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
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
Opinion I Looked Through All 5,000 Images in Beeple’s $69 Million Magnum Opus. What I Found Isn’t So Pretty 'Everydays: The First 5,000 Days' is the third-most expensive work ever by a living artist. Not many people have actually looked at it. By Ben Davis, Mar 17, 2021
Opinion Museums Are Where Artworks Go to Die. But the Frick Madison’s Stunning New Installation Brings Them Back to Life Again Contemplating the many meanings of Duccio's "Temptation of Christ on the Mountain" at the famed New York museum's temporary home. By Ben Davis, Mar 12, 2021
Opinion The Myths About FDR’s New Deal Arts Programs Are Misleading. Here Are the Real Lessons for Struggling Artists Today Commentators have looked the New Deal art projects for lessons for today's crisis. Do we really understand their legacy? By Ben Davis, Feb 25, 2021
Opinion 3 Observations About Culture, Politics, and Social Media Radicalization in the Post-Trump Era On digital populism and the influencer economy as a base of reaction. By Ben Davis, Jan 22, 2021