Articles & Reviews
2024
Grunthaner, Jeffrey. “Mel Bochner: ALL SALES FINAL!” The Brooklyn Rail, June 2024
2020
Weiss, Jeffrey. “Mel Bochner: Peter Freeman, Inc.” Artforum, February 2020
Carey-Kent, Paul. “Mel Bochner, Plain as the Nose on Your Face.” Fad Magazine, 29 April 2020
Ongley, Hannah. “Artist Mel Bochner Obscures Words to Reveal Their Dangerous Potential.” Document, 29 May 2020
Loos, Ted. ‘‘‘Blah, Blah, Blah.’ Mel Bochner Tells Us about a Very Cool Museum Show He Curated.” Introspective Magazine, 15 November 2020
Wei, Lilly. “Bochner Boetti Fontana.” Studio International, 16 November 2020
2019
Enright, Robert and Walsh, Meeka. “The Bochnerian Not: An Interview with Mel Bochner.” Border Crossings, issue no. 149, March, pp. 24-39
Lakin, Max. “A Conceptual Art Pioneer Who Doesn’t Mince Words.” The New York Times, 26 November
2018
Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah. “Mel Bochner at Peter Freeman.” Artforum, 28 April
2017
Levin, Kim. “Mel Bochner’s ‘Voices.’” Art Agenda, 7 June
Smith, Roberta. “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week.” The New York Times, 16 June
Rodney, Seph. “Mel Bochner’s Linguistic Trickery.” Hyperallergic, 20 June
Sigler, Jeremy. “Mel Bochner’s Torah.” Tablet, 15 December
2016
Rooney, Kara L. “Mel Bochner and Alighiero Boetti Verba Volant Scripta Manent.” The Brooklyn Rail, 6 April
Snow Hopkins, Christopher. “Drivel, Drool, Babble, Blabber: An Evening with Mel Bochner.” Hyperallergic, 25 October
2014
Holmboe, Rye Dag. “Review: Mel Bochner Strong Language at the Jewish Museum.” Apollo Magazine, 19 July
Altman, Anna. “Mel Bochner's Thesaurus Paintings.” The New Yorker, 17 June
Kalina, Richard. “Stop, Look And Listen! Mel Bochner Strong Language.” The Brooklyn Rail, 5 June
Johnson, Ken. “Secret Power of Synonyms.” The New York Times, 2 May, p.C21
Pechman, Alexandra. “The Painted Blah.” artnews, May, p.25
2013
Smith, Roberta. “A Calculus With Chalk, Stones and Walnuts,” The New York Times, 23 May
Cullinan, Nicholas. “Critics Picks: Mel Bochner.” Artforum, February
2012
Vogel, Carol. “Inside Art.” The New York Times, 29 June, p.24
Altug, Evrim. “Mel Bochner at Egeran Gallery.” Cumhuriyet, Istanbul, Turkey, 3 June
Morse, Trent. “Mel Bochner.” artnews, April, p.107
Finkel, Jori. “Mel Bochner recreates a 1991 show for Marc Selwyn Fine Art.” Los Angeles Times, 4 March
Heinrich, Will. “Mel Bochner.” Art in America, March, pp.160–61
Vazquez, Edward. “Critics Picks: Mel Bochner.” Artforum, 14 February
Winant, Carment. “Mel Bochner’, frieze, no.144, January–February ‘Galleries: Downtown: Mel Bochner.” The New Yorker, 2 January
2011
Post, Ari. “‘Amazing!’ Mel Bochner in the Tower.” The Georgetowner, 30 November
Kennicott, Philip. “Critics review: National Gallery’s ‘In the Tower: Mel Bochner.’” The Washington Post, 4 November
2010
Baker, Ken. “Bochner Doesn’t Take Photographs.” San Francisco Chronicle, 16–19 September, section F, p.4
Thompson, Anne. “Critics Picks: Mel Bochner.” Artforum, 22
June Ollman, Leah. “Art Review: Mel Bochner at Marc Selwyn Fine Art.” Los Angeles Times, 5 March
Schriber, Abbe. “1969 at PS1 Contemporary Art Center.” Artcritical.com, 7 January
Wilmes, Ulrich. “Mel Bochner, Sprache, Raum, Bedeutung (Language, Space, Meaning’).” Künstler – Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Zeit Kunstverlag, Munich
