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Wangechi Mutu

 
2023
Roberta Smith
“Wangechi Mutu: An Imagined World Made Possible”
New York Times
March 3, 2023
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2022
Shirley Ngozi Nwangwa
"Wangechi Mutu Brings Her Sculptures to Storm King"
The New York Times
June 2, 2022
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2021
Faith Adiele
"Wangechi Mutu’s Sly and Imposing Takeover of a San Francisco Museum"
Hyperallergic
July 21, 2021
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Ted Loos
"The Light-Filled “Dream Studio” of Kenyan-American Artist Wangechi Mutu"
WSJ. Magazine
February 4, 2021
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Gabriella Angeleti and Helen Stolias
"Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend"
The Art Newspaper
May 14, 2021
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"Between the Earth and the Sky"
art21
July 21, 2021
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Jess Chen
"Wangechi Mutu"
The Brooklyn Rail
July 2021
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Wangechi Mutu’s alternative mythologies
The Economist
May 7, 2021
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Glen Helfand "Wangechi Mutu"
Artforum
May 7, 2021
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Faith Adiele
"Wangechi Mutu’s Sly and Imposing Takeover of a San Francisco Museum"
Hyperallergic
July 21, 2021
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Storm Ascher
"Artist Wangechi Mutu is Speaking. Are you Listening?"
Cultured Magazine
June 16, 2021
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2020
"Wangechi Mutu and Carrie Mae Weems on the Profound Impulse to Make Art"
Interview Magazine
December 7, 2020
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2019
Annalisa Quinn
“Artist Wangechi Mutu: ‘I wanted them to sit upright and unafraid’”
Financial Times
December 4, 2019
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“Wangechi Mutu’s Female Figures Grace The Met’s Façade”
The New Yorker
September 9, 2019
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Nancy Princenthal
“Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met”
The New York Times
September 5, 2019
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Eve MacSweeney
“Art Sentinel”
W Magazine
September, 2019
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Ariella Budick
“Whitney Biennial: an anthology of young America”
Financial Times
June 5, 2019
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2017
Katy Donoghue
“Wangechi Mutu Gets Closer to The Landscape That Speaks to Her in ‘Ndoro Na Miti’”
Whitewall Magazine
March 6, 2017
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Sean Gordon
"Wangechi Mutu Explores Afrofuturism and The New Humanism with Ndoro Na Miti"
Paste
February 12, 2017
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Thomas Gebremedhin
“Soapbox: The Columnists"
WSJ. Magazine
December / January 2017
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2015
Vicky Hallett
“A New Generation of African Artists Have a Bold Vision For the Future,” NPR,
NPR
December 27, 2015
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“In pictures: Challenging perceptions of Africa through art”
BBC
December 7, 2015
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2014
Lori Waxman
"Seductive Hells"
Chicago Tribune
November 26, 2014
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2013
Holland Cotter
"A Window, Not a Mirror"
The New York Times
October 11, 2013
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"Mutu's Enchanted Forest"
Art in America
March 2013
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Louisa Buck
"Mutable Montage"
The Art Newspaper
March 2013
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"Bodies Bright and Greater"
Harper's Magazine
January 2013
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Thomas J. Lax
"Previews"
Artforum
January 2013
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2012
Cary Leitzes
"Slight Reading"
Elle
December 2012
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David Pagel
"Review: Past, Present Collide in Wangechi Mutu's 'Nitarudi Ninarudi,'"
Los Angeles Times
November 29, 2012
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Karen Rosenberg
"Art in Review: Wangechi Mutu"
New York Times
November 12, 2010
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Lisa Paul Streitfeld
"Revolution in Baden-Baden: Wangechi Mutu Transforms Museum Row"
The Huffington Post
August 15, 2012
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2011
"It Was All A Dream"
Life+Times
September 19, 2011
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Lara Kristin Hemdon
"Wangechi Mutu"
Art Papers
2011
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2010
Anne Wehr
"Wangechi Mutu, 'Hunt Bury Flee'"
Time Out New York
November 18, 2010
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Melissa Stern
"Hunt, Bury, Flee: Drawings By Wangechi Mutu"
CityArts
November 2010
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Stephanie Cash
"Wangechi Mutu: Terrible Beauty"
Art in America
May 2010
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Bill Clarke
"Wangechi Mutu"
Modern Painters
April 23, 2010
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"Wangechi Mutu is Deutsche Bank's Artist of the Year 2010"
Wall Street Journal Blog
February 23, 2010
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Andrew M. Goldstein
"Wangechi Mutu wins Deutsche Bank 'Artist of the Year' Award"
artinfo.com
February 23 2010
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2009
Eve MacSweeney
"A Fertile Mind"
Vogue
April 2, 2009
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2008
Phylis Fong
"Wangechi Mutu: A Shady Promise"
Modern Painters
May 2008
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Simon Watson
"Wangechi Mutu: Mass in Time of War"
Whitewall
Spring 2008
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2006
Dodie Kazanjian
"Fierce Creatures"
Vogue
June 2006
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2005
Isolde Brielmaier
"Wangechi Mutu: Re-Imagining the World"
Parkett
Number 74, 2005
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2004
Carmela Ciuraru
"Cutting Remarks"
ArtNews
November 2004
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Erica Dalya Muhammad
"Body Political"
Art Review
July 2004
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2002
Nuit Banai
"Body of Evidence"
One World
2002
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