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THE INSIDER’S OUTSIDER
by Ben Davis

Apr. 28, 2008
"Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger, " Apr. 15-Sept. 21, 2008, at the American Folk Art Museum, 45 West 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10019

What’s so fascinating about Henry Darger? More than anything else, this is the question that circles beneath the surface of "Henry Darger and Contemporary Art " at the American Folk Art Museum, which devotes four floors of exhibition space to a selection of 11 watercolors by the celebrated "outsider " artist along with works by a dozen other figures whose esthetic draws on his work.
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Ben Davis Archives for 2008
Apr. 11, 2008
ART IN FLUX
by Ben Davis
Flux Factory’s final show marks the end of an era.
Mar. 13, 2008
CAI GUO-KILLER
by Ben Davis

In the basement with Chinese art star Cai Guo-Qiang.
Mar. 7, 2008
RAVE ON
by Ben Davis
A "rave review" for the Whitney’s 2008 biennial.
Feb. 15, 2008
THE BLING GAME
by Ben Davis
Say hello to Luis Gispert’s little friend.
Jan. 24, 2008
GATEWAY TO NOWHERE
by Ben Davis
Do-Ho Suh’s Reflection and art’s power to forget.
Jan. 11, 2008
COMMERCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
by Ben Davis
The year in "complicit esthetics."
Ben Davis Archives for 2007
Dec. 24, 2007
MIAMI POST MORTEM
by Ben Davis
The "social unconscious" in Art Basel Miami Beach and beyond.
Dec. 4, 2007
WESTERN PROMISES
by Ben Davis
Piotr Uklanski’s ""Western"" Summer Love.
Nov. 19, 2007
DISASTER TEAM
by Ben Davis
The beauty of drowning Africans in Isaac Julien and Russell Maliphant’s "Cast No Shadow."
Nov. 12, 2007
GUY SMILEY
by Ben Davis
Yue Minjun, human logo.
Oct. 26, 2007
THE CONTRA IRAN AFFAIR
by Ben Davis
Shirana Shahbazi’s new work reacts against images of Iran, in a veiled way.
Oct. 11, 2007
ALL THIS USELESS BOOTY
by Ben Davis
Julie Heffernan’s anti-history painting.
Sept. 27, 2007
MAN AND SUPERMAN
by Ben Davis
Shaun El C. Leonardo, budding superartist.
Aug. 24, 2007
ART CLASS
by Ben Davis
Marx, "a new theory of the market," art and politics.
Aug. 1, 2007
FAIR FLIP-FLOPS
by Ben Davis
Commerce and/or personality at the third Scope Hamptons.
July 20, 2007
GLOBALIZED FEMINISM
by Ben Davis
Can Miwa Yanagi dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools?
July 17, 2007
REPLY TO STORR
by Ben Davis
The Venice Biennale, Africa and the "borrowed kettle."
June 13, 2007
POWER PLAY
by Ben Davis
Tom Friedman’s aluminum foil sculptures are portraits of Aby Rosen as a "fun" guy.
May 16, 2007
HOLLOW LAUGHER
by Ben Davis
David Godbold answers the question: Why isn’t postmodern art funnier?
May 11, 2007
PINAULT AND CO.
by Ben Davis
A glorious romance with power in "Sequence 1" at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice.
Apr. 17, 2007
IRANIAN EVOLUTION
by Ben Davis
A secret politics in Abbas Kiarostami’s photos and videos.
Mar. 12, 2007
WHITE WALLS, GLASS CEILING
by Ben Davis
Why are there so many great women artists -- who can’t get a show?
Feb. 26, 2007
LA LA LAND
by Ben Davis
L.A. Art challenges New York on its own turf.
Feb. 23, 2007
ARTNET NEWS
Questions surround the patron behind the Venice Biennale’s African exhibition.
Feb. 14, 2007
NET WORTH
by Ben Davis
The dilemmas of science-as-art in curator Marisa Olson’s "Networked Nature."
Jan. 4, 2006
STEINBERG’S SIGNATURES
by Ben Davis
Saul Steinberg takes on Adorno and Benjamin.
Ben Davis Archives for 2006
Dec. 18, 2006
MORE ON MIAMI
by Ben Davis
A report on the Ink, Flow, Bridge, Aqua, DiVA, Pulse, NADA, Photo Miami and Scope art fairs.
Dec. 7, 2006
BLACK SITE SPECIFIC
by Ben Davis
CIA torture in Chelsea.
Nov. 8, 2006
A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR THE ART WORLD
by Ben Davis
The solution to everything.
Nov. 8, 2006
MINNESOTA VICE
by Ben Davis
