie Detailsucht, SZ Magazin, April 25, 1997

1997 Catacchio, Antonello. “Mondo Waters,” Il Manifesto, March 22, 1997

1997 Nikitin, Nikolaj. “Cool Waters,” Der Schnitt, March 1997

1997 Goldin, Nan. “Best of 1996,” The Village Voice, January 7, 1997

1997 DeLand, Colin. “A Conversation with John Waters,” Parkett, No. 49, 1997

1996 Halle, Howard. “John Waters” Time Out New York, November 28, 1996

1996 Pedersen, Victoria. “The World According To Waters,” Paper, November 1996

1995 Hainley, Bruce. “John Waters,” Artforum, September 1995

1995 John Waters, The New Yorker, May 22, 1995

1995 Aletti, Vince. “Photo: John Waters,” The Village Voice, May 9, 1995

1994 Interview by David Hockney, Interview, April 1994

1995 Lieberman, Rhonda and Rimanelli, David. “Gore Girl! – Interview with John Waters,” Artforum, March 1994