Opinion How Art Helps Makes Sense of Donald Glover’s ‘This Is America’ Video & More Critical Thoughts on Culture Plus, Tony Cokes turns tweets into art, and one very eerie paparazzi pic. By Ben Davis, May 17, 2018
Opinion There Is a Dystopian Cultural Vision Hidden in Michael Bloomberg’s Multimillion-Dollar Art Shed The half-billion-dollar art center drops a manifesto, making big claims for its mission. By Ben Davis, May 14, 2018
Art World Is It Even Possible to Comprehend a Work of Art Without Seeing a Woman Next to It (for Scale)? Examining an enduring and strange stock photo phenomenon. By Ben Davis & Julia Halperin, May 10, 2018
Reviews With ‘Like Life,’ the Met Breuer Has Arrived at Something New, Paradoxical, and Strangely of Its Time New York's encyclopedic museum stakes its contemporary-art fortunes on courting a new kind of taste. By Ben Davis, May 1, 2018
Opinion Infinity Gems and the Art Gallery: What Ambitious Artists Can Learn From Marvel’s Cinematic Universe Adventure More than you might think! By Ben Davis, Apr 24, 2018
Exhibitions Duchamp Did Not Invent the Readymade. In Fact, It May Have Been the First Human Art Form Consider the case of the Makapansgat Pebble. By Ben Davis, Apr 19, 2018
Reviews Can VR Really Make Us Feel Empathy? Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ‘Carne y Arena’ Proves That’s the Wrong Question As the Oscar-winning VR installation arrives in Washington, DC, our critic explains how it shows the potential—and the limits—of its medium. By Ben Davis, Mar 30, 2018
People ‘I Drank the Apocalyptic Kool-Aid’: Art Historian Hal Foster on Why He Has Developed an Unromantic View of the Avant-Garde Ben Davis, artnet News's chief art critic, spoke to the eminent art historian about the urgent themes of his upcoming Mellon lecture. By Ben Davis, Mar 26, 2018
Politics ‘National Geographic’ Turned to a Photo Historian to Help Reckon With Its Colonialist Past. Even He Was Unsettled by What He Found John Edwin Mason, a historian of race and photography, spoke to Ben Davis about examining the famed magazine's troubled history. By Ben Davis, Mar 21, 2018
Exhibitions How the New Museum’s Triennial Sabotages Its Own Revolutionary Mission What's all this talk of propaganda? By Ben Davis, Feb 20, 2018
Politics Bad News: Kehinde Wiley’s Portrait of Barack Obama Is a Bummer There's a lot to love in the fanciful image, but there's also a lot to question. By Ben Davis, Feb 13, 2018
Art World What Is the Undercommons? 5 Big Ideas You Need to Know to Understand the New Museum Triennial Yes, the New Museum's big show is heady—but we're here to help. By Ben Davis & Caroline Goldstein, Feb 12, 2018
On View How a One-Painting Show Lets You Get Inside the Brilliant Young Basquiat’s Head The Brooklyn Museum's show of the record-setting artwork, bought last year by a Japanese billionaire, has value far above the monetary. By Ben Davis, Feb 8, 2018
Opinion State of the Culture, IV: Why the ‘Art World’ as We Know It Is Ending There's breakdown of institutional roles underway. By Ben Davis, Feb 2, 2018
Opinion State of the Culture, III: How ‘Contagious’ Media Killed Art Criticism The internet has radically changed the way we write about art—and what kind of art gets covered at all. By Ben Davis, Feb 1, 2018
