LG WILLIAMS and THE ESTATE OF LG WILLIAMS™
1993–2026
SAMIZDAT
2026
- Wally Hedrick and the Genealogy of Non-Redemptive Failure, August 3
- The Institutional Attrition Sequence: How Institutions Outlast Their Critics in Contemporary Visual Art, August 1
- Hito Steyerl and LG Williams: Exposure, Judgment, and Consequence, July 26
- “Wally Hedrick,” Parker Gallery and The Box by Daniel Gerwin, Artforum, April 29
- On Will Self and the Problem of Satire: When Critique No Longer Compels Consequence (Harper’s Magazine – April 2026), April 10
- On “New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art” by Josh Klein (October, Spring 2026): Condition Versus System, April 7
- Wally Hedrick: Refusal Under Conditions of Compulsory Artistic Circulation, April 6
- No End In Sight: The Conversion of Consequence Across Representation, Circulation, and Procedure, April 3
- The Difficulty That Does Not Exist: On the Fiction of Critiquing Black Artists (A Response to the Dialogues Podcast, Season 10, Episode 6, produced by David Zwirner), March 24
- On Hilton Als and the Problem of Influence at the Whitney Biennial: When Influence No Longer Needs to Be Resolved (New Yorker), March 23, 2026
- The Appearances Tour, April 5 – August 30
- Clarifying Dave Hickey’s Concept of Failure (After a Harvard Law Review Blog Essay), March 18
- When Storage Becomes Infinite: How Database Culture Destroyed Contemporary Art, March 17
- When Judgment Was Replaced: Hal Foster, the Pictures Generation, and the Origins of the Regime of Impunity, February 24
- Contemporary Art Already Operates Like a Feed, February 19
- LG Williams appears in a new University of Chicago Press book — Lives of the Imaginary Artists in Cold War California by Monica Steinberg, ISBN: 9780226839639, February 9
- On the Abdication of Criticism: How Judgment Lost Its Jurisdiction—and Why Criticism Learned to Survive Without Deciding, January 30
- Critique Without Termination: On Everything Was Actually Prepared By Eduarda Neves ( Tripleampersand Journal, November 21, 2025), January 19
- Regime of Impunity: A Diagnostic Essay on Contemporary Power — Why Exposure, Critique, and Reform No Longer Produce Consequence, January 13
- Letter on Friedman's 'Monuments' ( The Spectator, December 22, 2025), January 6
- Letter on T.J. Clark’s 'A Kouros at the Met' ( London Review of Books, 25 December 2025), January 6
- When Seriousness Refuses Judgment: On Carroll Dunham’s Art and Writing, January 4
2025
- Mission Accomplished: LG Williams’s Two-Hour, Invitation-Only Pop-Up Declares Mission Accomplished in New York City, December 31
- Richard Prince’s Deposition and the Failure of Contemporary Conceptual Art—Deposition as Diagnostic: Conceptual Art Under Oath, December 30
- Open Letter to Texte zur Kunst: On the Refusal of Judgment, December 29
- Andrea Fraser and the Absorption of Institutional Critique, December 28
- LG Williams — National Strategic Art Initiatives 2026 for Contemporary Artistic Sovereignty, December 13
- An Open Letter on 100 Black Artists, Reading Practices, and the Question of Misinterpretation, December 11
- Why Didn't She Quit? Mediocrity as Method in Andrea Zittel's Return, November 23
- Visual Artist Falls 661,000 Positions After Criticizing International Art Ranking System, November 13
- Vogue Magazine: Clarifying the Six Gallery Origin Story -- on The Transcendent Late Paintings of Jay DeFeo (November 10, 2025), November 10
- Kerry James Marshall and the Bureaucratic Canon: Repainting the Past, November 9
- Original Artwork by the Late LG Williams... -- Facebook Posting, September 28
- AI Cracks the Mona Lisa: How Leonardo Created the World’s Most Enigmatic Expression, August 3
