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What Is the Real-World Value of a Left-Wing Art Show?

Our critic visits SITE Santa Fe and wonders whether biennials are ever able to truly live up to their grand ambitions.

By Ben Davis, Aug 29, 2018
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More Than Just a ’90s Firebrand: Three New Exhibitions Offer a More Complex Look at Revolutionary Artist David Wojnarowicz

Exhibitions at the Whitney, NYU's Mamdouha Bobst Gallery, and P.P.O.W offer a comprehensive look at an artist whose influence we are only now beginning to truly grasp.

By Eleanor Heartney, Jul 19, 2018
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What Happens When an Art Critic Reviews an Instagram Trap? Turns Out, That’s a Trick Question

How Dream Machine nearly defeated me.

By Ben Davis, Jul 10, 2018
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How Senga Nengudi’s ‘Performance Objects’ Stretched Sculpture Into New Forms—and How She’s Still Pressing the Limits Today

At Art + Practice in L.A., “Head Back and High" shows a very unique kind of social sculpture that emerged from a unique time of experiment in black art.

By Colony Little, Jul 3, 2018
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Congolese Artist Bodys Isek Kingelez’s Most Ambitious Work Is an Intricate Dream City. Here’s How to Understand It

"Bodys Isek Kingelez: City Dreams" is on view at Museum of Modern Art.

By Ben Davis, Jun 25, 2018
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3 Artists Shaking Up the Way We See the City in the Hammer’s Bold New ‘Made in LA’ Biennial

The show puts the spotlight on artists doing imaginative and heartfelt work.

By Colony Little, Jun 12, 2018
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M.C. Escher Is the King of Trippy Optical Illusions, But He Deserves More Credit Than That

"Escher-mania" hits Brooklyn's Industry City.

By Ben Davis, Jun 11, 2018
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The Hammer’s ‘Made in LA’ Avoids Common Biennial Pitfalls to Paint a Compelling Portrait of a Vibrant Art Community

The biennial avoids both festivalism and inside baseball, offering up art that looks beyond itself to the surrounding community and wider world.

By Catherine Wagley, Jun 10, 2018
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How Domenico Gnoli’s Meticulous Paintings Reveal a Society—Like Ours—That Is Coming Apart at the Seams

A new exhibition at Luxembourg & Dayan reveals how the artist used elements of Surrealism and Pop to do something entirely different.

By Ben Davis, May 31, 2018
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How Sondra Perry Turned Tech Glitches Into Art About a Broken World at the Serpentine

In "Typhoon Coming On," Perry immerses viewers in J.M.W. Turner's "The Slave Ship," to symbolic effect.

By Rianna Jade Parker, May 18, 2018
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Beyond Banksy: This Massive LA Exhibition Dramatically Expands the Story of Graffiti

The Roger Gastman-curated "Beyond the Streets" trains a light on the studio work of famed street artists.

By Colony Little, May 15, 2018
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The Met’s ‘Heavenly Bodies’ Show Mines Catholicism for Eye Candy, and the Result Is Both Gorgeous and Unsettling

The exhibition is the latest outing from Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton.

By Eleanor Heartney, May 10, 2018
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With ‘Like Life,’ the Met Breuer Has Arrived at Something New, Paradoxical, and Strangely of Its Time

New York's encyclopedic museum stakes its contemporary-art fortunes on courting a new kind of taste.

By Ben Davis, May 1, 2018
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Can VR Really Make Us Feel Empathy? Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ‘Carne y Arena’ Proves That’s the Wrong Question

As the Oscar-winning VR installation arrives in Washington, DC, our critic explains how it shows the potential—and the limits—of its medium.

By Ben Davis, Mar 29, 2018
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How One Obscure David Hockney Painting Encapsulates the Greatness of His Work

The hints of doubt in the artist's paradise are what make the great works last.

By Ben Davis, Dec 12, 2017

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