Reviews and Articles
  "Close Ties, Separate Spaces: Multicutual Art at a Crossroads," Lucy Lippard, Nexus, #26, November, 2001.
"The California Condition: The Big Orange gets a zesty exhibit on state of the art over last 100 years," Robert Pincus, The San Diego Union Tribune, November 26, 2000
"Art Rebate group sets up project in L.A.," Robert Pincus, The San Diego Union Tribune, January 22, 1996
"Plenty early, artists arrive to check out inSITE97 settings," Robert Pincus,
The San Diego Union Tribune, June 10, 1996
"Critic's Farewell a portrait in memories," Robert Pincus, The San Diego Union Tribune, July 14, 1996
"Buses won't be rolling artworks during GOP Week," Preston Turegano,
The San Diego Union Tribune, July 29, 1996
"Vested Interests of 'Friendly Fire,'" Leah Ollman, The Los Angeles Times, August 7, 1996
"Republican National Convention: Visual Arts," Robert Pincus, The San Diego Union Tribune, August 11, 1996
"Fire' artists have vested interest in stoking opinion," Ann Jarmusch, The San Diego Union Tribune, August 25, 1996
"Into the fray, but not without protection," Leah Ollman, The Los Angeles Times, Calender Magazine, August 25, 1996
"Friendly Fire takes aim," Romalyn Tilhman, Arts Rag, September 1996
"The House of Our People," Anne Marie Welsh, The San Diego Union Tribune, September 24, 1995
"Friendly Fire in San Diego," David Lewinson, Artweek, October 1996
"Friendly Fire," Jacqueline Cooper, New Art Examiner, November 1996
"Additions' mixes cool pop, hot politics," Ann Jarmusch, The San Diego Union Tribune, December 8, 1996
"Art scene had its brushes with contoversy," Ann Jarmusch, The San Diego Union Tribune, December 29, 1996
"You are what you buy: 'Friendly Fire' and the new Public Sphere," Marita Sturken, Afterimage, January/February 1997
"Report from San Diego," Art in America, July 1997 (Leah Ollman)
"Art in The Public Realm," Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education, Susan Cahan and Zoya Kocur, editors, The New Museum of Contemporary Art and Routledge, 1996.
"The Bus Poster Project," Modernism Relocated: Towards a Cultural Studies of Visual Modernity, John C. Welchman, Allen and Unwin, 1995
"But Is It Art?" Village Voice Literary Supplement, March 1995 (Peter Schjeldahl)
"A Day in the Death of the NEA: Did Agency's Success Cause Its Demise?"
The Los Angeles Times, January 8, 1995 (Christopher Knight)
"Multicultural Wars," Art in America, February 1995 (Douglas Davis
"Circumventing the Center: Identity Politics and Marginalization," The New Art Examiner, December 1994 (Jennie Klien)
"Bait or Tackle?" a+t, ART+TEXT, NO. 48, May 1994 (John C. Welchman)
"Public Exposure," Afterimage, Vol. 22, No. 1, Summer 1994 (Cylena Simonds)
But Is It Art, The Spirit of Art as Activism, edited by Nina Felshin, Bay Press 1994
The Ethnic Eye, edited by Chon Noriega and Anna Lopez, University of Minnesota 1994
"Migrants Given Taxpayers' Cash," The San Diego Union Tribune, July 31, 1993 (Fernando Romero)
"Trio Elevates Migrant Tax Rebate Concept to an Art Form", The San Diego Union Tribune, August 2, 1993 (Robert L. Pincus)
"City Insists Its Funds Not Used in Artists' Giveaway," The San Diego Union Tribune, August 3, 1993 (Fernando Romero)
"Immigrants Get Cash, Area Artists Get Heat," Times Advocate, San Marcos Edition, August 3, 1993 (Randy Dotinga)
"Three Are No Strangers to Controversy," Times Advocate, San Marcos Edition, August 3, 1993 (Randy Dotinga)
"Art Taxes Public Patience," Times Advocate, San Marcos Edition, August 3, 1993
"Congressman Outraged by Art," The Times Advocate, San Marcos Edition, August 4, 1993 (Randy Dotinga)
"NEA-Funded Cash Giveaway Raises Ire," Blade-Citizen, August 4, 1993 (Linda Tontini)
"NEA: Was Not Aware of the $10 Art Rebate," The San Diego Union Tribune, August 5, 1993 (Fernando Romero)
"The Art of Giving," The San Diego Union Tribune, August 5, 1993
"$10 Handouts as Art," The Los Angeles Times, August 5, 1993
"Money for Art's Sake," The Los Angeles Times, August 5, 1993
"Money for Art's Sake," The Los Angeles Times, August 5, 1993
"Benefactor in the Dark on Artists' Giveaway," Times Advocate, August 5, 1993 (Randy Dotinga)
"NEA Neutral on Performance-Art Debate," Blade-Citizen, August 5, 1993 (Linda Tontini)
"Local Art on Two Sunday Mornings," The San Diego Union Tribune, August 6, 1993 (Robert L. Pincus)
"Bad Show," The Los Angeles Times, August 6, 1993
"Street Art or Give Dollars to the Migrants!," La Prensa San Diego, August 6, 1993
"Reembolso de Arte' Crea Controversia al Destacar Contribucion de Indocumentados," El Latino, August 6-13, 1993 (Adolfo Guzman Lopez)
"Has the Art Rebate Project Demonstrated Its Value?," (Question of the Week), Times Advocate, August 6, 1993
"Arts Agency to Investigate $10 Handouts to Undocumented Immigrants," Associated Press (e.g. The Daily Californian), August 6, 1993 (Sally Streff Buzbee)
"NEA Denies Group's Claim That It Supports Obscene Art," The San Diego Union Tribune, August 7, 1993 (Nita Lelyveld)
"Early Audit Set In Grant Furor on Art Rebate," The San Diego Union Tribune, August 7, 1993 (Fernando Romero)
"Art Project Puts Tax Payers Into a Tizzy," The San Diego Union Tribune, August 7, 1993 (Bob Rowland)
"Artists Hand Out $10 Bills," The Washington Times, August 7, 1993 (Joyce Price)
"Two More Congressmen Blast San Diego Art Project," Blade-Citizen, August 8, 1993 (Linda Tontini)
"Endowment Gets Heat Over Handouts As Art," Reuters (e.g., Chicago Tribune), August 8, 1993