- Not Ultimate Enough: Ad Reinhardt's Great Refusal, July 17
- The Catastrophic Consequences of Allan Kaprow's "Jackson Pollock", June 14
- How Not to Look at Modern Art in 2076: From Ad Reinhardt’s Purity to the Zombie Void, May 11
- The Grand Illusion: How LG Williams Built an Empire on Manufactured Industry, Hollow Rebellion, and Privileged Homelessness, April 26
- The Spectrum as Future: Autism, Governance, and the Collapse of Normativity — Press Release (with Dr. Bryan Reynolds), April 25
- LG Williams Unleashed the Greatest Light and Space Artwork in Human History: A Government-Fueled, Time-Space Manipulating, Trans-Aesthetic Revelation, April 21
- The Spectrum as Future: Autism, Governance, and the Collapse of Normativity — Technical Analysis (with Dr. Bryan Reynolds), April 18
- Autism in America: A Quantitative Extrapolation of Diagnostic Trends (1960–2076), April 17
- The Undead Aesthetic: The Ascent of Zombie Formalism and the Actual Death of Art by 2076, April 17
- LG Williams™ Announces Historic Acquisition Talks with 130 Mega-Collectors As Artist Deploys Cultural Firewall Against Speculators, April 16
- This Is Not Conceptual Art: Charles Gaines and the Aesthetics of Evasion, April 5
- "Trump’s Marvelous Plan: LG Williams Predicted It In 2011”: Artist Who Tried To Sell U.S. Pavilion To Pay Off Debt Applauds Trump Bold New Move To Eliminate Bad Art Entirely, April 1
- The Institutional Embalming of Raymond Pettibon: Getty's Acquisition as the Final Betrayal of Punk, May 25
- The Great Grift Divide: Elon Musk, LG Williams, And The Art Of The 21st-Century Con, March 11
- From Master Artist To Masterful Grifter: The Rise And Fall And Rise Of LG Williams, March 10
- First Public Interview Of 2025 By The Press Secretary For Los Angeles Artist LG Williams, January 28
- Foreword to Ntifein Jest by Jenny Saupaugh, January 2
2024
- Letter To The Editor — The Brooklyn Rail, December 23
- High Minds, Low Subjects: Visual Imagination and Hidden Forms in The Conversion of Saint Paul, December 20
- Farewell, Schwabsky: Critics and Criticism in the Age of Stagnation, December 18
- NYC Fine Art Oversight Commission Halts LG Williams's Conceptual Ponzi Scheme, December 9
- The Tax Dodging Artist: How One of Los Angeles’ Most Despicable and Disreputable Artists Avoids Taxes Despite Having Nothing to Tax, December 5
- Pardon the Paintings: Why Hunter Biden’s Art is the Ultimate Offense, December 3
- What Do You Say To That?: Édouard Manet’s Mademoiselle V. In The Costume Of An Espada, December 1
- Polymorphous Engagements In Pink: Unlocking the Expansive Artistry of Fragonard’s Radical Eroticism, November 31
- Anna Weyant Is Just Another Kamala Harris: She Needs To Go Away, November 31
- LG Williams Reflects on a Turbulent Year as Donald Trump Returns to the Spotlight, November 24
- LG Williams’s Ontological Displacements and Semiotic Misalignments: A Guide to Writing About Contemporary Art, November 22
- LG Williams’s Unconventional Engagement with Leading Contemporary Art Institutions, November 21
- Two Barnacles of Art: Mark Bradford, Rashid Johnson, and the Misappropriation of the Avant-Garde, November 20
- The Artistic Stagnation Of Richard Serra: Unveiling The Myth Behind The Steal, November 14
- LG Williams: Cultural Disintermediator or Creative Savant? The Artist Who Saw 'Project 2025' Coming in 2010, November 9
- LG Williams Reflects on ‘Brutal’ Year of Artistic and Financial Struggles, November 8
- From Rehash to Resale: The Hollow Spectacle of Mark Grotjahn's 'Art', October 12
- Meta-Hyphenated Artist LG Williams To Discuss ‘Victory Plan’ With Biden, Harris and Trump, September 15
- Art After Humanity: The Most Profound Conceptual Artwork of the 21st Century, June 3
