Writings

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Writings by the Artist

“Alice Baber: Light as Subject”, Art International, Vol. XXIV, Nos. 1-2, September-October 1980, p. 135

“Ann McCoy”, Second Sight: Biennial IV, Sam Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1986

“Alchemy is not a lost art but is alive and well in the dreams of modern man”, Edinburgh International (exhibition catalogue), Edinburgh Royal Scottish Academy, December, 1987

“The Critic and the Hare: Meditations of the Death of my Rabbit”, Ann McCoy (exhibition catalogue) , New York: A.C.A. Contemporary, 1988

“The Daemon and the Night Sea”, Art International, Vol. XXIV, NOS. 3-4. November-December 1980, p. 113

“Maura Sheehan’s Urban Artifacts”, Arts, November l985, pp. 60-61

‘Meditations on the Red Mass”, BOMB, no. XIV, Winter 1986, pp. 38-41

“The Red Sea-Das Rote Meer” (exhibition catalogue), Cologne: Museum Ludwig (in conjunction with Berliner Kunstlerprogramm’s D.A.A.D.) 1977, pp. 4-16

“The Red Sea and the Night Sea” (exhibition catalogue), Chicago: The Arts Club of Chicago, 1979

“Maditaties Over De Rode Mis”, Museum Journal, No 1, 1986

“Meditations on the Red Mass”, Bomb, Winter, 1986, p. 38

“The Temple of Isis”, Ann McCoy, (exhibition catalogue), New York: A.C.A. Contemporary, 1988

“Alchemy and Suffering”, Ann McCoy, New Observations, #84, July 1, l991, p. 18

“Puella Aeterna, Crone Nevah!”, Crone Chronicles, Summer Solstice 1993, #16, , pp. 13-14

“The Critic and the Hare: Meditations on the Death of My Rabbit”, MEANING #6, November, l989, p. 34

“Overtime: A Forum on Art Making”, MEANING # 10, November, 1991, p. 13

M/E/A/N/I/N/G, An Anthology of Artist’s Writings, Theory and Criticism, Susan Bee and Mira Schor , editors, Duke University Press, Durham and London 2000, pp. 241-242, 357-359

“Something About Mary, Memories of Mary Bancroft”, SPRING 67, Woodstock, Connecticut, 2000, pp. 130-136

“Memoirs of C.A. Meier”, SPRING 68, Woodstock, Connecticut, 2001.

“Monica Serra, the Shadow and the Caged Bird”, SPRING 69, Woodstock, Connecticut

“The Ethereal Forces”, Wystawa prezentowana w Muzeum Archidiecezjalnym Sztuki Religijne w Lublinie, 2003, exhibition calalog.

“Mirror into Forgiveness”. JAIN SPIRIT, December 2003- February 2004, pp. 36-37

“Pfaueninsel”, a catalog for the Berlin exhibition, 2008

“The Death and Transformation of the Monkey King”, KHOJ, New Delhi

“Thoughts on Girl Drive”, 2009, LABYRINT 09, Botkyrka Konsthall, Sweden

“On Being Wounded in the Face: Notes from the Catholic Left”, Art and Education, September 17, 2012

“Judith Bernstein:Hard”, Brooklyn Rail, Feb. 2013, p. 53

“Paul Laffoley and Suzanne Treister”, Brooklyn Rail, March 2013

“The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in 17th. Century China”, The Brooklyn Rail, May, 2013, page, 44

“Eating Apollo’s Cattle”, The Brooklyn Rail, June, 2013

“Sublimming Vessel: The Drawings of Mathew Barney”, Brooklyn Rail, July-August, 2013, page 47

“Michelle Stuart”, The Brooklyn Rail, September 2013, page 12

“What is Art”, The Brooklyn Rail, September 2013

“Art in the Age of Vulnerability”, The Brooklyn Rail, October 2013, page 37

“Nalini Malani with Ann McCoy”, The Brooklyn Rail, November 2013, page 17

“Krzystof Wodiczko with Ann McCoy”, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2014, p. 12

