Selected Press
(interviews, major articles, reviews)
See biography for complete list.

2011

Lequeux, Emmanuelle. [Translation by Jessica Johnson] “Pour un art de la decroissance: des oeuvres recycles a partir de dechets”. Le Monde, January 13, 2011.         

2010

Anania, Katie. “Condensations of the Social”. Fluentcollab.org, July 30, 2010. http://www.fluentcollab.org/mbg/index.php/reviews/review/153/276.

Ewart, Nancy. “Mierle Laderman Ukeles at the SFAI: Monday, May 3rd.” examiner.com, May 2, 2010, http://ww.examiner.com/x-13996-SF-Museum-Examiner~y2010m5d2-Mierle-Laderman-Ukeles-at-the-SFAI-Monday-May-3rd.

Horn, Jordana. "Creative Creation: Exhibition Contemplates Genesis.” The Jewish Daily Forward, February 19, 2010.

“Participants’ Commitment to a Better World is an Integral Part of a Performance Art Installation at YU Museum.” spider.mc.yu.edu, February 5, 2010, http://spider.mc.yu.edu/news/index2.cfm.

Rabinowitz, Sima. "Mierle Laderman Ukeles - The Art of Repairing the World." The Yeshiva Museum Newsletter (Winter 2010): 8-9.

Santos. Dorothy."Future Perfect.” artpractical.com, May 19, 2010. http://www.artpractical.com/shotgun_reviews/Maintenance_Art.

Wasserman, Fred. "From Maintenance to Repair: Mierle Laderman Ukeles and Birthing Tikkun Olam" in Emily D. Bilski and Avigdor Shinan, Rupture and Repair: In Art, Judaism, and Society. Jerusalem: Adi Foundation, 2010, pp. 46-57.

2009

Liss, Andrea. Feminist Art and the Maternal. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2009, pp. 43-67.

Phillips, Patricia. "Sustaining Public Art.” Public Art Review 40 (Spring/Summer 2009): 22.

Ryan, Bartholomew. “Manifesto for Maintenance: A Conversation with Mierle Laderman Ukeles.” artinamerica.com, March 30, 2009, http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2009-03-20/draft-mierle-interview/

Wagner, Aleksandra and Carin Kuoni. Considering Forgiveness. New York, NY: Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, 2009, pp. 147-81, 249.

2008

Katchadourian, Nina. "Meeting of Minds.” Modern Painters (September 2008): 128.

Kenning, Dean. “Eco Art.” Art Monthly, no. 313 (February 2008): 1-4.

Schifrin, Dan. “Changing the World, One Mirror at a Time.” Voices from the Contemporary Jewish Museum, August 6, 2008, http://www.cmjvoices.blogspot.com/

Stanchfield, Natalie. "Interview with Mierle Laderman Ukeles.” http://www.artslant.com, June.

2007

Andrews, Max. “The Whole Truth.” frieze 108 (June-August 2007): 214-19.

Cash, Stephanie. “The Armory Show.” Art in America 95, no. 4 (April 2007): 33-35.

Cembalest, Robin. “Famous in 2112?” ARTnews 106, no. 10 (November 2007): 200-09

Cotter, Holland. “That Sanitation Truck Parked on the Pier? It’s Part of the Show.” The New York Times, February, 23, 2007, pp. E29, E40.

Leslie, Richard. “Art Fairs in New York City.” Art Nexus 6, no. 65, 2007, pp. 112-13.

Pasternak, Anne. Creative Time: The Book, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, NY, 2007, pp. 7, 94, 95, 129.

Ukeles, Mierle. “Garbage and Mirrors: A Self Reflection.” Sh’ma (June 2007): 12.

"Unveiling the Armory Show’s Unusual Centerpiece.” The New York Sun, February 14, 2007, p. 1.

Zimmer, Amy. “One city’s trash truck…” Metro NY, February 14, 2007, p.5.

2006

Cornwall, Regina. "Reinventing Maintenance with Artist Mierle Ukeles.” The Women's Media Center, December 14, 2006, http://www.womensmediacenter.com/ex/121406.html

Salazar, Erin. “Mierle Laderman Ukeles; Interview.” TGC (Spring/Summer 2006): 14-21.

2004

Daly, Michael. "Tribute tells whole truth in Bronx.” Daily News, Sunday, August 22, 2004, p. 6.

2002

Carr, C. "Waste Not! Fresh Kills Becomes an Urban Artwork.” Village Voice, May 28, 2002, p. 43.

