Art Fairs Where Does Art Stand Today? Here Are a Few Critical Impressions Gleaned at the Frieze New York Art Fair Takeaways from a frenzied week of art fairs. Plus, "That '70s Show!" By Ben Davis, May 22, 2023
NFTs An Artist Asked ChatGPT How to Make a Popular Memecoin. The Result Is ‘TurboToad,’ and People Are Betting Millions of Dollars on It Rhett Mankind began the project as a lark. By Ben Davis, May 9, 2023
Art History How Much of a Character Was Alice Neel? Just Look at ‘The Big Clock,’ the Classic Film Noir Partly Based on the Artist’s Notoriety The painter's bohemian ways inspired a key character in the hit 1948 movie. By Ben Davis, May 8, 2023
Reviews 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 Highlights from New York galleries from the last few weeks. By Ben Davis, May 5, 2023
Opinion Is Crafting ‘Super Prompts’ for A.I. Generators the Art of the Future? Probably Not A.I. Clement Greenberg would like to have a word. By Ben Davis, Apr 27, 2023
Reviews What I’m Looking at: Racy Paper-Cuts From China, a Video-Essay Takedown of Decentraland, and Other Stuff at the Edge of Art Highlights from New York galleries from the last few weeks. By Ben Davis, Apr 4, 2023
Opinion How We Ended Up in the Era of ‘Quantitative Aesthetics,’ Where Data Points Dictate Taste The Humanities Crash and the McNamara Fallacy in culture. By Ben Davis, Mar 30, 2023
Art Criticism ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ Is a Truly Great Artist Documentary. Here’s What Makes It Work So Well The film, which explores the life of Nan Goldin, is directed by Laura Poitras. By Ben Davis, Mar 15, 2023
Art World 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 Highlights from New York galleries from the last few weeks. By Ben Davis, Mar 8, 2023
Science & Tech 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 A simple ChatGPT inquiry turned into a very strange ride. By Ben Davis, Mar 2, 2023
Art Criticism What on Earth Are We Supposed to Do With the Outrageous Art of CumWizard69420? Let me take you on a little tour of "The Americans" at Cheim & Read. By Ben Davis, Feb 28, 2023
Opinion What’s the Deal With That Essay About How the ‘Waffle House Brawl’ Is Like an Edward Hopper Painting? Here’s My Guess Viral culture is flattening everything into one incoherent mass. By Ben Davis, Feb 6, 2023
Reviews Why It’s Worth Savoring Leonor Fini’s Enchanted Surrealism at Kasmin + Other Things to See and Read Plus, the Mariah Carey "I don't know her" meme as art, and the "New Ugliness" theorized. By Ben Davis, Feb 1, 2023
Reviews An Extremely Intelligent Lava Lamp: Refik Anadol’s A.I. Art Extravaganza at MoMA Is Fun, Just Don’t Think About It Too Hard We need to talk about willful misreading of dystopia in the art-tech conversation. By Ben Davis, Jan 23, 2023
The Burns Halperin Report Is the Art World Entering the Age of ‘Anti-Woke’ Backlash? Here’s Why Today’s Reaction Will Look Very Different From Decades’ Past How today's tech bro-powered vibe shift might represent a different kind of backlash than we saw in the 1990s. By Ben Davis, Dec 20, 2022
