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Olek in the Press [2003 to present].



NEATORAMA, November 9, 2010

IT'S NICE THAT, November 9, 2010

Village Voice, Jen Doll, Yarn Human Takes New York City Subway Just Like Everybody Else, October 20, 2010

According to G; Best. Photo. Ever. November 8, 2010

Like This, November 10, 2010

VS Magazine, Crochet Chaos, November 17, 2010

Subway Art Blog, Jowy, The Word of Olek, October 20, 2010

Village Voice, Jen Doll, Lower East Side's Yarn Bike Delivers Healthy Baby Bike, October 14, 2010

Trend Central, By Hook or by Crook

Bowery Boogie, Children's Yarn Bike Spotted at Bowery and Delancey, October 14, 2010

NYU LOCAL, Myles Tanzer, “Knitting is For Pussies” Is Art At Its Finest, October 14, 2010

Kiley E - Ragamuffin Researcher, Broke-ass stuart's goddamn website, Knitting is For Pus**** by Olek, October 13, 2010

Santa Monica Close-UP, STREET ART, October 15, 2010

Verbicide Magazine, Amanda Green, Kitsch and Tell, October 12, 2010,

SPACE & LIGHT BLOG, Olek on the 3rd Promenade, October 11, 2010

Siel Ju, Southern California Public Radio, Just in time for CicLAvia: A Crocheted bike in SaMo, October 8, 2010

Sean Bonner, Blogging LA, Knitted Bike Spotted in Santa Monica, October 8, 2010

Michael Rushlow, Just a Guy Who rides a Bike, The Bike Cozy, October 5, 2010

Brigitte Center, Raw Food Living Diet, Crochet anybody?, October 4, 2010

SCOUT mob, CULTURE HUNTER, If You thought Knitting a Sweater Was Though, October 6, 2010

New York Entertainment, Critics’ Pick, September 2010

According to G, Photos from Crocheted Painting to Shake Hands by Olek, September 28, 2010



Happy Famous Artists, Showtime: olek @ christopher henry gallery, September 28, 2010

The Lo – down NEWS FROM LES, Good morning..., September 24, 2010

Marjorie Ingal, Crocheted Car (Updated), September 30, 2010

Autoblog - oleks-crocheted-morris-minor, Oct 20, 2010

body pixel, Body cinema: Agata Olek's action's and performances, August 11, 2010

CRUSHABLE, Drew Grant, Anonymous Celebrity: Olek the Crochet Girl Unmasked, August 5, 2010

VIVA VENA CAVA, Knitta, PLEASE!, August 4, 2010

CRUSHABLE, Drew Grant, Crochet Artist Olek Transforms New Bike, July 29, 2010

Bike Blog NYCm Crocheted cogs...Olek's bike art, July 29, 2010

CRUSHABLE, Drew Grant, The Daily WTF: Well, At Least Your Bike Doesn't Mind The Heat, July 6, 2010

Anonymous Celebrity: Olek the Crochet Girl Unmasked, Crushable Magazine, Aug. 5, 2010

Asyasays, July 2010

Home Greens, Stunning Crochet & more, May 5, 2010

Knitting Mummy cab ride subway, April 29, 2010


Betty Tompkins' artists recommendations

No Longer Empty, Weaving in & Out, from Tuesday 15 June 2010 until Monday 30 August 2010

Steven McElroy, Art in Odd Places, New York Times, Oct. 2, 2009

rebel:art, Thank You for Your Visit, Have a Nice Day, 2009

BLNK: DAC�s Art Under The Bridge, Artfagcity

Dora Ohrenstein, COVERS: Rush Hour Art, New York Style, Crochet Insider

Amy Plitt, TimeOut New York, Fall Preview 2009

J. B. Cohen, Women Forward, 2009

Gwen Blakley Kinsler, The Fine Art of Crochet: 150 Innovative Designs by Twenty Contemporary Artists, Fall 2010

Amanda Johnston & Clive Hallett, The Fabric Book, Spring 2010

Liana Rocha, Tecidos do corpo e do tempo, A Tarde, February 4, 2009, p 3

Correio, Exposi Tessituras fica aberta entre os dias e deste m, February 5, 2009

Lucid Culture, Art Review: The WAH Center Does It Again, April 28, 2009

Clausia Cukrov, Crochet work by Olek, PSFK, 2009

Megan Voeller, Common threads, Creative loafing, June 3, 2008

Lennie Bennett, Art that expands the creative fabric, St.Petersburg Times, June 1, 2008

