Ben Davis

2010
September
Dan Cameron on art in New Orleans after the Gulf oil spill.
Juli
Brion Gysin, pursuing the Other, on a cloud of smoke, into his own mind.
Mai
An assessment of the state of an unfortunately still-relevant concept.
März
Ben Davis hat einen Gang über die Armory Show gemacht und Avantgarde-Klassiker von einst und Bad Boys von heute entdeckt.
Februar
The lesson’s of X-Initiative’s final show, "Bring Your Own Art."
2009
September
A defense of the NEA conference call.
Juli
"Iran Inside Out" at the Chelsea Art Museum.
Juni
Daniel Birnbaum’s "Making Worlds" is a Type 0 Biennale.
Mai
The myth and reality of Shepard Fairey’s preppy Pop anti-authoritarianism.
April
The strengths and limits of Adel Abdessemed’s nihilistic guerrilla art.
The New Museum Triennial fails as a portrait of a generation but succeeds as an essay on the "naughty oughties."
März
Italian conceptualist Piero Manzoni was more of a professional than he seems.
The art fair experience finds the form of writing proper to it.
Februar
Ruud van Empel’s “Souvenir” series shows how history troubles our fantasies.
Januar
The "crisis in criticism" meets the economic crisis.
A new battle between "conceptual" and "traditional" art.
2008
Dezember
"Fly high, fall hard," a motto for the times.
Jeff Sonhouse’s "composites" reach for a neither/nor esthetic.
November
Oh Yes They Did! by Ben Davis - The Yes Men and Friends take on the "New York Times"
Oktober
Searching for the soul of the Chinese art world.
September
Stalking the elusive Chinese collector at ShContemporary.
The idea that art is a model for politics is the biggest art-critical boondoggle around.
Juli
Takashi Murakami, Olafur Eliasson and today’s avant-garde.
Mai
Sexual dysfunction and environmental consciousness at the Reykjavik Arts Festival in Iceland.
Julie Checkoway’s documentary Waiting for Hockney raises questions about the sociology of art.
April
Flux Factory’s final show marks the end of an era.
März
A "rave review" for the Whitney’s 2008 biennial.
Februar
Say hello to Luis Gispert’s little friend.
Januar
Do-Ho Suh’s Reflection and art’s power to forget.
The year in "complicit esthetics."
2007
Dezember
Piotr Uklanski’s ""Western"" Summer Love
November
1 + 1 does not equal 2 in Isaac Julien and Russell Maliphant’s "Cast No Shadow."
Yue Minjun, human logo.
August
Marx, "a new theory of the art market," art and politics
Juli
Can Miwa Yanagi dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools?
The Venice Biennale, Africa and the "borrowed kettle."
Mai
David Godbold answers the question: Why isn’t postmodern art funnier?
A glorious romance with power in "Sequence 1" at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice
März
Why are there so many great women artists who can’t get a show?
Februar
Questions surround the patron behind the Venice Biennale’s African exhibition.
2006
Dezember
A report on the Ink, Flow, Bridge, Aqua, DiVA, Pulse, NADA, Photo Miami and Scope art fairs.
Angela Strassheim’s tortured photos of suburbia.
Oktober
Nikki S. Lee’s "conceptual documentary" A.K.A. Nikki S. Lee
August
The Politics of Aesthetics by Jacques Rancière.
The hidden history of the Bauhaus in Marianne Brandt’s photomontages.
Juli
The second go-round for the Scope franchise in the Hamptons.
Isa Genzken, Germany’s 2007 German pick for the Venice Biennial, at Neugerriemschneider in Berlin
April
Masturbating jocks and cheerleaders at Cynthia Broan.
The Chinese gold rush at P.S.1’s "The Thirteen: Chinese Video Now."
Drawing Restraint 9 is a hoot.
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