The following are a sampling of articles by Richard Kalina:
- Vera Molnár: Parler à l’oeil,” Brooklyn Rail, July, August 2024
- “The Unfactorable Factor,” Brooklyn Rail, July, August 2024
- “Recursions,” Catalog essay, for Ann Craven: Night, pp. 94-123, Karma Gallery, NY. 2024
- Germaine Richier, Brooklyn Rail, July 2023
- A Walk in Frédérique Lucien’s Winter Garden, Hyperallergic, June 2023
- A Tribute to Brian O'Doherty, Brooklyn Rail, May 2023
- An American in Paris: How Painter Shirley Jaffe Mastered the Secret of Hard-Edge Vitality, Art in America, July 2022
- “Groundwork: Jonathan Lasker’s Early Paintings and Drawings,” Kiebaum Artists’ Books, Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Cologne, Germany, 2021
- “The Missing Surrealist,” Art in America, February 2020
- “The Unusual Suspects: A View of Abstraction,” curated by Richard Kalina, DC Moore Gallery, June 2019
- “Inside Outsider,” Art in America, April 2019
- “Frames and Personas,” Art in America, February 2019
- “Art Between Form and Anti-Form,” Hyperallergic, August 2018
- “The Remarkable Early and Late Work of a Lifelong Abstract Expressionist,” Hyperallergic, February 2018
- “Hold Still: Looking at Photorealism,” Parrish Art Museum, Summer 2017.
- “Dioramas,” ArtNews, August-September 2017.
- “The Here and Then,” Art in America, April 2017.
- “Richard Kalina on Stuart Davis,” Painters on Paintings, October 2016.
- “Through Color,” Art in America, May 2016.
- “Cold War, Cool Art,” Art in America, November 2014
- “STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN! Mel Bochner, Strong Language,” Brooklyn Rail, June 2014.
- “Talk/Show: Language and the Resistant Artwork,” Brooklyn Rail, March 2013.
- “The Master of Aix,” Art in America, February 2013.
- “The Four Corners of Painting,” Brooklyn Rail, December 2012 / January 2013.
- “Harmony & Discord,” Art in America, May 2012.
- “West of Eden,” Art in America, October 2011.
- “Lionizing Leo,” Art in America, December 2010.
- “George Segal,” Sculpture, December 2010.
- “Robert Morris: The Order of Disorder”, Art in America, May 2010.
- “Thinking Things Through”, A review of The Extreme of the Middle: Writings of Jack Tworkov, Mira Schor, editor, Art in America, December 2009.
- “Looking for James Ensor”, Art in America, October 2009.
- “Guardians of the Avant-Garde”, Art in America, September 2008.
- “Martín Ramírez: Narratives of Displacement and Memory,” Art in America, October, 2007.
- “The Dream of Aboriginal Art”, Art in America, April 2007.
- “Pop’s High Modernist,” Art in America, December 2006
- “Report from Berlin: Street Life,” Art in America, October 2006.
- “Lichtenstein’s Indian Territory”, Art in America, April 2006.
- “At Cross Purposes,” Art in America, March 2006.
- “Oscar Bluemner, in Living Color”, Art in America, January 2006.
- “The Subjective Object”, Art in America, December 2005.
- “Matters of Fact”, Art in America, October 2005.
- “A Change of Empires”, Art in America, October 2005.
- “Down Under No More”, Art in America, April 2005.
- “James Rosenquist at Full Scale”, Art in America, February 2004.
- “Gee’s Bend Modern”, Art in America, October 2003.
- “Expressing the Abstract,” Art in America, December 2002
- “Wandering Color: Arbitrariness, Disjunction, and Decoration in American Art of the Sixties,” College Art Association, February 1998.
- “The Uncomfortable Armchair: Abstraction and Decoration,” Editions ERBA, Valence, 1997. English version.
- "The Reality of Abstraction," the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, 1997
- “The Uncomfortable Armchair: Abstraction and Decoration,” Tableau: Territoires Actuels. New Territories in Painting.École Regionale des Beaux-Arts de Valence. En collaboration avec, Le Quartier, Centre d’Art de Quimper. pp. 56-66. 1997.
- “In Another Light,” Art in America, June 1996
- “Real Dead,” Arts Magazine, December 1991.