March 25, 2021 I Visited the Digital Beeple Art Museum and All I Got Was an Aggressive Pitch for My Money→ March 25, 2021/ Ben Davis Archive Link
March 17, 2021 I Looked Through All 5,000 Images in Beeple’s $69 Million Magnum Opus. What I Found Isn’t So Pretty March 17, 2021/ Ben Davis Archive Link
March 12, 2021 Museums Are Where Artworks Go to Die. But the Frick Madison’s Stunning New Installation Brings Them Back to Life Again→ March 12, 2021/ Ben Davis Archive Link
March 03, 2021 Why KAWS’s Global Success May Well Be a Symptom of a Depressed Culture, Adrift in Nostalgia and Retail Therapy→ March 03, 2021/ Ben Davis Archive Link
February 25, 2021 The Myths About FDR’s New Deal Arts Programs Are Misleading. Here Are the Real Lessons for Struggling Artists Today February 25, 2021/ Ben Davis Archive Link
January 13, 2021 I Spent Two Hours Inside the Met’s New Augmented-Reality Experience. Here’s a Minute-by-Minute Chronicle of My Edutainment Odyssey→ January 13, 2021/ Ben Davis Archive Link
December 30, 2020 Bob Ross May Have Been the Most Popular Artist of 2020. Here’s Why It’s Not Just a ‘Happy Little Accident’→ December 30, 2020/ Ben Davis Archive Link
December 10, 2020 Why the New ART CLUB2000 Retrospective Offers Lessons for Today’s Artists That Transcend Pure ’90s Nostalgia→ December 10, 2020/ Ben Davis Archive Link
December 02, 2020 There Is an Alien Power Driving the Frenzy Over the Utah Monolith. It’s Just Not From Outer Space→ December 02, 2020/ Ben Davis Archive Link
November 25, 2020 The Asia Society Triennial Has a Lot of the Same Problems Most Biennials Do. But It Also Crystallizes a New Trend in Art→ November 25, 2020/ Ben Davis Archive Link
November 16, 2020 Why the Art World Shouldn’t Be Congratulating Itself on Donald Trump’s Defeat→ November 16, 2020/ Ben Davis Archive Link
October 15, 2020 The Strongest Reactions to the Philip Guston Show’s Postponement Miss Two Key Points. Here’s What They Are—and Why They Matter→ October 15, 2020/ Ben Davis Archive Link
July 29, 2020 What Painter Jon McNaughton’s New Patriotic-Religious Fantasia of Donald Trump Actually Means→ July 29, 2020/ Ben Davis Archive Links
July 22, 2020 In Defense of ‘Radical Chic’: How Tom Wolfe’s 1970 Essay Offers a Warning About Debates Over ‘Performative Activism’ Now→ July 22, 2020/ Ben Davis Archive Link
July 08, 2020 What Does the Public Want From Art in a Post-COVID World?→ July 08, 2020/ Ben Davis Archive Link
June 12, 2020 Why the Columbus Monument Should Be Seen as a Monument to the Construction of Whiteness in the United States→ June 12, 2020/ Ben Davis Archive Link
June 03, 2020 Trump’s Freakish Church Photo Op and the Widespread Arrests of Journalists Point to the Same Deeper Rot→ June 03, 2020/ Ben Davis Archive Link
May 11, 2020 Why Conspiracy Theories Have Become the Most Influential Art Form of Our Time→ May 11, 2020/ Ben Davis Archive Link
April 24, 2020 The Remarkable True Story of Raúl Giansante, Uber Driver, Master FrameMaker, Comrade of Dalí, and Zelig of the Art World→ April 24, 2020/ Ben Davis Archive Link
April 20, 2020 Some Believe Marina Abramovic Is the Satanic Ringleader of a Global Political Conspiracy. That’s Ludicrous. But Here’s What They Get Right→ April 20, 2020/ Ben Davis Archive Link