Selected solo exhibition catalogues

2020
Mel Bochner: Measurements (1968–1971), Dia Art Foundation, New York 

2019
Mel Bochner: Exasperations, Simon Lee Gallery, London

2017
Mel Bochner: Voices, Peter Freeman, Inc., Yale University Press, New Haven

2015
Jeffrey Weiss, Mel Bochner: Drawings 1966-1968, Craig F Starr Gallery, New York

2014
Mel Bochner Strong Language, Norman Kleeblatt, Jewish Museum, New York; Yale University Press, New Haven
Mel Bochner Primer, Simon Lee Gallery, London

2012
Mel Bochner: If The Colour Changes, Achim Borchardt-Hume and Doro Globus (eds), Whitechapel Gallery, London; Ridinghouse, London; Haus der Kunst, Munich and Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto
Barry Schwabsky, ‘Bochner’s Language-Colour Synthesis’, Monoprints, Two Palms, New York
Theory of Sculpture: Fontana’s Light, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles

2010
Jeffrey Weiss, ‘Ad Infinitum’, Mel Bochner Photographs and Not Photographs, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

2009
Marta Casati, Mel Bochner Monoprints, Galleria Metroquadro, Rivoli

2007
Frédéric Paul and Mel Bochner, Mel Bochner, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan
Johanna Burton, James Meyer and James Rondeau, Mel Bochner: Language 1966–2006, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

2006
Ruth Fine, Mel Bochner: Drawings from Four Decades, Fifth Floor Foundation, New York

2003
Fiamma Arditi, Mel Bochner: Opera Recenti, Galleria d’Arte il Gabbiano, Rome

2002
Hubert Besacier, Mel Bochner Measurements: Works from the 1960s/1990s, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon
Scott Rothkopf, Mel Bochner Photographs 1966–1969, Yale University Press, New Haven

2001
Kyosuke Kuroiwa, ‘Mel Bochner’, Mel Bochner Paintings and Sculptures, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nogoya, Japan

1999
Mel Bochner, Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro

1998
Barry Schwabsky and Mel Bochner, Mel Bochner: Drawings 1966–1973, Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York

1997
Christophe Cherix, Laurent Jenny and James Meyer, ‘Mel Bochner: Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art’, Cabinet des Estampes du Musée d’art et d’histoire, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva

1995
Richard Field, Mel Bochner: Thought Made Visible 1966–1973, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

1985
Elaine King, Mel Bochner: 1973–1985, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

1982
‘Bochner à Senanque: deux moments d’un parcours’, Mel Bochner: Oeuvres Recentes, Renault Recherches Art et Industrie, Centre International de Creation Artistique, Abbaye de Senanque, Gordes

1976
Brenda Richardson, Mel Bochner: Number and Shape, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore

Selected group exhibition catalogues

2020
Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, Walther und Franz König, Verlag der Buchhandlung

2017
Stephen Coppel, The American Dream: pop to the present, British Museum Press (Thames), London, UK
Kelly Baum, Lucy Bradnock and Tina Rivers Ryan, Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980, Metropolitan Museum of Art

2016
Dakin Hart and Stephanie Salomon (eds.) Museum of Stones: Ancient and Contemporary Art at The Noguchi Museum, GILES

2015
Fiona Kearney, Boolean Expressions: Contemporary Art and Mathematical Data, The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland

2014
Sébastien Pluot, Fabien Vallos, Alice Pialoux (eds.) Art by Telephone – Recalled, La Panacée, Cneai, École Supérieure des Beaux Arts Tours-Angers-Le Mans, École Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Bordeaux

2013
Ann Temkin and Claire Lehmann, Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US
Chiara Costa and Mario Mainetti (eds.) When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Progetto Prada Arte

2011
Gavin Delahunty and Christoph Schulz (eds), Alice in Wonderland: Through the Visual Arts, Tate Publishing, London
Ealan Wingate and Emily Florido (eds), Robert Rauschenberg, Prestel, London and Munich
Magdalena Dabrowski, Yve-Alain Bois, Aleksandra Shatskikh, Mark Francis, James Turrell, Donald Judd, Mel Bochner and John Coplans, Malevich and the American Legacy, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Mark Godfrey, Robin Kelsey, Anne Rorimer, Allen Ruppersberg, Guiliano Sergio, Joshua Shannon and Matthew S. Witkovsky, Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977, Matthew S. Witkovsky (ed), Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Mark Pascale, Drawings from the Collection of Irving Stenn, Jr., Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Rodrigo Alonso (ed.) Systems, Actions and Processes 1965-1975, Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
N. Elizabeth Schlatter, Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums

