February 01, 2024 The Curious Case of the 222 Other Artists Who Just Landed on the Moon Who Are Not Jeff Koons→ February 01, 2024/ Ben Davis Archive Link
January 22, 2024 A Case for Enjoying ‘The Curse,’ Showtime’s Absurdist Take on Art and Media→ January 22, 2024/ Ben Davis Archive Link
October 19, 2023 The World’s Most Popular Painter Sent His Followers After Me Because He Didn’t Like a Review of His Work. Here’s What I Learned→ October 19, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
October 06, 2023 TikTok Star Devon Rodriguez Is Now the Most Famous Artist in the World. But What About His Work?→ October 06, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
September 22, 2023 What I’m Looking at: Michael Rakowitz Makes a Meta-Monument, the Debate Over ‘Art Without Men,’ and Other Things at the Edge of Art→ September 22, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
September 19, 2023 The 1930s Have Been Viewed as a Time of Simple-Minded Art. ‘Art for the Millions’ Shows Just How Dazzlingly Complex It Was→ September 19, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
August 30, 2023 The ‘Quasi-Theological’ Turn in Art Criticism Is a Mirage Leading Us the Wrong Way→ August 30, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
August 28, 2023 Is Art Criticism Today Too Affirmative? That’s the Wrong Question to Be Asking→ August 28, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
August 10, 2023 What I’m Looking at: Odd Apparitions at White Columns, Google’s Art Market Hallucination, and Other Things at the Edge of Art→ August 10, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
July 14, 2023 Influencers Are Realizing That A.I. Might Not Be a Magic Money-Making Machine For Artists After All→ July 14, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
July 13, 2023 What I’m Looking at: Chryssa’s Electric Tribute to Times Square, the MyPillow Guy’s Office Paintings, and Other Things at the Edge of Art→ July 13, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
June 22, 2023 How the Many Dilemmas of Hannah Gadsby’s Anti-Picasso Show Feed Our Contemporary Cultural Doom Loop→ June 22, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
June 20, 2023 The Brooklyn Museum’s Much-Criticized ‘It’s Pablo-matic’ Show Is Actually Weirdly at War With Itself Over Hannah Gadsby’s Art History→ June 20, 2023/ Ben Davis Archive Link
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