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Ben Davis Read Bio Collapse
Ben Davis Read Bio Collapse
Ben Davis is an art critic living in New York. A book of his essays, 9.5 Theses on Art and Class, was published last year by Haymarket.
Spike Art Magazine
Spike 75 “The Museum Issue”
e-flux Education
Field Notes: Kim Córdova on INLAND at Documenta 15
e-flux Education
Posted: July 26, 2022
e-flux Agenda
New art-agenda
e-flux Agenda
Posted: April 25, 2019
Institution
School of Visual Arts (SVA)
Call for applications for MFA Art Practice
e-flux Education
Posted: December 17, 2018
Pratt Institute
MFA in Fine Arts
e-flux Education
Posted: October 24, 2018
e-flux journal
e-flux journal issue 89
e-flux Announcement
Posted: March 7, 2018
Category
Technology, Capitalism, Ideology
Subjects
Mass Media & Entertainment, Institutional Critique, Publications, Cosmism, Futures
Institution
# 89
Three Tendencies of Future Art
Ben Davis
As spatial segregation becomes almost complete in the twenty-first-century nation, the wealthy wall themselves off in hyper-policed gated zones. The lavish entertainment spectacles of Big Fun Art may provide more than enough on the entertainment level for both the tiny ruling class and its proximate servant class. But they do not fulfill the classical art object’s other remaining purpose: symbolizing, through its uniqueness, a ruling class’s unique status atop the social pyramid of society. The individual contemporary artist, therefore, lives on, but more in the mode of aesthetic lifestyle coaching and bespoke mythmaking.
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 7, 2018
Category
Contemporary Art, Technology
Subjects
Futures, Mass Media & Entertainment
School of Visual Arts (SVA)
Call for applications: MFA Art Practice
e-flux Education
Posted: October 9, 2017
Montclair State University, College of the Arts
MFA in Studio Arts thesis exhibition:: Reconnected
e-flux Education
Posted: May 26, 2017
Spike Art Magazine
Issue 48 Erase the Traces
e-flux Announcement
Posted: July 4, 2016
Institution
e-flux journal
e-flux journal issue 72
e-flux Announcement
Posted: April 6, 2016
Institution
e-flux journal
e-flux journal issue 72
e-flux Announcement
Posted: April 6, 2016
Institution
e-flux journal
e-flux journal issue 72
# 72
Connoisseurship and Critique
Ben Davis
Why return to the history of connoisseurship, and why now? Its particular virtues—deep looking, an eye for subtle markers of historical merit, and an obsession with the “hand of the master”—seem rooted firmly in the past at a time when art is ever more obsessed with the present. An essay on “Marxism and Connoisseurship” today is likely to seem both ridiculous and dubious, like proposing a political recuperation of dressage. Yet I think that theorizing where we stand in relationship to the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2016
Category
Aesthetics, Marxism
Subjects
Art Criticism, Art Market
frieze
Issue 174 out now
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 30, 2015
Category
Literature, Painting
Subjects
Art Criticism
Institution
Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (AICAD)
Studio Practice Residency: fall 2015 applications
e-flux Announcement
Posted: July 30, 2015
Montclair State University, College of the Arts
dirt-e: MFA Studio Art thesis show
e-flux Announcement
Posted: May 20, 2015
Institution
School of Visual Arts (SVA)
MFA Art Practice:department awards 2015–16
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 26, 2015
Institution
School of Visual Arts (SVA)
MFA Art Practice info session
e-flux Announcement
Posted: November 10, 2014
Institution
Montclair State University, College of the Arts
MFA Open Studio Night
e-flux Announcement
Posted: November 8, 2014
Institution
School of Visual Arts (SVA)
Interdisciplinary MFA Art Practice
e-flux Announcement
Posted: October 20, 2014
Institution
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
Fall 2014 public programming
e-flux Announcement
Posted: August 27, 2014
e-flux Criticism
Posted: March 25, 2014
Category
Economy
Subjects
Money & Finance, Freeports, Art Market, Wealth & Inequality