August 29, 2019 How to Look at a Sam Gilliam Painting: With One Eye on History and the Other on Color and Form→ August 29, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
August 09, 2019 Why Apple’s New Augmented-Reality Collaboration With Famous Artists Won’t Help Us Reach the Next Stage of [AR]T→ August 09, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
July 26, 2019 What Warren Kanders’s Defeat at the Whitney Teaches Us About How Protest Works Now→ July 26, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
July 10, 2019 This Artist Painted the Black Radical Response to the George Washington Slaveholder Murals. Here’s Why He Stands Against Destroying Them→ July 10, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
July 09, 2019 Why Hito Steyerl’s Near-Mystical Denunciation of the NRA at the Park Avenue Armory Lacks Firepower→ July 09, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
June 27, 2019 Marta Minujín’s Trippy New Museum Installation Predicted Today’s Immersive Art Craze. It’s Way Weirder Than That, Though→ June 27, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
June 25, 2019 The Warren Kanders Protests Have Opened a Pandora’s Box About Ethical Museum Funding. Where Do We Go From Here?→ June 25, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
June 18, 2019 At the Met Breuer, Awe-Inspiring Sculptures of Deities Show How an Indian Artist Forged Her Own Personal Language for Fabric Art→ June 18, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
May 20, 2019 The 2019 Whitney Biennial Shows America’s Artists Turning Toward Coded Languages in Turbulent Times→ May 20, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
May 10, 2019 In Ralph Rugoff’s Venice Biennale, the World’s Artists Take Planetary Doom as a Given, But Search for Joy Nonetheless→ May 10, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
May 08, 2019 A First Look at ‘Liberty,’ Martin Puryear’s Exhibition for the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale→ May 08, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
April 26, 2019 The New Gretchen Bender Survey Is a Triumph, Revealing a Visionary Artist—and a Tough Lesson About the Power of Media→ April 26, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
April 18, 2019 Why the Cultural Battle Over the Meaning of the Notre Dame Fire Is Playing Into the Hands of the Far-Right→ April 18, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive
April 09, 2019 ‘It Is a Culture of Fear’: Formerly Imprisoned Photographer Shahidul Alam on Art, Protest, and the Political Climate in Bangladesh→ April 09, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
April 04, 2019 The Shed Is a Shiny Billionaire’s Box of Dreams. Can It Be an Important Cultural Center Too?→ April 04, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
March 18, 2019 Artist Ian Cheng Has Created an AI Creature Named ‘BOB.’ Now, It’s Up to Viewers to Decide His Fate→ March 18, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
February 21, 2019 What Ghosts Haunt Jasper Johns’s New Skeleton Paintings? We May Never Know (and That’s the Point)→ February 21, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
January 31, 2019 Review: ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ Probably Won’t Scare the Horror Fans, But It May Terrify the Art World→ January 31, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
January 30, 2019 Bruno Latour, the Philosopher of Science Who Changed Art Theory, Explains His New Book on Climate Change→ January 30, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
January 28, 2019 What Is Democracy? An Experimental New Documentary Looks at the History of an Idea—and Offers a Ray of Hope→ January 28, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link