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Selected Catalogs and Books


2018 Schor, Gabriele (ed.): 'Selected and Related: Works by Louise Lawler Acquired by the Sammlung Verbund Collection, Vienna and Others.‘,  The Sammlung Verbund Collection, Vienna.

2017 Marcoci, Roxana (ed.): 'Louise Lawler: Receptions.‘, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

2014 Baudoin, Tanja and Sven Lutticken  (eds.): 'Louise Lawler: A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture.' If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want To Be Part

2013 Kaiser, Philip (ed.): ‘Louise Lawler: Adjusted.’ Museum Ludwig, Cologne and Prestel Verlag, Munich, London, New York

2013 Molesworth, Helen/Walsh, Taylor (ed.): 'Louise Lawler', Essays and interviews by Andrea Fraser, Kate Linker, Rosalind Krauss, Douglas Crimp, Louise Lawler, Bruce Hainley, George Baker, Rosalyn Deutsche, Helen Molesworth, and Stephen Melville. October files 14. MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. London, England.

2013 Fleming, Jeff: 'Louise Lawler', in 'Des Moines Art Center Collects', Edited by Lea Rosson Delong, Des Moines Arts Center: 192-193.

2013 Day, Charlotte, (ed.): 'Reinventing the Wheel: The Readymade Century', Monash Museum of Art, Caufield East, Australia

2013 Wells, Rachel, (ed.): ‘Scale in Contemporary Sculpture‘, Ashgate Publishing, Surrey, England: 176, 119-20.

2012 Elger, Dietmar (ed.): 'Louise Lawler and/or Gerhard Richter', Essay by Tim Griffin. Schirmer/Mosel Munich.

2012 Rosenthal, Mark, et al., 'Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years', The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, p.114.

2012 Engler, Martin, (ed.): 'Painting in Photography', Städel Museum, Frankfurt and Kehrer Verlag, Berlin, p. 78-83, cover.

2012 Kraus, Karola, ed.: 'Museum of Desire', DISTANZ Verlag, Berlin, pp. 50-52.

2011 Defining Contemporary Art: 25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks, Phaidon Press Limited. London. pp. 362-363.

2010 Ratibor, Stefan (ed.): 'Roy Lichtenstein: Still Lifes', Gagosian Gallery. New York. pp. 200-215.

2009 Eklund, Douglas: 'The Pictures Generation. 1974 -1984', The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art. New York.

2009 Roselione-Valadez, Juan (ed.): 'Beg Borrow and Steal', Rubell Family Collection. Miami. pp. 146-149.

2008 An Unruly History of the Readymade, Fundación Jumex. Mexico City. pp. 70-71.

2008 Beck, Hubert/Engelhard, Günter: 'Fotografie‘. Hatje Cantz Verlag. Ostfildern. pp. 156-157.

2008 Heiser, Jörg: 'Art Versus Market: The Logic of Unseizable Gratification. Things That Matter in Contemporary Art'. Sternberg Press. Berlin. pp. 248-251.

2008 Schor, Gabriele (ed.): ‘Held Together with Water'. Museum of Modern Art. Istanbul. pp. 54-61.

2007 Collected Visions: Modern and Contemporary Works from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection', Pera Museum and JPMorgan Chase. Istanbul. pp. 88.

2007 Documenta 12', Documenta und Museum Fridericianum. Kassel. pp. 144-145.

2007 The Price of Everything: Perspectives on the Art Market, Whitney Museum of American Art. New York. pp. 18-21.

2007 Pop Art Is, Gagosian Gallery. London. pp. 128-137.

2007 Louise Lawler: The Tremaine Pictures 1984 – 2007, Geneva: BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services

2006 Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (Looking Back), Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts

2005 Marzona, Daniel: Conceptual Art, Cologne

2004 Louise Lawler and Others, Basel: Museum für Gegenwartskunst

2003 After the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

2003 The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California

2003 Pelzer, Birgit: Interpositions. The Work of Louise Lawler, Exit Press

2002 Osborne, Peter (ed.): Conceptual Art, Phaidon Press, London

2002 Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2002 Open House, (essay by Adam Budak) Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg

