Art Criticism The New Museum’s Muted 2021 Triennial Reflects Culture’s Inward Turn, and Perhaps Its Exhaustion There's scarcely a digital presence in this year's show. By Ben Davis, Nov 9, 2021
Curiosities Can a Talking Rousseau Save Facebook? Why Does This Billionaire Think He’s Le Corbusier? + Other Questions I Have About This Week’s Art News Plus, the coin collecting community is upended by a "physical Bitcoin." By Ben Davis, Nov 8, 2021
Curiosities Why Did Lindsay Lohan’s Art Spark Furries’ Fury? What Is the ‘Shadowman Experience’? + More Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, what is Ted Lasso's take on the rise of African art? By Ben Davis, Nov 1, 2021
On View In Pictures: See Highlights of the New Museum’s Very Subtle New Triennial, Filled With Raw, Barely-Finished-Looking Art Take a peek inside "Soft Water Hard Stone." By Ben Davis, Oct 28, 2021
Reviews At the Shed, Instagram-Ready Art Collective Drift Serves Up a Spectacle Made of Floating Pillars and Lightweight Ideas 'Fragile Future' is curated by Kathleen Forde of the experience-art company Superblue. By Ben Davis, Oct 27, 2021
Curiosities What Does the Basketball World Want With Warhol’s Pee? Did Art Just Die at Giza’s Pyramids? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, is Buzzfeed's Buzzy the Robot art's next big thing? By Ben Davis, Oct 26, 2021
Curiosities Someone Paid $25 Mil for Banksy Leftovers? Is This the HAL 9000 of Museums? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, is October Mist the color to cure all your woes? By Ben Davis, Oct 19, 2021
Curiosities What’s With All the Hitler NFTs? Will Robots Put Street Artists Out of Work? + Other Questions I Have About The Week’s Art News Thoughts on some dumb NFTs, IP dilemmas in the art world and out, and a weird way to sell cashmere sweaters. By Ben Davis, Oct 13, 2021
Art Criticism If You Don’t Think Jasper Johns Can Still Surprise You, Wait Until You Get to the End of This Review The Whitney and the Philadelphia museums' vast Johns survey is a chance to figure out why he works the way he does, and what it means now. By Ben Davis, Oct 12, 2021
Curiosities Is There Anything Mr and Mrs Doodle Can’t Do? Is the Guy Who Stole $84K as Art a Hero? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Plus, remember that time the Met turned away Brian De Palma? By Ben Davis, Oct 4, 2021
Curiosities Is Jeff Koons as Passionate About Uniqlo as He Sounds? Why Is This Unicorn Named After Picasso? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News More importantly: What was Michael Crichton doing on a road trip with Jasper Johns? By Ben Davis, Sep 27, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions In Pictures: See the Highly Ambitious, Two-City Jasper Johns Retrospective at the Whitney and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Despite gossip about the show's two curators not getting along, the two exhibitions work together just fine. By Ben Davis, Sep 27, 2021
Curiosities How Did Immersive Van Gogh Top Taylor Swift? Does Anyone Ever #AskaCurator? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Most importantly: Has Maurizio Cattelan's 'America' toilet been melted down for gold bars? By Ben Davis, Sep 20, 2021
Curiosities Is a Bored Ape Tattoo the Ultimate Flex? Since When Is Uranium in a Museum Not OK? + More Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Why is VR Machu Picchu so dang fun? Who will win the race to be the Bob Ross of digital art? By Ben Davis, Sep 13, 2021
Curiosities Did Budweiser’s Tom Sachs Stunt Backfire? Is Damien Hirst’s Drake Cover Actually Good? + Other Questions I Have About Last Week’s Art News Can we be saved from AR art dystopia? What to make of Rachel Dolezal's conceptual abstract art? By Ben Davis, Sep 7, 2021
