Selected Press

“Anita Thacher,” by Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker, January 15, 2022
Taubin, Amy, “Sliding Doors”, Artforum, Nov. 11, 2017
Johnson, Paddy; Powhida, William, “Explain Me”, Artfcity, Nov. 24, 2017
Sculpture Magazine, June 2012
Castillo, Alfonso A., “Artist’s Get New Platform,” Newsday, October 23, 2011
Heller, Fran, “Jewish artists play a role at Fine Print Fair,” Cleveland Jewish News, September 23, 2011
Friedman, Roberta, “Tribeca Film Festival 2011,” Millennium Film Journal No 54, Fall 2011
“Commissions in Brief,” Sculpture Magazine, June, 2009
Sculpture Vol. 24 No. 8, October 2008
Chao, Matthew. “Film Forum,” Times Square.com, September, 2007
Smith, Nelson. “Anita Thacher ‘Loose Corner’,” The Gallery Journal Marygrove College, February/March, 2006
Harrison, Helen. “Lighting Up the Night in Homage,” New York Times, August 28, 2005
Harrison, Helen. “Lighting Up the Night in Homage,” New York Times, August 28, 2005
Melkisetbian, Angela. “Commissions,” Sculpture Magazine, October, 2005
Stanfield, Alyson B. “Cornered at FCMOCA,” Fort Collins Weekly, March, 2003
“Solo screening,” Le Monde, September, 2003
Brickman, David. “Small Wonders,” Metroland, October, 2003
Harrison, Helen A. “VanDeb Selections,” New York Times, May 12, 2002
Conner, Jill. “Anita Thacher,” Sculpture Magazine, October, 2002
“Drawing Rooms,” Village Voice, Voice Choices, March 5, 2002
Newhall, Edith. “Talent,” New York Magazine, March 11, 2002
Thacher, Anita. “Millennium Survey,” Millennium Film Journal, No. 35/36, Fall 2000, p.47
Kerins, Annabelle. “Illuminating Works Light up Two exhibits,” Newsday, January 8, 1999
Lee, John. “Night Light at the Giordano Gallery,” Suffolk County News, January 21, 1999
“Insider, On Record, Night Light,” Sculpture Magazine, May, 1999
“If a House,” Village Voice, Voice Choices, June 9-15, 1999
“Open House,” Sculpture Magazine, Commissions in Brief, July/August, 1999
Harrison, Helen A. “Night Light,” New York Times, January 3, 1999
Amon, Rhoda. “Greenport’s Got it All, Close to Home,” Newsday, August 2, 1999
Harrison, Helen A. “Night Light,” New York Times, January 3, 1999
Amon, Rhoda. “It Takes a Village to Make Some Art,” Newsday, August 4, 1998
Conti, Tiziana. “L¹ex Ianificio di Carignanao,” Tema Celeste, December, 1998
Keiser, Ellen. “‘Doing’ East Hampton,” Dan’s Papers, June 23, 1995
Napoli, Michelle. “Train Station Aglow With Art,” The East Hampton Star, June 15, 1995
Conn, Ellen. “Reel To Reel,” Village Voice, August 23, 1994
Jones, Vanessa. “Kid Stuff,” Daily News, August 20, 1994
Shimon, J. and J. Lindeman. “The Illusionists,” The New Art Examiner, December, 1993
Guequierre, Nathan. “The Illusionists,” Art Muscle, October/November, 1993
Auer, James. “Journal Art Critic,” Milwaukee Journal, July 11, 1993
Stapen, Nancy. Boston Globe, July 20, 1991
Silver, Joanne. Boston Sunday Herald, July 21,1991
Millennium Film Journal Nos. 23/24 Winter 1990-91, pages 86 – 100
Rabinowitz, Lauren. “Women Filmmakers and Past Avant-Garders,” International Experimental Film Congress Catalog. 1989
“Loose Corner,” New York Observer, July 31, 1989
Grout, Catherine. Contemporanea, (Italian Edition), November/December, 1988
Wooster, Ann-Sargent. Cover Arts New York, November, 1987
Whitehead, Kevin. “Best of Fest,” Baltimore Messenger, April 15, 1987
Metzne, Jochen. Tagesspiegel, (Berlin), 1987
Lipson, Karin. Newsday, June 5, 1987
Harrison, Helen A. New York Times, June 21, 1987
Hallheim, Rune. “She Who Opens Eyes,” Haugesunds Avis, (Norway), August 18, 1987
Wooster, Ann-Sargent. “Anita Thacher at the Fabric Workshop,” Art in America, December,1985
Wooster, Ann-Sargent. “Manhattan Short Cuts,” Afterimage, vol. 13, no.1 & 2, Summer, 1985
Wooster, Ann-Sargent. “Manhattan Short Cuts,” Afterimage, vol. 11, no.1 & 2, Summer, 1983
Thacher, Anita. Idiolects, 1983
Harrington, Richard. “The Reel World of Women at AFI,” Washington Post, March 10, 1983
France, Marie Giblin. “N.Y. Directions,” City Paper, March 11, 1983
Richard, Paul. “Avant-Garde Airs,” Washington Post, March 10, 1983
Glueck, Grace. “Two Biennials,” New York Times, March 27, 1983
ARTnews, Summer, 1983
Pipolo, Tony. “Anita Thacher’s Sea Travels,” Millennium Film Journal, Fall/Winter, 1982-1983
Wooster, Ann-Sargent. “Centerfold,” Village Voice, June 10, 1981
Wooster, Ann-Sargent. “Transformational Grammar,” Afterimage, vol. 9, no. 5, December, 1981
Rosenbaum, Jonathan. Soho News, October 13, 1981
Leogrande, Ernes. “Fantasy-Reality,” Daily News, September 28, 1981
Fraser, C. Gerald. “In a Word, Imagination,” New York Times, October 8,1981
Ancona, Victor. “Video Festivals,” Videography, 1980
Wooster, Ann-Sargent. “Centerfold,” Village Voice, June 9, 1980
Sklar, Robert. Books and Arts, February 22, 1980
Rice, Shelley. “Film as Installation: The Clocktower,” Artforum, September, 1980
List, S.K. “Ithaca Video Fest,” Ithaca Times, April 3-9, 1980
Kolen, Helen L. Miami Herald, 1980
Katz, Leandro. “Film as Installation,” Cover 1, Spring-Summer, 1980. p. 54
Weiner, Debra. “Test-Tube Television,” American Film, March, 1979. pp. 32-34
Springer, P. Gregory. Variety, February 7, 1979
Grieco, D. Marie. “Film as Art,” Sightlines, vol. 12, no. 4, Summer, 1979
Daniels, Edgar. “Festival Report,” American Film, June, 1979
Alaya, Elizabeth. Liberation, (Paris), 1979
Taubin, Amy. “Art After Foreman,” Soho Weekly, January 26, 1978
Epple, Ron. “Epple’s Best Short Films,” Media Mix, May, 1978
Egan, Catherine. “Film Reviews,” Film Library Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 2, 1976
Weiler, A. H. New York Times, September 30, 1975
Bannen, Anthony. Buffalo Evening News, April 28, 1975