2002 Photography Transformed, (essay by Klaus Kertess), New York: Harry N. Abrams

2001 American Visionaries, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art

2001 Televisions, Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien

2001 Art and Artifact – The Museum as Medium, London: James Putnam Thames & Hudson

2001  Grosenick, Uta (ed.): Women Artists, Cologne: Taschen

2001 American Art,, Prague : The Centre of Contemporary Art

2001 Riemschneider, Burkhard and Uta Grosenick (ed.):  Art Now, Cologne: Taschen

2000 Varnedoe, Kirk/ Paola Antonelli/ Joshua Siegel (ed.): Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA Since 1980, Museum of Modern Art, New York

2000 Louise Lawler: An Arranagement of Pictures, (essay by Johannes Meinhardt, interview with Louise Lawler by Douglas Crimp),  Assouline, Paris/ New York

1999 The Museum As Muse, (text by Kynaston McShine) New York: Museum of Modern Art

1999 Riemschneider, Burkhard & Uta Grosenick (ed.): Art at the Turn of the Millennium, Cologne: Taschen

1998 Saxenhuber, Hedwig  (ed.):  A Spot on the Wall, (essays by Rosalind Krauss, Helmut Draxler, Claudia Jottes) Cologne: Oktagon

1998 Emotion, (essays by Daniel Birnbaum, Carl Freedamn, Iwona Blazwick), Hamburg: Deichtorhallen

1997 Louise Lawler, Monochrome, (essay by Phyllis Rosenzweig), Washington:  the Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,

1996 Jurassic Technologies Revenant, for 10th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney

1995 The End(s) of the Museum, Barcelona: Fundacio Antoni Tapies

1994 Periz , Ingrid, Louise Lawler, Art + Text, vol. 49

1994 Louise Lawler – For Sale, (essays by Dietmar Elger, Thomas Weski), Leipzig: Reihe Cantz

1993 Thorkildsen, Asmund (ed.): Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Kunstnernes, Oslo

1989 A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, (essays by Ann Goldstein and Howard Singerman), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Cambridge: MIT Press

1988 Investigations (essay by Jack Bankowsky) ICA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

1986 Art and Its Double:  A New York Perspective , (essay by Dan Cameron) Barcelona: Fundacio Caixa de Pensions

1987 Rosevear, Cora: Projects:  Louise Lawler The Museum of Modern Art, New York (brochure)

1987 Implosion:  A Postmodern Perspective, (essays by Lars Nittve, Germano Celant, Kate Linker, Craig Owens) Stockholm: Moderna Museet

1982 Documenta 7: A Story, stationary and envelopes

1982  De Appel, no 1, Amsterdam

1987 Margo Leavin Gallery Gift Certificates Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1987 De Appel Amsterdam, no. 2

1986 Printed Matter 10th Anniversary Catalog, New York: Printed Matter

1984 Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; David R. Godine, Boston

1983 Art and Auction, February


Articles and Reviews


2019  Nickas, Bob: 'Review: ‘She’s Here,’ Spike Art Magazine (Winter), pp. 163-164

2017 Kitnick, Alex: 'Louise Lawler: Museum of Modern Art,' Artforum (November), pp. 235-236

2017 Korman, Sam: 'Louise Lawler,' Flash Art (September/October), p. 93

2015 Springerin. Spring 2015, pp. 16-17, 86, 93, cover

2014 Scheller, Jörg: 'Louise Lawler at Museum Ludwig, Cologne,' Frieze d/e (March/April), pp. 116-7

2014 Boucher, Brian: ‘The Lookout’, Artinamericamagazine.com, 19 June 2014.

2014 Laluyan, Oscar: ‘PICTURE THIS: Drone Together at Metro Pictures’, ArteFuse.com, 09 June

2014 Art in America: cover, April.

2014 Scheller, Jörg: ‘Louise Lawler at Museum Ludwig, Cologne,’ Frieze d/e (March/April): pp. 116 -117.

2013 Hafner, Hans-Jürgen: 'Das Beste vom Besten’, Kunstverein Düsseldorf.

2013 Rosenberg, Karen: 'Louise Lawler/Liam Gillick at Casey Kaplan', The New York Times, 22 November 22

2013 Nixon, Mignon: 'Preview: Louise Lawler: Adjusted.’ Artforum (September), p. 198.

2013 Faucon, Sébastien and Carine Fol: 'The Cause of Things', CNAP Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, pp. 42, 34.

