Coagula Art Journal was founded in 1992 by Mat Gleason as a freely distributed contemporary art magazine. Since its inception, the publication remains free as a PDF download, however readers may still obtain a hard copy via "print on demand".

The bi-coastal publication employs tabloid-style commentary, gossip, and reviews of the contemporary art world, which garnered significant influence in being cited in other major publications.

The magazine has been referred to as "the publication that the art world loves to hate, and loves to read" (Village Voice) and dubbed "The National Enquirer of the Art World" (New York Post

New York Post

The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...

). It has also been described as having "nothing constructive about it and arguably hurtful."

In 1998, Smart Art Press released Most Art Sucks: Five Years of Coagula.

In 1999, Coagula selected Karen Finley

Karen Finley

Karen Finley is an American performance artist, whose theatrical pieces and recordings have often been labelled "obscene" due to their graphic depictions of sexuality, abuse, and disenfranchisement...

 as Artist Of The Decade.

On March 16, 2001, Coagula won a free speech lawsuit, brought against the publication by Brooklyn resident Ms. Sheh Zand. Sheh’s 1992 lawsuit was over articles appearing in Coagula issues #3 and #4, and was covered by New York Magazine., and the Boston Globe

In February of 2011, Mat Gleason, founder of Coagula Art Journal, was interviewed by art critic Brian Sherwin

Brian Sherwin

Brian Sherwin is an American art critic, writer, and blogger with a degree from Illinois College in 2003. Sherwin is the Senior Editor for the artist social networking site myartspace, where he has written an extensive interview series with emerging and established visual artists...

 for FineArtViews. Gleason stated that Coagula Art Journal was deeply influenced by the writing style of punk zines. He mentioned that Coagula Art Journal will eventually explore internet radio with the launch of CoaguL.A.radio which will provide coverage of the art world. Gleason also stated that “print is dead” and that future releases of Coagula Art Journal will come in the form of a book rather than of a traditional magazine. The interview between Gleason and Sherwin was featured by the Huffington Post.

Contributors (past and present)

• Mat Gleason
• Gordy Grundy
• Alan Bamberger
• Jim Caron
• Tulsa Kinney
• Jeff Gillette

Covers

Coagula has featured interviews and cover stories of such notable artists as Dan Graham, Ad Reinhardt, Gilbert & George, Matthew Barney, Richard Serra, Sue Coe, John Baldessari, Cindy Sherman, and Larry Clark.