Gablik, Suzi. "Art as Activism.” IONS Noetic Sciences Review, no. 62 (December 2002-February 2003): 28-31.

Kastner, Jeffrey. "The Department of Sanitation’s Artist in Residence.” The New York Times, May 19, 2002, pp. AR37, AR39.

Ukeles, Mierle. " Leftovers/It’s About Time For Fresh Kills.” Cabinet, no. 6 (Spring 2002): 17-20.

2001

Belasco, Daniel. "Learning From Landfill.” The Jewish Week, October 26, 2001, pp.35-36.

O’Connell, Kim A. "The Art in Decomposition.” Landscape Architecture 91, no. 8 (August 2001): 4, 84-85, 95.

2000

Finkelpearl,Tom. Dialogues in Public Art. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000, pp. 295-322.

Reardon, Valerie. "Reviews: Artworkers." Art Monthly 235 (April 2000): 22-23.

1999

Silverman, Tina. "What a Dump!” The Jerusalem Report, December 20, 1999, pp. 46-47.

1998

McNally, Owen. "Mining Performance.” The Hartford Courant, September 20,1998, pp. G1, G4.

Rosoff, Patricia. "The Radical Art of Caring.” The Hartford Advocate, September 24, 1998, p. 17.

Schwendener, Martha. "Eleanor Antin, ‘Portraits of 8 New York Women, 1970’ & Mierle Laderman Ukeles, 'Mainatenance Art Works, 1969-1979'." Time Out New York (June 4-11, 1998).

1997

Ashford, Doug. "Democracy is Empty." Documents, no. 10 (Fall 1997): 23-30.

Kwon, Miwon. "In Appreciation of Invisible Work: Mierle Laderman Ukeles and the Maintenance of the 'White Cube'." Documents, no. 10 (Fall 1997): 15-18.

Molesworth, Helen. "Work Stoppages: Mierle Laderman Ukeles' Theory of Labor Value." Documents, no. 10 (Fall 1997): 19-22.

Ukeles, Mierle Laderman. "Maintenance Art Activity (1973)." Documents, no. 10 (Fall 1997): 5-14.

1996

Yung, Susan. "Mierle Laderman Ukeles: All Systems Flow." Appearances, no. 23 (February 1996): 26-29.

1995

Oakes, Baile, ed. Sculpting with the Environment. New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995, pp.184-93.

"The Art of Maintaining Public Life: An Interview with Mierle Laderman Ukeles." On The Ground 1, no. 4 (1995): 1-4.

1994

Cembalest, Robin. "Talking Trash with Mierle Laderman Ukeles.” Forward, November 25, 1994, pp. 9-10.

1993

Barron, James. "Art Work Is (Yes Really) Garbage." The New York Times, June 10, 1993, pp. B1, B5.

1992

Matilsky, Barbara. "Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Reclaiming Waste." Fragile Ecologies, 1992.

1990

Ukeles, Mierle Laderman. "Sanitation Manifesto!” The Act 2, no. 1 (1990): 84-85.

1989

Lipson, Karin. "Graphic Garbage: The Gritty, Grimy Stuff of High Culture." New York Newsday, March 2, 1989, Part II.

Phillips, Patricia. "Public Art: Waste Not." Art in America 77, no. 2 (February 1989).

1987

Goncharov, Kathleen. "Art With Community.” Public Art Fund Newsletter (Winter 1987): 5.

Zetlin, Minda. "Garbage for art's sake." Games (October/November 1987).

1986

Kane, E.A. "Her Work Doesn't Go to Waste." Stroll (Winter 1986).

1984

Banes, Sally. "Disposing of a Cliché.” The Village Voice, September 25, 1984.

Brooke, James. "Sanitation Art Showings Brighten Workers’ Image.” The New York Times, September 10, 1984.

Colford, Paul D. "Cleaning Up Images.” Newsday, September 7, 1984.

Hogrefe, Jeffrey. "Homage To Garbage.” The Washington Post, September 10, 1984.

Levin. Kim. "Clean for a Day.” The Village Voice, September 25, 1984.

Moorman, Margaret. "The ‘Vasari Diary’ Sanitation Transformation.” ARTnews (November 1984).

“The Talk of the Town.” The New Yorker (September 24, 1984).

1978

Ukeles, Mierle Laderman. "Mikva Dreams -- A Performance." Heresies A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics: The Great Goddess, Spring 1978, pp. 52-54.