2012 Crimp, Douglas: 'Indirect Answers', Artforum, vol 51, no 1, September, pp. 502-505.

2012 Hafner, Hans-Jürgen: ' Curator’s Key', Spike (Winter), p. 44-5.

2012 Mclean-Ferris, Laura: 'Louise Lawler: No Drones’, Art Review, January – February, p. 103.

2012 Rosentahl, Mark u.a.: ' Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years', The Metropoltian Museum of Art, New York, p. 114.

2012 Gegen die Wand, Monopol (February), pp. 42-47.

2011 Blondin, Philippe, ed.: 'After Images', Jewish Museum of Belgium, Brussels, pp. 84-85.

2011 Defining Contemporary Art: 25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks', Phaidon Press Limited, London, pp. 362-363.

2011 Rosenberg, Karen: 'Louise Lawler: Fitting at Metro Pictures', The New York Times, May 2, pp. C25.

2010 Ratibor, Stefan, ed. Roy Lichtenstein: Still Lifes, Gagosian Gallery, New York, pp. 200-215.

2009 Der Kunstwald lebt, nzz.ch, 26 October.

2009 Fotografisch zu Gast bei Yves Saint Laurent, Berliner Morgenpost, 28 October, p. 20.

2009 Mit dem Willen zum Spagat', artnet.de, 31 December 2009.

2009 Cotter, Holland: 'At the Met, Baby Boomers Leap Onstage', The New York Times, 24 April, pp. C27, C30.

2009 Eklund, Douglas: ' The Pictures Generation 1974-1984', The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

2009 Graw, Isabelle: 'A Stroke of Genius: On Louise Lawler at Sprüth Magers, Berlin', Texte zur Kunst, December, pp. 132-135.

2009 Lorch, Catrin: 'Wo Mondrian schlief. Daheim bei Yves: Neues von Louise Lawler bei Sprüth Magers', Süddeutsche Zeitung, no. 227, 2-4 October, p. 21.

2009 Saltz, Jerry: 'Great Artists Steal: The Met’s Pictures Show Captures a Moment When Borrowing Became Cool', New York, 18 May, pp. 66-67.

2009 Schjeldahl, Peter: 'Alien Emotions: Pictures Art Revisited', The New Yorker, 4 May, pp. 74-75.

2009 Schreiber, Daniel: 'Portfolio: Louise Lawler', Monopol, no. 9, September, pp. 68-79.

2008 Chan, Dawn: 'Critic’s Pick: Louise Lawler at Metro Pictures', artforum.com, 21 May.

2008 Coomer, Martin: 'Louise Lawler', Time Out London, 7 January.

2008 Ebner, Jörg: 'Wenn ein Lampenschirm ins Bild kriecht', Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 5 January.

2008 Nickas, Bob: 'Best of 2008: Louise Lawler. Sucked In. Blown Out. Obviously Indebted or One Foot in Front of the Other’, Artforum, December, p. 293.

2008 Schwenke-Runkel, Ingeborg: 'Heute denken, morgen fertig', Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, no. 92, 19-20 April.

2007 Louise Lawler, Monopol kompakt, no. 1, Sommer.

2007 Anastas, Rhea: 'Her Kindling Voice', Texte zur Kunst, issue 67, September, p. 160.

2007 Birnbaum, Daniel: 'String Theory', Artforum, September, pp. 406-414.

2007 Documenta 12.' Documenta und Museum Fridericianeum, Kassel: 144-145.

2007 Kroknes, Andrea: 'Where is Meaning? ', Held Together With Water, Sammlung Verbund, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, pp. 300-313.

2007 Molesworth, Helen: 'Hidden Agendas', Frieze, September, pp. 140-141.

2007 Sequence 1: Selections from the Collection of Francois Pinault', Palazzo Grassi, Venice and Skira Editore, Mila, pp. 104.105, 122-131.

