Publications – Shimon Attie

Selected Recent Press

2021 Artist Shimon Attie uses urban, contemporary inspirations to tell refugee stories, Mike Cerre, PBS Newshour “Canvas” (Arts and Culture) series, broadcast on Dec 22
2021 Welcome to the Neighborhood: Shimon Attie’s “Night Watch” takes to The Bay, Luke Williams, cover story of SF/Arts, Arts and Culture hard copy insert for Northern California Edition of Sunday New York Times, August 24
2021 ‘Night Watch’ Transforms San Francisco Bay into Art Installation, Tony Bravo, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept 20
2021 Review: Afloat on the Bay, ‘Night Watch’ Presented Refugees as They Are, Genevieve Quick, 48 Hills, Sept 22
2021 Bay Area art spaces back on feet for fall, focusing on the traditionally underrepresented, Datebook, Tony Bravo, Art and Exhibits Fall Preview, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept 8
2021 Year in Review: Visual Art in 2021 explored big issues and didn’t shy from controversy, Tony Bravo, Arts and Exhibits, San Francisco Chronicle, December 22
2020 From Berlin to the West Bank – why we build walls, Arts Section, CNN, Jen Sudul Edwards, January 3
2020 From Keith Haring to Dread Scott, A Brief History of Public Art in New York City, Claire Selvin, ARTnews, July 2
2018 Out on the Water: Images of Asylum, Shimon Attie’s art installation coincides with the United Nations General Assembly, Sopan Deb, Feature article on page 2 of Arts and Design, The New York Times, hard copy, Sept 25
2018 Cruising New York’s Waterways This Week: Portraits of Former Refugees, Shimon Attie’s Night Watch, Sopan Deb, Feature article on front page of Arts and Design, The New York Times, on-line, Sept 24
2018 Refugee Stories Told from a Barge, Timed for UN General Assembly, Zachary Small, second leading news feature, Hyperallergic, Sept 20
2018 Who are the people seeking political asylum in the US? A Floating art project in New York tells refugees’ stories during the UN General Assembly, Gabriella Angeleti, Feature article, The Art Newspaper, Sept 19
2018 Giant Video Portraits of Refugees Are Circling Manhattan for the UN General Assembly This Week, Caroline Goldstein, Feature article, artnet News, Sept 25
2018 Portraits of Refugees Sail the New York Harbor / BK Stories, Filippo Piscopo, BRIC TV, Nov 13
2018 Stars gegen Trump- Wächst Amerikas Widerstand? (“Stars against Trump – Is America’s Resistance Movement Becoming Stronger?”), Z.D.F. German State Television, Nov 6 (timed to coincide with the day of the American midterm Elections)
2018 KulturZeit (“Culture Time”), German State Television ZDF, Nov 6 (timed to coincide with the day of the American midterm Elections)

Monographs

2016 Facts on the Ground, Shimon Attie, Intro by Mieke Bal, essay by Gannit Ankori/Samir Srouji, Nazraeli Press, CA
2008 The Attraction of Onlookers: Aberfan – An Anatomy of a Welsh Village, Shimon Attie, Foreword by John Humphrys, essays by Chris Townsend and Melanie Doel, Parthian Books, UK
2004 The History of Another: Projections in Rome, Shimon Attie, essays by Alexander Stille and Natasha Egan, Twin Palms Press, Santa Fe, NM (The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL), exhibition monograph
1998 Sites Unseen: Shimon Attie – European Projects, essay by James Young, intro by Jill Medvedow, Edition Braus, Heidelberg/ Verve Editions, VT (Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston), exhibition monograph
1993 The Writing on the Wall: Projections in Berlin’s Jewish Quarter; Shimon Attie – Photographs and Installations, essays by Michael A. Bernstein, Erwin Leiser and Shimon Attie, Edition Braus, Heidelberg, Germany. (Editions in English and German.
1992 Shimon Attie: Finstere Medine, Galerie im Scheunenviertel, Berlin, Germany, exhibition catalogue