2010
Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Birgit Pelzer, Herman and Nicole Daled, A Bit of Matter and a Little Bit More. The Collection and the Archives of Herman and Nicole Daled 1966–1978, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Verlag Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne

2009
Emily Wei Rales and Jeffrey Weiss, If We Could Imagine, Glenstone Foundation, Potomac

2005
Johanna Burton, Mark Godfrey and Boris Groys, Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970, Donna De Salvo (ed), Tate Publishing, London

2004
Chrissie Iles et al., 2004 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1999
Vicente Todoli (ed), Circa 1968, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto

1994
John T. Paoletti, ‘The Form of Thought’, Minimal to Conceptual Art Work from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

1989
Claude Gintz, Juliette Laffon and Angeline Scherf (eds), L’Art conceptuel, une perspective, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

1980
Kathy Halbreich, Mel Bochner/Richard Serra, Hayden Gallery and MIT Press, Cambridge

1979
Richard Anderson, The Minimal Tradition, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield

1976
Bernice Rose, Drawing Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1975
Mel Bochner, Barry Le Va, Dorothea Rockburne, Richard Tuttle, Carroll Dunham, Ragland Watkins (ed), The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti

1972
documenta (5), Kassel

1970
Kynaston McShine (ed), Information, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1969
Harald Szeemann, When Attitudes Become Form, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
 
Selected anthologies

2019
Anna Lovatt, Drawing Degree Zero: The Line from Minimal to Conceptual Art, Penn State University Press

2017
Regine Ehleiter, ‘What’s Unfolding,’ Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Oliver Kornhoff, Was Sich Abzeichnet, Salon Verlag, Cologne
Larisa Dryansky, Cartophotographies: De l’art conceptuel au Land Art, Coédition CTHS-INHA, Paris

2016
Cristina Baldacci, Archivi impossibili. Un’ossessione dell’arte contemporanea, Johan & Levi, Monza

2008
Yve-Alain Bois, ‘What If…’, Mel Bochner, Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings and Interviews 1965–2007, MIT Press, Cambridge

2007
Mark Godfrey, Abstraction and the Holocaust, Yale University Press, New Haven

2004
Philip Armstrong, Laurie Lisbon and Stephan Melville (eds), ‘Mel Bochner’, As Painting: Division and Displacement, MIT Press, Cambridge
Lynn Zelavansky, Beyond Geometry, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles and Yale University Press, New Haven
Ann Goldstein, A Minimal Future? Art As Object 1958–1968, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles and MIT Press, Cambridge

2001
James Meyer, Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties, Yale University Press, New Haven
Anne Rorimer, New Art in the 60s and 70s, Redefining Reality, Thames & Hudson, London

1999
Ulrich Wilmes, ‘36 Photographs and 12 Diagrams’, in Helmut Friedel and Ulrich Wilmes (eds), Das Gedächtnis öffnet seine Tore, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit

1998
Tony Godfrey, Conceptual Art (Art & Ideas), Phaidon, London

1995
Ann Goldstein and Anne Rorimer (eds), Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965–1975, MIT Press, Cambridge

1973
Lucy Lippard, Six Years: The Dematerialization of Art, Praeger Books, New York (second edition: University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997)
 
Selected articles and reviews

2020
Jeffrey Weiss, ‘Mel Bochner: Peter Freeman, Inc.,’ Artforum, February
Paul Carey-Kent, ‘Mel Bochner, Plain as the Nose on Your Face,” Fad Magazine, 29 April
Hannah Ongley, ‘Artist Mel Bochner Obscures Words to Reveal Their Dangerous Potential," Document, 29 May
Ted Loos, ‘‘Blah, Blah, Blah.’ Mel Bochner Tells Us about a Very Cool Museum Show He Curated,’ Introspective Magazine, 15 November
Lilly Wei, ‘Bochner Boetti Fontana,’ Studio International, 16 November

2019
Robert Enright and Meeka Walsh, ‘The Bochnerian Not: An Interview with Mel Bochner’, Border Crossings, issue no. 149, March, pp. 24-39
Max Lakin, ‘A Conceptual Art Pioneer Who Doesn’t Mince Words’, The New York Times, 26 November

