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Ben Davis

Ben Davis is an art critic living and working in New York City. His writings have appeared in Adbusters, Artinfo.com, Art Papers, C Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, Slate.com, The Village Voice, and many others. He is the national art critic for artnet News. Davis published his first book, 9.5 Theses on Art and Class, in 2013.

Artnet News, Features• May 13, 2015

After Bjork Fiasco, MoMA’s Yoko Ono Show Makes a Case for Art and Celebrity

By Ben Davis

Yoko Ono: One-Woman Show, 1960-1971 arrives at the Museum of Modern Art pre-freighted with issues of art and celebrity that have dogged the institution of…

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Artnet News, Features• May 1, 2015

The Whitney’s Triumphant New Museum is Worrying For Art

By Ben Davis

Today, the new Whitney Museum of American Art opens its broad gates to the masses. If New York’s museum competition were a horserace, Renzo Piano’s appealing and thoughtful…

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Artnet News, Reviews• April 17, 2015

In “Martin Wong: Painting is Forbidden,” the Wattis Institute Largely Sidesteps Painting

By Ben Davis

“Basically everything I paint is in my immediate neighborhood, where I ended up,” Martin Wong said in a lecture in 1991. “So, people assume…

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Artnet News, Features• March 20, 2015

Is the iPhone a Blessing or a Curse for Art?

By Ben Davis

In 1951, Hans Namuth first published his photos of Jackson Pollock at work. They were meant as documents of the famed artist’s process. But…

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Artnet News, Reviews• March 5, 2015

MoMA “Steps on a Nail” with Bad Björk Show

By Ben Davis

There has been an immense volcano building up under the Museum of Modern Art for some time, a well of rage from old-school art…

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Artnet News, Reviews• February 7, 2015

What On Kawara’s Analog Wisdom at the Guggenheim Has to Offer a Digital World

By Ben Davis

In 2009, @on_kawara flickered onto the scene. The Twitter account, whose profile picture is a black square, simply tweeted out once a day, “I…

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Artnet News, Reviews• January 26, 2015

Loris Gréaud Smashes the Mold for Museum Shows

By Ben Davis

It’s Saturday night in Dallas, at the debut of “The Unplayed Notes Museum,” by the French art star Loris Gréaud. The cavernous, spookily lit space…

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Artnet News, Features• January 12, 2015

Why I Believe New York’s Art Scene Is Doomed

By Ben Davis

This is an article about art and gentrification, the inescapable topic. I have something new to add—that I think we may be coming to the…

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Artnet News, Features• January 5, 2015

30 Art-Writing Clichés to Ditch in the New Year

By Ben Davis

It’s a new year, which is a fine excuse as any to ditch old bad habits. Here below, I have assembled a not-at-all exhaustive…

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Artnet News, Features• December 16, 2014

After Ferguson, A New Protest Culture’s Challenge to Art

By Ben Davis

Walter Benjamin has a line about the Angel of History who sees the past as “one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and…

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