Selected Group Exhibition Catalogues

2021 The 15th Busan International Video Art Festival Catalogue, Busan, South Korea
2019 The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
2018 Domestic Arenas: John Akomfrah, Shimon Attie, Jeremy Deller, Stan Douglas, Omer Fast, Kahlil Joseph, edited by Petr Nedoma, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
2018 Art AIDS America Chicago, Alphawood Foundation/University of Washington Press
2016 Seeing | Saying – Visual Verbal Exchanges, Davidson College Art Galleries, Davidson, North Carolina
2015 Art, AIDS, America, Tacoma Art Museum/Univ of Washington Press
2012 WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Photographs of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath, Anne Tucker, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/Yale University Press
2011 Videonale 13: Festival for Contemporary Video Art, KunstMuseum Bonn, Kerber Publishers
2008 Modern Contemporary: Art Since 1980 at MOMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2008 Le Visage qui s’efface: de Giacometti A Baselitz, Hotel des Arts, Center Mediterraneen d’Art, Toulon, France
2007 Collection Photographie, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2007 Déchirures de l’Histoire, Dix-Neuf Contemporary Art Center, Montebeliard, France
2006 Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain, Williams College Museum of Art, MA
2004 Vita Brevis 1998-2003: History, Landscape and Art, Steidl Publishers/The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2004 Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, The Corcoran Museum of Art/Merrell Publishers, London, UK
2004 After Images: Kunst als soziales Gedaechtnis, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
2004 Masterworks of the Jewish Museum, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
2002 Short Stories, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001 Theatres du Fantastique, Printemps de Septembre a Toulouse, The Cartier Foundation, France
2001 Fotografi som Offentlig Kunst (“Photography as Public Art”), Forbundet Frie Fotografer, Oslo, Norway
2000 Open Ends: Contemporary Art at the Modern since 1980, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1999 Threshold, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1999 ATTACK, The Holland Festival, Amsterdam, NL
1995 Reality-Intention-Media, Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany
1995 After Auschwitz: Artist Responses to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art , Northern Center for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
1994 La Ville – Vision Urbaine, Exhibition Catalogue, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1994 Exhibition catalogue, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
1994 After Art, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
1994 The Art of Memory , The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
1993 Katalog, Vol 5, No. 3, March, 1993, published by the Museum for Fotokunst, Odensee, Denmark