2018
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, ‘Mel Bochner at Peter Freeman’, Artforum, 28 April

2017
Kim Levin, ‘Mel Bochner’s “Voices”’, Art Agenda, 7 June
Roberta Smith, ‘What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week’, The New York Times, 16 June
Seph Rodney, ‘Mel Bochner’s Linguistic Trickery’, Hyperallergic, 20 June
Jeremy Sigler, ‘Mel Bochner’s Torah’, Tablet, 15 December

2016
Kara L. Rooney, ‘Mel Bochner and Alighiero Boetti Verba Volant Scripta Manent’, The Brooklyn Rail, 6 April
Christopher Snow Hopkins, ‘Drivel, Drool, Babble, Blabber: An Evening with Mel Bochner’, Hyperallergic, 25 October

2014
Rye Dag Holmboe, 'Review: Mel Bochner Strong Language at the Jewish Museum,' Apollo Magazine, 19 July
Anna Altman, 'Mel Bochner's Thesaurus Paintings,' The New Yorker, 17 June
Richard Kalina, 'Stop, Look And Listen! Mel Bochner Strong Language,' The Brooklyn Rail, 5 June
Ken Johnson, 'Secret Power of Synonyms,' The New York Times, 2 May, p.C21
Alexandra Pechman, 'The Painted Blah,' artnews, May, p.25

2013
Roberta Smith, ‘A Calculus With Chalk, Stones and Walnuts,’ The New York Times, 23 May
Nicholas Cullinan, 'Critic's Picks: Mel Bochner', Artforum, February

2012
Carol Vogel, ‘Inside Art’, The New York Times, 29 June, p.24
Evrim Altug, ‘Mel Bochner at Egeran Gallery’, Cumhuriyet, Istanbul, Turkey, 3 June
Trent Morse, ‘Mel Bochner’,artnews, April, p.107
Jori Finkel, ‘Mel Bochner recreates a 1991 show for Marc Selwyn Fine Art’, Los Angeles Times, 4 March
Will Heinrich, ‘Mel Bochner’, Art in America, March, pp.160–61
Edward Vazquez, ‘Critics Picks: Mel Bochner’, Artforum, 14 February
Carment Winant, ‘Mel Bochner’, frieze, no.144, January–February
‘Galleries: Downtown: Mel Bochner’, The New Yorker, 2 January

2011
Ari Post, ‘“Amazing!” Mel Bochner in the Tower’, The Georgetowner, 30 November
Philip Kennicott, ‘Critics review: National Gallery’s “In the Tower: Mel Bochner”’, The Washington Post, 4 November

2010
Ken Baker, ‘Bochner Doesn’t Take Photographs’, San Francisco Chronicle, 16–19 September, section F, p.4
Anne Thompson, ‘Critics Picks: Mel Bochner’, Artforum, 22 June
Leah Ollman, ‘Art Review: Mel Bochner at Marc Selwyn Fine Art’, Los Angeles Times, 5 March
Abbe Schriber, ‘1969 at PS1 Contemporary Art Center’, Artcritical.com, 7 January
Ulrich Wilmes, ‘Mel Bochner, Sprache, Raum, Bedeutung (Language, Space, Meaning’), Künstler – Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Zeit Kunstverlag, Munich

2009
Stephanie Cash, ‘Dallas Scores Again’, Art in America, October, p.36

2008
Andrzej Lawn, ‘Flash Reviews: Mel Bochner’, Flash Art, October, p.260
David Markus, ‘Mel Bochner’, The Brooklyn Rail, June
David Coggins, ‘Mel Bochner’, Time Out New York, 15–21 May, p.74
Roberta Smith, ‘Mel Bochner’, The New York Times, 2 May, section E, p.30
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, ‘Critic’s Picks: Mel Bochner’, Artforum, 29 April

2007
Jeffrey Weiss, Event Horizon: Mel Bochner, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York and Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris
Christopher Mooney, ‘Mel Bochner: 1998–2007: Painting, Sculpture and Installation’, Art Review, May, p.137
Michelle Grabner, ‘Mel Bochner: The Art Institute of Chicago’, frieze, no.105, March, p.191
Terry R. Meyers, ‘Reviews: Chicago, Mel Bochner: Language 1966–2006, Art Institute of Chicago’, Modern Painters, February, pp.94–95