Angela Strassheim’s tortured photos of suburbia.
Oct. 25, 2006
CULTURAL KARAOKE
by Ben Davis
Nikki S. Lee’s "conceptual documentary" A.K.A. Nikki S. Lee.
Oct. 13, 2006
CRAZY QUILTS
by Ben Davis
Ai Kijima’s fabric collages bring Pop extravagance to a traditional form.
Sept. 20, 2006
DREAM FACTORY
by Ben Davis
Art and ads from director Michel Gondry.
Aug. 30, 2006
GLASS HOUSES
by Ben Davis
The art world lessons of Toledo, Ohio.
Aug. 18, 2006
RANCIÈRE, FOR DUMMIES
by Ben Davis
The Politics of Aesthetics by Jacques Rancière.
Aug. 3, 2006
DOWN TEMPO
by Ben Davis
The hidden history of the Bauhaus in Marianne Brandt’s photomontages.
July 20, 2006
SCOPE HAMPERED?
by Ben Davis
The second go-round for the Scope franchise in the Hamptons.
June 15, 2006
REFLECTED GLORY
by Ben Davis
The tortured journey of James Lee Byars fills six galleries in New York.
June 7, 2006
MOMENT IN THE SUN
by Ben Davis
Circa ’06 in San Juan, the first commercial art fair in the Caribbean.
May 31, 2006
RETRO ACTIVITIES
by Ben Davis
Marco Boggio Sella, Vadis Turner and Michael Bell-Smith take on the past.
May 4, 2006
INANE ASYLUM
by Ben Davis
Wooloo Productions offers up an immigrant "Survivor" as art in "AsylumNYC."
Apr. 21, 2006
THIRTEEN UNEASY PIECES
by Ben Davis
Chinese video art at P.S.1’s "The Thirteen: Chinese Video Now."
Apr. 11, 2006
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BARNEY
by Ben Davis
Drawing Restraint 9 is a hoot.
Mar. 20, 2006
TWILIGHT OF THE TEEN IDOLS
by Ben Davis
Masturbating jocks and cheerleaders, courtesy Brock Enright and Ivan Hürzeler.
Mar. 10, 2006
THE ARMORY BOWL
by Ben Davis
Reading the semiotics of the Armory Show 2006, Mar. 9-13, 2006.
Mar. 2, 2006
LABELING THE WHITNEY
by Ben Davis
The art of text at the Whitney Biennial 2006.
Feb. 24, 2006
LOOK AGAIN
by Ben Davis
Photography in New York -- the AIPAD photo show, Tracey Moffatt, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Christopher Williams and Florian Maier-Aichen.
Feb. 10, 2006
RETURN FIRE
by Ben Davis
New images of art from Iraq in New York.
Jan. 25, 2006
WHITNEY WATCH
by Ben Davis
Whitney Biennial curators past and present talk around the 2006 installment.
Jan. 24, 2006
TECHNICAL KNOCK-OUTS
by Ben Davis
Dorkbot, "Breaking and Entering" at PaceWildenstein, "Superlowrez" at vertexList, "Dewanatron" at Pierogi.
Ben Davis Archives for 2005
Dec. 16, 2005
Pop Life
by Ben Davis
0100101110101101.ORG proves Europe kicks butt.
Nov. 23, 2005
Raging within the Machine
by Ben Davis
Gelitin's "Tantamounter" -- a good time is had by all.
Nov. 16, 2005
I Want My Mike Kelley
by Ben Davis
Mike Kelley at Gagosian Gallery.
Nov. 2, 2005
We Are Duchampians
by Ben Davis
"The Imagery of Chess Revisited" at the Noguchi Museum.
Oct. 12, 2005
Photo New York
by Ben Davis
A report from the 2nd annual photo fair in Manhattan.
Sept. 27, 2005
Knock Out
by Ben Davis
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s "A Knock at the Door"
Sept. 12, 2005
The Baby-Satyr’s Club
by Ben Davis
Ohad Meromi at Harris Lieberman.
Aug. 26, 2005
August Company
by Ben Davis
The end of the summer at three shows in Williamsburg.
Aug. 17, 2005
Signs of the Times
by Ben Davis
Steve Powers and the Dreamland Artist Club at Coney Island.
Aug. 3, 2005
Ultra-Violette
by Ben Davis
Banks Violette rocks the Whitney.
July 19, 2005
Un-Hampered
by Ben Davis
The Scope Hamptons contemporary art fair in Southampton.
July 12, 2005
Letter Love
by Ben Davis
O.K. Harris documents the career of Don Celender.
June 21, 2005
Visible Flaws
by Ben Davis
Art theorist W.J.T. Mitchell's What Do Pictures Want?
June 7, 2005
A FUTURE PRESENT
by Ben Davis
D. Dominick Lombardi puts his mark on the apocalypse.
May 23, 2005
THE WILDER BUNCH
by Ben Davis
The artists associated with legendary L.A. dealer Nicholas Wilder.

















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