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
Reviews What One Mysterious, Easily Overlooked German Painting Taught Me About How to Visit a Museum in the Age of Blockbusters Untangling why a little-known painting by Christoph Paudiß feels so prescient today. By Ben Davis, Nov 26, 2019
Opinion Why Art Fails to Make a Difference on Its Own: More Thoughts on Hans Haacke’s Urgently Relevant Survey at the New Museum The second of a two-part essay about "Hans Haacke: All Connected" at the New Museum. By Ben Davis, Nov 18, 2019
Opinion How Hans Haacke’s Rise Coincided With the End of 1960s Activism and the Birth of Corporate Museum Sponsorship The artist's New Museum retrospective traces the genesis of his particular brand of "institutional critique." By Ben Davis, Nov 6, 2019
Opinion MoMA’s Nimble New Incarnation Is Well Suited to a World in Constant Flux. If Only It Didn’t Choose Tourists Over Its Artists The museum's newly expanded home corrects some of the historical record, but it doesn't go quite far enough. Maybe it can't. By Ben Davis, Oct 17, 2019
Reviews Artist Meriem Bennani’s Latest Work Is All About Imagining a Future in Which We Are Able to Cope With Our Disjointed Reality The artist's new film combines quirky personal symbolism, sci-fi tropes, and scenes from everyday life in a bizarre new world. By Ben Davis, Sep 26, 2019
Reviews We Parsed Artist Joe Zucker’s Witty Cult Opus, ‘100 Foot Long Piece,’ Panel by Panel Zucker, who is now in his late 70s, made the work when he had just moved to New York from Minneapolis as a young artist. By Ben Davis, Sep 20, 2019
Opinion Why Is Everyone Obsessed With Instagram Star and ‘Art Historian’ Caroline Calloway? Her Art Writing Actually Offers Some Insight Calloway's writing on Cecil Beaton and Salvador Dali offers a glimpse into the Instagramification of art. By Ben Davis, Sep 13, 2019
Art World The Spelling of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Name Is Now the Subject of an Internet Conspiracy Theory About Parallel Universes It's an example of what is called the "Mandela Effect." By Ben Davis, Sep 9, 2019
On View How to Look at a Sam Gilliam Painting: With One Eye on History and the Other on Color and Form Dia:Beacon has added Gilliam's "Double Merge" to its permanent display. By Ben Davis, Aug 29, 2019
Law & Politics Jeffrey Epstein Accuser Maria Farmer Says the New York Academy of Art Helped Enable the Disgraced Financier The school says it will now assemble a committee to formalize how art collectors can and should interact with students. By Rachel Corbett & Ben Davis, Aug 26, 2019
Law & Politics Here Are the 3 Most Disturbing Takeaways From Mother Jones’s Interview With Jeffrey Epstein’s Art Advisor and Former ‘Best Pal’ Stuart Pivar also used to buy art with and for Andy Warhol. By Ben Davis, Aug 26, 2019
Politics The Artist Who Painted Jeffrey Epstein’s Portrait of Bill Clinton in a Dress Tells Us Why She Made It, and What It Means Petrina Ryan-Kleid wants to clear up a few things about the image. By Ben Davis, Aug 20, 2019
People Here’s the Story Behind That Bizarre Painting of Bill Clinton in a Blue Dress Seen at Jeffrey Epstein’s Home The painting has launched 1,000 conspiracy theories. But the artist says she had no idea Epstein owned it. By Ben Davis, Aug 16, 2019