2006
Jason Foumberg, ‘Portrait of the Artist: Mel Bochner’, Newcity, December, p.21
Chrissie Iles, ‘Best of 2006’, Artforum, no.45, December, p.272
John McKinnon, ‘Critic’s Picks: Chicago, Mel Bochner Spertus Museum’, Artforum, 15 November
Laura Kwerel, ‘A Diary of a Journey: Three Exhibitions Focus on Art across Language, Time’, Chicago Journal, 19 October
Alan G. Artner, ‘Mel Bochner has a way with words’, Chicago Tribune, 12 October, section 5, p.3.
Wendy Koenig, ‘Mel Bochner’, Art Papers, no.30, September–October, p.53
Tim Griffin, ‘Secrets of the Domes’, Artforum, no.45, September, p.360
Jennifer King, ‘Mel Bochner: Drawing from Four Decades at Wynn Kramarsky’, Art on Paper, no.10, July–August, p.68
Marjorie Welish, ‘Mel Bochner: Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, April 25 to June 24’, Art Monthly, no.298, July–August, pp.32–33
Roberta Smith, ‘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
Jeffrey Weiss, ‘Language in the Vicinity of Art: Artists’ Writings, 1960–1975’, Artforum, no.42, Summer, pp.212–17

2003
Eric de Bruyn, ‘Alfaville, or the Utopics of Mel Bochner’, Grey Room, no.10, Winter, pp.76–111

2002
April Lamm, ‘Mel Bochner: Akira Ikeda Berlin’, artnews, no.101, November, p.285

2001
Eleanor Heartney, ‘Mel Bochner at Sonnabend’, Art in America, no.89, June, p.126
Carter Ratcliff, ‘Paper Remade in 1960s Conceptualism’, Art on Paper, no.5, March–April, pp.55–57
Alfred MacAdam, ‘Mel Bochner Sonnabend’, artnews, no.100, January, p.151

2000
Hervé Vanel, ‘Notes sur Mel Bochner’, Pratiques, no.9, Autumn, pp.18–24

1999
Ann-Françoise Penders, ‘Photo-Texte-Abyme’, Pratiques, no.7, Autumn, pp.72–88

1998
William S. Wilson, ‘Museum Reviews Mel Bochner: Operational Mischief’, On Paper, no.2, July–August, pp.44–45
Barbara MacAdam, ‘Where the Dinosaurs Are the Old Masters’, artnews, no.97, March, p.166

1997
Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind E. Krauss, Formless: A User’s Guide, Zone Books, New York
Brian Rotman, ‘Mel Bochner: Visible Thinking.’ Trans, no.1–2, 3–4, pp.167–69

1996
Richard Kalina, ‘Measure for Measure’, Art in America, no.84, September, pp.88–93
Jude Schwendenwien, ‘Mel Bochner: Thought Made Visible 1966–1973’, Sculpture, no.15, July–August, pp.54–55
Pepe Karmel, ‘Old Master of the Utterly New’, artnews, no.95, May, pp.123–25
Jon Ippolito, ‘Where Has All the Uncertainty Gone?’, Flash Art, no.189, Summer, pp.83–86
Alexander Alberro, ‘Mel Bochner: Thought Made Visible 1966–1973’, Artforum, no.34, February, pp.80–81

1995
Barry Schwabsky, ‘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
Kimberly Davenport, ‘Impossible Liberties: Contemporary Artists on the Life of Their Work over Time’, Art Journal, no.54, Summer, pp.40–52

1994
James Meyer, ‘Bochner’s Measurement Series’, in Peter Weibel (ed), Kontext Kunst, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne, pp.129–33
Barry Schwabsky, ‘Reverse Continuity: the Prints of Mel Bochner’, Print Collector’s Newsletter, no.25, July–August, pp.85–88
Vivien Raynor, ‘Minimalism, and After That’, The New York Times, 26 June, p.16
Jan Avgikos, ‘Review’, Artforum, no.32, March, p.85
Pepe Karmel, ‘Review: Mel Bochner at Sonnabend’, Art in America, no.82, February, p.99
Roberta Smith, ‘Art in Review’, The New York Times, 7 January, p.23

1992
Adachiara Zevi, ‘Mel Bochner: il numero che sottende l’oggetto’, L’Architettura, no.38, September, pp.647–50
JJ Haldane, ‘On Certainty’, The Philosophical Quarterly, no.42, April, p.262

