A New Genre of Bad A.I. Art Takes the Stage: Nature Slop

Ben Davis

National Art Critic

Ben Davis has been Artnet News's National Art Critic since 2016. He is the author of '9.5 Theses on Art and Class' (Haymarket, 2013), and ‘Art in the After-Culture’ (Haymarket, 2022).

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A New Genre of Bad A.I. Art Takes the Stage: Nature Slop

What I’m Looking At: A Bawdy Zodiac, Vaping Frogs, and Deceptive Patterns

Orphism Is Back, Full of Optimistic Colors and Unanswered Questions

Culture Will Not Save Us Now

Readers Weigh In on Which Artworks Give Them Chills

The Art World Reacts to the Election—and Donald J. Trump’s Win

by Andrew Russeth & Annie Armstrong & Jo Lawson-Tancred & Brian Boucher & Naomi Rea & Margaret Carrigan & Ben Davis & Sarah Cascone

Why Only Some Artworks Give You Chills—And Most Just Don’t

Unlocking the Secrets of Art That Gives You Chills

Why Is TikTok So Hot for Cologne Cathedral?

I Could Spend a Million Hours in the Met’s Weird and Wonderful Sienese Art Show

The ‘London Standard’ Reanimated Its Most Feared Art Critic With A.I. The Results Won’t Shock You

Let’s All Laugh at How Cursed Google’s Generative-Art ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Is

Museums & Institutions

Which Artists Are Everywhere in U.S. Museums? I Sifted Through Hundreds of Shows to Find Out

How One of the Greatest Photographers Turned Against Photography

There Are So Many Amazing Colors You Don’t Even Know About!

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