2006 Haverkamp, Anselm: 'Den Konflikt im Blick', Texte zur Kunst, December, pp. 208-214.

2006 Molesworth, Melen, ed.: 'Twice Untitled ant Other Pictures (Looking Back) ', essays by Rosalyn Deutsche, Ann Doldsetin und Helen Molesworth, The MIT Press, Cambridge, p. 195.

2006 Hichdorfer, Joachim: 'Louise Lawler', Camera Austria, vol. 92, pp. 9-22 and cover.

2006 Swenson, Kristen: 'Louise Lawler Looks Back', Art in America, December, pp. 116-121, 168

2005 Hochdörfer, Achim: "Louise Lawler", in: Camera Austria, Graz, S. 9-21.

2005 Crüwell, Konstanze: 'Im Treppenhaus', Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, no. 133, 11 June, p. 32.

2005 Goldstein, Ann: 'BEST OF 2005', Artforum International, December, p. 246.

2005 Hatje Cantz Verlag, Flashback: 'Revisting the Art of the 1980s', Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Switzerland.

2005 Karcher, Eva: 'Gar nichts mehr heilig', Süddeutsche Zeitung, no. 199, 30 August, p. 12.

2004 Hainley, Bruce: "Mata Hari Takes a Picture: Louise Lawler", in: Frieze, London, p. 80 – 87.

2004 Hafner, Hans-Jürgen: "Über Louise Lawler" in: Artist, Bremen, p. 20 – 23.

2004 Heartney , Eleanor: "Louise Lawler – casser le cube blanc", in: Art Press, english edition, p. 36 – 42.

2003 Yang Hae-gyu, "Ecology and Art Contained in the Frames" Art in Culture

2002 "Extension" Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

2001 Johannes Meinhardt, "Erhellende Konstellation" Kunstforum, January-March

2001 Hainley, Bruce: "Louise Lawler"  frieze, January-February

2000 Hainley, Bruce: "Best of 2000" Artforum, December

2000 Leguillon, Pierre:  "Le Début d'une Histoire et La Fin d'une Autre" Art Press (Spècial)

2000 Buchmann, Sabeth: "Auf Den Zweiten Blick" Texte zur Kunst, September

2000 Alimanestianu, Irina: "Louise Lawler at Richard Telles Fine Art" Art Issues, Summer #63

2000 Sundell, Margaret: "Louise Lawler; Metro Pictures" Artforum, April

2000 Pagel, David: "Beauty, Through the Eye of Its Beholder" Los Angeles Times, February 18

1999 Molesworth, Helen: "Louise Lawler at Skarstedt Fine Arts" Documents

1999 Kroksnes, Andrea: "Louise Lawler: Specters of Modernism" Parkett, no. 57

1999 Ward, Frazer: "Critical Mass" Frieze, Summer

1999 Smith, Roberta: "Louise Lawler: Skarstedt Fine Art" The New York Times, April 23

1997 Baker, George: "Paint, Walls, Pictures: Something Always Follows Something Else. She Wasn't Always a Statue" Texte zur Kunst, #26

1997 Alberro, Alexander: "Louise Lawler: Metro Pictures" Artforum, Summer, 1997

1997 Molesworth, Helen: "Louise Lawler: Metro Pictures, New York" Frieze, May

1997 Schwendener, Martha: "Louise Lawler" Time Out New York, March 6-13

1997 Goldberg , Rose Lee: "Louise Lawler's Art Lessons" Mirabella, February

1996 Krauss , Rosalind: "Louise Lawler:  Souvenir Memories" Aperture, #145

1995 Hermes, Manfred: "Louise Lawler – Monika Sprüth" Flash Art, March-April, Vol. 28, No. 181

1994  Grand Street, vol. 13 no. 3, Winter

1994 Peter Doroshenko, "A Part of the Picture" Grand Street, Winter, Vol. 13, No. 3

1994 Tory Dent, "Alreadymade 'Female' Louise Lawler" Parachute, No.76, Oct/Nov/ Dec

1994 Abigail Solomon-Godeau, "'The Label Show': Contemporary Art and the Museum" Art in America, October

1994 Martha Buskirk, "Interviews with Sherrie Levine, Louise Lawler, and Fred Wilson" October, vol. 70

1993 "On the Museum's Ruins", a publication by Douglas Crimp with photographs by Louise Lawler Cambridge: MIT Press

