Selected Press/Publications

Artillery Magazine, March/April Issue, “Richard Wyatt Jr. Steve Turner”, by Richard Allen May III, March 8, 2022

UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, “Art exhibit review: UCLA alumnus Richard Wyatt Jr. uses art to encapsulate emotion and resilience”, by Finn Chitwood, photos by Finn Chitwood, January 26, 2022

Daily Bruin, “Gallery: The details behind UCLA alumnus Richard Wyatt Jr.’s newest exhibition”, by Finn Chitwood, photos by Finn Chitwood, January 20, 2022

Daily Bruin, “Art exhibit review: UCLA alumnus Richard Wyatt Jr. uses art to encapsulate emotion and resilience”, by David Egan, photos by Finn Chitwood, January 18, 2022

Spike, by Spike Lee, Exit Sequence Page, Chronicle Books LLC., 2021

The Los Angeles Times, “Photos from LACMA’s glam gala: From Lil Nas X to Jeff Bezos, a starry crowd”, by Deborah Vankin, November 7, 2021

The New York Times, Sunday Business, “America’s Reopening: An Agonizing Delay”, by Patricia Cohen, photograph of mural “City of Dreams/River of History” (1996) in the Los Angeles Union Station/Gateway Plaza, Pages 4-5, September 19, 2021

The New York Times, “In Compton, a School That Paved the Way for Generations of Black Artists”, by Melissa Smith, June 1, 2021

The San Diego Union-Tribune, “Bill Would Mandate Diversity on Boards: Modeled after law requiring minimum number of women”, by Patrick McGreevy, September 2, 2020

Medium, “A Los Angeles Treasure: Richard Wyatt Jr.”, by Lara Caresse Saikali, Los Angeles, CA, June 20, 2020

Document Journal, “5 artists tell us the hardships—and benefits—of creating in isolation”, interview by Ann Binlot, New York, NY, June 12, 2020

HYPEBEAST, “Artists Of Color Reflect On Own Identities in ‘Portraiture: A Private Room’”, by Gabrielle Leung, June 4, 2020

LACMA Insider Magazine, "The Legacy Issue", Pages 40-41, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Spring 2019

LA Weekly, “Charles White in Three Dimensions: Work, Teaching and Legacy”, by Wyatt Closs, Los Angeles, CA, April 4, 2019

Nighthawknyc.com, “Charles White—Now”, by Kenn Sava, New York, January 19, 2019

The Museum of Modern Art Magazine, “If You Know, Teach”: Charles White as Teacher, interview by Esther Adler (Associate Curator of Drawings and Prints), New York, NY, January 11, 2019

Observer, “Charles White’s Famous Students on Why They—and the Art World—Wouldn’t Be the Same Without His Work”, by Nora Tomas, October 12, 2018

the PARIS REVIEW, “A Black Artist Named White”, by Kerry James Marshall, May 31, 2018

The Art Institute of Chicago and The Modern Museum of Art, New York, “Charles White: A Retrospective”, edited by Sarah Kelly Oehler and Esther Adler, 2018

Los Angeles Sentinel, “Los Angeles Artist Richard Wyatt Jr. Creates an Art Legacy with Everlasting Murals”, by Shannen Hill, November 16, 2017

KCET Artbound, “Metro's Art-filled Stations Enliven the Transportation Experience”, by Liz Ohanesian, August 17, 2016

Entropy Magazine, “Learning From Masters: Ray Bradbury and Richard Wyatt Jr. At Los Angeles High School”, by Mike Sonksen, August 4, 2016

The Los Angeles Times, “Google Cultural Institute database wants to give street art permanence”, by Deborah Vankin and Saba Hamedy, March 18, 2015

UCLA Magazine, “Stationed in Los Angeles”, by Hugh Hart, October 1, 2014

Creating the Future: Art and Los Angeles in the 1970s, by Michael Fallon, Counterpoint, September 2014

Los Angeles Register, “Muralists from 1984 Olympics Celebrated”, by Hannah Madans and Martha Ramirez, Local 5, August 25th, 2014

The Los Angeles Times, “L.A. again carries a torch for 1984 Olympic murals, their artists”, by Jessica Gelt, August 20, 2014            

Los Angeles Union Station: Tracks to the Future, by William Bradley, Angel City Press, May 2014

KCET Departures Columns | LA Letters, “Richard Wyatt: Artist for Los Angeles”, by Mike Sonksen, February 7, 2014

