Art Criticism The Prospect 5 Triennial Reflects Contemporary Culture’s Hunger for Widespread Yet Specific Historical Reckoning The fifth edition of the important art survey is in its final week. By Ben Davis, Jan 19, 2022
Curiosities How Seriously Should We Take This Bored-Ape Conspiracy Theory? + More Questions About the Week’s Art News Plus, is this the strangest art sponcon to date? By Ben Davis, Jan 11, 2022
Opinion From Immersive Everything to the Rise of Museum Unions, These 7 Trends Defined the Art World in 2021—and Will Shape the Year to Come A look at the movements that defined 2021 in the art world, and how they may evolve in the year ahead. By Ben Davis, Jan 3, 2022
Art World Can You Solve These 10 Fun Riddles That Leonardo da Vinci Included in His ‘Prophesies’? (They Are Solvable, and We Have the Answers) "Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the Dead," reads one. By Ben Davis, Dec 21, 2021
NFTs Colborn Bell, Founder of the Museum of Crypto Art, Isn’t Worried About Wooing the Traditional Art World: A Q&A Is the metaverse the future for museums? By Ben Davis, Dec 17, 2021
Curiosities What If the ‘Birds Aren’t Real’ Movement Backfires? + More Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Also, are we in an Indie Aesthetics boom? By Ben Davis, Dec 15, 2021
Curiosities Why Does ArtReview’s ‘Power 100’ Skip Over the Actually Powerful? + Other Questions I Have on the Week’s Art News Plus, what do art audiences really want? By Ben Davis, Dec 8, 2021
Opinion Inside the NFT Rush: Crypto-Art Promises to Transform the Whole World—But Throw Some Totally Dope Parties First In the fourth article in our series, we enter the Dreamverse. By Ben Davis, Dec 3, 2021
Curiosities Why’s Frida Kahlo’s Family Dismantling Her House for an NFT? Did ‘Succession’ Dis the Shed? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, what happens to the ConstitutionDAO's crypto now? By Ben Davis, Nov 30, 2021
Opinion Inside the NFT Rush: Speculators Offer Up the Literal Formula for Success, Plus Other Lessons From ‘Crypto Coachella’ In the third part of a series, we go to an auction of Rare Pepes. By Ben Davis, Nov 30, 2021
Opinion Inside the NFT Rush: Entrepreneurs Promise NFTs Will Destroy the Gatekeepers, While Jockeying to Become the New Gatekeepers In the second part of a series, we sum up some of the themes of NFT.NYC, and fail to get into a party. By Ben Davis, Nov 25, 2021
Opinion Inside the NFT Rush: Gary Vaynerchuk, the NFT Scene’s Booster-in-Chief, Is Predicting ‘Carnage’—But No One Seems to Care In the first of a series, our chief art critic embeds himself in an NFT conference in New York City. By Ben Davis, Nov 24, 2021
Curiosities What Happens When Crypto Kids Watch an Art Auction? How Big Will Immersive Botero Be? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, Microsoft gets into the Olympic games. By Ben Davis, Nov 23, 2021
Curiosities Why Is Neil Gaiman Razzing MoMA? What Could DAOs Do to Art? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, can this billionaire have his Norman Foster penthouse or what? By Ben Davis, Nov 17, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions In Pictures: See the Sharp, City-Spanning Art From the Long-Awaited Return of the Prospect New Orleans Triennial From projects that invite you into the archives to new monuments, "Yesterday We Said Tomorrow" offers a variety of ways to engage. By Ben Davis, Nov 11, 2021