Selected Reference Books

2021 Six Years: An Incomplete Archive of Activist Art, The Rubin Foundation, Hirmer
2020 Eyes Open: Photography Ideas for Curious Kids, Susan Meiselas, Aperature, New York
2020 Assuming Absence: Poetics of Unfinished Mourning in 21st Century Spanish Narrative, Anthony Nuckols, Max Aub and the Confrontations of Historical Memory Book Series, Iberoamericana/Vervuert, Madrid, Spain
2020 Impulse, terminale, Nathan Editions, S.E.J.E.R., Publisher, Paris, France
2019 Context and Narrative in Photography, Sri-Kartini Leet, Elisavet Kalpaxi, and Maria Short, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, UK
2019 Photography Decoded, Hedy Van Erp and Susan Bright, Ilex/Octopus Publishing Group, London, UK
2019 Rome Reconfigured: Contemporary Visions of the Eternal City, 1989-2014, Kaspar Thormod, Brill|Rodopi (Spatial Practices series)
2018 The Word is Art: Contemporary Artists Investigate Language, Dr. Michael Petry, MOCA London, Thames & Hudson, London
2018 “Aesthetics of Reappearance”, Miriam Paeslack, Spaces of Uncertainty: Berlin Revisited, edited by Kenny Cupers and Markus Miessen, Birkhäuser publishers, Berlin
2018 Museums and Public Art?, edited by Dr. Harriet Senie and Dr. Cher Krause Knight, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2018 “Di fronte alla Shoah – Arte tra Testimonianza e Empatia”, Salvatore Trapani, Corsiero Editore Publishers, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2017 Photography and Germany, Dr. Andres Zervigon, Reaktion Books, London
2017 The Politics of Form, ed. Sarah Copland and Greta Olson, Routledge
2016 Haunting and Archives in the Time of Now, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Ann Shelton: Dark Matter, The Auckland Art Gallery/Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, NZ
2016 Working on the Image of the Cultural Revolution, Dr. Monika Wagner, OSTASIEN Verlag, Gossenberg, Germany
2016 “Israeli-Palestinian Narratives and the Politics of Form: Reading Side by Side,” European Journal of English Studies, published by Taylor & Francis, Susan Lanser and Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
2015 Art for Rollins: The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Volume II, Goodman, Abigail Ross, Barbara Lawrence Alfond, and Ena Heller. Winter Park, Fla: Cornell Fine Arts Museum
2015 Die doppelte Krise. Ostdeutsche Erinnerungszeichen nach 1989, Leonie Beiersdorf, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Germany
2015 Oltre il Memoriale: Le tracce, lo spazio, il ricordo, Michela Bassanelli, Mimesis Editions, Italy
2014 Art Since 1980: Charting the Contemporary, Peter Kalb, L. King Publishers (p. 149)
2014 A History of Modern Art, H.H. Arnason, 7th ed. Laurence King Publishing, London, UK
2014 Perspectives on Place: Theory and Practice, Jesse Alexander, Bloomsbury, UK
2014 The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume III, Cambridge, UK
2013 Contemporary Installation Art, Shim Chung, Ancbook, Seoul, South Korea
2012 “The Unexpected Encounter”, page 33-46, Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form: Sighting Memory, edited by Anne Demo and Bradford Vivian, Routledge, New York/London
2012 Photography as Activism: Images for Social Change, Michelle Bogre, Focal Press
2011 100 artistes du Street Art, edited by Paul Ardenne, Editions de La Martiniere, Paris, France
2010 “Shimon Attie’s Writing on the Wall: History, Memory, Aesthetics, “ Peter Muir, Ashgate, UK
2010 Interpreting Photography, Institute of Art History, University of Warsaw, PL
2010 The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, 10-volume anthology, edited by James Young, Yale University Press
2009 History as Art, Art as History: Contemporary Art and Social Studies Education, Desai, Hamlin, and Mattson Routledge, New York and London
2008 “The Incomplete Spectacle: Aberfan in its Own Image,” Art and Death, Chris Townsend, Tauris Publishers, London, UK
2006 After Photography, Fred Ritchin, W W Norton, NY, NY
2007 “Great Art of the Western World,” Ori Soltes, The Teaching Company Lecture Series
2007 Searching for Sebald: Photography After W.G. Sebald, ICI Press, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Art after Politics: from Melancholy to Passion, Piotr Piotrowski, Krakow University Press
2001 A History of Modern Art, H. Arnason, 5th ed. Laurence King Publishing, London, UK
2002 Art Tommorrow, Edward Lucie-Smith, Vilo Publisher, Paris, France
2002 Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing, Dora Apel, Rutgers University Press
2000 At Memory’s Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture, James E. Young, Yale University Press, chapter 3 (p. 64-89 and book cover)
1999 Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection, Ellen Handy and Willis Hartshorn, Little, Brown, and Company, New York, NY
1999 “Photographic Anamnesia: The Past in the Present,” Mette Sandbye, Symbolic Imprints: Essays on Photography and Visual Culture, Aarhus University Press, Aarhus, DK
1997 New Art, 3rd edition, Harry Abrams, Inc., NY, NY
1997 Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory, Marianne Hirsch, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