Catalog from Practical to Poetic: Women�s Handicraft Revised, Sangoyemi Ogunsanya

Gen Di Napoli, OMG, Ur Art Is So Cool :-), The Tragically Unhip, August 22, 2008

Tour the Bronx. Yes, the Bronx, Domestic Attempts, March 3, 2009

Catherine Hollingsworth, Alaska Home to one of Nation�s top Crochet Instructors, Anchorage Daily News, March 17, 2008

Noreen Crone-Findlay, Inspiration � Agata Olek, Hankering for Yarn, March 20, 2008

Olek, Mintage Raflautas, 2008

Lynn Neuman, U R Here Performance Picture. Brooklyn Arts Council, June 30, 2008

Carrie Stern, Choosing Your Own Dance Experience, Brooklyn Eagle, July 17, 2008

Sabrina Gschwandtner, Camouflage and Identity, FiberARTS, Jan/Feb 2008, p. 50-53

Brian Seibert, The New Yorker, April 2008

Quinn Batson, A crochet Dream, OFFOFFOFF,2008

Jessy Smith, The Dance Enthusiast, 2008

Sculpture Space (the book), edited by Lin Smith Vincent with Sydney L. Waller, 2007, p. 76 and 85

Gea Savannah, The Waterways Project at the Venice Biennale, Art Fairs International, Jul/Aug 2007

John Haber, Scenes of Mystic Writing, Haber Arts, Summer 2007

Jennifer Dunning, Sex-Positive Feminism and the Single Snail, The New York Times, June 14, 2007

Sara Dyer, Arts! Festival Brings Color and Creativity to Colgate, The Colgate Maroon-News, March 2007

Andrew Theodorakis, Invasion of the body-patchers, Daily News, October 13 2006, p.40

24 Seven, October 2006, cove

Claudia La Rocco, Playing With Light, Color, Shadow and Movement, The New York Times, Oct 10, 2006

Sasha Vasilyuk, Last of Its Kind?, The Brooklyn Paper, October 7, 2006

Vige Barrie, Emerson Gallery Hosts Indoor/Outdoor Sculpture Show, Hamilton Alumni Review, May 2006

Catalog from exhibition Sculpture Space INSIDE OUTSIDE, June 2006

Sophie Fels, Speed Limit, TimeOut New York, October 26, 2006

Dumbo Paneling, interview, questions by Ashley McCullough, October 2006

Cassaundra Baber, Classic craft becomes new-wave art, Observer-Dispatch, October 5 2005

Press from 9th International Istanbul Biennale, 2005

Gia Kourlas, Knees, Elbows and Faces Conceal the Beating of Hearts, The New York Times, July 18, 2005

John Rockwell, Even Cinderella�s Stepsisters Aren�t That Mean, The New York Times, Feb 15 2005

Jonathan Padget, Knit One, Swirls Too, The Washington Post, February 10, 2005

Heather Morgan Shott, Dance Revolution, CityPaper, February 18, 2005

John Rockwell, �Amazing Feats��, The New York Times, March 6, 2005

Hey OK, a magazine - Rachel Cohen Interview with Rebekah Windmiller

Linda, Crochet in the Expanded Field, Supernaturale.com, 2005

Ladders covered with prostate cancer at the Chelsea Hotel, Living with Legends, December 8, 2005

Dance Insider, winter 2005

Holland Cotter, Art In Review, The New York Times, August 6, 2004

Walter Robinson, Weekend Update, ArtNet, August 2004

Deborah Jowitt, Does Plot Matter?, The Village Voice, June 2004

Lisa Jo Sagolla, Do I Dare?, Back Stage, June 11, 2004

Sheila McKenna, Profile, Newsday, March 11, 2004

Melissa Ulto, Free Williamsburg, November 2003

Vanessa Manko, Cohen Mines Mask, clown, Film and Twister, The Dance Insider, 2003

POPSustainability, Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, October 31, 2003

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