- LG Williams & EDG Appear In UCLA's ‘Daily Bruin ’, May 22
- LG Williams In Conversation, May 12
- Disrobing The Art World: A Critical Examination Of Yoko Ono, LG Williams, And The Guerrilla Girls, April 1
- LG Williams & Erik David Gallery Appear In UCLA's 'Daily Bruin' During Frieze Los Angeles and Felix Art Fair, March 1
- LG Williams In Artforum, February 2
- LG Williams & EDG In UCLA's 'Daily Bruin', January 24
2023
- LG Williams In The Brooklyn Rail, January 12
- LG Williams In Artforum, December 1
- LG Williams & EDG In UCLA's 'Daily Bruin', November 20
- Tracy Emin - The Charade Stripped Bare: Tracey Emin At The Prince George Ballroom, November 8
- LG Williams & EDG In The Brooklyn Rail, October
- LG Williams In Artforum, September
- LG Williams In The Brooklyn Rail, August
- "It’s Better to Be Mediocre, Curated by LG Williams" Appears In Guts Gallery Catherine Opie's CV (Archived)
- LG Williams Interview, June 12
- 100 Women and 100 Black Artists, June 6
- Introduction to 100 Women Artists, May 21
- LG Williams In The Brooklyn Rail, May
- Erik David Gallery Announces the Release of a Recent Collaborative Lithograph by LG Williams, Charlie Colin, and Francesco Siqueiros During The Felix Art Fair, February 15-19
- LG Williams in Artforum Magazine, February
- Erik David Gallery Announces Global Representation Of LG Williams, January
2022
- Tehching Hsieh: Bureaucrat of Endurance, Token of Extremes, December 20
- Letter to Greg Thomas, Larry Bell: The Age of Immersion, Aesthetica Magazine, April/May, December 16
- LG Williams & EDG Appear in The Brooklyn Rail, December
- PCP Press Appears in Artforum, December
- Artist LG Williams Discusses Post-Commodity Art, TBHCCA(R)®, Star Trek, Los Angeles's 'Pathetic Generation' and More in VoyageLA Magazine, November 22
- LG Williams in Artforum Magazine's 60th, September
- Blocking For Godot: A Four-Volume Gesture at the Beyond, August 19
- Proposal To Maestro Yuval Sharon (Detroit Opera), July 24
- LG Williams Unveils Newly Evolved Brand Identity Across All Media and Platforms, February 21
- LG Williams in Artforum, February 2
2021
- Academy of Art University Announces Award-Winning Artist LG Williams as Endowed University Instructor, December 8
- Project Proposal For Benjamin Millepied @ LA Dance Project, September 7
- LG Williams in Artforum, September
- LG Williams: Almost Fellini At The Felix Art Fair, July 29 - August 1
- 3 New Raymond Pettibon Twitter Compilations, August
- LG Williams 'Almost Fellini' at The Hollywood Roosevelt Felix Art Fair 2021, July 30
- LG Williams Interview (ShoutOut LA), April 29
- Wally Hedrick Uninfluencer: A Forgotten Generation - A Review of Wayne Thiebaud Influencer at Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, April 15
- It's Better To Be Mediocre, February 15
2019
2018
- Reframing Public Health: A Semiotic Approach to Addressing the STD Epidemic in the USA, (with Dr. Bryan Reynolds) January 4, 2018
2017
2016
- In Person: LG Williams at The Laguna Art Museum Thursday, December 15
- "Grey Matter" Series, December 3
- The Book Of...[Your Name Here], December 2
- LG Williams Included in Laguna Art Museum Exhibition, October 4
- Forrest Solis & Julia Friedman at Jamie Brooks Fine Art, August 8
- LG Williams Thanks DNC Wikileaks Contributors, July 26
2014
- Thomas Frangenberg, On the Anthology 1987-2012 by LG Williams /The Estate of LG Williams, November 14
- LG Williams Responds To: The Forever Art Professors, by Laurie Fendrich in The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 14
- LG Williams Defends Frieze Co-Director And Thanks 13.8 Million Millionaires At The Same Time, October 15