The Los Angeles Times, “Postcards From the West: Union Station bustles with film plots”, by Christopher Reynolds, November 22, 2013

The Los Angeles Times, “In L.A., it's free to see two strong, beautiful public-art heroines”, by Christopher Reynolds, November 22, 2013

Playboy Jazz Festival 35th Anniversary Program, “Stardust Memories: A Look Back at the History of Jazz in Hollywood”, by Kirk Silsbee, Pages 10-11 and P. 56, June 2013            

The African American People: A Global History, by Molefi Kete Asante, P. 152, Routledge, June 2013

DownBeat Magazine, “Capitol Records Jazz Mural Restored”, by Kirk Silsbee, February 25, 2013

The Los Angeles Times, “A Wall of Fame Sparkles Anew”, by Randy Lewis, P. D3, February 19, 2013

The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, Volume 1, Edited by Joan M. Marter, Oxford University Press, 2011

L.A. Rising, SoCal Artist Before 1980, by Lyn Kienholz, 2011

Public Art Review, “Still I Rise, Southern California public art in the time of furloughs”, by Helen Lessick, P. 44, Spring/Summer 2011          

Palisades Post, “Palisades Kennedy Family Awaits Opening of RFK Inspiration Park”, by Dee Guisee, November 11, 2010

CultureNOW, “Museum Without Walls”Long Island, NY           

The Los Angeles Times, “New Campus, Built-In History”, by Howard Blume, September 13, 2010

California African American Museum (Catalogue), “Our Love of John T. Scott”, Pages 24-25, March 2010          

The Los Angeles Times, “Richard Wyatt’s reunion with his youthful art at UCLA Fowler Museum”, by Yvonne Villarreal, Tuesday,  March 2, 2010

UCLA Today, “Mystery of mural leads to Bruin of distinction”, by Kelsey Sharpe, February 25. 2010

AIArchitect This Week, “At Gonzalez Goodale’s Wilshire Public, a Monument to a Dead Hero and Living Activism: A site already laden with history takes on the legacy of RFK”, by Zach Mortice, Vol. 15, October 24, 2008

Art + Auction, The International Magazine For Art Collectors, “Eyes On The Prizes”, by Margery Gordon, P. 115,  February 2008

ARTnews Magazine, “Much African-American Art Rolls Over Estimates at Swann”, by Daniel Grant, October 16, 2007

Visions: Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings, (Catalogue), by Townsend Wolfe, P. 41, 2007

Resistance, Dignity, and Pride: African American Artists In Los Angeles, by Paul Von Blum, Chapter 11, CAAS Publications, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 2004

Westways Magazine, “Art for the People”, by Brenda Rees, P. 70, November/December 2003

Los Angeles Times/California section, “Murals Make Downtown Lompoc an Outdoor Gallery”, by William Overend, P. B8, Monday, November 17, 2003

Charles White (David C. Driskell Series of African American Art, V.1), by Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Pomegranate, 2002               

Designing The World’s Best Public Art, by Garrison Roots, Pages 146-147, Images Publishing Group, Australia, 2002

The New York Times, “The Nation”, P. 6 wk, Sunday, February 10, 2002

Juxtapoz, Magazine, “Representing L.A.: Pictorial Currents in Contemporary Southern California Art”, Pages 46-57, May/June 2001              

Casabella, “II transporto pubblico a Los Angeles”, Italy, Pages 26-31, November, 2000

The Downtown Gazette, Front page, Vol. 13, No. 40, Long Beach, CA, October 2000

Press-Telegram, “Uncovering Diversity”, P. A2, Long Beach, CA, September 2000

Mass Transit, “Metro Art in Los Angeles”, Starts on P. 62, Fort Atkinson, WI, May 2000

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, “L.A. Influential”, P. E8, Pittsburgh, PA, Sunday, March 12, 2000

Art & Antiques, Magazine, “Art On The Move”, Pages 20 and 90, January, 2000

Pasadena Star News/Cheers, “The Art Around Us”, Cover and Pages 4-5, Friday, January 28, 2000

Capital, Magazine, “American Graffiti”, L.A. a cura di Massimo Cavallini e Valeria Palumbo, Filiale di Milano, Italy, P. 92, February, 1999

Los Angeles, Lonely Planet Publications, 1999

The Lure of the Local, by Lucy R. Lippard, The New Press, New York, P. 89, 1998

The Swissair Gazette, “Los Angeles from A to Z”, P. 58, July/August 1998

The Artist’s Magazine, “Making Art for the Masses”, by Jennifer King, Pages 40-48, May, 1998