"A Gift That Keeps On Giving," The Washington Post, August 9, 1993 (Jacqueline Trescott and Eric Brace)
"Alexander Nomination to NEA Chair Applauded," The San Diego Union Tribune, August 10, 1993 (Preston Turegano)
"Don't Let 'Art Rebate' Kill NEA Support," The San Diego Union Tribune, August 11, 1993 (David Beck-Brown)
"Art Minus," The Globe and Mail, Canada, August 11, 1993 (Michael Kesterton)
"Aliens Get Handouts; Artists Call It Art," The New York Times (National Edition), August 12, 1993 (Seth Mydans)
"Art's In the Eye of the Beholder - and the Pockets of Immigrants,"
The Oregonian, August 13, 1993 (New York Times reprint)
"Those $10 Art Giveaways," The La Mesa Forum, August 12, 1993 (Paul Treske)
"In This Artwork, the Canvas is a $10 (Tax) Bill," Daily Southtown (Chicago), August 13, 1993 (Phil Kadner)
"Artistic Talent is a Handout Away," The San Diego Union Tribune, August 14, 1993, (Mike Royko, syndicated)
"Art Money Giveaway Completed," Times Advocate, August 14, 1993 (Randy Dotinga)
"Cuando los Billetes se Convierten en Arte," El Universal, Mexico City, August 14, 1993 (Carlos Ferreyra Hernandez)
Article,Chinese Daily News, August 15, 1993
"...But I Know What I Like," The New York Times (National. Edition), August 15, 1993 (Seth Mydans)
"Watch This Intellectual Space," The New York Times (National Edition), August 15, 1993
"Art," The Los Angeles Times (Orange County Edition), August 17, 1993
"When Legal Tender Hits a Sore Spot," The Los Angeles Times (Orange County Edition), August 17, 1993 (Cathy Curtis)
"Strange, Unpatriotic Ways to Deal With Illegals Out West," Chicago Tribune, August 17, 1993 (Jon Margolis)
"But Is It ART?," The San Diego Union Tribune, August 22, 1993 (Robert L. Pincus)
"But Is It ART?," The San Diego Union Tribune, August 22, 1993 (Preston Turegano)
"The Interaction of Space and Tacos," The San Diego Union Tribune, August 22, 1993 (George F. Will, syndicated)
"A Nasty Turn on Immigrants," Newsweek, August 23, 1993 (Andrew Murr)
"Is It Art or a Waste of Tax Money," The Arizona Republic, August 29, 1993 (Richard Nilsen)
"Border Payout Seeks to Raise Broader Issues of Arts, Aliens," The San Diego Union Tribune, August 30, 1993 (Narciso Arguelles, Carmela Castrejon, Michael Schnorr, Elsa Valdez, and Susan Yamagata)
"Gov't Pays Artists to Stand on Street Corners Handing Out $10 Bills," Star, August 31, 1993
"Arts Agency: No Money to Illegal Aliens," Associated Press, September 3, 1993 (Sally Streff Buzbee)
"NEA Won't Pay for 'Art' Cash," The San Diego Union Tribune, September 4, 1994 (Fernando Romero)
"NEA Chides Museum for Cash Giveaway," The Los Angeles Times, September 4, 1993 (Tony Perry)
"NEA Stops Art as Cash Giveaway," Times Advocate, September 4, 1993 (Randy Dotinga)
"NEA Rejects Project," Blade-Citizen, September 4, 1993 (Linda Tontini)
"$10 Bill Give-Away to Migrant Workers Loses a U.S. Subsidy," The New York Times (National Edition), September 5, 1993 (Seth Mydans)
"Arts Agency Pulls Out of Cash Giveaway," The Sacramento Bee, September 5, 1993 (New York Times reprint)
"Border Line Decision," The Washington Post, September 6, 1993 (Eric Brace)
"Art Rebate: Money is the Medium," The San Diego Union Tribune, September 10, 1993 (Hugh M. Davies)
"Number Crunchers Ultimately End Up Deciding Art's Direction," The San Diego Union Tribune, September 13, 1993 (Robert L. Pincus)
"Art Lovers Can Seize the Offensive," The New York Times (National Edition), September 15, 1993, (Andrew Heiskell)
"La Frontera/The Border, un Gran Exhibicion Sobre La Experiencia de la Frontera/Estados Unidos, Inaugra el 11 de Septiembre," The Hispanic News, September 16, 1993
"Grants to individual artists retained," The San Diego Union Tribune, September 16, 1993 (Merrill Hartson)
"Art Rebate Forum," The San Diego Union Tribune, September 20, 1993 (Preston Turegano)
"Artists Appeal to NEA," Blade-Citizen, September 21, 1993 (Linda Tontini)
"Arte-Reembolso/Art Rebate," National Campaign for the Freedom of Expression Bulletin, Autumn 1993
"Take My Grant Please," ARTnews, October 1993, (Robin Cembalist)
"Cash Giveaway Riles Right Wing," Art in America, October 1993
"Censorship, Vague Standards Put the Chill on Arts," ACLU in Action, San Diego, October 1993
"The Art of Rip-Off, NEA Style," San Diego's Weekly Reader, October 7, 1993 (Jonathan Saville)
"What's Art, What's Not?," The Washington Post, October 24, 1993 (Jo Ann Lewis)
"But Is It Art?," Heterodoxy, November 1993 (K.L. Billingsley)
"Arts Intelligentsia Can't See That the Emperor is Naked," Blade-Citizen, November 5, 1993 (Gary Gunter)
"Washington D.C., Alexander the Great?," ARTnews, December 1993 (Robin Cembalist)
"Update," The New Arts Examiner, December 1993 (David Mendoza)
"Art Rebate and Immigrants," El Latino San Diego, December 3 - 10 (Daniel Hernandez)
"Satirists Hit Mark in Art Attacks," The San Diego Union Tribune, December 12, 1993 (Robert L. Pincus)
"365 Days," The San Diego Union Tribune, December 26, 1993 (Arthur Salm)
"ART NEWS: Money Made the Biggest Headlines," The San Diego Union Tribune, December 26, 1993 (Preston Turegano)
"ART: Fruitful Yet Flawed Year Left Impression," The San Diego Union Tribune, December 26, 1993 (Robert L. Pincus)
"Art Rebate/Arte Reembolso" electronic media coverage
Television
"KGTV News," local ABC, August 3, 1993
" "KGTV News," local ABC, August 5, 1993
" "Congress Budget Hearings," C-Span, August 5, 1993
" "Sunday Morning" (with Karault), CBS, August 8. 1993
