Doug HarveyDoug Harvey: artist, writer, curator, art critic, educator, experimental musician, whatever.
Since the mid 90s, Doug Harvey has published over half a million words on contemporary art, art history, culture, art theory, theater, film, musi, comics, architecture, design, television, advertising, cults, cigarettes, and the paranormal.
As lead art critic for LA Weekly for 13 years, he wrote biweekly columns that ranged from the conventional -- reviews of current art exhibits in galleries -- to the far out -- contemplating semiotic implications of the appearance of Bert the Muppet on a pro-Osama Bin Laden placard. Much of his attention was devoted to fringe phenomena such as DIY cassette culture, songpoems, zines, and the art of the developmentally different.
Before, during and after his tenure at the Weekly, Doug Harvey was involved in DIY zine and music publishing.
His journalistic writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Art in America, and a host of other publications.
Doug Harvey is identified as sole or a primary author for more than 30 monographic publications, including volumes on the work of Elliott Hundley, Marnie Weber, Gary Panter, Basil Wolverton, Jim Shaw, Margaret Keane, Lari Pittman, Tim Hawkinson, Thomas Kinkade, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Jeffrey Vallance, and Reverend Ethan Acres. Read More Read Less