The Press-Enterprise, “Cultural Shock-Ontario Airport Art”, P. H-1, Sunday, June 28, 1998  

The Desert Sun, “Mural Reflects Community Pride”, P. B-1, Sunday, March 29, 1998

The Press-Telegram, “Family Portraits”, Pages C1-C2, Tuesday, February 3, 1998

Art in America, “Richard Wyatt: People Coming, People Going”, 1997 in Review, Public Art, August 1998

California Art of the State, Harry Abrams, Publishers, P. 67, 1997

Painting the Towns: Murals of California, by Dunitz and Prigoff, 1997

Choices in Literature, “Where Paths Meet”, P. G126, 1997

The International Review of African American Art, Vol. 14, Number 3, 1997

The Christian Science Monitor Newspaper, “L.A. Muralists Paint the Town”, Pages 10-11, January 6, 1997

The New York Times, National, “Town Hopes Murals Will Put It On Map”, P. 19, Sunday, November 10, 1996

Ebony Magazine, “Perspectives in African American Art”, 10th Anniversary Celebration, P. 35, February 1996

Emerge Magazine, Pages 57-60, February 1996

The Los Angeles Times/Calendar, “Gateway to City of Dreams”, P. 6, Sunday, October 29, 1995

The Black Convention Magazine, “This is the City L.A.”, Pages 25-30, August 1994

Interiors, Magazine, 15th Annual Interiors Awards, “Screen Actors Guild”, P. 50, January 1994

Daily News/L.A. Life Weekend, “The Muralist As Social Critic: Wyatt’s Work Reflects Views on African American Community”, Friday, April 16, 1993

Sunset Magazine, “Walls of History”, Pages 68-69, July 1992

Los Angeles Times/Orange County Calendar, “Black Art Panelists Are Open to Interpretation”, Pages F24 and F27, January 24, 1992               

KCRW, National Public Radio, Interview, “Central Avenue Jazz At The Santa Monica Museum of Art”, by Nelson Handel, December 17, 1991               

Los Angeles Times/Calendar, “The Best of the Weekend”, Friday, November 15, 1991

The Outlook, “Artist Richard Wyatt and All That Jazz”, P. D12, Friday, November 15, 1991      

Los Angeles Times/Calendar, “Wyatt’s ‘Central Avenue Jazz’ Honors a Community Near and Dear to Him”, P. 92, Sunday, November 10, 1991

New Art Examiner, “Writing on the Wall”, Pages 20-24, November 1991

Alaska Airlines Magazine, “Public Art: The Painting on the Wall”, April 1991

Santa Barbara News-Press/Front Page, “Lompoc Mural Salutes City’s Ethnic Diversity”, Saturday, April 6, 1991

Los Angeles Times, “Back to the Wall”, P. E5, Thursday, February 14, 1991

Los Angeles Time/Metro Digest, “All That Jazz”, P. B2, January 24, 1991

Los Angeles READER, August 10, 1990

L.A. Jazz Scene, Vol. 4, No. 37, September 1990, Los Angeles, CA, 1990

Tracks Magazine, Volume IV, Number 2, April-June 1990

American Artist Magazine, June Issue, 1989

Los Angeles Times Calendar Section, Los Angeles, CA, 1989

Liberty: The Statue and the American Dream; National Geographic Society, 1985

Art + Architecture, Volume 3, Number 2, 1984

Die Kunst Magazine, Germany, January 1984

Reportages, Number 41, France, June 1984

Olympic Arts Festival Magazine, Published by Los Angeles Times Syndicate, 1984

Long Beach Press Telegram, May 20, 1984

Die Zweite Dimension, by M. Varitier and A. de Naniee, France, 1983

Arte, Aprile, France, 1983

Street Murals, by Volker Barthelmeh, 1982

State of the Arts, No. 37, CA, September/October, 1982

1980 Mid-City Telephone Book Cover, 1980

Quincy Jones Anniversary Album Cover, A&M Records Company, 1980

Freedomways Magazine, Third Quarter, 1980

Artweek Magazine, “Four Contexts for the Human Form”, by Francine Farr, Vol. 10 No. 19, May 12, 1979

Artweek Magazine, Vol. 9 No. 19, September 9, 1978

UCLA Alumni Magazine, “The Quiet Demonstrator”, Cover photo of the artist at 12 years of age, Vol. 42., No. 4, Pages 12 – 14, Summer 1968