Opinion Debating the Stakes of Criticism for Indigenous Artists + Two Other Thought-Provoking Things to Read (or Watch) From Around the Art Web A weekly digest of what's interesting in art media. By Ben Davis, Mar 14, 2020
Reviews Agnes Pelton Went to the Desert in Search of Solace. Her Paintings at the Whitney Show She Found Something Magical There A survey of the spiritual-abstractionist painter's oracular art brings an offbeat brand of enlightenment to New York. By Ben Davis, Mar 13, 2020
Opinion How to Understand the ‘Millennial Aesthetic’ + Two Other Thought-Provoking Things to Read (or Watch) From Around the Art Web A weekly digest of what's interesting in art media. By Ben Davis, Mar 6, 2020
Politics 10 Practical Reasons Why We Need to Fund—and Defend—the National Endowment for the Arts The most common arguments against the NEA, and answers to them. By Ben Davis, Mar 4, 2020
Opinion How Gen Z’s Meme Artists Are Reshaping the Political Battlefield + Two Other Illuminating Ideas From Around the Web Plus, an epistolary exchange highlights the plight of Chilean artists and Art Spiegelman surveys the work of Rube Goldberg. By Ben Davis, Feb 26, 2020
On View Arkansas’s Crystal Bridges Museum Just Opened a Sprawling Show About the State of American Art Today. Here’s What It Looks Like Plus, take a first look inside the Momentary, Crystal Bridges's new outpost for cutting-edge contemporary art. By Ben Davis, Feb 24, 2020
Opinion Why a New Yorker Cartoonist Is Up in Arms About Appropriation Art + Another Illuminating Idea From Around the Web Plus, America's most popular picture is of a dog on a toilet. By Ben Davis, Feb 12, 2020
Opinion What Shaker Furniture Can Teach Us About the ‘New Minimalist’ Trend + Two Other Illuminating Pieces of Criticism From Around the Web Plus, considerations on John Cage's revolt against Musak, and the rise of "Rural Futurism." By Ben Davis, Feb 7, 2020
Art World How Fox News Weaponizes Art + Two Other Illuminating Pieces of Criticism From Around the Web Have you noticed that the blur is everywhere? By Ben Davis, Jan 31, 2020
On View How Stanley Kubrick’s Vision of the Future in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Predicted the Way We Consume News Today The Museum of the Moving Image's show gives a glimpse of headlines from a hypothetical future digital New York Times. By Ben Davis, Jan 27, 2020
Art World From the Sugar Sphinx to Beast Jesus, These Were the 100 Essential Artworks That Defined the 2010s—Ranked In case you missed it. By Ben Davis, Jan 2, 2020
Opinion The 100 Works of Art That Defined the Decade, Ranked: Part 4 In the final installment of this four-part series, our critic reveals his picks—number 25 through number 1—of the key artworks of the 2010s. By Ben Davis, Jan 1, 2020
Opinion The 100 Works of Art That Defined the Decade, Ranked: Part 3 In the third installment of a four-part series, our critic reveals his picks—number 50 through number 26—of the key artworks of the 2010s. By Ben Davis, Dec 31, 2019
Opinion The 100 Works of Art That Defined the Decade, Ranked: Part 2 In the second installment of a four-part series, our critic reveals his picks—number 75 through number 51—of the key art of the 2010s. By Ben Davis, Dec 30, 2019
Opinion The 100 Works of Art That Defined the Decade, Ranked: Part 1 In the first installment of a four-part series, our critic reveals his picks—number 100 through number 76—of the key artworks of the 2010s. By Ben Davis, Dec 27, 2019