2009
Cash, Stephanie. “Dallas Scores Again.” Art in America, October, p.36
2008
Lawn, Andrzej. “Flash Reviews: Mel Bochner.” Flash Art, October, p.260
Markus, David. “Mel Bochner.” The Brooklyn Rail, June
Coggins, David. “Mel Bochner.” Time Out New York, 15–21 May, p.74
Smith, Roberta. “Mel Bochner.” The New York Times, 2 May, section E, p.30
Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah. “Critic’s Picks: Mel Bochner.” Artforum, 29 April
2007
Weiss, Jeffrey. Event Horizon: Mel Bochner, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York and Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris
Mooney, Christopher. “Mel Bochner: 1998–2007: Painting, Sculpture and Installation.” Art Review, May, p.137
Grabner, Michelle. “Mel Bochner: The Art Institute of Chicago.” frieze, no.105, March, p.191
Meyers, Terry R. “Reviews: Chicago, Mel Bochner: Language 1966–2006, Art Institute of Chicago.” Modern Painters, February, pp.94–95
2006
Foumberg, Jason. “Portrait of the Artist: Mel Bochner.” Newcity, December, p.21 Iles, Chrissie,‘Best of 2006’, Artforum, no.45, December, p.272
McKinnon, John. “Critic’s Picks: Chicago, Mel Bochner Spertus Museum.” Artforum, 15 November
Kwerel, Laura. “A Diary of a Journey: Three Exhibitions Focus on Art across Language, Time.” Chicago Journal, 19 October
Artner, Alan G. “Mel Bochner has a way with words.” Chicago Tribune, 12 October, section 5, p.3.
Koenig, Wendy. “Mel Bochner.” Art Papers, no.30, September–October, p.53
Griffin, Tim. “Secrets of the Domes.” Artforum, no.45, September, p.360
King, Jennifer. “Mel Bochner: Drawing from Four Decades at Wynn Kramarsky.” Art on Paper, no.10, July–August, p.68
Welish, Marjorie. “Mel Bochner: Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, April 25 to June 24.” Art Monthly, no.298, July–August, pp.32–33
Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review: Mel Bochner.” The New York Times, 16 June, p.33
2005
‘The Garden According to Bochner’, Sculpture, no.24, March, pp.12–13
2004
Weiss, Jeffrey. “Language in the Vicinity of Art: Artists’ Writings, 1960–1975.” Artforum, no.42, Summer, pp.212–17
2003
de Bruyn, Eric. “Alfaville, or the Utopics of Mel Bochner.” Grey Room, no.10, Winter, pp.76–111
2002
Lamm, April. “Mel Bochner: Akira Ikeda Berlin.” artnews, no.101, November, p.285
2001
Heartney, Eleanor. “Mel Bochner at Sonnabend.” Art in America, no.89, June, p.126
Ratcliff, Carter. “Paper Remade in 1960s Conceptualism.” Art on Paper, no.5, March–April, pp.55–57
MacAdam, Alfred. “Mel Bochner Sonnabend.” artnews, no.100, January, p.151
2000
Vanel, Hervé. “Notes sur Mel Bochner.” Pratiques, no.9, Autumn, pp.18–24
1999
Penders, Ann-Françoise. “Photo-Texte-Abyme.” Pratiques, no.7, Autumn, pp.72–88
1998
Wilson, William S. “Museum Reviews Mel Bochner: Operational Mischief.” On Paper, no.2, July–August, pp.44–45
MacAdam, Barbara. “Where the Dinosaurs Are the Old Masters.” artnews, no.97, March, p.166
1997
Bois, Yve-Alain and Krauss, Rosalind E. Formless: A User’s Guide, Zone Books, New York
Rotman, Brian. “Mel Bochner: Visible Thinking.” Trans, no.1–2, 3–4, pp.167–69
1996
Kalina, Richard. “Measure for Measure.” Art in America, no.84, September, pp.88–93
Schwendenwien, Jude. “Mel Bochner: Thought Made Visible 1966–1973.” Sculpture, no.15, July–August, pp.54–55
Karmel, Pepe. “Old Master of the Utterly New.” artnews, no.95, May, pp.123–25
