Reviews What I’m Looking At: Museum-Quality Malcolm Morley, Borna Sammak’s Beautiful Scenesters, and More Highlights from New York galleries from the last few weeks. By Ben Davis, 12 hours ago
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Law & Politics ‘The Photo’ and Its Aftermath Analyzing the instant myth-making around Evan Vucci's famous photo of Trump. By Ben Davis, Jul 19, 2024
Reviews What Makes Melissa Cody’s Vibrant Art Tapestries So Powerful to Me "Webbed Skies" at MoMA PS1 takes us on a journey from No Water Mesa to the Rainbow Road. By Ben Davis, Jun 25, 2024
Reviews ‘Relational Aesthetics’ Is Back at the Beyeler, Baby! We finally know what the Fondation Beyeler's mysterious experimental summer show looks like—and it's great. By Ben Davis, Jun 14, 2024
Art & Tech Big Tech Is Using Art as a Dystopian Honeypot Scarlett Johansson, Lynn Hershmann Leeson, and the rush to turn 'Her' into a real-life money machine. By Ben Davis, Jun 5, 2024
Art Criticism ‘Foreigners Everywhere,’ Unpacked: On the ‘Brazilianization’ of the Art World Part 3 of a 3-part essay on the 60th Venice Biennale, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. By Ben Davis, May 31, 2024
Art Criticism ‘Foreigners Everywhere,’ Unpacked: What a Biennale Built on Cosmopolitan Myth-Making Leaves Out Part 2 of a 3-part essay on the 60th Venice Biennale, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. By Ben Davis, May 18, 2024
Art Criticism ‘Foreigners Everywhere,’ Unpacked: What the Venice Biennale’s Flipped Art History Really Means Part 1 of a 3-part essay on the 60th Venice Biennale, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. By Ben Davis, May 15, 2024
Art World See Almost All of the 2024 Venice Biennale in More Than 100 Photos How is Adriano Pedrosa's 'Foreigners Everywhere?' Judge for yourself. By Ben Davis, Apr 25, 2024
Art Criticism This Year’s Venice Biennale Is Expansive but Manageable—and Earnest to a Fault First impressions on "Foreigners Everywhere." By Ben Davis, Apr 18, 2024
Reviews The Whitney Biennial Can’t Go on Like This Forever "Even Better Than the Real Thing" feels steeped in a larger climate of retreat and exhaustion. By Ben Davis, Mar 29, 2024
Art & Tech The Curious Case of the 222 Other Artists Who Just Landed on the Moon Who Are Not Jeff Koons The saga of the Lunaprise Museum. By Ben Davis, Mar 1, 2024
Art Criticism 6 Powerful Highlights From the Met’s Blockbuster Harlem Renaissance Show "The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism" showcases a dazzling array of invention by figures familiar and obscure. By Ben Davis, Feb 27, 2024
Pop Culture ‘Women Laughing Alone With Salad’ and the Undead Era of Internet Culture 'The Hairpin' lives again thanks to A.I. Sort of. By Ben Davis, Feb 13, 2024