Everything old is new again

“Woman in brown coat,” Devon Rodriguez

Ben Davis of artnet news reports a story that sounds all-too-familiar these days:

A little more than a week ago, I wrote a review of an art show by the artist and TikTok sensation Devon Rodriguez, best known for live drawing subway riders. He is, by some measures, the most famous artist in the world, with many millions of social media followers. He did not like the review.

It went up on a Friday. On Saturday morning, I woke up to a tidal wave of a...