Ippolito, Jon. “Where Has All the Uncertainty Gone?” Flash Art, no.189, Summer, pp.83–86
Alberro, Alexander. “Mel Bochner: Thought Made Visible 1966–1973.” Artforum, no.34, February, pp.80–81
1995
Schwabsky, Barry. “Mel Bochner, Gravats. Représentation des premières oeuvres.” Exposé, no.2, pp.134–43
“Reviews: Mel Bochner, Thought Made Visible, 1966–1973, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.” Drawing, no.17, May–June, pp.64–65
Davenport, Kimberly. “Impossible Liberties: Contemporary Artists on the Life of Their Work over Time.” Art Journal, no.54, Summer, pp.40–52
1994
Meyer, James. “Bochner’s Measurement Series.” in Peter Weibel (ed), Kontext Kunst, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne, pp.129–33
Schwabsky, Barry. “Reverse Continuity: the Prints of Mel Bochner.” Print Collector’s Newsletter, no.25, July–August, pp.85–88
Raynor, Vivien. “Minimalism, and After That.” The New York Times, 26 June, p.16
Avgikos, Jan. “Review.” Artforum, no.32, March, p.85
Karmel, Pepe. “Review: Mel Bochner at Sonnabend.” Art in America, no.82, February, p.99
Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review.” The New York Times, 7 January, p.23
1992
Zevi, Adachiara. “Mel Bochner: il numero che sottende l’oggetto.” L’Architettura, no.38, September, pp.647–50
Haldane, JJ. “On Certainty.” The Philosophical Quarterly, no.42, April, p.262
1991
Danto, Arthur C. “Introduction.” in Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty/Uber Gewissheit, Arion Press, San Francisco
Prinz, Jessica. Art Discourse/Discourse in Art. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick
Pardee, Hearne. “Review: Mel Bochner at SteinGladstone.” artnews, no.90, December, pp.124–25
Meyer, James. “Mel Bochner at SteinGladstone.” Flash Art, no.161, November– December, p.132
Smith, Roberta. “Review: Mel Bochner at SteinGladstone.” The New York Times, 18 October, p.28
Smith, Roberta. “Vision of the 60s, From Two Dealers Who Shaped It.” The New York Times, 6 August, p.1
“Mel Bochner & Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty.” Print Collector’s Newsletter, no.22, July–August, p.98
Jones, Bill. “Peter Halley, Robert Rauschenberg, Mel Bocher.” Tema Celeste, no.30, March–April, p.85
Iovane, Ginovanni. “Review.” Artefactum, no.8, February–March, p.44
1990
Buchloh, Benjamin H.D. “Conceptual Art 1962–1969: From the Aesthetic of Administration to the Critique of Institution.” October, no.55, Winter, pp.105– 43
1988
Russell, John. “For ’60s Devotees, a Show Fraught with Nostalgia.” The New York Times, 27 November, p.39
Valabrèque, Frédéric. “Mel Bochner: From Idea to Experience.” Arte Factum, no.5, June–August, pp.14–17
1987
Jacobs, Joseph. “The New Photography.” This Is Not A Photograph: Twenty Years of Large-Scale Photography 1966–1986, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota
Smith, Roberta. “Art: Mel Bochner Show at Sonnabend Gallery.” The New York Times, 20 February, p.23
1986
Van der Marck, Jan. “Mel Bochner: du language au visuel.” Art Press, no.105, July–August, pp.10–13
Van der Marck, Jan. “Mel Bochner: Point to Point.” Artforum, no.24, April, pp.101–05
1985
Westfall, Stephen. “Bochner Unbound.” Art in America, no.73, July, pp.108–13
McEvilley, Thomas. “I Think Therefore I Art.” Artforum, no.23, Summer, pp.74–84
1984
