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Ben Davis: Art in the After-Culture

BFA Visual & Critical Studies and the Honors Program present art critic Ben Davis to discuss his new incisive essay collection on the meaning of art in the face of today’s climate and capitalist catastrophes, Art in the After-Culture (2022). It is a scary and disorienting time for art, as it is a scary and disorienting time in general. Aesthetic experience is both overshadowed by the spectacle of current events and pressed into new connection with them. The self-image of art as a social good is collapsing under the weight of capitalism’s dysfunction. In his criticism, Davis attempts to make sense of our extreme present as an emerging “after-culture”—a culture whose forms and functions are being radically reshaped by cataclysmic events. In the face of catastrophe, he holds out hope that reckoning with the new realities of art, technology, activism and the media, can help us weather the super-storms of the future. Davis has been Artnet News’s national art critic since 2016. He is the author of 9.5 Theses on Art and Class (2013) and Art in the After-Culture (2022).