- Rank Art Facts - Top 100 Artists in the World 2014 - Ranks LG Williams #69 Globally, April 1
2013
- LG Williams In Los Angeles I'm Yours, Kyle Fitzpatrick, December 12
- What Is Missing?, October 11 (Exhibition Page Archived)
- The X-Box Project, October 14
- Read Kyle Fitzpatrick's article about Closed by LG Williams, Los Angeles I'm Yours, September 26 (Archived)
- While The Government Is Closed, Gallery Is Closed From Milan, Gloria Maria Gallery, Curated by Chiara Guidi, September 19
- Recent and Upcoming Exhibitions, September 3
- Read LG Williams: Unconventional Wisdom by Jenna Duncan, Java Art Magazine, January
2012
- SWM Looking At Art Basel Miami Beach - Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois, December 6-9
- SWM Looking At Art Basel Miami Beach - Hotel Sofitel Miami, December 6-9
- SWM Looking At Art Basel Miami Beach - Hotel Sofitel Miami, December 6-9
- On The Anthology: Super Window Project / The Estate of LG Williams™ at Gloria Maria Gallery (Milan), November 14 (Email)
- Twentynine Palms Installation Proposal, March
2011
- LG Williams Awarded $369 Million to Produce 177 “Blue Balls” Paintings for The United States Department of Defense, November 4
- Billionaire Philanthropist and Art Collector Eli Broad Purchases LG Williams 2011 Artwork, Cracked But OK!, October 12
- FOR SALE BY ARTIST - US Art Exhibition Pavilion at Venice Biennale, May 24
- “Anything But” At The Container, May 16
- LG Williams Invited To Participate In Internet Pavilion Biennale Di Venezia, May 10
- The Mr. Brainwash Interview, Tokyo Weekender Magazine, April 11 (archived)
- Uncovering A Tokyo Discovery, Tokyo Weekender Magazine, March 1 (archived)
- Surrealism Comes To Tokyo, Tokyo Weekender Magazine, March 10 (archived)
- A Single Stroke Is Not Enough, Tokyo Weekender Magazine, February 9 (archived)
- Salaryman / Superman At Tana Gallery Bookstore, Jan 30
- No Fun At 'Sex Booze Weed Speed', Tokyo Weekender Magazine, January 26 (archived)
2010
- Are You A Dancer? A Sound Installation By LG Williams, December 7
- LG Williams Takes Responsibility For Anything At Telephonebooth, December 4
- CLOSED At Super Window Project, November 14
- LG Williams Takes Responsibility For Anything On Election Night, November 4
- LG Williams World-Famous Artists’ Works Museum Wall Label Series, November 3
- Matt Reynolds “Best Response To Mat Gleason’s Huffington Post Article", October 7
- Far From Ground Zero, Obscure Hawaiian Artist Is Ignored No Longer, September 7
- International Burn Everything Day Everyday, September 7
- UACAWSACCADB: Up-And-Coming Artist Who Stares At Curators, Collectors, and Dealers, August 8
- Clandestine Art-Reality-Adventure: UACAWSACCADB, August 6
- Artform: Letter To Editor - Mara Mccarthy At Twentynine Palms By Catherine Taft, July 15
- Mat Gleason - 'You're Killing It Dude!", Huffington Post, July 6
- House Where The Bottom Fell Out Begins July 1st, July 1
- Telephonebooth Presents Closed By LG Williams, May 22
- Get Back To The Drawing Board, Los Angeles Times, May 1
- Keynote Speech At The Inaugural International Art Party Convention, April 25
- You Feel Good, Oh So Good: Art Visitors Groped At Exhibition, April 18
- FuckThatGallery Presents The First Large-Scale U.S. “Ġröperformance”, April 6
- 18 New Paintings To Be Sold On Facebook, March 27
- LG Williams Storms FUCKTHATGALLERY In Honolulu, March 15
- LG Williams Plans California Forum to Discuss Avant-Garde’s Future, March 9
- Rehab Rage: Artist Reportedly Explodes At Art Clinic, February 13
- Recent Comments Posted To www.lgwilliams.com, February 13
- LG Williams: Party Every Night, February 7
- LG Williams Rallies The Changey-Hopey-Arty-Farty Faithful, February 6