Collings, Betty. “Mel Bochner’s Art as a Study of Mental Process.” Arts Magazine, no.58, May, pp.86–89
1981
Millet, Catherine. “L’art de la din de l’art … 10 ans après.” Art Press International, no.54, December, pp.6–9
1980
“De la théorie à l’experience.” Artistes, no.5, June–July, pp.26–30
1979
Gintz, Claude (ed), Regards sur l’art americain des années soixante, Éditions Territoires, Paris
1978
Greenspan, Stuart. “Review of Exhibition at Sonnabend Gallery.” Artforum, no.16, April, pp.67–68
Louie, Reagan. “Bochner’s Contradictions and Continuities.” Artweek, no.9, 8 April, p.7
Goldin, Amy. “The Body Language of Pictures.” Artforum, no.16, March, pp.54– 59
Pincus-Witten, Robert. “Strategies Worth Pondering: Bochner, Shapiro, Reise, LeWitt.” Arts Magazine, no.52, April, pp.142–45
Perrone. “Jeff, Mel Bochner: Getting from A to B.” Artforum, no.16, January, pp.24–32
Tatransky, Valentin. “Vito Acconci, Mel Bochner, Barry Le Va.” Arts Magazine, no.52, January, pp.27–28
1977
Krauss, Rosalind E., Passages in Modern Sculpture, The MIT Press, Cambridge
Larson, Philip. “Aquatints Again.” Print Collector’s Newsletter, no.8, July– August, pp.61–65
1976
Gablik, Suzi, Progress in Art, Thames and Hudson, London
Johnson, Ellen H., Modern Art and the Object: A Century of Changing Attitudes, Harper & Row, New York
Richard, Paul. “Art From Numbers.” Washington Post, 27 October
Smith, Roberta. “Reviews.” Artforum, no.14, May, p.64
Hess, Thomas B. “Polished Constructivism.” New York, vol.9, no.9, March, pp.61–62
1975
Smith, Roberta. “Reviews.” Artforum, no.13, Summer, pp.73–74
1974
Krauss, Rosalind E., Line as Language: Six Artists Draw, The Art Museum, Princeton
McDonald, Robert. “Mel Bochner.” Artweek, no.5, 21 September, pp.1–16
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe. “Line as Language: Six Artists Draw.” Artforum, no.12, June, pp.67–68
Sterckx, P. and Baudoux, V. “Concept and Cie.” Clés pour les artes (Brussels), no.44, June, pp.26–27
Anderson, Laurie. “Line as Language: Six Artists Draw.” artnews, no.73, Summer, pp.113–14
Edit, Deak. “Mel Bochner at Sonnabend.” Art in America, no.62, January– February, pp.100–02
1973
Stitelman, Paul. “Mel Bochner at Sonnabend Downtown.” Arts Magazine, no.48, December, pp.59–60
Thomsen, Barbara. “Reviews and Previews: Mel Bochner.” Art News, no.72, December, pp.90–93
Smith, Roberta. “Mel Bochner at Sonnabend.” Artforum, no.12, December, p.82
Kingsley, April. “New York: Mel Bochner’s Sonnabend Gallery Show.” Art International, no.17, December, p.59
Krauss,Rosalind E. “Sense and Sensibility: Reflection on Post ’60s Sculpture.” Artforum, no.12, November, pp.43–52
Schjeldahl, Peter. “In and Out of Step in Soho.” The New York Times, 14 October, p.32
Stephano, Ellie. “Paris.” Art and Artists, no.8, August, pp.46–47
Haller, L. “Bochner.” Flash Art, no.41, June, pp.14–15
Boice, Bruce. “Mel Bochner’s Drawings.” Artforum, no.11, April, pp.75–76
Boice, Bruce. “The Axiom of Indifference.” Arts Magazine, no.47, April, pp.66– 68
Crimp, Douglas. “New York Letter.” Art International, no.17, April, pp.57–59, 102–03
Martin, Henry. “Milan in Winter: Duchampiana.” Art International, no.17, April, p.64
Anderson, Laurie. “Review.” Art News, no.72, March, p.82
Lubell, Ellen. “Mel Bochner at Sonnabend Downtown.” Arts Magazine, no.47, March, p.77
