Themes

• Symbolism
• • Artadia Registry for Kota Ezawa
  • Biography- Kota Ezawa
• Appropriation
• • Tate Modern Definition of appropriation
  • Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal - BBC Article on appropriation in art
  • Kota Ezawa - Artillery Magazine
  • Reality Twice Removed
• Crime
• • Gardner Museum Theft: An Ongoing Investigation
  • The Art of Crime
  • Will Boston's $500m art heist ever be solved?
  • The Crime of Art

Influences

• Alex Katz
• • Overcoming the Orthodoxy of Abstraction
• Abstract Filmmakers
• • Windsor Mccay
  • Absolute Film
  • Oskar Fischinger | Video by Oskar Fischinger
  • Hirshorn Museum: Meet the Artist Kota Ezawa
• Pop Culture
• • MIA Artist in Residence: Kota Ezawa

Interviews

• What really matters is that these images are nothing but a memory and no longer exist as actual objects
• • Interview with Kota Ezawa

• Kota Ezawa speaking about his History of Photography Remix
• • Kota Ezawa on The History of Photography Remix

• Ezawa speaking to Paulson Fontaine Press
• • Okay to Print: Kota Ezawa

• Ezawa speaking to Kenneth Caldwell at Paulson Fountain Press
• • OKTP: Kota Ezawa

• Ezawa speaking to Hirshhorn Assistant Curator Melissa Ho
• • 7 Minutes with Kota Ezawa at the Hirshhorn Museum

• Ezawa speaks to Karen Beckman, chair of the Art History department at University of Pennsylvania
• • Animation, Abstraction, Sampling

Reviews

• The Crime of Art (2017)
• • Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica (2016)
  • • LA Times- The scenes of a crime: Kota Ezawa revisits the Gardner Museum theft
    • Hyperallergic- Recreating Some of Hollywood's Most Infamous Art Crimes
    • Kota Ezawa: Gardner Museum Revisited at Christopher Grimes Gallery
  • SITE Santa Fe (2017)
  • • The Magazine- Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art
    • Sotheby's Museum Network
    • Pasatiempo- Stealing the show: Kota Ezawa
  • Mead Art Museum, Amherst College (2017)
  • • Artnet News- Artist Recreates 13 Stolen Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Masterpieces in New Show
• Mural Project: Murals of La Jolla (2017)
• • Murals of La Jolla: Kota Ezawa
  • La Jolla Light- 'Once Upon a Time in the West' joins Murals of La Jolla lineup
• The City of Nature (2011)
• • Rhizome: Kota Ezawa City of Nature
  • On View Now | Re-Animating Nature: Kota Ezawa's City of Nature
• Paper on Plastic (2011)
• • Paper on Plastic at Mendes Wood