On View From Animal Spirits to a Conquistador’s Stolen Foot, See the First Images of Site Santa Fe’s 2018 ‘Casa Tomada’ Biennial Other highlights include Andrea Fraser's project on museum boards and an egg-shaped mobile museum from Guatemala. By Ben Davis, Aug 3, 2018
Reviews What Happens When an Art Critic Reviews an Instagram Trap? Turns Out, That’s a Trick Question How Dream Machine nearly defeated me. By Ben Davis, Jul 11, 2018
Reviews Congolese Artist Bodys Isek Kingelez’s Most Ambitious Work Is an Intricate Dream City. Here’s How to Understand It "Bodys Isek Kingelez: City Dreams" is on view at Museum of Modern Art. By Ben Davis, Jun 26, 2018
Opinion Art History, or the Illuminati? What Jay-Z and Beyoncé Are Really Up to With Their Viral New Louvre Video Three ways to look at the 'Apes**t' video. By Ben Davis, Jun 18, 2018
Reviews M.C. Escher Is the King of Trippy Optical Illusions, But He Deserves More Credit Than That "Escher-mania" hits Brooklyn's Industry City. By Ben Davis, Jun 12, 2018
Opinion Why the Legal Strategy Behind Masterpiece Cakeshop Gets Art Backwards—and Why It Should Make People Nervous What happens when the definition of “art” becomes a burning political issue of our day. By Ben Davis, Jun 7, 2018
Reviews How Domenico Gnoli’s Meticulous Paintings Reveal a Society—Like Ours—That Is Coming Apart at the Seams A new exhibition at Luxembourg & Dayan reveals how the artist used elements of Surrealism and Pop to do something entirely different. By Ben Davis, Jun 1, 2018
Opinion How Purple Magazine Intern-Turned-Scam Artist Anna Delvey Turned Contemporary Art Into the Perfect Tool for Fraud Take a look at Delvey's Instagram and behold what a hollowed-out signifier art has become. By Ben Davis, May 30, 2018
Opinion Jordan Peterson, the Controversial Pro-Male Philosopher, Says He Hates Postmodern Art. But He Secretly Loves It! The author of "12 Rules for Life" loves Socialist Realist art. By Ben Davis, May 24, 2018
Opinion How Art Helps Makes Sense of Donald Glover’s ‘This Is America’ Video & More Critical Thoughts on Culture Plus, Tony Cokes turns tweets into art, and one very eerie paparazzi pic. By Ben Davis, May 17, 2018
Opinion There Is a Dystopian Cultural Vision Hidden in Michael Bloomberg’s Multimillion-Dollar Art Shed The half-billion-dollar art center drops a manifesto, making big claims for its mission. By Ben Davis, May 14, 2018
Art World Is It Even Possible to Comprehend a Work of Art Without Seeing a Woman Next to It (for Scale)? Examining an enduring and strange stock photo phenomenon. By Ben Davis & Julia Halperin, May 10, 2018
Reviews With ‘Like Life,’ the Met Breuer Has Arrived at Something New, Paradoxical, and Strangely of Its Time New York's encyclopedic museum stakes its contemporary-art fortunes on courting a new kind of taste. By Ben Davis, May 1, 2018
Opinion Infinity Gems and the Art Gallery: What Ambitious Artists Can Learn From Marvel’s Cinematic Universe Adventure More than you might think! By Ben Davis, Apr 24, 2018
Art & Exhibitions Duchamp Did Not Invent the Readymade. In Fact, It May Have Been the First Human Art Form Consider the case of the Makapansgat Pebble. By Ben Davis, Apr 19, 2018