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ANDREA PEYSER - Become a spy? No skanks! - New York Post, July 12, 2010
REALLY MAKES YOU WONDER Feminists are up in arms not over gay-marriage bans or Mel Gibson misogyny -- but about Wonder Woman. The 69-year-old crime fighter got a DC Comics makeover intended to bring the sluttishly dressed object of male (and...
LINDA STEIN - Wonder Woman Confronts a Makeover Moment: A Missed Chance - On the Issues Magazine, July 7, 2010
DC Comics had its chance, and it missed the moment. In wanting to give Wonder Woman a trendy present-day persona, it released her new look on June 30, 2010 in issue number 600, and passed on its opportunity to create the first non-objectified female . . .
RAHEL MUSLEAH - The Power to Create, Survive, Act - Na'amat Woman, Spring, 2010
ANN VOLLMANN BIBLE - Ruptures of Vulnerability: Linda Stein's Knight Series - Journal of Lesbian Studies, April 20, 2010
MARION WOLBERG WEISS - Excerpt from The Art Scene: Florida - Dan's Papers, March 5, 2010
While Florida is known for glorious sunshine and tropical weather, those conditions didn't exist this winter. It is grey and cold a lot of the time. What is consistent, however, is the art: bright and hot, like the climate should be....
LINDA STEIN - Wonder Woman: A Comic Book Character Shows the Way - On the Issues Magazine, Winter, 2009
How does Wonder Woman do it? She is able to stop the bad guys--even convince them to reform--without ever killing. Her gender-bending strength and power is matched only by her compassion, as she fights for freedom and...
MARION WOLBERG WEISS - Empowering Women by Linda Stein & Jim Gingerich - Dan's Papers, October 2, 2009
Postmodernism has always been a confusing concept, at once either too academic or vague to explain. Some consider it an art movement that can be applied to diverse forms like film, architecture and literature. In art, its inception can be traced to...
MARION WOLBERG WEISS - Artists Make Movies, Screened at Pollock Krasner - Dan's Papers, September 4, 2009
If anything can be said to be new and different about art these days, it's the predominance of video and film. At last. The moving image has finally taken its rightful place in the art world as an authentic art form. Just ask the curators for...
MONA MOLARSKY - Salon 2009 - ARTnews, Summer, 2009
LINDA STEIN - Art World Insiders Struggle to Address Disparity - On the Issues Magazine, Summer, 2009
Does a female artist who submits work for an exhibition receive the same careful and serious evaluation as her male counterparts? Can it still be true that the gender of an artist comes into play in determining recognition and success? Unfortunately...
LINDA STEIN - Breaking Ground on Feminist Art: Elizabeth A. Sackler - On the Issues Magazine, Summer, 2009
By establishing in 2007 the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, an 8,300-square-foot exhibition and education facility dedicated to feminist art, Elizabeth Sackler has dared to take on an art-world establishment that has consistently ignored...
BY ELENA MANCINI - Questioning gender, confronting fear: Tribeca sculptor conceives armor as empowering corrective - The Villager, June 24 - 30, 2009
Upon meeting Tribeca sculptor Linda Stein for the first time, one is struck by the contrast of her no-nonsense New York spunk and the genuine warmth of her personality. Stein was hosting a book party at her intimate Reade Street gallery....
ELISE D'HAENE - Linda Stein's Body Armor - The East Hampton Star, May 14, 2009
The concept of protection has permeated Linda Stein's sculpture for the last three decades, culminating in "Knights," her sculptural series of body as armor. At the National Association of Women Artists, on 80 Fifth Avenue at 14th Street, where the...
ELISE D'HAENE - Linda Stein's Strong Suit at the Art Club - The East Hampton Star, April 16, 2009
Linda Stein, a sculptor and feminist activist who lives in East Hampton and TriBeCa, will discuss "Masculinity/Femininity (Part II)" at the Art Club at 100 Reade Street in Manhattan on Monday at 7 p.m. She will be joined by Michael Kimmel...
JANN MATLOCK & JOAN MARTER - How Linda Stein's Knights Safeguard Our Days - Voice Male, Spring, 2009
LA SLUGOCKI - Wonder Woman is Making a Movie in Manhattan - NY Art Examiner, March 15, 2009
Linda Stein, noted feminist sculptor and filmmaker, is making a movie in her TriBeCa studio. I met Linda at an event at The Brooklyn Museum. She asked me to be in her movie. I said yes. I'm game for anything these days. A week later...