Mayer, Rosemary. “New York: Mel Bochner at Sonnabend Downtown.” Arts Magazine, no.47, March, p.71
1972
Boice, Bruce. “Mel Bochner at Hartford Art School.” Artforum, no.11, December, pp.86–87
Pincus-Witten, Robert. “Mel Bochner: the Constant as Variable.” Artforum, no.11, December, pp.28–34
Boice. “Bruce, The Quality Problem.” Artforum, no.11, October, pp.68–70
Smith, Roberta. “Mel Bochner.” Data Magazine, no.5–6, Summer, pp.92–93 ‘New York’, Art and Artists, no.7, May, pp.50–51
Tisdall, Caroline. “Good Form.” Guardian Arts, 4 May
Borden, Lizzie. “Mel Bochner at Sonnabend.” Artforum, no.10, April, pp.84–85
Wolmer, Denise. “In the Galleries: Mel Bochner at Sonnabend Downtown.” Arts Magazine, no.46, April, p.67
Holmes, Ann. “The Spotlight.” The Houston Chronicle, 23 April, p.17
Cork, Richard. “Shadow Without Substance.” Evening Standard, 13 April, p.8
Kingsley, April. “Reviews and Previews.” Art News, no.71, March, pp.8, 12
Tatransky, Valentin. “Mel Bochner.” Arts Magazine, no.52, March, p.17
Carter, Ratcliff. “New York Letter.” Art International, no.16, January, pp.40–45, 66–67
1971
Pincus-Witten, Robert. “Bochner at MoMA: Three Ideas and Seven Procedures.” Artforum, no.10, December, pp.233–35
Pincus-Witten, Robert. “Anglo-American Standard Reference Works:Acute Conceptualism.” Artforum, no.10, October, pp.82–85
Channin, Richard. “Mel Bochner at 112 Greene St.” Art News, no.70, May, p.11
Pincus-Witten, Robert. “Review: Mel Bochner at 112 Greene Street Gallery.” Artforum, no.9, May, pp.75–76
Benthall, Jonathan. “Bochner and Photography: Technology and Art 24.” Studio International, no.181, April, pp.147–48
Shirey, David L. “Downtown Scene.” The New York Times, 24 March, p.49
1970
Pincus-Witten, Robert, ‘Reviews: New York’, Artforum, no.8, September, pp.75–77
Battcock, Gregory, ‘Documentation in Conceptual Art’, Arts Magazine, no.44, April, pp.42–45
Ashton, Dore, ‘New York Commentary’, Studio International, no.179, March, pp.118–19
Leider, Philip, ‘Review of “Art in Process IV”’, Artforum, no.9, February, p.70
1969
Müller, Grégoire, ‘Art in Process IV’, Arts Magazine, no.44, December 1969– January 1970, pp.55–56
Plagens, Peter, ‘557,087’, Artforum, no.8, November, pp.64–67
Perreault, John, ‘Art: Para-Visual’, The Village Voice, 5 June, pp.16–18
1968
Battcock, Gregory (ed), Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology, Dutton, New York
Chandler, John, ‘The Last Word in Graphic Art’, Art International, no.12, November, pp.25–28
Lippard, Lucy R. and Chandler, John, ‘The Dematerialization of Art’, Art International, no.12, February, pp.31–36
1967
Lee, David, ‘Serial Rights’, Art News, no.66, December, pp.42–45
LeWitt, Sol, ‘Paragraphs on Conceptual Art’, Artforum, no.5, Summer, pp.79-83 Graham, Dan, ‘Models and Monuments: The Plague of Architecture’, Arts Magazine, no.41, March, pp.62–63
Graham, Dan, ‘Of Monuments and Dreams’, Art and Artists I, March, pp. 62-63 Perreault, John, ‘Union-Made: Report on a Phenomenon’, Arts Magazine, no.41, March, pp.26–31
Sloane, Patricia, ‘Scale Models, Drawings’, Arts Magazine, no.41, February, p.57
Selected Publications
2017
Singer Notes, 1968, mfc-michèle didier, Paris
2008
Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings and Interviews 1965–2007, MIT Press, Cambridge
2006
‘Secrets of the Domes’, Artforum, no.45, September 2006, pp.341–45
2003