1991
Arthur C. Danto, ‘Introduction’,in Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty/Uber Gewissheit, Arion Press, San Francisco
Jessica Prinz, Art Discourse/Discourse in Art, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick
Hearne Pardee, ‘Review: Mel Bochner at SteinGladstone’, artnews, no.90, December, pp.124–25
James Meyer, ‘Mel Bochner at SteinGladstone’, Flash Art, no.161, November–December, p.132
Roberta Smith, ‘Review: Mel Bochner at SteinGladstone’, The New York Times, 18 October, p.28
Roberta Smith, ‘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
Bill Jones, ‘Peter Halley, Robert Rauschenberg, Mel Bocher’, Tema Celeste, no.30, March–April, p.85
Ginovanni Iovane, ‘Review’, Artefactum, no.8, February–March, p.44

1990
Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, ‘Conceptual Art 1962–1969: From the Aesthetic of Administration to the Critique of Institution’, October, no.55, Winter, pp.105–43

1988
John Russell, ‘For ’60s Devotees, a Show Fraught with Nostalgia’, The New York Times, 27 November, p.39
Frédéric Valabrèque, ‘Mel Bochner: From Idea to Experience’, Arte Factum, no.5, June–August, pp.14–17

1987
Joseph Jacobs, ‘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
Roberta Smith, ‘Art: Mel Bochner Show at Sonnabend Gallery’, The New York Times, 20 February, p.23

1986
Jan Van der Marck, ‘Mel Bochner: du language au visuel’, Art Press, no.105, July–August, pp.10–13
Jan Van der Marck, ‘Mel Bochner: Point to Point’, Artforum, no.24, April, pp.101–05

1985
Stephen Westfall, ‘Bochner Unbound’, Art in America, no.73, July, pp.108–13
Thomas McEvilley, ‘I Think Therefore I Art’, Artforum, no.23, Summer, pp.74–84

1984
Betty Collings, ‘Mel Bochner’s Art as a Study of Mental Process’, Arts Magazine, no.58, May, pp.86–89

1981
Catherine Millet, ‘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
Claude Gintz (ed), Regards sur l’art americain des années soixante, Éditions Territoires, Paris

1978
Stuart Greenspan, ‘Review of Exhibition at Sonnabend Gallery’, Artforum, no.16, April, pp.67–68
Reagan Louie, ‘Bochner’s Contradictions and Continuities’, Artweek, no.9, 8 April, p.7
Amy Goldin, ‘The Body Language of Pictures’, Artforum, no.16, March, pp.54–59
Robert Pincus-Witten, ‘Strategies Worth Pondering: Bochner, Shapiro, Reise, LeWitt’, Arts Magazine, no.52, April, pp.142–45
Jeff Perrone, ‘Mel Bochner: Getting from A to B’, Artforum, no.16, January, pp.24–32
Valentin Tatransky, ‘Vito Acconci, Mel Bochner, Barry Le Va’, Arts Magazine, no.52, January, pp.27–28

1977
Rosalind E. Krauss, Passages in Modern Sculpture, The MIT Press, Cambridge
Philip Larson, ‘Aquatints Again’, Print Collector’s Newsletter, no.8, July–August, pp.61–65

1976
Suzi Gablik, Progress in Art, Thames and Hudson, London
Ellen H. Johnson, Modern Art and the Object: A Century of Changing Attitudes, Harper & Row, New York
Paul Richard, ‘Art From Numbers’, Washington Post, 27 October
Roberta Smith, ‘Reviews’, Artforum, no.14, May, p.64
Thomas B. Hess, ‘Polished Constructivism’, New York, vol.9, no.9, March, pp.61–62

1975
Roberta Smith, ‘Reviews’, Artforum, no.13, Summer, pp.73–74

1974
Rosalind E. Krauss, Line as Language: Six Artists Draw, The Art Museum, Princeton
Robert McDonald, ‘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
P. Sterckx and V. Baudoux, ‘Concept and Cie’, Clés pour les artes (Brussels), no.44, June, pp.26–27
Laurie Anderson, ‘Line as Language: Six Artists Draw’, artnews, no.73, Summer, pp.113–14
Deak Edit, ‘Mel Bochner at Sonnabend’, Art in America, no.62, January–February, pp.100–02

