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
Art & 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
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