" "KGTV News," local ABC, August 9, 1993
" "KBNT News," Cable 19, August 12, 1993
" "Notivisa," Tijuana Ch 12, August 14, 1993
" "Noticiero Univison," Univision Cable Network, August 15, 1993
" "Inside Edition," syndicated national broadcast, August 17, 1993
" "KGTV News," local ABC, August 31, 1993
" "KUSI News," local independent station, September 3, 1993
" "KNSD News," local NBC, September 4, 1993
" "CNN International News," CNN, September 14, 1993
" "Face the Nation," CBS Network, December 26th, 1993
Radio Interviews
"John and Ken Show, " KFI Los Angeles, August 6, 1993
"Art Rebate," Pacifica Radio Network, August 6, 1993
"The Pat Buchanon Show," national syndication, August 10, 1993
"Stacy Taylor Show," KFMB San Diego, August 11, 1993
"As It Happens," Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio, August 12, 1993
"Art Rebate," Christian Science Network, August 12, 1993
"Letter from America: Alistair Cooke," British Broadcasting Corporation, August 17, 1993
"By the Hour," WBEZ Chicago, August 16, 1993
"Ellen Ratner Show," Independent Broadcasting Network (national syndication), August 18, 1993
"Art Rebate," Monitor Radio Syndication, August 20, 1993
"These Days," KPBS San Diego, August 23, 1993
"Gil Gross Show," CBS Radio, September 9, 1993
"Art Rebate," National Public Radio, September 8, 1993
"Stacking Up Nicely," The San Diego Union Tribune, January 30, 1994 (Preston Terragano)
"In Perspective," The San Diego Union Tribune, January 31, 1994 (Robert Pincus)
"Rebate Debate," National Association of Artist Organizations Bulletin, February 1994
"America's Finest?," The Witness, March 1994 (Blaise Tobia and Elizabeth Maksymowicz)
"La Frontera/The Border," La Prensa, February 26, 1993 (D. Munoz)
"En La Frontera," El Pais, Madrid, Spain, Feb. 27, 1993 (Miquel Mora and Jesus Ruiz Mantilla)
"Border Crossing," The San Diego Union Tribune, March 5, 1993 (Robert Pincus)
"Exploring the Border Experience, " The Los Angeles Times," March 13, 1993 (Christopher Knight)
"The Border Experience," The Daily Press, March 19, 1993
"La Frontera/The Border," Art Issues, May/June 1993 (Robert Pincus)
"Public Penence," The San Diego Union Tribune, July 5, 1993 (Robert Pincus)
Culture Wars: Documents From The Recent Controversies in the Arts, Richard Bolton, editor, New Press, New York, 1992, pages 340, 343, 348 and362.
"Artswatch," Ms Magazine, Volume III, Number 2, September/October 1992 (Susanne Skubik)
"Chronology," National Association of Artist's Organization Bulletin, August-September, 1992.
"NHI Project," Art Papers, July/August 1992 (Susan Otto)
"Activist Art in the Shadow of Rebellion," Art in America, July 1992 (Mark Alice Durant)
"NHI Project," New Art Examiner, June/Summer 1992 (Susan Otto)
"Controversy over 'NHI'," New Art Examiner, June/Summer 1992 (Susan Otto)
"Policing Brutality," Afterimage, April 1992 (Mark Alice Durant)
"Free Expression Watch," American Theater, May 1992
"Body Counting, Artists confornt deadly apathy," LA Weekly, March 13-19, 1992 (Jan Breslauer)
"Billboards Target Unsolved Slayings," The Los Angeles Times, February 21, 1992 (Susan Freudenheim)
"Events Planned to Accompany 'NHI' Campaign, The Los Angeles Times, February 22, 1992
" NHI artists focus on slain women," The San Diego Union Tribune, February 25, 1992 (John Wilkens)
"NHI: Images Exact a Toll," The Los Angeles Times, February 25, 1992 (Susan Freudenheim)
"Artists who use the news," The San Diego Union Tribune, February 28, 1992 (Robert Pincus)
"Trading faces," February 28, 1992 The San Diego Union Tribune, (Clark Brooks)
"Art Project Off Mark," The Los Angeles Times, Letter to the Times, March 1, 1992 (Gary W. Schons, Senior Assistant Attorney General)
"NEA Stance on NHI," Letter to the Times, The Los Angeles Times, April 5, 1992 (Peter Kosenko)
"Letters to the Editor," Expresso, April 1-15, 1992 (D. David)
"Exhibit huamanizes victims," The North County Blade-Citizen, March 2, 1992 (Christine Fauci)
"Attack Art," La Jolla Light, March 5, 1992 (Randy Dotinga)
"No Humans Involved" The Daily Aztec, March 5, 1992 (Robbin Korenthal)
"In Perspective, " The San Diego Union Tribune, March 6, 1992 (Robert Pincus)
"Prostitutes Are People Too: No Humans Involved and Many Women Involved," Gay and Lesbian Times, March 12, 1992 (Jennie Davis)
"NEA: Unaware of NHI project," La Jolla Light, March 12, 1992 (Randy Dotinga)
" MWI moves deaths to larger context," The San Diego Union Tribune, March 13, 1992 (Anne Marie Welsh)
"NEA downplays ties to 'NHI' project," The San Diego Union Tribune, March 13, 1992 (John Wilkens)
"NHI - "No Humans Involved," Expresso, March 1-15, 1992 (John Rippo)
"San Diego artists say NEA is dead," The North County Blade-Citizen, March 17, 1992 (Christine Fauci)
"The NEA is dead," New Indicator, March 18, 1992
"NEA Distances Itself From San Diego Project," The Los Angeles Times, March 19, 1992 (Susan Freudenheim)
" NHI forum downtown deplores police neglect,) San Diego Independent, March 19, 1992 (Mark Gabrish Conlan)
"Police Chief Burgreen responds to recent NHI allegations, " San Diego Independent, March 26, 1992 (Mark Gabrish Conlan)
" No Humans Involved Once more with feeling," Expresso, March 17-31, 1992 (John Rippo)
"6 Years After Death, Family Still Waiting," The Los Angeles Times, April 5, 1992 (Mark Platte)
"NHI exhibit draws fire from Police Chief Burgreen," Expresso April 1- 15, 1992
"Bushanan's NEA," The Village Voice, May 12, 1992 (Robert Atkins)
