In the late-1960s and early-1970s Krauss began to contribute articles to art journals such as "Art International" and "Artforum" — which, under the editorship of Philip Leider, was relocated from California to New York. She began by writing the "Boston Letter" for "Art International," but soon published well-received articles on Jasper Johns ("Lugano Review", 1965) and Donald Judd ("Allusion and Illusion in Donald Judd," "Artforum", May 1966). Her commitment to the emerging minimal art in particular set her apart from Michael Fried, who was oriented toward the continuation of modernist abstraction in Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland and Anthony Caro. Krauss's article "A View of Modernism" ("Artforum", September 1972), was one signal of this break.