HeyJaredBen Davis's Newletter
Art critic for Artnet News. Co-host of The Art Angle. Author of '9.5 Theses on Art and Class' and 'Art in the After-Culture'
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What I Watched in August 2026 (opens the original)
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Dear All:As summer comes to the end, a great movie month. The best is A Separation, hands down. All the best,BEN***Obsession (2026), directed by Curry Barker<img
What I Wrote in August 2026 (opens the original)
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Dear All:A week late, and a bit light. Summer vacation and all. Also, just back from a particularly tiring trip to Korea for the Gwangju Biennale. Now recovering over Labor Day, and getting ready for this week’s fall season to begin. Here’s what I got.All the best, and thanks for reading,BEN***ESSAYS—The Curious Case of the AIR Festival in Aspen<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="
What I Watched in July (opens the original)
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Dear All:Some bits of this little Odyssey write up became part of the post I wrote about Musk’s A.I. Odyssey—part of why I like keeping this journal, it helps generate ideas.Movie of the month is hard, probably a three-way tie between Withnail and I, Come and See, and Lady Snowblood. All of them stay with me, just in very, very different ways.All the be… Read more
What I Wrote in July 2026 (opens the original)
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Dear All:A bit late with this. Here’s what I got for you.All the best,BEN***ESSAYS— “Elon Musk’s Threat of an A.I.-Made ‘Odyssey’”<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!U8gl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4c5b4120-d957-449f-9279-313011bd3d9c_800x433.jpeg" target=
What I Watched in June (opens the original)
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Dear All:Some of my favorite things I have watched all year, new and old, in June. Maybe I just watched a lot of movies while I was languishing in the heat, and so just happened to see some good ones because I just saw more movies, period. I don’t know. But the ones that I find myself most thinking about still—Burt and Cure—are also the biggest outliers… Read more
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