"No Humans Involved," London Today, May 19, 1992 (Gerard Evans)
"Task Force counts Gains, Critics Losses, as It Disbands," The Los Angeles Times, June 28, 1992 (Mark Platte)
Electronic Media Coverage of NHI Project
KFMB (CBS), 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. news, Februry 21, 1992
KGTV (ABC), 11 p.m. news, February 21, 1992
KNSD (NBC), Ross/Hedgecock Report, 5 and 6 p.m. news, February 21, 1992
KUSI, 10 p.m. news, February 21, 1992
KUSI, 10 p.m. news, February 22, 1992
KFMB (CBS), 6 p.m. news, February 23, 1992
KGTV (ABC), 11 p.m. news, February 23, 1992
KFMB (CBS), 6 a.m. and 12 p.m. news, February 24, 1992
KNSD (NBC), 11 p.m. news, February 25, 1992
KNSD (NBC), Ross/Hedgecock Report, February 26, 1992
KGTV (ABC), 11 p.m. news, March 7, 1992
KGTV (ABC), 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. news, March 8, 1992
KNSD (NBC), 6 p.m. and 1 p.m. news, March 8, 1992
KUSI, 10 p.m. news, March 8, 1992
KGTV (ABC) 6 a.m. news, March 9, 1992
CNN, Headline News, multiple airings, March 17, 1992
San Diego City College Educational Channel, 5 p.m. news, March 20, 1992
KUSI, 10 p.m. news, June 30, 1992
"Sniper's Nest," Z Magazine, October 1991 (Lucy R. Lippard)
"Crossing the Line," The Los Angeles Times, October 20, 1991 (Susan Freudenheim and John Phillip Santos)
"Scene and Heard," The Village Voice, September 11 - 17, 1991 (Robert Atkins)
"On Edge: In the Ghetto," The Village Voice, September 11 - 17 (C. Carr)
"America's Finest?," National Association of Artist's Organization Bulletin, Fall 1991
"Ogling California by camera eye," The Press-Enterprise, May 12, 1991 (Deborah L. Knaff)
"Picture Perfect," The Los Angeles Times, May 2, 1991 (Cathy Curtis)
"Tijuana Puts the Wraps on San Diego Artist's Unflattering Look at Tourism," The Los Angeles Times, May 6, 1991 (Linda Roach Monroe)
"Tijuana center accused of censoring exhibit," San Diego Tribune, May 6, 1991 (Fernando Romero)
"Artist's Work Reinstalled at Tijuana Cultural Center," The Los Angeles Times, May 7, 1991 (Susan Freudenheim)
"Tijuana center restores exhibit," The San Diego-Tribune, May 7, 1991 (Fernando Romero)
"Bench art stirs NEA to review policy," San Diego Tribune, August 16, 1991 (Ann Jarmusch)
"NEA Finds S. D. Protest in Bounds," The Los Angeles Times, August 15, 1991 (Michael Granberry)
"Artwork targeting police met guidelines; NEA to alter rules," The San Diego Union, August 14, 1991 (Ed Jahn)
"Artists irate over ad funds debate," La Jolla Light, August 8, 1991 (Randy Dotinga)
"Fa," Canadian Art, Vol. 8, No. 2, Summer, 1991 (Bill Feffries)
"What is to be un-done: Rethinking political art," New Art Examiner, June/Summer, 1991 pages 25-28, photo: page 25 (Richard Bolton)
"Prophets of the Modern Age," Under Review, May 1991 (Virginia Maksymowica)
"Public Art Is Alive in San Diego," The Los Angeles Times, April 24, 1991 (Leah Ollman)
"Power Brokers," The San Diego Union, April 14, 1991 (Karla Peteson)
"On art's bold frontier: Border art born out of need to call attention to issues," The San Diego Union, April 12, 1991 (Robert Pincus)
"Artistic tribute to Dr. King is small in size, big on words," The San Diego Union, April 1, 1991 (Judith Christensen)
"Editorial: San Diego," New Art Examiner, Vol, 18, No. 6, February, 1991 (Joan Hugo)
Public Money and the Muse: Essays on Government Funding for the Arts, "The Artist in an Integrated Society," Stephen Benedict, W.W. Norton and Company, New York/London, 1991; pages 106-107 (Joan Jeffri)
"Marginalized people and issues take center stage at Yezerski Gallery," The Boston Globe, January 9, 1991 (Christine Temin)
"1990 a Year of Promises: Some Kept, Some Broken," The Los Angeles Times, January 1, 1991 (Leah Ollman)
"Border Art in San Diego: Interview with David Avalos, Louis Hock, Elizabeth Sisco, and Debra(sic) Small," a+t, ARTandTEXT, NO. 36, May 1990 (Mary Anne Staniszewski)
"Resistance, Agitation and Collaboration," San Francisco Camerawork Quarterly, Vol. 17, NO. 1, Spring, 1990 (David Levi Strauss)
Reimaging America: The Arts of Social Change, Mark O'Brien and Craig Little, editors, New Society Publishers, Philadelphia/Santa Cruz, 1990; pages 234 - 236, photo: page 236
"Moving Targets/Moving Out," Art in the Public Interest, Studies in the Fine Arts: Criticism, Arlene Raven, editor, Number 32, Donald Kuspit, Series Editor, U.M.I. Research Press, Ann Arbor/London, 1989; pages 214 - 219
Mixed Blessings: New Art in Multicultural America, Lucy R. Lippard, Pantheon Books, New York, 1990 ; pages 174 - 176, photo: page 177
"Ethnicity, Politics and Poetics: Lations and Meida Art," Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art, edited by Doug Hall and Sally Joe Fifer, Aperture/BAVC, New York, 1990; pages 306-307 (Coco Fusco)
"Cultural Participation," Democracy: A Project by Group Material, Brian Wallis, editor, Dia Foundation Discussions in Contemporary Culture, No. 5, Bay Press, Seattle, 1990; pages 171 - 188, photo: page 173
"Art in the Service of the Gospel," The Other Side, January/February 1990; pages 44 - 47, photo: page 45 (Blaise Tobia)
"Prodding the Conscience," The Other Side, January/February 1990; pages 36 - 42 (Virginia Maksymowicz)
"Exits and Entrances," Artforum, March 1990 (article and photo, Jeff Kelley)
"Bicoastal exhibit an experiment that shows twain have mostly met," The Boston Sunday Globe, October 7, 1990 (Christine Temin)
"East meets West: New art from San Diego and Boston," The Boston Phoenix, October 19-25, 1990 (Rebecca Nemser)
