“David Driskell, and Introduction,” Pomegranate Press, 2006

"Pin-Pricked Dieties: The Art of Joyce Scott"
Catalog Essay. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum/Maryland Institute College of Art, 1999

"Preserving Whose Mortality or Immortality?"
Catalog Essay. Mortality/Immortality?: The Legacy of 20th Century Art.
Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 1999

Contemporary Artists From Cuba
Catalog Essay. Metaphor/Commentaries: Artists From Cuba
San Francisco: San Francisco State University, 1999

Art and Ethnography
Catalog Essay. Art of the Americas: Art and Ethnography
San Francisco: M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1998

Narratives of African American Art and Identity : The David C. Driskell Collection
Catalog Essay. San Francisco: Pomegranate Communications, 1998

Brandywine Workshop: 25th Anniversary Catalog
Catalog Essay. Philadelphia: Brandywine Workshop Center for the Visual Arts, 1997

African American Visual Aesthetics : A Postmodernist View; edited by David C. Driskell
Lead Essay. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995

Artists of Conscience
Catalog Essay. New York: Alternative Museum, 1991

"Questioning the Quality of the Canon"
New Art Examiner, October 1990

Perspectives on the Art of Gauguin; For Nonwhites, It's Racist Propaganda
The Washington Post, Sunday, July 3, 1988

"Black Artists of the Mid-Atlantic"
Catalog Essay

"Myth and Ritual"
Catalog Essay. Washington, DC: Touchstone Gallery, 1986

"Contemporary Print Images"
Catalog Essay. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1986

"Afro-American Painting and Mixed Media: 1970-1985" and "Printmaking by Afro-Americans"
In Choosing: An Exhibit of Changing Perspectives in Modern Art and Art Criticism by Black Americans 1925-1985; edited by Arna Alexander Bontemps. Hampton VA: Hampton University, 1986

Art in Washington and Its Afro-American Presence: 1940-1970
Catalog. Washington DC: Washington Project for the Arts, 1985

"Pattern in Painting"
Catalog Essay. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery, 1985

"Evocative Abstraction"
Catalog Essay. Philadelphia: Foundation for Today's Art, 1985

"The Washington Show: Promises, Premises and Politics"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, October 1985

"Speak Easy: Abstract Painting"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, March 1984

"Poetic Objects"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, March 1983

"Art of Pakistan at the Hirshhorn"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, February 1983

"Washington Printmakers"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, May 1982

"Jeff Donaldson at Howard"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, September 1981

"Gerald Williams at Noa Gallery"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, May 1981

"Corcoran Biennial"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, April 1981

"R.B. Kitaj at the Hirshhorn: The sword of Don Quixote"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, March 1981

"Realist Self-Portraits at Fendrick Gallery"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, February 1981

"Marguerite Kendall and Aaron Levine at Osuna"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, February 1981

"Alternatives by Black Artists"
Catalog Essay. Washington, DC: Washington Project for the Arts, 1980

"African Heritage and American Independence"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, September 1980

"Black Art in America"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, September 1980

"Fueling the Art Economy"
Exhibit Review. Format, Vol. 2 No. 9, 1980

"David C. Driskell"
Catalog Essay. College Park MD: University of Maryland, 1980

"Art Criticism: A Pan-African Point of View"
Essay. New Art Examiner, January 1979

"Emilio Cruz"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, 1978

"Samuel Crockett and Bill Walker at South Side Art Center"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, November 1977

"Ed Paschke at Phyllis Kind"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, November 1977

"James Harvard"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, November 1976

"Realism at Young-Hoffman"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, November 1976

"Vera Clement"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, November 1976

"Chicago's Eclectic DuSable Museum"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, May 1976

"Adrienne Drapkin and Barbara Grad"
Exhibit Review. New Art Examiner, March 1976

"Black Experience in Art"
Catalog Essay. Chicago: Bergman Gallery, University of Chicago, 1971

"A Valid Concept of Art in Humanities"
Essay. Muzart, Spring 1970

"Jacob Lawrence's Toussiant L'Ouverture"
Catalog Essay. Chicago: Depaul University, 1969

"Jacob Lawrence's Toussiant L'Ouverture"
Exhibit Review. Art Scene 1969

"Richard Hunt: The Probing Line"
Catalog Essay. Nashville TN: Fisk University