Selected Other Books

2017 City of Promises, Amy Klopfenstein, New York University Press, NY
2017 L’Atelier, Jean-Claude Grumberg, Etonnants Classiques, Flammarion, Paris, France
2016 Tales of Berlin in American Literature up to the 21^st Century, Joshua Parker, Brill/Rodopi, Amsterdam, NL
2016 PhotoViz, Gestalten Books, Berlin, Germany
2016 History and Geography, Lelivrescolaire.fr publisher, Paris, France
2015 The Creative City – A New European perspective, Hugh McElveen, Gower, UK
2015 The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, Darra Goldstein, Oxford University Press, 2015
2007 Burning Books, Matthew Firshburn, Palgrave Macmillan/St. Martins Press
2008 Textes et Documents pour la Classe, National Ministry of Education, France
2006 Launching the Imagination, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY
2002 The Shattered Past, Michael Geyer, Princeton University Press, (book cover)
2002 Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew, Susan Gubar, Indiana University Press
2000 Remembering the Lower East Side, ed. by Hasia Diner, Jeffrey Shandler, and Beth Wenger, University of Indiana Press (book cover)
2000 The “Goldhagen Effect”: History, Memory, Nazism – Facing the German Past , ed. by Geoff Eley, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI (book cover)
1999 Locating Identity, or the Ways Architecture Captures Memory, Shelley Hornstein, Akademie der Kunst press, Berlin, Germany
1999 Vectors of Memory, Nancy Wood, Berg University/NYU Press (book cover)
1998 Anselm Kiefer and Art After Auschwitz , Lisa Saltzman, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
1997 “Past Lives: Post-memories,” Marianne Hirsch, Exile and Creativity issue, Poetics Today, Duke University Press
1997 The Gypsie in Me, Ted Simon, Random House Publishers, New York, NY (book cover)
1997 Other People’s Troubles , Jason Sommer, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, (book cover)
1997 German Dis/continuities, Duke University Press (book cover)
1994 Foregone Conclusions: Against Apocalyptic History, Michael Andre Bernstein, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1994 (book cover)
1994 Das Bittere Kraut, Marga Miners, Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt, Germany, 1994 (book cover)
1992 Daniel Libeskind: Extension to the Berlin Museum with the Jewish Museum Department, edited by Kristin Feireiss, Ernst & Son, Berlin

Documentary Films on or Featuring Shimon Attie’s Work

2018 Stars gegen Trump- Wächst Amerikas Widerstand? (“Stars against Trump – Is America’s Resistance Movement Becoming Stronger?”), Z.D.F. German State Television
2006 An American in Aberfan, directed by Chris Morris, produced by Dai Williams and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
2000 An Unusually Bad Lot, produced by The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston on Shimon Attie’s public project commissioned by the ICA. Directed by Branka Bogdanov.
1998/9 Between Dreams and History: The Making of Shimon Attie’s Public Artworks, 40 minute documentary film on Shimon Attie’s project in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, produced and directed by Independent Documentary Group Films
1996 The Art of Memory: Shimon Attie’s European Projects, 45 minute length documentary film on Sites Unseen project series, produced and directed by German state television (A.R.D.)

Recent Television Feature on Shimon Attie’s Work

2021 Artist Shimon Attie uses urban, contemporary inspirations to tell refugee stories, Mike Cerre, PBS Newshour “Canvas” (Arts and Culture) series, broadcast on Dec 22