"List Visual Art Center, MIT/Cambridge Satellite Intelligence: New Art From Boston and San Diego," Art New England, Dec/Jan 1991 (Jeri B. Slavin)
"Artists With Attitudes," The Los Angeles Times, Sunday Calendar, May 27, 1990 (Jan Breslauer)
"New Image for Public Art, In the Public Eye at De Anza College," Artweek, volume 121, #39, November 22, 1990 (Alfred Jan)
"Art in the Open," Metro, volume 6, #37, San Jose, California,November 15 - 21, 1990 (Eric Reyes)
"Critic's Choice," San Jose Mercury News, November 11, 1990 (Dorothy Burkhart)
"What Does My Eye See?" The Buffalo Soldier, November 13-15, 1990 San Jose, California (Joe Aytch)
"America's Finest," Frame Work, LACPS, Los Angeles, 1990 (Karen Atkinson and Dan Wasil)
"Taking Control: Art and Activism," The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980's, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, 1990 (David Deitcher)
"Strangling the arts: San Diego artists fight 'obscenity' witch hunt," The San Diego Union, August 5, 1990 (Divina Infusino)
"Coastal Corners: New Work from Boston and San Diego in La Jolla," Visions, Fall 1990 (Brent Riggs)
"Artwork takes shot at police: NEA grant is used to rent space on 25 bus benches," The San Diego Union, October 30, 1990 (Lisa Petrillo)
"Coalition critical of shootings by police gets message across on city bus benches,"San Diego Tribune, October 30, 1990
"NEA-Funded Artists Criticize Police Shootings," The Los Angeles Times, October 31, 1990 (Michael Granberry)
"Bench art will stay despite objections, ad firm's chief vows," The San Diego Union, October 31, 1990 (Uri Berliner)
"Arts and Crafts," San Diego Tribune, October 31,1990 (Neil Morgan)
"Bench art triggers new round in public art debate," San Diego Tribune, October 31, 1990 (Ann Jarmusch)
"Art Critical of Police Defaced," The Los Angeles Times, November 1, 1990 (Michael Granberry)
"Lowery criticizes federal funding of ads on bus benches," The San Diego Union, November 1, 1990 (Uri Berliner)
"I used to be a bump sleeping on a bench...," San Diego Tribune, November 1, 1990 Editorial page cartoon (J.D. Crowe)
"Police tell crowd at deadly force forum they're being taped," The San Diego Union, November 2, 1990 (Lisa Petrillo)
"NEA to Investigate Use of Funds for Bench Ads," The Los Angeles Times, November 2, 1990 (Michael Granberry)
"Use of grant money for bus bench artwork investigated,"The San Diego Union, November 3, 1990 (Gina Lubrano)
"Bus Bench Art Within NEA Guidelines,"The Los Angeles Times, November 3, 1990 (Michael Granberry)
"Benchmarks of art: It's the 'gallery' that distinguishes populist images," The San Diego Union, November 5, 1990 (Robert Pincus)
"Some important questions about bench art funded by the public, " Readers Write, The San Diego Union, November 6, 1990
"Bus bench ads," Readers Write, The San Diego Union, November 7, 1990 (Elaine Schulte)
"Monday Morning Quarterbacks," Editorial Perspective, KGTV, November 7, 1990 (Marty Emerald)
"Art, Personal Expression," Editorial Perspective, KGTV, November 8, 1990 (Michael Tuck)
"Bench Art," Editorial Reply, KGTV, November 15, 1990 (Robert Tambuzi)
"Veiling hate in art," Letters to the San Diego Tribune, San Diego Tribune, November 8, 1990 (Jerry Ray)
"Group continues public art attack," La Jolla Light, November 8, 1990 (Randy Dotinga)
"On the edge of art and politics," San Diego Tribune, November 9, 1990 (Editorial)
"Bench art: the debate is exciting," San Diego Tribune, November 9, 1990 (Editorial perspective, Wendy Caster)
"Art notes from Installation Gallery," San Diego Tribune, November 15, 1990 (Editorial)
"Bravo for Bench Art," The Los Angeles Times, November 18, 1990 Letters to The Times (Edward M. Teyssier)
"Creative people should get public funds for public art," San Diego Tribune, Editorial perspective, November 29, 1990 (Herbert Schiller)
"National Endowment for the Arts: Bus Bench 'Art'," The Informant, December 1990 (Ronald Newman)
"Bus Bench Art Against Deadly Force," New Indicator, November 1990
"Artist Speaks Out on Bench Project,"Southwestern Sun, December 6, 1990 (Vianka Santana)
"T-shirts rebut anit-cop bench art," Solana Beach Sun, December 13, 1990 (Shannon Strybel)
"These benches stand behind San Diego cops," The San Diego Union, December 17, 1990
"NEA Probe to Clear Artists Involved in Anti-Shooting Ads," The Los Angeles Times, December 22, 1990 (Michael Granberry)
"Congratulations," Letters to The Times, The Los Angles Times, January 6, 1991 (Larry Attinasi)
"Creators of Pro-Police T-Shirts Are Hoping They'll Be Bailed Out," The Los Angeles Times, January 7, 1991 (Tony Perry)
"Lesser Known Artists Get a Big Boost, Thanks to Grant and La Jolla Museum," The Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1989 (Hilliard Harper)
"La Jolla Museum Uses Grant for Good, Not So-Good," The Los Angeles Times, July 7, 1989 (Leah Ollman)
"Images of Censorship," High Performance, Fall, 1989
"San Diego City Council clips organization's funds," New Art Examiner, October, 1989
"Beyond Resistance: Notes on Community Counter-Practice,"Afterimage, April 1989 (David Trend)
"Billboard Offers Viewers a Choice on Controversy Over King Tribute," The Los Angeles Times, April 13, 1989 (Hilliard Harper)
"Bus Poster artists rap S.D. again...this time on billboard," The San Diego Union, April 13, 1989 (Robert L. Pincus)
