Art & Tech Influencers Are Realizing That A.I. Might Not Be a Magic Money-Making Machine For Artists After All The curious odyssey of Patryk Marketer. By Ben Davis, Jul 14, 2023
Reviews What I’m Looking at: Chryssa’s Electric Tribute to Times Square, the MyPillow Guy’s Office Paintings, and Other Things at the Edge of Art Highlights from New York galleries from the last few weeks. By Ben Davis, Jul 12, 2023
Art Criticism How the Many Dilemmas of Hannah Gadsby’s Anti-Picasso Show Feed Our Contemporary Cultural Doom Loop "It's Hannah-matic, Part 2," from a 2-part series on "It's Pablo-matic" at the Brooklyn Museum. By Ben Davis, Jun 21, 2023
Art Criticism The Brooklyn Museum’s Much-Criticized ‘It’s Pablo-matic’ Show Is Actually Weirdly at War With Itself Over Hannah Gadsby’s Art History "It's Hannah-matic," Part 1 of a 2-part series on "It's Pablo-matic" at the Brooklyn Museum. By Ben Davis, Jun 19, 2023
Reviews Art Duo Komar and Melamid Were Laughed Out of the Soviet Union. Are They Having the Last Laugh on Us? What is the lesson of these proto-postmodern artists for us today? By Ben Davis, Jun 6, 2023
Opinion Why Andy Warhol’s ‘Prince’ Is Actually Bad, and the Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith Decision Is Actually Good We need to reboot the arguments we make about appropriation art. By Ben Davis, Jun 1, 2023
Art Fairs Where Does Art Stand Today? Here Are a Few Critical Impressions Gleaned at the Frieze New York Art Fair Takeaways from a frenzied week of art fairs. Plus, "That '70s Show!" By Ben Davis, May 22, 2023
NFTs An Artist Asked ChatGPT How to Make a Popular Memecoin. The Result Is ‘TurboToad,’ and People Are Betting Millions of Dollars on It Rhett Mankind began the project as a lark. By Ben Davis, May 9, 2023
Art History How Much of a Character Was Alice Neel? Just Look at ‘The Big Clock,’ the Classic Film Noir Partly Based on the Artist’s Notoriety The painter's bohemian ways inspired a key character in the hit 1948 movie. By Ben Davis, May 7, 2023
Reviews What I’m Looking At: Cavorting Human-Duck Hybrids, a Tribute to a Legendary Alt-Art Magazine, and Other Things at the Edge of Art Highlights from New York galleries from the last few weeks. By Ben Davis, May 5, 2023
Opinion Is Crafting ‘Super Prompts’ for A.I. Generators the Art of the Future? Probably Not A.I. Clement Greenberg would like to have a word. By Ben Davis, Apr 27, 2023
Reviews What I’m Looking at: Racy Paper-Cuts From China, a Video-Essay Takedown of Decentraland, and Other Stuff at the Edge of Art Highlights from New York galleries from the last few weeks. By Ben Davis, Apr 4, 2023
Opinion How We Ended Up in the Era of ‘Quantitative Aesthetics,’ Where Data Points Dictate Taste The Humanities Crash and the McNamara Fallacy in culture. By Ben Davis, Mar 29, 2023
Art Criticism ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ Is a Truly Great Artist Documentary. Here’s What Makes It Work So Well The film, which explores the life of Nan Goldin, is directed by Laura Poitras. By Ben Davis, Mar 15, 2023
Art World What I’m Looking At: Nude Dudes Doing the Laocoön at O’Flaherty’s, the Plot to Incept Capitalist Realism, and Other Stuff at the Edge of Art Highlights from New York galleries from the last few weeks. By Ben Davis, Mar 8, 2023