Recent Television Feature on Shimon Attie’s Work

2020 Final Account, Passion Pictures, London, UK

Selected Periodicals and Newspapers

2021 Welcome to the Neighborhood: Shimon Attie’s “Night Watch” takes to The Bay, Luke Williams, cover story of SF/Arts, Arts and Culture hard copy insert for Northern California Edition of Sunday New York Times, August 24
2021 ‘Night Watch’ Transforms San Francisco Bay into Art Installation, Tony Bravo,
San Francisco Chronicle, Sept 20
2021 Review: Afloat on the Bay, ‘Night Watch’ Presented Refugees as They Are, Genevieve Quick, 48 Hills, Sept 22
2021 Bay Area art spaces back on feet for fall, focusing on the traditionally underrepresented, Datebook, Tony Bravo, Art and Exhibits Fall Preview, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept 8
2021 Year in Review: Visual Art in 2021 explored big issues and didn’t shy from controversy, Tony Bravo, Arts and Exhibits, San Francisco Chronicle, December 22
2021 Bay Area Visual Art Exhibitions Not to Miss This Fall, Fall Arts Preview 2021, Sarah Hotchkiss, KQED (Bay Area PBS station), August 30
2021 Night Watch: A New Kind of Film Festival is Coming to San Francisco Bay, Luke
Williams, 7X7, August 25
2021 Shimon Attie Resurrects “Hitler on Ice” With Afro-Brazilian Dance, Luke Williams, Hyperallergic, Oct 21
2020 From Berlin to the West Bank – why we build walls, Arts Section, CNN, Jen Sudul
Edwards, January 3
2020 From Keith Haring to Dread Scott, A Brief History of Public Art in New York City, Claire Selvin, ARTnews, July 2
2019 As Walls Go Up at Unprecedented Rates, Artists Use Them as Subversive Canvases, Annenberg Space for Photography exhibition……, Lorissa Rinehart, Hyperallergic, Nov. 22
2019 The Truth is Not, Lars Elton, Dagsaviesen, page 22-23, Oslo, No, March 12
2019 Reading Reparation, Benjamin Kersten, PROTOCOLS, Issue #5
2019 Imagination and Trauma, Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
2018 Out on the Water: Images of Asylum, Shimon Attie’s art installation coincides with the United Nations General Assembly, Sopan Deb, Feature article on page 2 of Arts and Design, The New York Times, hard copy, Sept 25
2018 Cruising New York’s Waterways This Week: Portraits of Former Refugees, Shimon Attie’s Night Watch, Sopan Deb, Feature article on front page of Arts and Design, The New York Times, on-line, Sept 24
2018 Refugee Stories Told from a Barge, Timed for UN General Assembly, Zachary Small, second leading news feature, Hyperallergic, Sept 20
2018 Who are the people seeking political asylum in the US? A Floating art project in New York tells refugees’ stories during the UN General Assembly, Gabriella Angeleti, Feature article, The Art Newspaper, Sept 19
2018 Giant Video Portraits of Refugees Are Circling Manhattan for the UN General Assembly This Week, Caroline Goldstein, Feature article, artnet News, Sept 25
2018 L’image du Jour, Ronde de nuit, Brook Mason, Le Quotidian de l’Art, Sept 27
2018 “The New Italy and the Jews from Massimo D\’Azeglio to Primo Levi”, Scott Lerner and Jon Druker, Annali d’Italianistica, Arizona State University, Tempe
2018 “Prague exhibition presents American, European Video Art”, Prague Daily Monitor, Jan 21
2017 Projection artists bring light to social issues with attention-grabbing protests, PBS Newshour, Art Beat, Corinne Segal, Sept 17
2017 Exhibition at Saint Louis Art Museum features new work by Shimon Attie, Artdaily.org, April 6
2017 “‘Lost’ on the Mississippi”, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 9
2017 Shimon Attie at the St. Louis Art Museum, Modern Art Notes Podcast, Tyler Green, May 4, (from 57’00” on in program)
2017 Currents 113: Shimon Attie, Lost in Space (After Huck), Hannah Klemm, Saint Louis Art Magazine Magazine, Spring Issue
2017 Mississippi River Culture and Social Conflict Come Together in Lost in Space (After Huck), April 3
2017 Shimon Attie: Lost in Space, (After Huck), Riverfront Times, St. Louis, April 3
2017 Auf Leben und Tod: Videoinstallation zeigt das Drama der Flucht als Roulettespiel, Juergen Kleindienst, Leipziger Volkszeitung, June 30
2017 Shimon Attie – Stateless, ART Das Kunstmagazin, July 3
2017 Roulette im Kunstkraftwerk, Sophie Spiller, Urbanite.net, July 3
2017 Shimon Attie – Stateless, Portal Kunstgeschichte, July 3
2016 Art of the AIDS Years: What Took Museums So Long?, Holland Cotter, New York Times, July 28
