June 07, 2023 Art Duo Komar and Melamid Were Laughed Out of the Soviet Union. Are They Having the Last Laugh on Us?→ June 07, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
June 01, 2023 Why Andy Warhol’s ‘Prince’ Is Actually Bad, and the Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith Decision Is Actually Good→ June 01, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
May 05, 2023 What I’m Looking At: Cavorting Human-Duck Hybrids, a Tribute to a Legendary Alt-Art Magazine, and Other Things at the Edge of Art→ May 05, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
April 27, 2023 Is Crafting ‘Super Prompts’ for A.I. Generators the Art of the Future? Probably Not→ April 27, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
April 04, 2023 What I’m Looking at: Racy Paper-Cuts From China, a Video-Essay Takedown of Decentraland, and Other Stuff at the Edge of Art→ April 04, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
March 30, 2023 How We Ended Up in the Era of ‘Quantitative Aesthetics,’ Where Data Points Dictate Taste→ March 30, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
March 08, 2023 What I’m Looking At: Nude Dudes Doing the Laocoön at O’Flaherty’s, the Plot to Incept Capitalist Realism, and Other Stuff at the Edge of Art→ March 08, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
March 02, 2023 We Asked ChatGPT About Art Theory. It Led Us Down a Rabbit Hole So Perplexing We Had to Ask Hal Foster for a Reality Check→ March 02, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
February 28, 2023 What on Earth Are We Supposed to Do With the Outrageous Art of CumWizard69420?→ February 28, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
February 06, 2023 What’s the Deal With That Essay About How the ‘Waffle House Brawl’ Is Like an Edward Hopper Painting? Here’s My Guess→ February 06, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
February 01, 2023 Why It’s Worth Savoring Leonor Fini’s Enchanted Surrealism at Kasmin + Other Things to See and Read→ February 01, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
January 23, 2023 An Extremely Intelligent Lava Lamp: Refik Anadol’s A.I. Art Extravaganza at MoMA Is Fun, Just Don’t Think About It Too Hard→ January 23, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
December 20, 2022 Is the Art World Entering the Age of ‘Anti-Woke’ Backlash?→ December 20, 2022/ Ben Davis Archive Link
November 29, 2022 I Visited New York’s Immersive Klimt Spectacular With One of the World’s Preeminent Gustav Klimt Experts. Here’s What Happened→ November 29, 2022/ Ben Davis Archive Link
November 21, 2022 There Has to Be a Better Way to Argue About the Climate-Activist Attacks on Art→ November 21, 2022/ Ben Davis Archive Link
October 31, 2022 There Will Never Be Another Art Critic Like Peter Schjeldahl→ October 31, 2022/ Ben Davis Archive Link
September 05, 2022 Culture Seems Stagnant Because Everyone Is Exhausted, Not ‘Because of the Internet’→ September 05, 2022/ Ben Davis Archive Link
August 16, 2022 NFT Artists Are Not Selling ‘Digital Art Objects.’ They Are Selling a Story—One That Requires Constant Retelling→ August 16, 2022/ Ben Davis Archive Link
July 21, 2022 In Mexico City, an Immersive Frida Kahlo Extravaganza Is Running on the Fumes of Her Legend, Trading Art History for Pure Vibes→ July 21, 2022/ Ben Davis Archive Link
July 12, 2022 The Investigative Mode of the Berlin Biennale Raises an Uncomfortable Question: Who Is All This Research Really for?→ July 12, 2022/ Ben Davis Archive Link