"Media vs. message: Local protest art joins new wave of 'look of thought' public pieces,"The San Diego Union, April 20, 1989 (Robert L. Pincus)
"America's finest censors or just plain budget cuts?" The San Diego Union, June 5, 1989 (Christopher Reynolds)
"Installation Gallery, Left in Cold, to Fight for Funds," The Los Angeles Times, June 8, 1989 (Hilliard Harper)
"Fund cut threatens freedom in local art," San Diego Tribune, June 7, 1989 (Susan Freudenhiem)
"Council Doesn't Budge on 'Political' Changes in Arts Funding," The Los Angeles Times, June 16, 1989 (Hilliard Harper)
"Installation isn't only gallery caught in dispute with government," The San Diego Union, June 19, 1989 (Christopher Reynolds)
"Down South," L.A. Weekly, June 23-29, 1989 (Jan Breslauer)
"Cities Censor, Too," The Village Voice, August 8, 1989 (Jan Breslauer)
"Boarded Over," Afterimage, Volume 17, Number 2, September 1989 (Laura U. Marks)
"Artists' roles," Readers Write, The San Diego Union, November 25, 1989 (Richard Quinn)
"Drawing the Line," The Village Voice, February 21, 1989 (Arlene Raven)
"The New Concerned Photography," Artweek, November 23, 1989 (Doug Ishar)
"Artists Space," El Diario, February 5, 1989 (Alberto Minero)
"Border Watch in Tribeca," Battery News, January 30, 1989 (Alison Simko)
"A Place Where Border Culture Thrives," Guardian, February 15, 1989 (Ray Navarro)
"Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo," The Nation, May 1, 1989 (Coco Fusco)
"Art's New Frontier," The San Diego Union, July 16, 1989 (Robert L. Pincus)
"Unlocking Undocumented Workers' Realities," The Los Angeles Times, July 21, 1989 (Leah Ollman)
"Self-defeating Art?" San Diego Tribune, February 19,1989 (Susan Freudenheim)
"Border issues fuel artist's fire," La Voz Hispana de Colorado, June 21, 1989 (Angela Cortez)
"The Spirit of Place: Border Arts in San Diego," Visions, Summer 1989 (Robert L. Pincus)
"Faces and symbols of alienation," San Jose Mercury News, March 16,1989 (Dorthy Burkhart)
"Crossing the Line," Artweek, Volume 20, Number 11, March 18, 1989 (Susan Hinton)
"TABOOS: Artists Show That They Have 'No Stomach' for Censors," The Los Angeles Times, September 29,1989 (Leah Ollman)
"The art of protest," San Diego Tribune, September 13, 1989 (Susan Freudenheim)
"San Diego Artists Respond to Political Challenge," The Los Angeles Times, September 7,1989 (Leah Ollman)
"Los Vecinos," El Latino, November 20, 1989
"Photographers, Scholars to Focus Their Lenses on Border Issues," The Los Angeles Times, December 7,1989)
"Mexican culture on border of change," San Diego Tribune, December 14,1989
"Actors Hit street with local lampoon,"The San Diego Union, November 2, 1989 (Chris Reynolds) "Lots of wriggling; and a little giggling," San Diego Tribune, November 3, 1989 (Susan Freudenheim)
"Free Speech alive, well in streets of San Diego," The San Diego Union, November 4,1989 (Anne Marie Welsh)
Commentary by Joe Holley, Editorial page editor, San Diego Tribune, November 4,1989
"Walking Through," San Diego Reader, November 9,1989 (Jeff Smith)
"San Diego Stage Watch," The Los Angeles Times, November 10,1989 (Nancy Churnin)
"Art event depicted struggle for dignity," Commentary by David Avalos, Deborah Small, Bartlett Sher and William Weeks, San Diego Tribune, November 18, 1989
"Did the festival score high as art..." The San Diego Union, November 19,1989
"Red Emma Returns," Art Papers, vol. 14, #1, 1990 (William Weeks)
" Los Vecinos Stark photos capture border-area contrasts," The San Diego Union, November 25,1989 (Robert Pincus)
"Border Crossings, Los Vecinos at Museum of Photographic Arts," Artweek, December 14, 1989 (Judith Christensen)
" 'Los Vecinos': 4 Perspectives of a Social Dichotomy," The Los Angeles Times, December 15,1989 (Cathy Curtis)
"Border Photos Powerful," San Diego Tribune, December 1,1989 (Susan Freudenhiem)
Culture, Inc., Herbert Schiller, Oxford University Press, NY 1989
"Living on the Border," Art in America, December 1989 (David Joselit)
"Public Art Made Headlines During the Decade," The San Diego Union, December 31,1989 (Robert Pincus)
"A More Mature Art Scene Welcomes New Era," The Los Angeles Times, December 25, 1989 (Leah Ollman)
" Obscene art is an oxymoron, Activist artist Elizabeth Sisco takes photos, issues," San Diego Tribune, December 15,1989 (Susan Freudenhiem)
"NEA Panel Protests Grant Denial," The Washington Post, November 15,1989 (Elizabeth Kastor)
"San Diego Artist resigns NEA post in protest, " The San Diego Union, November 16,1989 (Christopher Reynolds)
"Local artist quits NEA post," San Diego Tribune, November 16,1989
"Bernstein Rejects Medal in Arts Controversy," The Washington Post, November 16,1989 (Elizabeth Kastor)
"NEA and the Arts: The Turmoil Continues," The Los Angeles Times, November 16,1989 (Allen Parachini)
"Frohnmayer Says He'll Seek End of Art-Grant Law," The New York Times, November 16,1989 (William H. Honan)
The CBS New Night Watch, Interview with Charlie Rose, November 16, 1989
"NEA chief returns funds to AIDS show," USA Today, November 17,1989 (David Zimmerman)
"National Endowment Returns Grant for AIDS exhibit," The San Diego Union, November 17,1989 (William H. Honan)
"Protesting the Red Flags," L.A. Weekly, November 24-30, 1989 (Jan Breslauer)
"Conscientious Objections," Afterimage, January 1990 (Laura Marks)
"The Corporate Art, Pitchers at an exhibition," The Nation, July 10, 1989 (Herbert I. Schiller)
"Build Your Own Arts Festival," On Air Magazine, Volume 20, Number 9, July 1989 (Charles H. Elster)