2016 Shimon Attie Facts on the Ground, Jack Shainman Gallery, Yasaman Alipour, The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture, June 3
2016 Artist Shimon Attie on Photography, Language, Beauty And Getting Tear Gassed, Alina Cohen, Forbes.com, May 6
2016 Shimon Attie: Sign Lanuage, Place, issue #15, Musee Magazine, New York, NY
2016 “Monuments of Persecution”, Phillip Valys, South Beach Sun Sentinel, Sept 11
2016 Shimon Attie named 2016-17 Freund Teaching Fellow, The Source, Washington University in St. Louis
2016 Survival Guides: Communities are mechanisms for outliving the end of the world, Rachel Giese, Real Life Magazine, Dec 1
2015 Germany Has Lessons for the South, Letter from America, Anand Giridharadas, New York Times, July 7
2015 “Growing Together: 2015 CODAAwards honor artists and designers”, Interior Design, Aug 26
2015 “Art AIDS America: An Impressive Exhibition and an Important Curatorial Event”, Shana Nys Dambro, Huffington Post, July 13
2015 A Sobering Look at how Aids changed Art in America, Margaret Rhodes, WIRED Magazine, August 5
2015 Art AIDS America, Advocate.com, August
2015 See It Now: How Aids Changed Art Forever, David Schonauer, American Photography, August 11
2015 Commissions-in-Brief, Sculpture Magazine, September
2015 Safe and Sound, The Architect’s Newspaper, July, 2015
2015 “SF to Celebrate Grand Opening of New Public Safety Building”, San Francisco Chronicle, April 14
2015 “Police Department set to celebrate opening of new public safety building”, San Francisco Examiner, April 15
2015 “City’s new bell says that all is well”, Leah Garchik, San Francisco Chronicle, April 22
2013 Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits: Feminism in a Globalized Present, Krista Lynes, Global Cinema series, edited by Marcinia, Imre and O’Healy, Palgrave Macmillan
2013 “The Subject of the Neuropsy-sciences Stripped Bare by her Bachelors”, Jan de Vos, Ghent Univesrity, Quaderns de Psicologia, Vol 15, No 1, p 95-106
2012 “When Artists Take On Museums”, Tom Freudenheim, The Wall Street Journal, March 13
2011 “In These Portraits, a Challenge to Labels of “sitter’ and ‘Artist’”, Martha Schwendener, The New York Times, April 30
2009 “Outside Time: The Art of Shimon Attie,” by John Hanhardt
2009 Shimon Attie’s Writing on the Wall: History, Memory, Aesthetics, Peter Muir, Ashgate Publishing, Surrey, UK
2009 “Ruins of Representation: Shimon Attie’s The History of Another,” Artluk Magazine, Magdalena Wroblewska, Warsaw, PL
2009 “Shit We’re Diggin’: The Slide Projections of Shimon Attie,” The Wooster Collective
2008 Exhibition Preview: Shimon Attie, Cardiff, The Guardian, Jessica Lack, Dec 20, p 35 (and on guardian.co.uk)
2008 BBC Online, Dec 5
2008 The Arts Show, Wales On-Line (walesonline.co.uk), Dec 4.
2008 Art Daily (www.artdaily.co.uk)
2008 The Art Newspaper, Dec 8
2008 “A Welsh Village Among Other Welsh Villages,” The Western Mail, Dec 5
2008 Newyddion (Welsh language daily television news program), Dec 6
2008 “Picturing a New Future for Aberfan,” South Wales Echo, Dec 9
2008 Golwg (Welsh language weekly magazine), Dec 10
2008 “Attie’s Portraits of Aberfan at The National Museum, Cardiff,” 24 Hour Museum, Ben Miller, Dec 12
2007 “The Mourning Play (Trauerspiel) of Shimon Attie,” Peter Muir, Journal for Cultural Research, Vol 11, Nr 4, October
2006 “An American in Aberfan”, BBC Website
2006 “Shimon Attie at the Miami Art Museum,” Elisa Turner, p. 190, ARTnews, November issue
2006 The Dialectics of Affection: Trace and Temporality in the Restaging of Historical Images, Amish Morrell, University of Toronto
2006 “Life, ripe and robust: Exhibits sift and savor it”, Elisa Turner, Miami Herald, July 30
2007 “Shimon Attie Changes History: Memory Pictures”, Jeffrey Cudlin, Washington City Paper, April 1
2004 “Inside Art,” Carol Vogel, Fine Arts Section, The New York Times, Jan. 9
2004 “At 100, Still Asking ‘Why Should It Be Easy?’”, Julie Salamon, Fine Arts Section, The New York Times, Jan. 21
2004 “Shimon Attie at Jack Shainman Gallery,” Nico Israel, Artforum, Dec. issue
2004 “More than Modigliani,” Lindsay Pollock, ARTnews, March, 2004, p. 50
2004 “Interview with Shimon Attie by Irit Batsry”, Artwurl on-line Magazine, March issue
2004 “If Walls Could Talk: Haunting Ancient Rome with Images from its Past,”Steven Litt, Arts & Life Section, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Nov. 25
2003 “Universal Studio,” Meredith Mendelsohn, Art talk, ARTnews, May, 2003
