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
Art & 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
Curiosities Is Space the Final Frontier for Artwashing? Who Owns That Blue, Tiffany or Listerine? + Other Questions I Have About the Week’s Art News Will MoMA's new merch win me the respect I deserve? Has the New York Post ever met a Gen Zer? By Ben Davis, Aug 30, 2021
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