Christope Cherix and Valérie Mavridorakis (eds), Spéculations: Écrits, 1965– 1973, Thierry Dubois (trans), Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva
1995
Kimberly Davenport (ed), ‘Impossible Liberties: Contemporary Artists on the Life of Their Work over Time’, Art Journal, no.54, Summer, pp.40–52
1993
Mel Bochner, exhibition catalogue, Gallery 360°, Tokyo
‘Mel Bochner: Venticinque Anni: Scritti e interviste 1966–1990’, Cecilia Casorati, Stefano Chiodi and Giovanni Iovane (trans), Carte d Arte: Internazionel Rivista d’ Arte Contemporanea, no. 3, September
1982
Mel Bochner: oeuvres récentes, exhibition catalogue, Centre International de Création Artistique, Paris
1978
‘Letter to the Editor’, Arts Magazine, no.52, May, p.24
1975
‘Catalogue Statement’, Prints: Bochner, LeWitt, Mangold, Marden, Martin, Renouf, Rockburne, Ryman, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1974
Mel Bochner: (toward) Axiom of Indifference 1972–1973, Sonnabend Gallery, New York and Paris
1973
‘Primer: The Complete Catalog of Twenty-One Demonstrations from “A Theory of Sculpture: Counting”’, Flash Art Edizioni, Milan
‘Ten to 10’, Some Recent American Art, The International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, p.21
‘Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object’, Artforum, no.11, June, pp.74–75
1972
‘Especulaciones’, Mel Bochner, Centro de Arte y Communicacion, Buenos Aires ‘Mel Bochner: 3 Demonstrations’, A Theory of Sculpture: Counting, Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, pp.10–27
‘Parenthetical Reflections on Five Earlier Statements’, Arts Magazine, no.46, Summer, p.38
‘Réflections sur l’Axiome de l‚ puisement par Mel Bochner’, Artitudes, no.4, February, p.17
‘Three Statements for Data Magazine’, Data Magazine, no.2, February, pp.62– 67
1971
11 Excerpts (1967–1970), Edition Sonnabend, Paris
Mel Bochner, Editore Toselli, Milan
Mel Bochner/Notes on Theory, University of Rhode Island, Kingston ‘Mental Exercise #1 (Counting)’, The Art Gallery Magazine, no.14, April, pp.32–33
1970
Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography), boxed catalogue, Artists and Photographs, Multiples Gallery, New York
‘10 Hypotheses de Travail’, VH–101, Autumn, pp.46–47
‘Bullshit (Response to Tim Ulrich)’, Artforum, no.9, October ‘Conditions’, Art & Project Bulletin, Amsterdam, no.27, 15 September ‘Excerpts from Speculation’, Artforum, no.8, May, pp.70–73
‘Theory of Boundaries’, Arts Magazine, no.44, April, p.44
‘Art at Risk’, Studio International, no.179, February, pp.44–45
1969
‘Anyone Can Learn to Draw’, press release for Drawings, Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich
1968
‘Alfaville, Godard’s Apocalypse’, Arts Magazine, no.42, May, pp.14–17
1967
‘The Serial Attitude’, Artforum, no.6, December, pp.28–33
‘Seven Translucent Tiers’, Aspen 5+6, Autumn–Winter
‘Serial Art Systems: Solipsism’, Arts Magazine, no.41, Summer, pp.39–43
1966
‘Review: Eccentric Abstraction’, Arts Magazine, no.41, November, pp.57–58
‘Systemic Painting’, Arts Magazine, no.41, November, pp.57–58
‘Art in Process-Structures’, Arts Magazine, no.40, September–October, pp.38–39
Robert Smithson and Mel Bochner, ‘The Domain of the Great Bear’, Art Voices, no.5, Autumn, pp.44–51
‘Primary Structures: A Declaration of a New Attitude As Revealed By an Important Current Exhibition’, Arts Magazine, no.40, June, pp.32–35