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
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