“Michael Zansky, A Vacation on Mars with God”, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2014

“Doug Wheeler”, The Brooklyn Rail, March 2014, p. 72

“Wellsprings Reconsidered” Critic’s Page editor, The Brooklyn Rail, June 2014, p. 70

“Eve Andree Laramee with Ann McCoy”, The Brooklyn Rail, September 2014, p. 38

“Here and Elsewhere”, The Brooklyn Rail, September 2014, p. 61

“Notes from an Old Meanad in the Trenches”, Brooklyn Rail, September 2014, web exclusive

“Kristin Jones with Ann McCoy”, The Brooklyn Rail, January 2015, web exclusive

“Lucy Skaer”, The Brooklyn Rail, January 2015, p. 49

“Alfredo Jaar, Shadows”, The Brooklyn Rail, April 2015, p. 56

“Joyce Kozloff”, The Brooklyn Rail, May 2015, p. 86

“Joan Capote, Collective Unconscious”,The Brooklyn Rail, July 2015

“Agnes Denes Living Pyramid”, The Brooklyn Rail, September 2015, p. 66

“Richard Long Crescent to Cross”, The Brooklyn Rail, October 2015, p. 48

“Two Exhibitions Showcase the Bloody Relics of Hermann Kitsch”, Hyperallergic, October 15, 2015

“William Kentridge Takes New York”, The Brooklyn Rail, December-January, 2015, p. 68

“Recycling Religion”, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2015

“William Kentridge with Ann McCoy”, The Brooklyn Rail, May 2016, p. 57

“Slavs and Tatars: Afteur Pasteur”, The Brooklyn Rail, November 2016, p. 57

“Carolee Schneemann”, The Brooklyn Rail, December 2016, January 2017, p. 52

“Lenore Malen: Scenes from Paradise”, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2017, p. 44

“Helene Aylon with Ann McCoy”, The Brooklyn Rail, May 2017, P.67

“Making Space: Woman Artists in Postwar Abstraction”, The Brooklyn Rail, June 2017. P. 65

“Mystical Symbolism: The Salon of the Rose+Croix in Paris 1892-1897”, The Brooklyn Rail,
September 2017, p. 59

“Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Richard Evans”, The Brooklyn Rail, November
2017, p. 58

“Benjamin Kress: New Paintings”, The Brooklyn Rail, January/December, 2017

“Lesley Dill with Ann McCoy”, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2018

“Channa Horwitz”, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2018

“Stations of the Cross”, The Brooklyn Rail, April 2018, p. 45

“Helen O’Leary: Home is a Foreign Country”, The Brooklyn Rail, p.59

“Benjamin Kress: New Paintings”, The Brooklyn Rail, January/December, 2017

“Lesley Dill with Ann McCoy”, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2018

“Channa Horwitz”, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2018

“Stations of the Cross”, The Brooklyn Rail, April 2018, p. 45

“Bradley Eros: All that is solid melts into eros”, The Brooklyn Rail, April 2018, web exclusive

“Helen O’Leary: Home is a Foreign Country”, The Brooklyn Rail, June 2018, p. 59

“Joan Waltemath: M’s Crossing”, The Brooklyn Rail, June web exclusive

“Sue Coe: Graphic Resistance”, The Brooklyn Rail, The Brooklyn Rail, July/ August, web
exclusive

“Private Devotions and Conversations with Saints and Coyotes”, catalog essay “Blessed Be:
Mysticism, Spirituality, and the Occult in Contemporary Art”. MOCA, Tucson, p. 12-13

“Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future”, The Brooklyn Rail, November 2018, p. 54
“Ann McCoy with Aaron Rosen”, The Brooklyn Rail, November, web exclusive

“Nancy Holt”, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2019, p.59

“Archie Rand: Misfits”, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2019, web exclusive

“Pulled from the Shadows”, Performance Art Journal, May 2019

“Pulled from the Shadows: William Kentridge’s Dance of Death”, Performance Art Journal, May 2019, pp. 1-8