2003 “Finding Comfort in the Safety of Names,” Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times, Aug 31
2002 “Using Illumination to Truly See,” Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Times, Dec. 28
2002 “Time Exposures,” Jessica Dawson, Feature Article, The Washington Post, Washington, DC, Dec. 5
2002 “Haunting Expeditions,” Michael O’Sullivan, The Washington Post, Washington, DC, Dec. 6
2002 “Shimon Attie at Jack Shainman Gallery,” Elizabeth Schambelan, Art in America, June issue
2001 “Den Saknade Juden: Kiefer, Boltanski, Attie”, Martin Fredriksson, ARTES, Nr. 3, Stockholm, Sweden, 2001
2000 “Persistence of Memory,” Norman L. Kleeblatt, cover image/story and 8 page feature, Art in America, June issue
2000 “Projecting the Past Onto the Present,” Leah Ollman, The Sunday Los Angeles Times, (1500 word feature, Calendar/Art and Architecture section), February 13 issue
2000 “Des artistes américains sortens leurs griffes,” Harry Bellet, Le Monde, Feb. 20-21, Paris, Fr
2000 “Making a Memorial Place: The Artwork of Shimon Attie,” Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Ph.D., and “A Picture of Mourning,”Thomas H. Ogden, M.D., Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 10, No. 3
2000 “Si les murs pouvaient parler,” Frédérique Fanchette, Liberation, Feb. 8^th
2000 “The Construction of Self and Other in the Public Art Project Between Dreams and History,” Joanne Hinkel, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1999 “Shimon Attie brings haunting images to the ICA,” Christine Temlin, The Boston Globe, Dec. 24
1999 “Photographing Phantoms: Shimon Attie captures ghostly projections of memory in his latest work,” Kenneth Baker, The San Francisco Chronicle, June 19
1999 “Shimon Attie at Jack Shainman Gallery and Rivington Street,” Nicole Krauss, Art in America, February issue
1999 “Recasting the Stones,” Kate Cambor, The American Prospect, Cambridge, MA, Mar-Apr
1999 Le Monde, Paris, France, Feb. 6 issue, page 13 (full page image reproduction)
1999 “Ghostwriter,” Amy Traverso, Boston Magazine, September issue
1998 “Writing in Light on the Tenement Walls”, Amei Wallach, The Sunday New York Times, (1500 word feature, Fall Preview edition of the Fine Arts section), September 13
1998 “The Memory Wall: Shimon Attie Reveals the Collective Unconscious of the Lower East Side,” Cindy Carr, The Village Voice, (1300 word feature), Nov 10
1998 “Metaphysical Graffiti: An Artist Awakens the Ghosts of the Lower East Side,” Karrie Jacobs, New York Magazine, October 26
1998 “Spiritual Graffiti,” Anita Hamilton, Time Out New York, October 22-29
1998 “Art Talk: Neighborhood Watch,” Glen Helfand, ARTnews, November
1998 “Your Life in Laser Lights,” Anita Hamilton, TIME digital , November 2
1998 “Oh God, This is America! Shimon Attie excites New York with his Immigration Installation in the Lower East Side” (translated from German), Stefan Elfenbein, Berliner Zeitung, Dec. 5 issue
1998 “Shimon Attie, Christian Boltanski, Joe Nicastri: From Remembrance to Renewal,” Cay-Sophie Rabinowitz, Art Papers, Sept-Oct. issue
1998 “Tension and Loss,” Glen Helfand, the Advocate, October 27
1997 “Shimon Attie’s The Writing on the Wall,” Anthony Grafton, The New York Review of Books, August 14
1995 ” An Artist’s Plans to Commemorate Europe’s Refugess, Past and Present,” The London Times, Jan. 25
1995 “Pushing for German Awareness,” Ha’aretz, Tel Aviv, Israel, March 9
1995 “He Brought the Ghosts back to Berlin’s Jewish Quarter,” The Jerusalem Post, March 1
1994 “Mixed Images Show the Mutability of Time,” Charles Hegan, The New York Times, Dec. 9
1994 “Haunted by History,” Susan Shapiro, The Sunday Book Review, The New York Times, New York, NY, Sept. 25
1994 “New Photography 10,” Sheryl Conkelton, The Museum of Modern Art Magazine, New York, NY, Fall issue
1994 “Sunday on Review,” The London Independent, London, UK, May 8
1994 ARTnews, Kenneth Baker, New York, NY, November issue,
1994 Artforum, Miriam Rosen, New York, NY, April issue
1994 Artissues, Rebecca Solnit, Los Angeles, CA, July issue
1994 San Francisco Chronicle, April 28
1994 Politiken, Copenhagen, DK, August 20
1993 Liberation, Paris, France, September 28
1993 Tages Zeitung, Berlin, Germany, Nov. 9
1993 Saechsische Zeitung, Dresden, Germany, Nov. 9
1993 Politiken, Sunday, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 7
1993 Tages Zeitung (“Tatz”), Hamburg, Germany, March 10
1992 “Slices of Time,” Tages Spiegel, Berlin, April 10

