April 08, 2020 The Art World Needs to Rally Behind the #CancelRent Movement to Save Itself—and Everyone Else, Too→ April 08, 2020/ Ben Davis Archive Link
November 26, 2019 What One Mysterious, Easily Overlooked German Painting Taught Me About How to Visit a Museum in the Age of Blockbusters→ November 26, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
November 18, 2019 Why Art Fails to Make a Difference on Its Own: More Thoughts on Hans Haacke’s Urgently Relevant Survey at the New Museum→ November 18, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
November 06, 2019 How Hans Haacke’s Rise Coincided With the End of 1960s Activism and the Birth of Corporate Museum Sponsorship→ November 06, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
October 17, 2019 MoMA’s Nimble New Incarnation Is Well Suited to a World in Constant Flux. If Only It Didn’t Choose Tourists Over Its Artists→ October 17, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
September 26, 2019 Artist Meriem Bennani’s Latest Work Is All About Imagining a Future in Which We Are Able to Cope With Our Disjointed Reality→ September 26, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
September 20, 2019 We Parsed Artist Joe Zucker’s Witty Cult Opus, ‘100 Foot Long Piece’, Panel by Panel→ September 20, 2019/ Ben Davis Archive Link
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