STAFF - Linda Stein: The Art of Soft Power - The East Hampton Star, September 25, 2008
Linda Stein: The Art Of Soft Power In 2007, the artist Linda Stein, who lives in East Hampton and TriBeCa, had a retrospective exhibit at the Nathan D. Rosen Museum in Boca Raton, Fla., of 37 sculptures of “powerful, abstract, larger-than-life...
AMY WOLF - Lady of the Knights: Linda Stein and the Art of Soft Power - Bitch Magazine, Fall 2008
LINDA STEIN - The Art Perspective - On the Issues Magazine, May, 2008
OTI Online provides a new forum for artists to present contemporary art in relation to the topic for that issue. Our online forum allows new possibilities for showing art, including moving images, as well as stills This art section will explore...
STEPHANIE SCHROEDER - Q+A Linda Stein - Curve Magazine, March 2008
The sculptor Linda Stein may be best known as one of the "commoners" duped by Sacha Baron Cohen in his 2006 film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan--and for writing and giving interviews about that...
SKIP SHEFFIELD - Linda Stein; Nathan D. Rosen Gallery; Boca Raton, Florida - Sculpture Magazine, January/February 2008
Linda Stein is an artist and pacifist with a knight-errant's passion for protecting the world. "The Power to Protect: Sculpture of Linda Stein" showed the latest evolutionary turn in her work, which encompasses calligraphy, drawing, painting, and...
LINDA STEIN - Give Borat the boot - Los Angeles Times, January 12, 2008
THE commentary on Sacha Baron Cohen's mothballing of his character Borat ["Dissecting the Tao of 'Borat' -- Did We Learn?" by Hillel Felman, Jan. 4] is wildly off the mark....
HILLEL FELMAN - Dissecting the Tao of 'Borat' -- did we learn? - Los Angeles Times, January 4, 2008
The Kazakh 'journalist' played off of Americans' self-consciousness of the moment about their international image....
JANN MATLOCK - Vestiges of New Battles: Linda Stein Sculpture after 9/11 - Feminist Studies, Fall 2007
BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO - Women’s Bodies as Art, Wrinkles and All - The New York Times, July 8, 2007
“Heroes,” by Linda Stein, part of a show that balances ideology and flair.
IAN YOUNGS - Artist gets even after Borat hoax - BBC News, June 14, 2007
An artist who was duped into appearing in the Borat film has got her revenge on the hoaxer by giving him a starring role in her new set of sculptures....
ROBIN GELFAND - Sculptor Linda Stein's Warrior Women: The Safety of Objects - The Boca Raton Observer, March 2007
Through her art, particularly her sculpture, she created her own "bodyguards" using nothing but her hands and imagination. In doing so, she built a fortress of protection around herself, giving a feeling of refuge from a world spinning out of control....
EMMA TRELLES - The Power to Protect - Sun-Sentinel, January 28, 2007
RESHMA KIRPALANI - The Power To Protect: Sculpture Of Linda Stein - Boca News, January 14, 2007
Her torso is magnificent: a thick, sturdy terrain of welded bronze whose feminine curves belie her formidable weight of four hundred pounds. Her form protrudes from the smooth yellow wall of the Nathan Rosen Museum, a tribute to the depths of Linda Stein.
SKIP SHEFFIELD - Linda Stein, “The Woman Who Stood Up To Borat,” Introduces “Warrior Woman” at Rosen Gallery - Boca News Online, January 8, 2007
Linda Stein has grown into international prominence in the 20 years since her work first appeared at Boca’s Gallery Camino Real and the Boca Raton Museum of Art....
LEWIS GOLDBERG - Make Benefit Glorious Boca - New Times Broward-Palm Beach, January 7. 2007
There are some very funny moments with artist Linda Stein in Sacha Baron Cohen’s hit film Borat (she’s one of the feminist chicks he interviews – remember?) but the New York City artist who had the good (mis)fortune to have been skewered by everyone’s fav
BARBARA J. LOVE - Linda Stein - Feminists Who Changed America, 2006
- “The Power to Protect: Sculpture of Linda Stein” at the Nathan D. Rosen Museum - artknowledgenews.com, December 20, 2006
Boca Raton, FL - Once you feel the strength of Linda Stein’s sculpture, it’s not a surprise that she had the nerve to stand-up to Borat in his current film. Stein’s monumental knights evoke a visceral power of protection impossible to ignore....
- - New York Magazine, November 2006
NEIL STRAUSS - The Man Behind The Moustache - Rolling Stone, November 30, 2006
MARK CINA - Borat’s Angry Costars, Not very nice! The film’s unwitting dupes cry foul, Femme Fury - Us Weekly, November 27, 2006
PATRICK BARKHAM - The Borat Backlash - The Guardian, November 24, 2006
ELLISON WALCOTT - Linda Stein’s defensive armor - Chelsea Now, November 17 - 23, 2006
In a world where many people feel the ever-looming threat of terrorism and violence, Linda Stein has created sculptures that symbolize strength, but also represent the ongoing feeling of vulnerability....
