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  • What is LaToya Ruby Frazier trying to show us?

    Lylla Younes, Grist, June 11, 2024
  • Ocular Choreography: Exercises and Research

    Tate, March 8, 2024
  • The Divine Dissatisfaction of Music

    Angelica Aboulhosn, Hyperallergic, January 23, 2024
  • What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in November

    Martha Schwendener, The New York Times, November 1, 2023
  • Liz Magic Laser on hysterical crisis and alternative healing

    Wendy Vogel, Artforum, October 5, 2023
  • ‘Performance Is the Dominant Instrument of Power’: Watch Artist Liz Magic Laser Investigate Gestures and Movement

    Caroline Goldstein, Artnet News, September 13, 2023
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum Presents Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies

    Hyperallergic, June 22, 2023
  • “Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies” Explores the Intersection of Video and Music by Today’s Leading C

    Rebekah Mejorado, June 15, 2023
  • Watch Now: Liz Magic Laser's ‘Prototype for Convulsive States’

    Frieze, May 16, 2023
  • Liz Magic Laser

    Catherine Taft, Artforum, February 1, 2020
  • Off Brand Video #11: Liz Magic Laser’s ‘In Real Life'

    Patty Gone, The Believer, December 16, 2019
  • Does Freelancing Really Mean Freedom?

    Emily Gosling, Elephant, September 2, 2019
  • Life is Real Work

    Elliot Ryder, bido lito!, September 1, 2019
  • Interview: Liz Magic Laser; Real Work at FACT

    Patrick Kirk-Smith, Art in Liverpool , August 29, 2019
  • How to Do Self-Care in the Gig Economy

    Emily Reynolds, i-D, July 16, 2019
  • What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week

    Will Heinrich, New York Times, June 20, 2018
  • Juniper Artland launches course to soothe political stress

    Jane Bradley, The Scotsman, March 23, 2017
  • Sweat, Tears and Screams of Protest: Political Psychodrama for this Election Season

    Liz Magic Laser, Creative Time Reports, October 31, 2016
  • Frieze London Is All Grown Up This Year

    Hettie Judah, Artnet News, October 6, 2016
  • Liz Magic Laser: ‘I’m interested in throwing a well-rehearsed script into a precarious scenario'

    A Will Brown, Studio International, January 14, 2016
  • Review: Liz Magic Laser - Mercer Union

    Sam Cotter, Flash Art, January 1, 2016
  • Liz Magic Laser

    Natilee Harren, Artforum, April 1, 2015
  • Liz Magic Laser

    David Matorin, Modern Painters, April 1, 2015
  • A Satirical TED Talk, Inspired by Dostoevsky and Given by a 10-year-old

    Tom Carter, TedBlog, February 26, 2015
  • Art Talk: Sanya Kantarovsky, Anna Sew Hoy and Liz Magic Laser

    Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, NPR, January 22, 2015
  • Liz Magic Laser and Ideas Worth Spreading: A Dostoyevskian Take on TED

    Chloe Wyma, BLOUIN ARTINFO, January 21, 2015
  • An Artist Created Fake TED Talks Recited by Children

    Catherine Wagley, LA Weekly, January 21, 2015
  • Critics’ Pick: Liz Magic Laser

    Travis Diehl, Artforum, January 19, 2015
  • Liz Magic Laser subversively splits medium from message

    Leah Ollman, The Los Angeles Times, January 14, 2015
  • Datebook: Cuba photography, a fictional TED talk, Chicano portraiture

    Carolina A. Miranda, The Los Angeles Times, January 8, 2015
  • Pier 54

    Karen Rosenberg, The New York Times, December 4, 2014
  • From Narcissism to the Dialogic: Identity in Art after the Internet

    Melissa Gronlund, Afterall n. 37, September 1, 2014
  • RoseLee Goldberg Shares Her Favorite Moments From Performa,

    RoseLee Goldberg, T Magazine: The New York Times, June 11, 2014
  • Broadcast Muse: Liz Magic Laser’s Bystander

    Paul David Young, Hyperallergic, April 5, 2014
  • Liz Magic Laser Delivers a Hilarious Parody of a News Broadcast With ‘Bystander’ at The Kitchen

    Leigh Silver, Complex, March 28, 2014
  • Sanya Kantarovsky and Liz Magic Laser: Researching and Reporting

    Artupdate, February 4, 2014
  • Liz Magic Laser’s Guerrilla Theater

    Jonathan Munar, art21 Blog, December 20, 2013
  • Liz Magic Laser: Absolute Event

    David Andrew Tansman, dis Magazine, November 20, 2013
  • Liz Magic Laser’s ‘Absolute Event’ Turned Paula Cooper Gallery Into a Participatory TV Studio

    Rozalia Jovanovic, Artinfo, November 15, 2013
  • Liz Magic Laser Takes On Congress

    Rozalia Jovanovic, Artinfo, November 8, 2013
  • The Magic of the State’: A Conversation with Silvia Sgualdini and Beirut (Sarah Rifky, Jens Maier-Rothe, Antonia Alampi)

    Laura McLean-Ferris, Art Agenda, September 13, 2013
  • Public Theater

    John Beeson, Texte zur Kunst, September 1, 2013
  • Exploring The Camera-Ready

    Kelly Klaasmeyer, Houston Press, May 1, 2013
  • ‘The Magic of the State’: An ambitious and relevant art show in Cairo

    Jennifer Evans, Egypt Independent, April 17, 2013
  • Liz Magic Laser’s ‘Tell Me What You Want to Hear'

    Carrie Schnieder, The Great God Pan is Dead, April 10, 2013
  • 2013 Limited Editions by Liz Magic Laser Benefitting Two Excellent Causes

