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
Art & 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 & Institutions 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 & Institutions 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
Opinion Alice Neel’s Communism Is Essential to Her Art. You Can See It in the ‘Battlefield’ of Her Paintings, and Her Ruthless Portrait of Her Son The great painter's survey at the Met shows how she believed in art as way of intervening in history. By Ben Davis, Apr 15, 2021
Opinion How One Artist Became a Warrior for QAnon + 4 Great Art Essays Worth Reading From This March A round-up of ideas from around the art web. By Ben Davis, Apr 2, 2021
Opinion What the NFT World Can Learn From the Great ’90s Comic Book Bubble. (It’s a Cautionary Tale) Lessons for Beeple and Grimes from the days of Deadpool and Spawn. By Ben Davis, Mar 30, 2021
Opinion I Visited the Digital Beeple Art Museum and All I Got Was an Aggressive Pitch for My Money Is this really the future of online art? By Ben Davis, Mar 25, 2021
Art World The Buyers of the $69 Million Beeple Reveal Their True Identities—and Say the Purchase Was About Taking a Stand for People of Color Vignesh Sundaresan and Anand Venkateswaran also plan to fund pro-NFT journalism. Oh, and Beeple owns 2 percent of their investment fund. By Ben Davis, Mar 19, 2021