"Street Sites," High Performance, #41, Fall 1988 (Kirsten Aaboe)
" Street Sites temporarily in service," San Diego Tribune, April 6, 1988 (Susan Freudenhiem)
"Life Outside the Law," Artscribe International, September/October, 1988 (Howard Risatti)
"On the borderline," The Washington Post, February 4,1988
"Politics and palette don't mix every time," The Washington Times, February 4,1988 (Alice Thornson)
"Artists Convey Alien Plight," Legal Times, February 15,1988 (Eleanor Kerlow)
"It's an alien world: Border issue goes to D.C. as an art exhibition," San Diego Tribune, March 2,1988 (Susan Freudenhiem)
"Cut Across and Life Outside the Law," Washington Review, April/May 1988 (Bernard Welt)
"Bus art takes a controversial route", The San Diego Union, January 7, 1988. Full color reproduction on the front page, above the fold. (Steve Schmidt)
"Bus Poster Art Taxes Officials' Patience," The Los Angeles Times, January 7, 1988. Front page San Diego County section, two photo representations. (Hilliard Harper)
"Bus art scorns city's smugness," San Diego Tribune, January 7, 1988. Front page, full color reproduction. (Susan Freudenheim)
"Bus poster still raising controversy," The San Diego Union, January 8, 1988. (Steve Schmidt)
"Bus Posters Critical of the City's Tourist Industry Draw Mixed Review," The Los Angeles Times, January 8, 1988. (Hilliard Harper)
"Take the poster for what it's worth." San Diego Tribune, Editorial, January 8, 1988
"The bus brouhaha," The San Diego Union, Editorial, January 9, 1988
"Bus posters driving home a point-3 local artists explain their controversial rolling artwork," The San Diego Union, January 9, 1988. (Robert Pincus)
"Artist plans to continue controversial artwork," National City Star News, January 10, 1988. (George McCrory)
"Making a Point About The San Diego Image," San Francisco Chronicle, January 11, 1988 (Erik Ingram)
"Public art not required to ape majority's views," San Diego Business Journal, Editorial, Week of January 11, 1988
"What the city needs is an art dictator," San Diego Tribune, January 12, 1988 (Letter to the editor)
"Art posters on buses, focus of controversy, targeted by vandals," San Diego Tribune, January 12, 1988. (Susan Freudenheim)
"Dumping on San Diego causes a tizzy," San Diego Tribune, Commentary by Lionel Van Deerlin, January 12, 1988
"With Freedom.Responsibility," Commentary by Whitney Mandel, Phd., The San Diego Union, January 12, 1988
"Posters, artists, buses, aliens and America's Finest City," The San Diego Union, January 13, 1988. (Letters to the Editor)
"Marred, stolen bus posters are replaced," The San Diego Union, January 13, 1988 (R.B. Brenner)
"Brouhaha obscures bus artwork's point," San Diego Tribune, January 13, 1988 (Susan Freudenhiem)
"NEWSBEAT: The Chamber of Commerce may detest those "Finest Plantation" posters but...," San Diego Tribune, January 13, 1988. (Neil Morgan)
"Bus poster artists lack sense, but raise important questions," La Jolla Light, January 14, 1988. (David B. Dreiman)
"Move to kill bus poster is crass censorship," The San Diego Union, January 14, 1988. (Robert L. Pincus)
"Should the posters on buses cause anger - or humor?" The San Diego Union, January 15, 1988. (Letters to the Editor)
"Spare us..." The San Diego Union, January 16, 1988. (Letter to the editor)
"Vote for Bus Poster," The Los Angeles Times, January 17, 1988. (Letter to the editor)
"Bus art," The San Diego Union, January 17, 1988. (Letters to the editor)
"Controversy rides the bus in San Diego," Los Angeles Herald Examiner, January 18, 1988. (Jack Searles)
"Carteles rodantes Crean Contraversia,"Ahora, January 20, 1988. (Jorge A. Escalante)
"Don't knock the Mexicans: They were really here first," The San Diego Union, January 21, 1988. (Readers write)
"Not a slave," The San Diego Union, January 22, 1988. (Readers write)
"An Unavoidable Image," Revolutionary Worker, January 25, 1988
"Angry artists aim work at Super Bowl weekend," USA Today, January 26, 1988. (Bob Ross)
"Art should continue to search for the truth," San Diego Tribune, January 26, 1988. (Letter to the editor)
"Art opportunism aplenty this Super Week," San Diego Tribune, January 27, 1988. (Susan Freudenheim)
"Art Reviews," The San Diego Union, January 28, 1988. (Robert L. Pincus)
"Public art touches reactionary nerves in San Diego," In These Times, January 27 - February 2, 1988. (Darcy DeMarco)
"Spotlight on San Diego," The San Diego Union, January 28, 1988. (Mark Sauer)
"Confronting stereotypes," El Sol, Commentary by Consuelo Puente de Miller, January 28, 1988
"Superbowl Fans Welcome to America's Finest City," La Prensa San Diego, Editorial, January 29, 1988
Bus poster published in centerfold, The Neighborhood Reporter, January 1988.
Editorial by Cliff Smith, The San Diego Union, February 1, 1988
"Positive attitude," The San Diego Union, February 2, 1988 (Readers write)
"Poster artists give our 'finest' city something to think about," San Diego Tribune, Commentary by Herbert I. Schiller, February 2, 1988
"There's a score that will be someday will be settled," San Diego Tribune, Commentary by Charles Harrington Elster, February 2, 1988
"Kudos to artists of plantation poster," San Diego Tribune, February 3, 1988. (Letters to the editor)
"Cluttered with 'art,'" San Diego Tribune, February 12, 1988. (Letters to the editor)
"Back On The Soapbox," Finder Binder, February 1988
"Controversial bus poster artists to get award," The San Diego Union, February 13, 1988.
