Pop Culture Beeple’s Collab With Madonna Is All About Celebrating Birth, But It Drains the Life Out of Pop’s Biggest Star There's a reason you feel so uncomfortable looking at this NFT series, and it's not the one you think. By Ben Davis, May 10, 2022
Art Criticism Here Is What the Riddle at the Heart of the 2022 Whitney Biennial Actually Means A philosophy unites the show's many enigmas—but it wants you work to uncover it. By Ben Davis, May 5, 2022
Art Criticism The 2022 Venice Biennale Is an Artistically Outstanding, Philosophically Troubling Hymn to Post-Humanism "Post-humanism" is the master key to the big show. But what does it mean? By Ben Davis, May 2, 2022
Shows & Exhibitions In Pictures: Take a Tour of the Venice Biennale’s Giardini Section, Which Is Full of Inventive Abstraction and the Art of Magic The latest edition of the show picks up at the Giardini where it left off across town at the Arsenale. By Ben Davis, Apr 22, 2022
On View In Pictures: See Practically Every Artwork in the Venice Biennale’s Arsenale Section The sprawling portion of the show at the Arsenale includes two smaller capsule exhibitions. By Ben Davis, Apr 21, 2022
NFTs A Crypto-Collector’s Attempt to Flip the NFT of Jack Dorsey’s First-Ever Tweet—for Which He Paid $2.9 Million—Flops Big-Time Now he's trying to get Elon Musk to buy it. By Ben Davis, Apr 15, 2022
Reviews Why Artist Heidi Norton’s Enigmatic Wax-and-Mushroom Monolith Contains Secrets Worth Sticking Around For Our national art critic gets up close to Norton's Plants Grow Through It, now on view at Sargent's Daughters. By Ben Davis, Mar 23, 2022
Curiosities The Culturati Are Betting on a Vibe Shift. But We May Actually Be Stuck in Vibe Purgatory Unpacking a great new catchphrase. By Ben Davis, Feb 25, 2022
Curiosities Bored Ape Yacht Club Fans Were Sure That Snoop Dogg or Eminem Would Give Them a Super Bowl Plug. Their Dreams Were Dashed Snoop Dogg did not turn into a mutant ape onstage at Super Bowl LVI. By Ben Davis, Feb 16, 2022
Curiosities Beeple Is Probably Right That NFTs Will Change Politics. So Far, That Change Is for the Worse "Digital merch" or new-model way for the rich to sell access? By Ben Davis, Feb 10, 2022
Curiosities The Hilariously Random and Downright Goofy Story of the ‘Talisman of Napoleon,’ Whose Owners Hope to Sell It for $250 Million Pat Boone is on board. By Ben Davis, Feb 3, 2022
Curiosities Is the Museum-as-Nail Salon the Greatest Idea to Emerge From Lockdown? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, what part of the art world will Emily in Paris change next? By Ben Davis, Jan 25, 2022
Art Criticism The Prospect 5 Triennial Reflects Contemporary Culture’s Hunger for Widespread Yet Specific Historical Reckoning The fifth edition of the important art survey is in its final week. By Ben Davis, Jan 19, 2022
Curiosities How Seriously Should We Take This Bored-Ape Conspiracy Theory? + More Questions About the Week’s Art News Plus, is this the strangest art sponcon to date? By Ben Davis, Jan 11, 2022
Opinion From Immersive Everything to the Rise of Museum Unions, These 7 Trends Defined the Art World in 2021—and Will Shape the Year to Come A look at the movements that defined 2021 in the art world, and how they may evolve in the year ahead. By Ben Davis, Jan 3, 2022