MICHAEL STRECK - War doch nur Spaß - Stern Magazine, November 16, 2006
KARMEN BEGOVIC - AMERIKANCI NA UDARU LAŽNOG KAZAHSTANSKOG NOVINARA - Globus, November 15, 2006
Boratovi naturš?ici, ljudi koje je tzv. kazahstanski novinar intervjuirao i prevario kazavši im da snima dokumentarac kojim ?e Kazahstancima pokazati život u Americi, dolazak filma u ameri?ka kina uglavnom su ?ekali sa strepnjom. Zajedni?ko im je da...
DAVID MARCHESE AND WILLA PASKIN - What’s real in ‘Borat’? - Salon.com, November 10, 2006
KEVIN MAHER - Borat’s ‘victims’ fail to see the funny side - London Times, November 9, 2006
HEIDI PATALANO - Borat interview shows artist’s flair - metro new york, OCT 26, 2006
Sacha Baron Cohen’s fictional Kazakhstan reporter “Borat” has already made mischief across the globe with his off-color views and raging libido, posing as a serious reporter until he unleashes questions guaranteed to make any interviewee squirm....
- Duped Borat Interviewee: ‘He Owes Me One’... - Huffington Post, October 24, 2006
DANIEL ENGBER - Borat Tricked Me!Can’t I sue him or something? - Slate.com, October 24, 2006
IAN YOUNGS - How Borat hoaxed America - BBC News, Monday, 23 October 2006
Spoof Kazakh reporter Borat - aka Ali G comedian Sacha Baron Cohen - is expected to score a box office hit by offending and humiliating real Americans in a new movie....
SHERIDAN SANSEGUNDO - Sculptor Gets A Movie Role: Bamboozled by HBO’s appallingly gauche ‘Borat’ - The East Hampton Star, October 19, 2006
LINDA STEIN - How I was duped by Ali G. - Downtown Express, October 13 - 19, 2006
I click onto the trailer of the upcoming 20th Century Fox movie, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” at the urging of friends. They’re right: I’m in it. The clip shows me in my art studio in Tribeca...
DEVIN GORDON - Behind the Schemes - Newsweek, October 16, 2006
ANDREA PEYSER - THE BORAT TRAP'S BIG CATCH: HOW FAKE KAZAKH FOOLED A FEMINIST - New York Post, October 9, 2006
October 9, 2006 -- WHAT'S a hard-core feminist gal to do? Linda Stein is a serious artist and a tough, smart lady - possessing a master's degree, a striking set of pectorals and a seat on the board of Veteran Feminists of America....
KAREN CIMMS - Something for everyone at new Jim Thorpe exhibit - Times News, June 21, 2006
DONALD MILLER - Linda Stein - ARTnews, May 2006
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The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States and the subsequent war on terror were the motivation and inspiration....
LINDA STEIN - Linda Stein Knights: A Sculpture Series after 9/11 - CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Summer, 2006
LINDA STEIN interviewed by DR. HELEN HARDACRE - The Power to Protect: The Warrior Woman In the Sculpture of Linda Stein - Harvard GLR/Worldwide Magazine, May-June 2006
STAFF - Artist Chat Tonight - Press & Sun Bulletin, April 6, 2006
- Sculpture evokes benevolent power - The Bridge, Spring
LINDA STEIN - Knights (A Sculpture Series After 9/11) - HLFQuarterly, November, 2005
As I ran, after being evacuated by the police from my Tribeca studio during 9/11...
ALLY - South O' the Highway (and the North too) - Dan's Papers, August 5, 2005
SHERIDAN SANSEGUNDO - Linda Stein: An Artist of Contradictions - The East Hampton Star, July 7, 2005
There are artists who work with brutal materials, using welding irons and chisels to bend metal and stone to their will, the floors of their studios littered with detritus. And there are artists who work at clean white tables, their pencils sharp...
MARION WOLBERG WEISS - Max Ernst, Eric Fischl and Linda Stein in New York - Dan's Papers, May 13, 2005
What do such disparate artists Max Ernst, Eric Fischl and Linda Stein have in common? First is their diverse connection to our local area. Second is their depiction of the figure....
MARION WOLBERG WEISS - Small Works at Gallery Merz - Dan's Papers, December 10, 2004
We're also glad to see Linda Stein's metal sculpture...
MARION WOLBERG WEISS - Summer in the City: An Art Critic's Journal - Dan's Papers, August 13, 2004
Feminist artist Linda Stein . . .