Multi-page Magazine Spreads

2008 Time After Time, NY ARTS Magazine, Sept-Oct 2008, page 23
2004 “The Heroes of Telemark: Hydro Allgories, Shimon Attie”, KUNST Magazine, 8 page color spread, Fall issue, Oslo, Norway
2003 Art Journal, 10 page color spread, College Art Association, New York, NY, Fall issue
2003 Harper’s Magazine, New York, NY, March issue
2000 Harper’s Magazine, New York, NY, February issue
1999 Harper’s Magazine, New York, NY, March issue, page 23
1995 Life Magazine, 4 page color spread, New York, NY, November issue
1995 Life Magazine, 8 page color spread, New York, NY, October 30 issue
1995 Atlantico Magazine, 5 page color spread, Madrid, Spain, May issue
1995 Katalog, Museum for Fotokunst, Odensee, Denmark, Winter issue
1994 Katalog, 8 page color spread, Museum for Fotokunst, Odensee, Denmark, Fall issue
1994 IN (“German-American Cultural Review”), Bonn, Germany, Winter issue
1994 Humboldt Magazine, Bonn, Germany, Fall issue
1994 Deutschland Magazine, German Press Office, Bonn, Germany January issue
1993 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) Weekend Magazine, 6 page color spread with 8 page article, Oct. 29 issue
1993 Living Magazine, Braunschweig, Germany
1994 L’Image Objectif, Paris, France, July issue