    Artslant, April 1, 2013
  • Critics’ Picks: The Magic of the State

    Laura McLean-Ferris, Artforum, April 1, 2013
  • Liz Magic Laser: Tell Me What You Want To Hear

    Bill Davenport, Glasstire, March 26, 2013
  • In Performance: Liz Magic Laser, Tell Me What You Want to Hear, Diverseworks Art Space (Houston, TX, USA)

    Emily Sloan, Contemporary Performance, March 15, 2013
  • Branding in the Art World: the Armory Show

    BPO Group USA, March 13, 2013
  • Armory Show: the old lady has concerns

    Claire Guillot, Le Monde, March 13, 2013
  • Armory Show aims to raise the bar amid threat from younger rivals

    Jason Farago, The Guardian, March 7, 2013
  • The United States of Armory

    Kyle Chayka, Hyperallergic, March 6, 2013
  • The Psychology of Consumerism

    Platform for Pedagogy, March 6, 2013
  • The Armory Show ‘Actually Makes Me Feel Really Gross’

    Kathryn Tully, Forbes, March 6, 2013
  • Liz Magic Laser Assumes the (Poll) Position

    Christian Viveros-Faune, The Village Voice, March 6, 2013
  • Liz Magic Laser’s Armory Show Souvenirs

    Kareen Estefan, T Magazine: The New York Times, March 5, 2013
  • Liz Magic Laser, Commissioned artist, The Armory Show Focus Group, 2013

    Katy Hamer, Flash Art Online, March 5, 2013
  • Your Guide to Armory Week

    Reid Singer, ArtFagCity, March 4, 2013
  • Noah Horowitz on What to Expect at The Armory Show this Year

    Katy Donoghue, WhiteWall, March 1, 2013
  • The Armory Show’s Liz Magic Laser Focus Group is Just Like a Focus Group

    Marina Galperina, Animal New York, March 1, 2013
  • Watch Liz Magic Laser’s Focus Group for Her Upcoming Armory Show Commissions

    Benjamin Sutton, ArtInfo, March 1, 2013
  • First Exposure

    Francesca Gavin, Dazed and Confused, February 23, 2013
  • The Armory Show 2013 Centennial Edition

    e-flux, February 7, 2013
  • Liz Magic Laser: Performing Authenticity

    Bill Davenport, Glasstire, February 1, 2013
  • Liz Magic Laser, Now in Wienerfest’s Silent Auction

    Corinna Kirsch, Art Fag City, December 14, 2012
  • Life as a Runway: Dinner and Decadence

    Ruth Laferla, The New York Times, November 30, 2012
  • Liz Magic Laser Talks to the Hand

    art21, November 20, 2012
  • Liz Magic Laser Focus-Groups Armory Show Contribution

    Brian Boucher, Art in America, November 16, 2012
  • The Armory Show Taps Liz Magic Laser for Fair’s 2013 Artist Commission

    Benjamin Sutton, ARTINFO, October 23, 2012
  • Group Show at Moscow Museum of Modern Art

    Contemporary Art Daily, October 13, 2012
  • Armory to Celebrate the Land of the Brave

    The Art Newspaper, October 1, 2012
  • Liz Magic Laser

    Patrick Steffen, Flash Art, October 1, 2012
  • Liz Magic Laser and Sanya Kantarovsky Interview

    Helen Verkhovskaya, Interview Magazine, September 13, 2012
  • Focus: Liz Magic Laser

    Agnieszka Gratza, Frieze, September 1, 2012
  • Liz Magic Laser: Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist

    Kaleidoscope Magazine, September 1, 2012
  • Liz Magic Laser dissects political rhetoric at Various Small Fires

    Leah Ollman, The Los Angeles Times, May 25, 2012
  • Liz Magic Laser

    Carol Cheh, LA Weekly, May 15, 2012
  • Performance: Liz Magic Laser

    Jacob Fabricius, Art Review, May 1, 2012
  • Reject the Market. Embrace the Market.: How I’ve found new magic amid all that money

    Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine, April 30, 2012
  • 22 Questions for Performance Art Star Liz Magic Laser

    Chloe Wyma, Artinfo, April 1, 2012
  • The Interview

    Liz Magic Laser, Art in America, March 1, 2012
  • The Cold War, fifties brushstrokes, and a pickup artist run amok

    Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine, December 12, 2011
  • Liz Magic Laser

    Amanda Valdez, BOMBLOG, November 30, 2011
  • So Big, Performa Now Misses the Point

    Roberta Smith, The New York Times, November 26, 2011
  • Performa ‘11: Poor Players to the Stage

    Emily Nathan, artnet, November 16, 2011
  • Liz Magic Laser’s Political Theater of the Absurd

    Karen Rosenberg, The New York Times, November 14, 2011
  • Liz Magic Laser Feels Your Pain

    Jillian Steinhauer, The New York Observer, November 14, 2011
  • Performa Playbill: Liz Magic Laser

    Faye Hirsch, Art in America, November 1, 2011
  • Performa 11: Liz Magic Laser Feels Our Pain, Even if Politicians Don’t

    Benjamin Sutton, The L Magazine, November 1, 2011
  • Liz Magic Laser

    Katie Kitamura, Frieze, October 1, 2010
  • Greater New York

    Faye Hirsch, Art in America, September 11, 2010
  • Liz Magic Laser: Chase

    T.J. Carlin, Art Review, September 1, 2010
  • Liz Magic Laser

    The New Yorker, June 14, 2010
  • Sincerity and Irony Hug It Out

    Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine, May 27, 2010
  • Liz Magic Laser

    Beth Citron, Artforum, May 1, 2010
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