STAFF - Art Scene - Linda Stein - Inside OUT, July/August, 2004
LINDA STEIN - Intrigued By The Face - HLFQuarterly, January 2004
I can be a pain to friends who want to go to a show with me. I can’t agree to simply get the best seats available because when going to a live performance--whether theatre, opera, dance or lecture--I must sit up close. In fact, even when everyone says the
MARION WOLBERG WEISS - Gallery Hopping, Hamptons' Style - Dan's Papers, September 26, 2003
We are drawn to the watercolors' subtle, even romantic demeanors, as colors and facial features merge, blur and evolve.
LESTER STRONG - Writing a History of Tears - A&U Magazine, January, 2001
LINDA STEIN - The Machete Blade: An Artist's Search for Security & Strength - HLFQuarterly, Winter 2000
Dream 3/9/78: Sometimes I’m walking down the street and a group of boys try to rape me. I manage to get a pair of scissors, but I’m more frightened by having the scissors, than not....
MARION WOLBERG WEISS - Art Commentary - Dan’s Papers, December, 1999
STAFF - Nabi’s Greatest Hits - The Sag Harbor Express, November 25, 1999
SHERIDAN SANSEGUNDO - At the Galleries - The East Hampton Star, November 25, 1999
STAFF - Nabi Gallery - The East Hampton Independent, November 24, 1999
MARION WOLBERG WEISS - Local Color at the Millennium Gallery - Dan’s Papers, April 30, 1999
ROSE C.S. SLIVKA - From the Studio - The East Hampton Star, April 8, 1999
PHYLLIS BRAFF - Art Review, Guild Hall - The New York Times, April 4, 1999
STAFF - Shake, Rattle and Roll - The Joplin Globe, Missouri, August 21, 1998
ERIC GERSHON - Dazzling Celestial Sculpture Now Graces Airport Lobby - The Southampton Press (Eastern Edition), Thursday, June 23, 1998
... affixed to a wall outside the terminal's entrance, is a fire engine red ...
SHERIDAN SANSEGUNDO - Art Is Up At Airport - The East Hampton Star, June 11, 1998
The competition is over, the artists have completed their work, and the prizewinning entries are now at the East Hampton Town Airport...
STAFF - Curious As to What This Is? - The East Hampton Independent, June 10, 1998
Curious as to what this is? This bright red abstract assemblage sculpture by Indy's own art columnist Linda Stein joins work by three other commissioned artists now on permanent display at the East Hampton Airport....
S.J.F. - Airport Sculpture Finished - The East Hampton Independent, May 20, 1998
The East Hampton Art Committee, along with Councilman Peter Hammerle, have announced that artist Linda Stein has completed her outdoor sculpture commissioned for the East Hampton Airport...
TOWN OF EAST HAMPTON - STEIN COMPLETES AIRPORT COMMISSION FOR OUTDOOR SCULPTURE - PRESS RELEASE, May 12, 1998
Councilman Peter Hammerle and the East Hampton Art Committee are pleased to announce that the outdoor sculpture commission for the East Hampton airport has been completed by Linda Stein...
TRACI KAMPEL - Curves of a Machete Central to the Art of Linda Stein - Downtown Express, Manhattan, March 3, 1998
LINDA STEIN - My Blades Are My Body Guards - The Independent, East Hampton, September 3, 1997
- Bladed Boom Box 277 - Provincetown Banner, October 3, 1996
LINDA STEIN - Blades Are My Bodyguards: Why I Make Machete Blade Sculpture - Women’s Caucus for Art, National Update, Fall, 1996
MARCIA NEWFIELD - Linda Stein: Machete Blades and Beyond - Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Winter 1995/1996
"Yes, I do machete blade sculpture," says artist Linda Stein. "and, my, the comments it triggers in some people: 'What's a nice, pretty girl messing around with intimidating knives?"
STEPHEN HENKIN - Machete as Medium, the Art of Linda Stein - The World & I - A Chronicle of Our Changing Era, October 1994
Thanks to Stein’s innovative craft, once razor-sharp machete blades, along with outmoded male-female roles, have taken on a whole new meaning...
ARLENE RAVEN - Is Bad Good or Bad? - The Village Voice, April 19, 1994
In junior high in the '50s, bad is tight skirts, seamed stocking, cigarettes, and hanging out on street corners instead of going to school. Ten years later, bad is no skirts or stockings, going to school instead of hanging at home with kids...
THE CITY - Transforming Machetes Into Works of Art - The New York Times, Sunday, April 3, 1994
When Linda Stein was growing up, she says, she was told, "good girls shouldn't play with knives." So what did she do? She created works of art from machetes...
