Lucas Samaras, Artist Who Was His Own Canvas, Dies at 87

The New York Times
March 7, 2024

Carl Andre, 88, Austerely Minimalist Sculptor, Is Dead

The New York Times
January 24, 2024

Robert Whitman, Cutting-Edge Performance Artist, Dies at 88

The New York Times
January 20, 2024

“I Am For An Art” (With apologies to Claes Oldenburg and thanks to all the artists in the show)—Randy Kennedy’s curatorial statement for the 14th White Columns Annual

White Columns
January 19, 2024

Weather Report: On the Paintings of Bruce Richards

Fortnight Institute
January 4, 2024

At Home With … Randy Kennedy Selects ‘The Grey Fox’ (1982)

Metrograph Journal
July 3, 2023

The Golden Glow in the West: On New Paintings by Robert Hawkins

Off Paradise
June 7, 2023

Stopping By, with Randy Kennedy

The Poetry Society of America
March 3, 2023

Pierre Apraxine, Assembler of a Remarkable Trove of Photos, Dies at 88

The New York Times
March 3, 2023

Dagny Corcoran, Bookselling Fixture of L.A. Art Scene, Dies at 77

The New York Times
November 20, 2022

Remembering Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022)

Frieze
July 29, 2022

A Self-Taught Artist Takes His Roadside Acropolis North

The New York Times
July 8, 2022

Off the Treadmill, Onto the Page: Christopher Wool's Career in Photo Books

The New York Times
May 30, 2022

The Distance From a Lemon to Murder: A Conversation with Peter Nadin

The Paris Review
May 17, 2022

John Wesley, an Artist Who Couldn’t Be Pinned Down, Dies at 93

The New York Times
February 10, 2022

Book Stack: Randy Kennedy’s favorite art books of 2021

Ursula Magazine
December 17, 2021

Lawrence Weiner, Artist Whose Medium Was Language, Dies at 79

The New York Times
December 4, 2021

He Stalks Delirious, Unfinished New York As It Rises

The New York Times
November 12, 2021

Self-Taught Photographers in Pursuit of Revelation

Aperture
May 17, 2021

Dia 2.0: Facing The Future

The New York Times
April 23, 2021

New York In Color: On Newly Revealed Work by Saul Leiter

Aperture
Issue No. 242, Spring 2021

Use Your Eyes: Photographer Bruce W. Talamon on Spending Time with David Hammons

Ursula Magazine
March 7, 2021

Going Somewhere Else: A Weekend on the Move With Henry Taylor

Ursula Magazine
February 20, 2021

Elephants and Castles: An essay about the influence of Ray Johnson, for NOTHNG OF THE MONTH CLUB, a group exhibition curated by Randy Kennedy and Natacha Polaert

Off Paradise, 120 Walker Street, NY
January 27-April 27, 2020

A Pandemic-Appropriate Show Ends Its Run in a Newport Cemetery

T Magazine, The New York Times
September 24, 2020

Keith Sonnier, Playful Sculptor in Neon, Dies at 78

The New York Times
July 23, 2020

Elsa Dorfman, Who Made Art with Giant Polaroids, Dies at 83

The New York Times
June 2, 2020

Susan Rothenberg, Acclaimed Figurative Painter, Dies at 75

The New York Times
May 21, 2020

Tina Girouard, Experimental Artist in 1970s SoHo, Dies at 73

The New York Times
April 28, 2020

Splendid Isolation: A Quarantine Consideration of Edward Abbey, Agnes Martin, Phillip Larkin, Roberto Bolaño and Robert Walser

Shelf Life, Nasher Sculpture Center
April 4, 2020

Suellen Roca, Founding Member of the Hairy Who, Dies At 76

The New York Times
April 4, 2020

This Ain’t No Retrospective, It’s a Rodeo: A New Book About the Cowboy Work of Richard Prince

The New York Times
April 3, 2020

Redux: Norman Rockwell, Jeff Koons and Vanessa Beecroft Have Something to Sell You

Aperture
Issue No. 238, Spring 2020

I Speak For The Vitrines! (A brief appraisal of the expanded Museum of Modern Art.)

The Art Newspaper
October 22, 2019

John Giorno, Who Moved Poetry Beyond the Printed Page, Dies at 82

The New York Times
October 13, 2019

Design by Function: An Oral History of the Experimental Art Space 84 West Broadway, 1978-1979

Ursula Magazine
Summer 2019

Let’s Get Lost: Rediscovering Norman O. Brown, Radical Scholar as Art Shaman

Ursula Magazine
Fall 2018

Everybody Loves Isa Genzken

The Nasher Magazine
Spring 2019 issue

Art Writing and the Place of the “I”

v. 1, Rhode Island School of Design
Fall 2018 issue

‘Here It Is’: Two Artists on Their Mind-Stretching Art Book

The New York Times
December 24, 2018

A Conversation About Books, Art, Texas and New York City

Lone Star Literary Life
August 27, 2018

A Playlist For Your Next Ill-Fated Road Trip

Largehearted Boy
August 22, 2018

How to Write a Covert Art Novel

Artsy
August 21, 2018

California Origins: Randy Kennedy talks to Mary Heilmann

Hauser & Wirth
July 4, 2018

My Father's Rattlesnakes

HiLobrow, Lost Objects series
December 23, 2017

Little House on the Rails

Open Space, SFMOMA
November 27, 2017

Claes Oldenburg Is (Still) Changing What Art Looks Like

T Magazine
October 16, 2017

Saving Nina Simone’s Birthplace as an Act of Art and Politics

The New York Times
March 2, 2017

Kerry James Marshall, Boldly Repainting Art History

Arts & Leisure, The New York Times
September 9, 2016

Bruce Nauman, Art Provocateur, Returns. Are You Ready?

Arts & Leisure, The New York Times
September 8, 2016

Black Artists and the March into the Museum

The New York Times
November 28, 2015

Paul McCarthy: The Demented Imagineer

The New York Times Magazine
May 10, 2013

A Painting Only You Can See

The New York Times
June 27, 2012

More a Legend Than An Art Collective: The Triumphant Return of Asco

The New York Times
August 25, 2011

Farm to Gallery: Peter Nadin's Comeback

The New York Times Magazine
June 29, 2011

Generation Mex

T Magazine, The New York Times
September 22, 2010

The Cuba Libre Clan

Sunday Book Review, The New York Times
October 17, 2008

The Duchamp of the Muscle Car

Arts & Leisure, The New York Times
September 23, 2007