"Plantation posters: No illegality found," San Diego Tribune, February 15, 1988. (Ron Roach)
"A Statement by the artists: Elizabeth Sisco, Louis Hock and David Avalos," The Neighborhood Reporter, February, 1988
"Working on Super Bowl Sunday?" High Performance, #40, Vol. 10, # 4, 1987
"Moving Targets," Afterimage, Vol. 15, #9, April, 1988. (Laura U. Marks)
"David Avalos, Elizabeth Sisco, Louis Hock: San Diego Transit Corporation Buses," Artforum, Vol. 26, #8, April 1988. (Susan Fruedenheim)
"A Place in the Sun," Penthouse, July, l988
"Town Frowns on Poster," American Photographer, May l988 (Richard Street)
"Moving Target," Zeta, June l988 (Lucy Lippard)
"The Inside Story," The Reader, June 23, l988
"Controversial Artist speaks out about the art scene here," The San Diego Union, September. 4, 1988 (Robert L. Pincus)
"A Last Look at 1988," San Diego Tribune, December 30, 1988 (Susan Freudenheim)
"Welcome to America's Finest Tourist Plantation,"
Electronic Media Coverage
KFMB - Channel 8, Afternoon and evening news, January 7, 1988
KGTV - Channel 10, Afternoon and evening news, January 7, 1988
KCST - Channel 39, Evening news, January 7, 1988
KFMB - Channel 8, Evening news, January 8, 1988
KGTV - Channel 10, News Commentary, Late night news, Jan. 8, 1988
KFMB - Channel 8, Editorial, Evening News, January 12, 1988
KCST - Channel 39, Editorial, Evening News, January 12, 1988
KFMB - Channel 8, Midday News, January 13, 1988
KCST - Channel 39, Editorial Reply, Evening News, January 26, 1988
KFMB - Channel 8, Evening News, February 15, 1988
KPBS - Channel 15, "Super Week Report", Various time slots
SOUTHWEST CABLE/COX CABLE, "Face to Face", Various time slots
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, Morning Edition, January 20, 1988 (Steve Prophet)
DEEP DISH TV, Borders Segment, national feed, l988
"UCSD Faculty Displays Sanity in Its Diversity," The Los Angeles Times, April 25, 1988. (Leah Ollman)
"Faculty is showing off at UCSD," La Jolla Light, April 14, 1988. (Brad Graves)
"Hall of Mirrors," L.A. Weekly April 1-7, 1988 (Fred Fehlau)
"A Gallery All Torn Up Over Its 10th Birthday", The Los Angeles Times, March 8, 1988. (Suzanne Muchnic)
"Re:Placement Parts, Alternative Galleries break down walls," Los Angeles Herald Examiner, March 20, 1988 (Christopher Knight)
"He's Watching," San Diego Tribune, January 6, 1988. (Susan Freudenheim)
"The Culture Between," Afterimage, Summer 1987. (Philip Brookman)
"A Flawed Survey," Artweek, May 9, 1987. (Robert McDonald)
"An Anxious Space," Artweek, April 25, 1987. (Michael McManus)
"Installation Gallery's 'Biennial' bridges generations," The San Diego Union, April 20, 1987. (Robert L. Pincus)
"Cool Look at Gallery's Hot Opening," The Los Angeles Times, April 15, 1987 (Robert McDonald)
"Toward a New Social Documentary," Afterimage, March, 1987 (Grant Kester)
"Two on the Border Town," San Diego Reader, March 5, 1987 (C.H. Elster)
"Art on the border: fencing with reality," The San Diego Union, March 15, 1987 (Robert L. Pincus)
"Mexican Images and Realities," Artweek, March 28, 1987 (Micheal McManus)
"Projection art hits L.A. streets," Los Angeles Herald Examiner February 13, 1987. (Dinah Berland)
"A Gritty look at Illegal Aliens," Newsday, July 8, 1986. (Bill Kaufman)
"Mexican Tapes, on Illegal Aliens," New York Times, July 5, 1986. (Nina Dorton)
"A Chronicle of Life Outside the Law," San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, September 14, 1986. (Calvin Alghren)
"Choice," London Times, December 18, 1986. (Dexter Darelle)
"Mexican Ways," London Times, December 19, 1986 (Andrew Grimson)
"La Migra Portrayed as Bad Guy," The San Diego Union, November 9, 1985 (Lisa Petrillo)
"Sushi Looks at Illegals", San Diego Weekly News, October 2, 1985
"Facts 'n fiction: Eleventh Annual Global Village Documentary Festival," Afterimage, Ann-Sargent Wooster, October 1985
"Mexican Tapes: Life under the Migra on KPBS," La Prensa, April, 1985
"The Revolution Will Be Televised," The Independent, June 1985. (Renee Tajima)
"Entertaining You", Caminos, Mario Orozco, 1985
"In and Out of Production," The Independent, July/August 1985. (Mary Guzzy)
Show us Life: Toward a History and Aesthetic of the Committed Documentary, edited by Thomas Waugh, Scarecrow Press, 1984
"Women move from History to Action," Daily News, May 27, 1984 (Diana Rico)
"From History to Action" at the Woman's Building," L.A. Weekly, vol. 6, no. 28. June 8-14, 1984. (Kathi Norklun)
"Celebrating Women's Art," Artweek, vol. 15, no. 23, June 9, 1984 (Louise Moore)
"The Way We Live Now," Arts Magazine, vol. 58, no. 6, February, 1984. (Therese Lichtenstein)
"New Documentary in New York," Afterimage, January 1984 (Diane Neumaire)
"Lenswork," San Diego Tribune, February 25, 1983 (Mark Elliot Lugo)
"Visual Contrasts Highlights Photographer's Exhibit," The San Diego Blade Tribune, May 23, 1982. (Janet Holman)
"A Show with New Images," The San Diego Union, May 21, 1982. (Mary Hellman)