GREG GATTUSO - Entertainment Best Bets - New York Newsday, Sunday, March 20, 1994
Linda Stein never has to ask people what they think of her work. "Avant garde," "adventurous," "eerie," "hopeful," "paranoid" and "militant" are words people use to describe Stein's steel blade sculptures...
MARCIA NEWFIELD - Sculptor Recreates What Scares Her - New Directions for Women, May-June 1993
A machete blade as a sign of love, harmony and the finer impulses of life? Not your first assumption? Understandable. But it just means you haven't seen the sculptures of Linda Stein...
DIANE WEBBER - Blade-Penner Wields Pen and Sword in Art and Business - Downtown Express, Manhattan, July 6, 1992
SKIP SHEFFIELD - Unusual Furniture - The News (Boca Raton - Delray Beach - Boynton Beach - Deerfield Beach), Sunday, April 5, 1992
When is a chair not a chair? Novo Arts, 193 E. Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton, has opened a gallery of weird furniture you may or may not want to sit, eat or sleep upon...
CHRIS HASSOLD - Totem - Art Papers, Sept/Oct, 1991
DIANE SCOTT - Modern Totems Charged with Primitive Power - Boca, Florida, July 11, 1991
SARAH POLLAK - ‘Totem’ Opening Draws an Impressive Crowd to Museum - The News, Boca Raton, (also Delray, Boynton, Deerfield) Florida, July 8, 1991
ROGER HURLBURT - Primitive Art Conjures Up Familiar Faces - Sun-Sentinel, Florida, June 30, 1991
EILEEN WATKINS - Furniture Isn't Taken for Granted at Exhibition - Sunday Star Ledger (Newark NJ), June 23, 1991
To treat something "like a piece of furniture" means taking it for granted. Five artists showing their works at Aljira in Newark this month, however, make household objects that are hard to ignore...
KATHLEEN M. HORAN - Sculptor Turns Weapons Into Original Works of Art - Weekend News Transcript (Serving Western Monmouth County, NJ), June 21, 1991
Artist's Fusion of Steel, Wood has Powerful Impact Two opposing feelings, one of a dangerous weapon and the other of a fragile work of art, are represented in the exhibit "Blades, Transcending Aggression," currently on display at the Count Basie..
GARY SCHWAN - Primitive and Powerful - The Palm Beach Post, Florida, June 21, 1991
STAFF - Stein Exhibit Opens at Boca Museum of Art - THE NEWS (Boca Raton - Delray Beach - Boynton Beach - Deerfield Beach), Monday, June 3, 1991
On Thursday June 6, Linda Stein, whose environmental sculptures and multi-media shows have drawn rave reviews, opens an exhibit at the Boca Raton Museum of Art.
PETER HELFRICH - Education Matters - Art Matters, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1991
EILEEN WATKINS - Art - Star Ledger, Newark New Jersey, March 22, 1991
- Linda Stein - Week Ahead, Fairlawn, New Jersey, Feb 16, 1991
- Linda Stein to Open Blade Exhibit - Hackensack News, Garfield, New Jersey, Feb 13, 1991
VIVIEN RAYNOR - Two Shows, ‘Bad Girls’ and ‘Personal Visions’ - The New York Times, March 4, 1990
EILEEN WATKINS - ‘Bad Girls’, ‘Personal Visions’ Present Women’s Works - Sunday Star Ledger, Newark, New Jersey, Feb 25, 1990
- For Art’s Sake - Dateline Sunday, Clifton, New Jersey, Jan 7, 1990
- Art World - Jersey Journal, Jan 5, 1990
- Environmental Excavation - Star Ledger, Newark, New Jersey, Dec 1, 1989
- New Art Exhibit - Record, Hackensack, New Jersey, Nov 24, 1989
- FDU Hosts Stein Sculptures - Dateline Journal, Nov 24, 1989
- Sculpture Exhibit at FDU - Observer, Nov 21, 1989
- Sculpture Exhibit to Open at FDU’s Becton Gallery - South Bergenite, Nov 15, 1989
- Art Notes, Three Person Exhibit - The News and Daily Advance, Lynchburg, Virginia, July 9, 1989
AVERY HUNT - Nouveau Wreath - New York Newsday, Dec 17, 1987
SKIP SHEFFIELD - Artist Uninhibited by Dimensions - Boca Raton News, Feb 9, 1981
- Margate S & L Showcasing Paintings - News/Sun Sentinel, Florida, May 3, 1980
PHILLIP SAVINO - Deer Park’s Artist-In-Residence - NYSATA Bulletin, April, 1973

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