Issue	Date	Artist/Cover Story
1	April 1992	Conservative Attacks on Art
2	July 1992	Los Angeles Riots
3	August 1992	Chicago Art Expo
4	October 1992	"NYC: Desperation Row"
5	Winter 1993	The Secret Life of Peter Halley
6	April 1993	Zand vs. Nye
7	Summer, 1993	Clinton to Arts: Drop Dead
8	Autumn, 1993	Censorship of Filipino Art
9	October, 1993	Dennis Hollingsworth
10	December, 1993	Gilbert & George
11	January 1994	Muranushi/Lederman
12	March 1994	Roy Lichtenstein
13	Summer 1994	Peter Plagens
14	September, 1994	Bob Flanagan
15	November, 1994	Lisa Adams Lisa Adams Lisa Adams is a painter and public artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Adams graduated with a B.A. in Painting from Scripps College in Claremont, California and received her M.F.A. from the Claremont Graduate University....  http://www.lisamakesart.com
16	February, 1995	O.J. Simpson
17	Spring, 1995	MOMA Moma Moma may refer to:* Moma , an owlet moth genus* Moma Airport, a Russian public airport* Moma District, Nampula, Mozambique* Moma River, a right tributary of the Indigirka River* Google Moma, the Google corporate intranet... Curator, Robert Storr
18	September, 1995	Claes Oldenburg Claes Oldenburg Claes Oldenburg is a Swedish sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects...
19	November, 1995	MOCA's Temporary Contemporary
20	January, 1996	Andy Warhol
21	April, 1996	Lari Pittman
22	Summer, 1996	Judy Chicago
23	September, 1996	Jean-Michel Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist. His career in art began as a graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s, and in the 1980s produced Neo-expressionist painting.-Early life:...
24	November, 1996	Karen Finley Karen Finley Karen Finley is an American performance artist, whose theatrical pieces and recordings have often been labelled "obscene" due to their graphic depictions of sexuality, abuse, and disenfranchisement...
25	January, 1997	Jean Baudrillard Jean Baudrillard Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism.-Life:...
26	March, 1997	Carolee Schneemann Carolee Schneemann Carolee Schneemann is an American visual artist, known for her discourses on the body, sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. from Bard College and an M.F.A. from the University of Illinois. Her work is primarily characterized by research into visual traditions, taboos, and the body of the...
27	May, 1997	Larry Gagosian
28	Summer 1997	Pat Hearn
29	October 1997	Robert Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is well-known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations...
30	December 1997	Manuel Ocampo Manuel Ocampo Manuel Ocampo is a Filipino artist. His work fuses sacred Baroque religious iconography with secular political narrative. His works draw upon a wide range of art historical references, contain cartoonish elements, and draw inspiration from punk subculture.-Background:Manuel Ocampo was born in the...
31	January 1998	Cindy Sherman Cindy Sherman Cindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Sherman currently lives and works in New York City. In 1995, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She is represented by Sprüth Magers Berlin London in and Metro Pictures gallery in...
32	April 1998	John Baldessari John Baldessari John Anthony Baldessari is an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lives and works in Santa Monica and Venice, California...
33	May 1998	Chris Kraus Chris Kraus Chris Kraus is a writer, filmmaker, and professor of film at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Her books include I Love Dick, Aliens & Anorexia, and Torpor. Video Green, Kraus' first non-fiction book examines the explosion of late 1990s art by high-profile graduate programs that...
34	September 1998	Mary Corse
35	October, 1998	John Fleck
36	November, 1998	Richard Serra Richard Serra Richard Serra is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement.-Early life and education:...
37	January, 1999	"Happy New Year, Art World"
38	March, 1999	Karen Finley Karen Finley Karen Finley is an American performance artist, whose theatrical pieces and recordings have often been labelled "obscene" due to their graphic depictions of sexuality, abuse, and disenfranchisement... (Artist Of The Decade)
39	May, 1999	Sue Coe
40	Summer, 1999	MASS MOCA's Joe Thompson
41	September, 1999	Steve Hurd
42	November, 1999	Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions—in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed...
43	December, 1999	Lynn Foulkes
44	March, 2000	Yolande Macias Mckay
45	May, 2000	Matthew Barney
46	Summer, 2000	Lars Nittve
47	September, 2000	Robert Smithson Robert Smithson Robert Smithson was an American artist famous for his land art.-Background and education:Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey and studied painting and drawing in New York City at the Art Students League of New York....
48	November, 2000	Rick Robinson
49	January, 2001	Paul McCarthy Paul McCarthy Paul McCarthy , is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California.-Life:McCarthy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and studied art at the University of Utah in 1969. He went on to study at the San Francisco Art Institute receiving a BFA in painting...
50	March, 2001	Sandow Birk
51	May, 2001	Roberta Smith Roberta Smith Roberta Smith is an art critic for the New York Times and a lecturer on contemporary art.Born in New York City and raised in Lawrence, Kansas, Smith studied at Grinnell College in Iowa. Her career in the arts started in 1968 while an undergraduate summer intern at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in...
52	Summer, 2001	Larry Clark Larry Clark Lawrence Donald "Larry" Clark is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for the movie Kids and his photography book Tulsa...
53	September, 2001	Dave Hickey Dave Hickey David Hickey is an American art and cultural critic. He has written for many American publications including Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Harper's Magazine, and Vanity Fair...
54	November, 2001	"9/11: Is Art Dead?"
55	February, 2002	Carlee Fernandez
56	April, 2002	Daniel J. Martinez
57	June, 2002	Julian Schnabel Julian Schnabel Julian Schnabel is an American artist and filmmaker. In the 1980s, Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings"—large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates....
58	September, 2002	Richard Ankrom
59	November, 2002	"Iraqi Art"
60	December, 2002	"Les Damoiselles D' Washington"
61	March, 2003	Cecily Brown
62	May, 2003	Matthew Barney/Bjork
63	July, 2003	"How To Resuscitate Your Art Career"
64	September, 2003	Frank Gehry Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions...
65	November, 2003	Ad Reinhardt
66	January, 2004	Michael Jackson Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
67	March, 2004	Viggo Mortenson
68	May, 2004	Thomas Kinkade
69	August, 2004	Nancy Reagan
70	October, 2004	Gary Baseman
71	December, 2004	Christian Ristow
72	February, 2005	Ed Ruscha
73	March, 2005	Chris Burden
74	May, 2005	Shag
75	July, 2005	Buster Friendly
76	September, 2005	The Art Of Podcasting
77	November, 2005	Liz McGrath
78	February, 2006	John Waters
79	April, 2006	Richard Tuttle
80	June, 2006	Lauren Bon
81	August, 2006	Kent Twitchell
82	September, 2006	The Art Of Poker
83	November, 2006	Bansky
84	February, 2007	Leonard Nimoy
85	April, 2007	Art & Celebrities
86	June, 2007	Mark Ryden
87	August, 2007	The Art Of Money
88	October, 2007	Chinatown: 10 year Anniversary
89	December, 2007	Ron English
90	February, 2008	8 Artists Under 28
91	March, 2008	Scoli Acosta
92	May, 2008	David Trulli
93	September 2008	Kent Twitchell Legal Victory
94	October 2008	Bernini at the Getty
95	December 2008	Obama Wins
96	February 2009	Asad Faulwell
97	April 2009	Dan Graham
98	June 2009	Finishing School
99	August 2009	Clayton Brothers Clayton Brothers Rob Clayton and Christian Clayton are painters based in California.Both Rob and Christian Clayton hold BFA degrees from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California .Their work has been exhibited widely throughout America and Europe, and has been featured in several important shows...
100	November 2009	History of Coagula
101	January 2010	Dawn Kasper

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