Pop Culture Here’s What We Know About the Upcoming Salvador Dalí Biopic, Starring Ben Kingsley as the Legendary Surrealist Barbara Sukowa co-stars as his muse and life partner, Gala. By Ben Davis, Aug 10, 2022
Reviews In Mexico City, an Immersive Frida Kahlo Extravaganza Is Running on the Fumes of Her Legend, Trading Art History for Pure Vibes It's like watching the 2002 Hollywood movie 'Frida,' only even less accurate and without plot, characters, or setting. By Ben Davis, Jul 20, 2022
Reviews The Investigative Mode of the Berlin Biennale Raises an Uncomfortable Question: Who Is All This Research Really for? Several of the works on view rehearse well-documented stories, suggesting that facts speak for themselves. They don't. By Ben Davis, Jul 11, 2022
Reviews Documenta 15’s Focus on Populist Art Opens the Door to Art Worlds You Don’t Otherwise See—and May Not Always Want to There are conversations—about NGO aesthetics and the genuinely engaging parts of the show—that will be lost amid Documenta's current controversy. By Ben Davis, Jul 5, 2022
NFTs If NFT.NYC Represents the Future of Art, Then Why Was It So Boring? The organizers of this year's conference brought in no fewer than 1,500 speakers—and a lot of marketing gimmicks. By Ben Davis, Jun 27, 2022
Art & Exhibitions In Pictures: See Practically Every Single Artwork in the Sprawling 2022 Berlin Biennale, Organized by Artist Kader Attia The show offers a broad overview of anti-colonial artistic practice. By Ben Davis, Jun 14, 2022
Art World What Does It Mean to Be a ‘Biennial Artist,’ Anyway? Here Are the Traits That Unite the Most Successful Practitioners We examined the lists of more than 200 biennials over the past five years. What do the leading artists actually have in common? By Ben Davis, Jun 8, 2022
Pop Culture Beeple’s Collab With Madonna Is All About Celebrating Birth, But It Drains the Life Out of Pop’s Biggest Star There's a reason you feel so uncomfortable looking at this NFT series, and it's not the one you think. By Ben Davis, May 10, 2022
Art Criticism Here Is What the Riddle at the Heart of the 2022 Whitney Biennial Actually Means A philosophy unites the show's many enigmas—but it wants you work to uncover it. By Ben Davis, May 4, 2022
Art Criticism The 2022 Venice Biennale Is an Artistically Outstanding, Philosophically Troubling Hymn to Post-Humanism "Post-humanism" is the master key to the big show. But what does it mean? By Ben Davis, May 1, 2022
Art & Exhibitions In Pictures: Take a Tour of the Venice Biennale’s Giardini Section, Which Is Full of Inventive Abstraction and the Art of Magic The latest edition of the show picks up at the Giardini where it left off across town at the Arsenale. By Ben Davis, Apr 22, 2022
On View In Pictures: See Practically Every Artwork in the Venice Biennale’s Arsenale Section The sprawling portion of the show at the Arsenale includes two smaller capsule exhibitions. By Ben Davis, Apr 21, 2022
NFTs A Crypto-Collector’s Attempt to Flip the NFT of Jack Dorsey’s First-Ever Tweet—for Which He Paid $2.9 Million—Flops Big-Time Now he's trying to get Elon Musk to buy it. By Ben Davis, Apr 15, 2022
Reviews Why Artist Heidi Norton’s Enigmatic Wax-and-Mushroom Monolith Contains Secrets Worth Sticking Around For Our national art critic gets up close to Norton's Plants Grow Through It, now on view at Sargent's Daughters. By Ben Davis, Mar 23, 2022
Curiosities The Culturati Are Betting on a Vibe Shift. But We May Actually Be Stuck in Vibe Purgatory Unpacking a great new catchphrase. By Ben Davis, Feb 25, 2022