Opinion Can a Russian Museum Stop Rammstein’s Lead Singer From Selling Terrible Art NFTs? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Will the Michelangelo A.I. become self-aware? And what is truly original mermaid art? By Ben Davis, Aug 23, 2021
Curiosities Are Auctions Now Taste Black Holes? Do I Love or Hate the Van Gogh-Weed Gimmick? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Another weird week in the news cycle. By Ben Davis, Aug 16, 2021
Art Criticism Huguette Caland Is One of Lebanon’s Most Famous Artists. But a Big Part of Her Story Has Remained Hidden “Huguette Caland: Tête-à-Tête” looks at an artist who is also the daughter of one of Lebanon's most famous politicians. By Ben Davis, Jul 21, 2021
Opinion Hey Hunter Biden, Here’s a Radically Simple Solution for All Your Art Woes: Don’t Sell Your Work If Hunter Biden wants his art to be received outside a political black box, his best bet is not to sell it. By Ben Davis, Jul 13, 2021
Art World Why We Should Take Statues Down—and Stop Building New Ones + 4 Other Great Art Essays to Read From the Past Month A round-up of ideas from around the art web. By Ben Davis, Jul 1, 2021
Reviews Two Immersive Van Gogh Experiences Offer the Post-Pandemic Escapism Visitors Crave. They Have Weirdly Little to Do With Van Gogh Why Van Gogh now? By Ben Davis, Jun 24, 2021
Reviews 5 Outstanding Artists From ‘Super-Rough,’ the Experimental Exhibition Takashi Murakami Curated for the Outsider Art Fair Murakami brings some flair to the proceedings with a knowingly cluttered display. By Ben Davis, Jun 17, 2021
Shows & Exhibitions What Are Philly’s Artists Up To? See 5 Key Works From the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Revelatory Survey of the City’s Art Scene The show paints a pleasing portrait of the city's artistic talents. By Ben Davis, Jun 11, 2021
Museums A Financier Plans to Open the ‘World’s Largest NFT Museum’ in a Skyscraper Looming Over Central Park The supertall residential tower is located four blocks from MoMA. By Ben Davis, May 26, 2021
Art World Cara Delevingne Is Selling an Instagram Poem? Here’s a Roundup of Notable Recent NFT News, Ranked From Nifty to Grifty From new NFT contracts to a failed Stan Lee NFT. By Ben Davis, May 21, 2021
Museums In Pictures: See How Starchitect Frank Gehry ‘Reimagined’ the Philadelphia Museum of Art With a Brand-New $233 Million Expansion The starchitect's uncharacteristically subtle renovation of the Philadelphia museum is now open to the public. By Ben Davis, May 12, 2021
Analysis The Buyers of Beeple’s $69 Million NFT Sold Thousands of Speculators on a Crypto Art Investment Scheme. So Far… It Is Not Going Well Up next? A plan to sell a new $58 million NFT. By Ben Davis, May 10, 2021
Art World How the ‘Village Voice’ Art Section Became the Subject of Art Itself + 4 Great Essays to Check Out From the Past Month A round-up of ideas from around the art web. By Ben Davis, May 4, 2021
Politics How ‘Classically Beautiful’ European Architecture Became a (Failed) Rallying Cry for a Hard-Right Republican Caucus Anti-modernism was a serious talking point of Marjorie Taylor Greene's aborted America First Caucus. By Ben Davis, Apr 21, 2021
Art World Wait, Why Are So Many Dogs Smoking Joints in Old Art? We Looked Into It, and the Answer Is Pretty Far Out A very important art-historical investigation. By Ben Davis, Apr 20, 2021