1973
Paul Stitelman, ‘Mel Bochner at Sonnabend Downtown’, Arts Magazine, no.48, December, pp.59–60
Barbara Thomsen, ‘Reviews and Previews: Mel Bochner’, Art News, no.72, December, pp.90–93
Roberta Smith, ‘Mel Bochner at Sonnabend’, Artforum, no.12, December, p.82
April Kingsley, ‘New York: Mel Bochner’s Sonnabend Gallery Show’, Art International, no.17, December, p.59
Rosalind E. Krauss, ‘Sense and Sensibility: Reflection on Post ’60s Sculpture’, Artforum, no.12, November, pp.43–52
Peter Schjeldahl, ‘In and Out of Step in Soho’, The New York Times, 14 October, p.32
Ellie Stephano, ‘Paris’, Art and Artists, no.8, August, pp.46–47
L. Haller, ‘Bochner’, Flash Art, no.41, June, pp.14–15
Bruce Boice, ‘Mel Bochner’s Drawings’, Artforum, no.11, April, pp.75–76
Bruce Boice, ‘The Axiom of Indifference’, Arts Magazine, no.47, April, pp.66–68
Douglas Crimp, ‘New York Letter,’ Art International, no.17, April, pp.57–59, 102–03
Henry Martin, ‘Milan in Winter: Duchampiana’, Art International, no.17, April, p.64
Laurie Anderson, ‘Review’, Art News, no.72, March, p.82
Ellen Lubell, ‘Mel Bochner at Sonnabend Downtown’, Arts Magazine, no.47, March, p.77
Rosemary Mayer, ‘New York: Mel Bochner at Sonnabend Downtown’, Arts Magazine, no.47, March, p.71

1972
Bruce Boice, ‘Mel Bochner at Hartford Art School’, Artforum, no.11, December, pp.86–87
Robert Pincus-Witten, ‘Mel Bochner: the Constant as Variable’, Artforum, no.11, December, pp.28–34
Bruce Boice, ‘The Quality Problem’, Artforum, no.11, October, pp.68–70
Roberta Smith, ‘Mel Bochner’, Data Magazine, no.5–6, Summer, pp.92–93
‘New York’, Art and Artists, no.7, May, pp.50–51
Caroline Tisdall, ‘Good Form’, Guardian Arts, 4 May
Lizzie Borden, ‘Mel Bochner at Sonnabend’, Artforum, no.10, April, pp.84–85
Denise Wolmer, ‘In the Galleries: Mel Bochner at Sonnabend Downtown’, Arts Magazine, no.46, April, p.67
Ann Holmes, ‘The Spotlight’, The Houston Chronicle, 23 April, p.17
Richard Cork, ‘Shadow Without Substance’, Evening Standard, 13 April, p.8
April Kingsley, ‘Reviews and Previews’, Art News, no.71, March, pp.8, 12
Valentin Tatransky, ‘Mel Bochner’, Arts Magazine, no.52, March, p.17
Ratcliff Carter, ‘New York Letter’, Art International, no.16, January, pp.40–45, 66–67

1971
Robert Pincus-Witten, ‘Bochner at MoMA: Three Ideas and Seven Procedures’, Artforum, no.10, December, pp.233–35
Robert Pincus-Witten, ‘Anglo-American Standard Reference Works: Acute Conceptualism’, Artforum, no.10, October, pp.82–85
Richard Channin, ‘Mel Bochner at 112 Greene St.’, Art News, no.70, May, p.11
Robert Pincus-Witten, ‘Review: Mel Bochner at 112 Greene Street Gallery’, Artforum, no.9, May, pp.75–76
Jonathan Benthall, ‘Bochner and Photography: Technology and Art 24’, Studio International, no.181, April, pp.147–48
David L. Shirey, ‘Downtown Scene’, The New York Times, 24 March, p.49

1970
Robert Pincus-Witten, ‘Reviews: New York’, Artforum, no.8, September, pp.75–77
Gregory Battcock, ‘Documentation in Conceptual Art’, Arts Magazine, no.44, April, pp.42–45
Dore Ashton, ‘New York Commentary’, Studio International, no.179, March, pp.118–19
Philip Leider, ‘Review of “Art in Process IV”’, Artforum, no.9, February, p.70

1969
Grégoire Müller, ‘Art in Process IV’, Arts Magazine, no.44, December 1969–January 1970, pp.55–56
Peter Plagens, ‘557,087’, Artforum, no.8, November, pp.64–67
John Perreault, ‘Art: Para-Visual’, The Village Voice, 5 June, pp.16–18