1993 Sichel, Berta: "Louise Lawler" Poliester, Fall, Vol II, No 7

1992 Meinhardt, Johannes: "Erhellung der Situation. Louise Lawler Situierungen und Fotographien von Situierungen" Kunstbulletin, No. 2 1992

1992 Schneider, Maria: "Louise Lawler" Metropolis, February 1992

1991 Meinhardt, Johannes: "The Places of Art-The Photography of Louise Lawler" Hugo-Erfurth-Preis, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen

1991 Smith, Roberta: "Art in Review: Louise Lawler" New York Times, May 31

1991 Criqui , Jean-Pierre: "Louise Lawler. Critique d'art" Art Press, Jan.

1990 Barr, Peter: "Deconstructing. Louise Lawler at the MFA" Art New England, December 1990/ January 1991

1990 Fehlau, Fred: "Louise Lawler Doesn't Take Pictures" Artscribe, May

1989 Storr, Robert: "Louise Lawler: Unpacking the White Cube" Parkett. No 22

1989 "Louise Lawler" Kunstforum, November/December

1989 Johnson, Ken: "Louise Lawler at Metro Pictures" Art in America, November

1989 Decter, Joshua: "Louise Lawler" Flash Art, October

1988 "Louise Lawler, Project for Flash Art" Flash Art, November/December 1988

1988 Durante, Alfred: "Louise Lawler" Arts Magazine, April

1988 Javauet, Patrick: "Knight, Lawler: les lecons d'une confrontation Maison de la Culture et de la Communication" ArtPress, Paris, January

1988 "Project For Flash Art" Flash Art, November/December

1988 Hart, Claudia: "Louise Lawler, Museum of Modern Art" Artscribe, London, January/ February

1987 Meinhardt, Johannes:"Louise Lawler:  As Serious as a Circus" Kunstforum, October/November

1987 Fisher, Jean: "Louise Lawler" Artforum, April

1987 Parachute, cover, no. 46, March/April/May

1987 Bankowsky, Jack: "Spotlight:  Louise Lawler" Flash Art, April

1987 Avgikos, Jan: "Louise Lawler, Metro Pictures" C Magazine, Toronto, Summer

1987 "Louise Lawler des lieux ou des oeuvres d'art ont ete installees" ArtPress, Paris, No. 113

1986 John Russell, "Louise Lawler" The New York Times, 30 January

1986 "Arranged for Living" File Magazine Toronto, December 25, #26

1986 "Project" Artforum, November

1986 Linker, Kate: "Rites of Exchange" Artforum, November

1985 Fraser, Andrea: "In and Out of Place" Art in America, June

1985 Silverthorne, Jeanne: "Louise Lawler, Metro Pictures" Artforum, April

1984 Cameron, Dan: "Four Installations: Francesc Torres, Merle Ukeles, Louise Lawler/Alan McCollum and Todt" Arts Magazine, December

1984 Lichtenstein, Therese: "Louise Lawler/Alan McCollum" Arts, December

1984 Linker, Kate: "Eluding Definition" Artforum, December

1984 "Louise Lawler Matrix 77" Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

1983 "An Arrangement of Pictures" October, no. 26, Fall

1983 Gintz, Claude: "A Pierre et Marie" Cover, Spring

1983 Lichtenstein, Therese: "Louise Lawler" Arts Magazine, February

1983 Eisenman , Stephen F.: "Louise Lawler" Arts Magazine, January

1982 "A Picture Is No Substitute For Anything" Wedge, no 2, fall

1982 Bellavance, Guy: "Dessaisissement et Reappropriation: du 'photographique' dans l'art americaine" Parachute, December/February 1982/83

1982 Smith, Roberta: "Didacticism, Material and Immaterial" Village Voice, December 21

1982 Buchloh, Benjamin: "Allegorical Procedures: Appropriation and Montage in Contemporary Art" Artforum, September