- LG Williams Hits His Stride But Faces Rifts Over Ideology, January 31
- Appalling On Every Level; A Pure Disaster, January 26
- LG Williams, With Defiant Tone, Vows To Push His Art Agenda To The Max, January 22
- Hope Has Been A Bust, Huffington Post, January 19
- Vatican Slams LG Williams, January 15
- "I Will Do What It Takes", January 15
- LG Williams ‘Meant’ What He Said About Art, January 15
2009
- LG Williams Letter to Art Critics and Art Historians Cites Mistakes, December 9
- LG Williams Apology: I Regret Those Transgressions, December 2
- Open Letter To His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, November 12
- Calling All Aliens, November 8
- The Big Bad World, October 15
- LG Williams Defends Himself Against Art Critics, October 15
- LG Williams Says He's Looking At Any Way To Create Art, October 15
- Waikiki Gallery Opens Space With Band-Aid Exhibition By LG Williams, Sept 10
- American Artist LG Williams To Travel To Waikiki And Diamond Head, July 1
- LG Williams Apologizes For Seven Hour Debauched Rampage!, June 27
- In National Poll, Wide Support For LG Williams, June 24
- 'I Feel I Should Be There' Says LG Williams, June 23
- LG Williams Tells Chinese US Concerned About The Deficits, June 2
- New Dark Alley Performance Series, Apr 9
- LG Williams: Closed, Ala Moana Mall, Honolulu, HI, April 3
- LG Williams Launches New Photography Series: Eat This! (I Did!), April 2
- E.U. President Calls Artist LG Williams on the ‘Way to Hell’, April 2
- WTF! FAC Announces Truce with Artist LG Williams?, April 1
- Poll: Most Americans Say Artist LG Williams Is Doing Too Much, March 19
- LG Williams Feminine Art Critics Denounce LG Williams Sexist Art, Again, Labeling It “Crap”, March 13
- LG Williams Art Faces Test Among Art Haters, March 9
- Banksy Punked, March 1
- Letter To Czech Republic Prime Minister Topolánek, April 5
- Drawing Upon Art
2008
2006
2005
- One Awesome Sculpture And That's All..., September 11
- 2005 Traveling Western RV Biennial Art Show, March 5
- Gallery Subversive Fundraising Letter (Haleh Niazmand), March 1
- LG Williams Awarded Honorary Doctorate Degree, February 26
2004
- LG Williams Discovers ‘Mystery’ Behind Mona Lisa’s Smile, December 16
- "Holy Jesus!": Miracle 'Jesus' Pictures To Appear On Ebay, December 9
- LG Williams Explains "The Pain!" To Professor Dave Hickey, November 20
- If Only Art Lovers Were as Diligent as Sports Fans, November 15
- Super-Sized Toilet Paper For Big F**king A**holes, Thursday, October 28
- Groundwater Article Simply Dumbfounding, Honolulu Advertiser, June 29
- Help Wanted: The Craigslist.org Exhibition by LG Williams, June 11
- Introduction to Help Wanted: The Complete Resource, April 01
- LG Williams To Release 'Significant Findings' From Recent Art Projects, March 4
- Artist Confounds Christians With Duct-taped Bibles And Effigies, February 14
- LG Williams’s Soaring Ambitions Are Shy Of Cash And Sapped By Calamity, February 4
- National Endowment for the Arts Announces Grant Recipients, February 2
2003
2002
- San Francisco Chronicle, Letters To The Editor: Hip-Hip-Horray!, December 27
- LG Williams 'Stands Tall', November 1
- LG Williams Initiates Major New Art Commission: Everyone Sucks, October 2
- LG Williams 'Everyone Sucks' — The Facsimile, September 26
- Open Letter To United States Transportation, September 20
- A California Artist's Landmark Attempt To Make Art "For The World", September 1
- LG Williams: 9 + 1 (New) Installations, September 1
- M2A I March To April: Recent Work By LG Williams, April 1
2001
- Freedom Sign and Arrow, November 2
- Randy Iverson and LG Williams: Look, Jump, Mistake at HI Gallery, December 27
1997
1993
- Off the Mark, Artweek, September 9