1968
Gregory Battcock (ed), Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology, Dutton, New York
John Chandler, ‘The Last Word in Graphic Art’, Art International, no.12, November, pp.25–28
Lucy R. Lippard and John Chandler, ‘The Dematerialization of Art’, Art International, no.12, February, pp.31–36

1967
David Lee, ‘Serial Rights’, Art News, no.66, December, pp.42–45
Sol LeWitt, ‘Paragraphs on Conceptual Art’, Artforum, no.5, Summer, pp.79–83
Dan Graham, ‘Models and Monuments: The Plague of Architecture’, Arts Magazine, no.41, March, pp.62–63
Dan Graham, ‘Of Monuments and Dreams’, Art and Artists I, March, pp. 62-63
John Perreault, ‘Union-Made: Report on a Phenomenon’, Arts Magazine, no.41, March, pp.26–31
Patricia Sloane, ‘Scale Models, Drawings’, Arts Magazine, no.41, February, p.57
 
Selected writings and statements by the artist

2017
Singer Notes, 1968, mfc-michèle didier, Paris

2008
Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings and Interviews 19652007, 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.4052

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.2833
‘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
 
Interviews with the artist

2021
‘Mel Bochner in conversation with Andrea Lissoni’, Haus der Kunst, 19 April
‘A Talk Between Mel Bochner and Carroll Dunham 50 Years in the Making’, Interview Magazine, 7 April
‘Resonance and Revelation: My Italian Days, Mel Bochner in conversation with Tenley Bick’, Magazzino, 29 January

2020
‘Mel Bochner in Conversation with Alexis Lowry and James Meyer’, Dia:Beacon, 8 February

2017
‘The Singer Notes: A Conversation Between Sebastien Pluot and Mel Bochner’, Singer Notes, 1968, mfc-michèle didier, Paris

2013
Frank Expósito, ‘Mel Bochner speaks about his early sculptures’, Artforum, 24 June

2006
‘Art in Conversation: Mel Bochner with Phong Bui’, Brooklyn Rail, May, pp.16–17

2004
‘Language Factory: Mel Bochner Talks to Mark Godfrey About Words, Portraits, Roget’s Thesaurus, Color, Jorge Luis Borges, Humour, Nostalgia and Political Engagement’, frieze, no.87, November–December, pp.102–05

2001
‘How Can You Defend Making Paintings Now? A Conversation between Mel Bochner and James Meyer’, As Painting: Division and Displacement, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, pp.199–204

1994
Lizbeth Marano, ‘Mel Bochner Interview’, Archives of American Art, May
James Meyer, ‘Mel Bochner: The Gallery is a Theater’, Flash Art, no.27, Summer, pp.99–101

1991
‘Abstract Art: Alive and Well in ’91’, Journal of Art, no.4, June–August, pp.28–30

1989
‘Out of Context: Mel Bochner with Melissa Marks’, Tema Celeste, no.21, July–September, pp.61–63
Barbara Rose, ‘Interview: Abstraction Up Against the Wall’, The Photojournal of Art, April, pp.54–57

1988
‘From Idea to Experience: Interview with Fréderic Valabrèque’, Artefactum, June–August, pp.14–17, 58, 62–63
‘Interview: Mel Bochner Talks with Paul Cummings,’ Drawing, no.10, May–June, pp.9–13

1986
‘The Archeology of Doubt: Mel Bochner in Conversation with Jacopo Benci’, 891 International Artists Magazine, no.3, June, pp.8–13

1985
Charles Stuckey, ‘Interview’, Mel Bochner: 1973–1985, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, pp.16–22

1980
Claude Gintz, ‘Entretien avec Mel Bochner’, Artistes, no.5, June–July, pp.31–33

1976
Ellen H. Johnson, ‘Art?=?Idea +/? the Object: Talking with Mel Bochner, 18 April 1972,’ Modern Art and the Object, Harper & Row, New York, pp.204–15

1974
John Coplans, ‘Mel Bochner on Malevich, an Interview’, Artforum,no.12, June, pp.59–63

1973
Lisa Haller, ‘Flash Art Interview’, Flash Art, June, pp.14–15

1969
Elayne Varian, ‘Interview’ in Mel Bochner, Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings and Interviews 1965–2007, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2008; pp.56–60

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