Writing
“Follow the Light” New York Review of Books, 18 January 2024.
“Beautiful, Vivid, Self-contained,” Hill Art Foundation, 21 April 2023. pp. 5 -14.
“Who Am I? What Am I? (David Salle on Charles Ray)” New York Review of Books, 8 December 2022. pp 26-29.
“Going on Her Nerve (David Salle on Rose Wylie)” New York Review of Books, 12 May 2022. pp 32-34.
“Object Lessons (David Salle on Donald Judd)” New York Review of Books, 17 December 2020.
“The Great Amalgamator (David Salle on Rachel Harrison)” New York Review of Books, 16 January 2020. pp 15-17.
"Houdini with a Brush (David Salle on Charline von Heyl)” New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019. pp 16-20.
“The Star of the Silken Screen (David Salle on Andy Warhol)” New York Review of Books, 21 February 2019. pp 39-42.
“Musical Lines (David Salle on Terry Winters)" New York Review of Books, 18 August 2018 .pp. 58-59.
“Art in Free Fall (David Salle on Laura Owens)” The New York Review of Books, 8 February 2018. pp 38-40.
“ Playing it Cool (David Salle on Alex Katz)” The New York Review of Books, 18 January, 2018. pp. 57-58.
“Outing the Inside (David Salle on Louise Bourgeois)” The New York Review of Books, 7 December 2017. pp. 56-58.
“Clothes That Don’t Need You" (David Salle on Rei Kawakubo) The New York Review of Books, September 28, 2017, Volume LXIV, Number 14, pp. 10-14.
“Going Home with the Artist David Salle” The New York Times Style Magazine, April 14, 2017.
“Problem Painters: Dana Schutz and David Salle in Conversation” Modern Painters, 23 March 2017.
“Structure Rising: David Salle on ‘The Forever Now’ at MoMA,” ARTnews, February 23, 2015.
"Drainman" on Robert Gober, Town and Country, January 2015, pp 102, 236.
"Puppy Love" on Jeff Koons, Town and Country, September 2014, pp 110, 112.
"Casting Off" on Mike Kelly, Town and Country, May 2014, p 66.
"Polke Party" on Sigmar Polke, Town and Country, March 2014, pp 64, 66.
"Future Shocks" on The Year Ahead, Town and Country, January 2014, pp 34-35.
"Urban Scrawl," Town and Country, November 2013, pp 64, 68.
"John Baldessari" Interview, October, 2013 pp 160-167, 174-175
"Renaissance Man," Town and Country, April 2013, pp. 34-35.
"Cool For Katz," Town and Country, March 2013, pp. 56-57.
"Dana Schutz, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York," ArtForum, December 2011, Vol. 50, No. 4 pp. 246-47.
"Roy Lichtenstein Reflected." New York: Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 2010.
Salle, David and Phillips, Richard. "Your History is Not Our History: Some Thoughts on the Art of the 1980's." New York: Haunch of Venison, 2010.
"Amy Sillman and Tom McGrath." The Paris Review No. 195, Winter 2010: 173-175.
"Questions Without Answers for John Baldessari." The Paris Review. December 13, 2010.
"The Petit Cinéma of John Baldessari" John Baldessari: Pure Beauty edited by Jessica Morgan and Leslie Jones, Los Angeles: LACMA 2009: 143-158.
"The Camera Blinks, David Salle on The Diving Bell and the Butterfly." Artforum, February 2008: 115-116
"Christophe Ruckhäberle Interview" Christophe Ruckhäberle: Die Flasche Bakbuk, Leipzig: Kerber Editions/Young Art 2006
"David Salle Talks about His Paintings after the Sistine Chapel." Artforum, Summer 2006
Salle, David and Welling, James. "Images That Understand Us." LAICA Journal No. 27, June-July 1980: 54-57.
"The Paintings are Dead." Cover, May 1979 Vol 1 No 1, pp 28-32
"Jack Goldstein; Distance Equals Control." Buffalo: Hallwalls, 1978.