Ben Davis
National Art Critic at Artnet
Author of 9.5 Theses on Art and Class and Art in the After-Culture (https://t.co/W2nsU1d17o). National Art Critic for artnet News. https://t.co/V8PmXf1ThL
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3 weeks ago |
koel.com | Ben Davis
This one South Dakota town has been listed in the “Top 10 Most Boring Cities” in America. Well, this is awkward. Sioux Falls has officially made it to the big leagues...landing at #4 on FinanceBuzz's "Top 10 Most Boring Cities in America." Congratulations?
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4 weeks ago |
news.artnet.com | Ben Davis
There’s no one correct way to enjoy an art show, clearly. People go to museums for all kinds of reasons. In fact, the most common way that people go to see art has little to do with the way that the normal art critic goes to see it. Solo viewing in depth is by far the least common style of art-going. Generally, people visit art shows with someone—on a date, or with friends, or kids, or classmates. Social considerations are then as important as aesthetic ones.
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1 month ago |
news.artnet.com | Ben Davis
The Trump administration is barreling ahead with the idea of eliminating the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as other arts agencies. In its first months, though, it already sought to lay off NEH workers (receiving legal pushback for doing so), cancel grants it doesn’t like, and divert a chunk of the agency’s funding to a National Garden of American Heroes—a pet project of the president’s—which promises sculptures of figures ranging from Christopher Columbus to Alex Trebek.
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1 month ago |
news.artnet.com | Ben Davis
Mark Fingerhut’s Halcyon.exe: The Ride (2024) has the status of a cult artwork. Having just seen it, I say: Sign me up for the cult. It feels like watching a fun new genre of art boot up and come to confident life. Fingerhut is a programmer, artist, with a 2015 BFA from the Digital Arts program at Pratt Institute in New York.
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1 month ago |
news.artnet.com | Ben Davis
Independent looks good. Good galleries, good art throughout, stuff that looks good on first glance, stuff that gets better when you dig in. The curated approach pays off—compared to many other fairs, the visual impact is like a photo where you have hit the “magic wand” button. It’s probably not a surprise that the neo-bucolic continues to reign.
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