Art Criticism TikTok Star Devon Rodriguez Is Now the Most Famous Artist in the World. But What About His Work? "Underground," Rodriguez's show at UTA Artist Space, is a chance to observe the rise of Influencer Art. By Ben Davis, Oct 6, 2023
Art Criticism How the Many Dilemmas of Hannah Gadsby’s Anti-Picasso Show Feed Our Contemporary Cultural Doom Loop "It's Hannah-matic, Part 2," from a 2-part series on "It's Pablo-matic" at the Brooklyn Museum. By Ben Davis, Jun 21, 2023
Art Criticism The Brooklyn Museum’s Much-Criticized ‘It’s Pablo-matic’ Show Is Actually Weirdly at War With Itself Over Hannah Gadsby’s Art History "It's Hannah-matic," Part 1 of a 2-part series on "It's Pablo-matic" at the Brooklyn Museum. By Ben Davis, Jun 19, 2023
Art Criticism ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ Is a Truly Great Artist Documentary. Here’s What Makes It Work So Well The film, which explores the life of Nan Goldin, is directed by Laura Poitras. By Ben Davis, Mar 15, 2023
Art Criticism What on Earth Are We Supposed to Do With the Outrageous Art of CumWizard69420? Let me take you on a little tour of "The Americans" at Cheim & Read. By Ben Davis, Feb 28, 2023
Art Criticism Matthew Wong’s First Museum Retrospective Cements the Tragic Artist’s Reputation as a Master of Melancholy Style “The Realm of Appearances” is on view at the Dallas Museum of Art, through February 19, 2023. By Barry Schwabsky, Oct 31, 2022
Art Criticism The Tudor Dynasty Seethed With Insecurity and Intrigue. A New Met Show Suggests That’s What Made Its Art So Lasting “The Tudors" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shows a dazzling array of visual strategies for rule. By Eleanor Heartney, Oct 18, 2022
Art Criticism The Carnegie International Tackles U.S. Hegemony. But It Doesn’t Do Much to Stand Out on the Global Biennial Circuit The oldest exhibition dedicated to global contemporary art in North America could have packed a bigger punch by looking closer to home. By Kriston Capps, Sep 29, 2022
Art Criticism Deana Lawson’s Photos Are Stunningly Popular. They’re Also Dangerously Misunderstood Lawson's elaborate fantasies raise wider questions about the stories that get told about life in a splintering economic order. By Danielle Jackson, Sep 19, 2022
Art Criticism Manifesta 14 Hits the Mark With a Show that Probes Kosovo’s Turbulent Past and Its Asymmetrical Power Relations With the E.U. But Prishtina's historical and monumental venues frequently overshadow the art on view. By Hettie Judah, Jul 26, 2022
Art Criticism Oil-Rich Norway’s New National Museum, Home to Munch’s ‘The Scream,’ Is Like a $650 Million Vault. But What Is It Really Protecting? One could have come up with a different answer to the question of what a major institution can be today. By Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Jun 14, 2022
Art Criticism The Dakar Biennale Returns, Energized by Conversations About African Epistemologies and Colonial Legacies Takeaways from the opening weekend of Dak’Art, historically an important platform for thinking about Négritude. By Tobi Onabolu, May 29, 2022
Art Criticism The MFA Boston Embraced Hard Conversations in Its Philip Guston Show. Why Doesn’t It Examine Its Collection Just as Critically? The exhibition's curators present a dramatic narrative of Guston’s studio as a site of privileged resistance against social injustice. By Leah Triplett Harrington, May 25, 2022
Art Criticism Critic’s Spotlight: How Felipe Baeza’s Symbolically Charged Dreamscapes Give Body to Contemporary Struggles at the Venice Biennale Baeza's creates a distinctive language of fantasy that encodes queer desire and the immigrant experience. By Barbara Calderón, May 15, 2022
Art Criticism New Perspectives: 6 Artists at the 2022 Venice Biennale Who Are Shifting the Way We Visualize the African Diaspora From Tourmaline to Simone Leigh, artists reflect on the Black imagination as a resource to build new worlds and right wrongs. By Emmanuel Balogun, May 12, 2022
