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Todd Phillips, Joker, 2019, 35 mm, color, sound, 122 minutes. Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix).

Bong Joon-ho, Gisaengchung (Parasite), 2019, 4K video, color, sound, 131 minutes. Kim Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho).

Pedro Costa, Vitalina Varela, 2019, HD video, color, sound, 124 minutes. Vitalina Varela.

By James Quandt

Nina Menkes, Queen of Diamonds, 1991, 35 mm transferred to 4K video, color, sound, 77 minutes. Firdaus (Tinka Menkes).

Melissa Anderson

By Melissa Anderson

Pietro Marcello, Martin Eden, 2019, 16 mm transferred to 2K video, color, sound, 126 minutes. Martin Eden (Luca Marinelli) and Elena Orsini (Jessica Cressy).

Still from Kodak Black’s 2018 video Zeze, directed by Travis Scott.

By Jace Clayton

Pinocchio performing at the Glove, New York, July 24, 2019. Photo: Jaime Salazar.

By Polly Watson

Yoko Ono, 2002. Photo: Mark C. O’Flaherty/Camera Press/Redux.

Marja Ahti performing at Sorbus Gallery, Helsinki, March 17, 2016. Photo: Sorbus.

By Sarah Hennies

Sarah Michelson, june2019:I/, 2019. Rehearsal view, 101 Greenwich Street, New York, June 23, 2019. Sarah Michelson. Photo: Paula Court.

Jennifer Krasinski

By Jennifer Krasinski

December 2019

By Terry Castle

December 2019

By Pamela M. Lee

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By Douglas Crase

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Zeynep Çelik Alexander

By Zeynep Çelik Alexander

December 2019

Morgan Bassichis

By Morgan Bassichis

December 2019

Marina Vishmidt

By Marina Vishmidt

December 2019

Sean-Kierre Lyons, Charlene, 2019, felt, velvet, 39 × 34 × 53".

THE ARTISTS’ ARTISTS

The Artists’ Artists

34 Artists Reflect on 2019

Tony Cokes, Testament A: MF FKA K-P X KE RIP, 2019, HD video, color, sound, 35 minutes 22 seconds.

View of “Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams,” 2019, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Photo: Adrien Dirand.

December 2019

Nicole Eisenman

By Nicole Eisenman

Cady Noland, Cart Full of Action, 1986, metal cart, rims, rear-view mirror, exhaust, engine oil, battery charger, various plastics, oil-based car care products. Installation view, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, 2018. Photo: Fabian Frinzel.

By Jack Bankowsky

Wangechi Mutu, The Seated II, 2019, bronze. Installation view, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From The NewOnes, will free Us, 2019. Photo: Bruce Schwarz.

By Naima J. Keith

December 2019

Susanne Pfeffer

By Susanne Pfeffer

Sam Gilliam, Double Merge, 1968, acrylic on canvas. Installation view, Dia:Beacon, NY, 2019. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio.

By Ara Osterweil

December 2019

Johanna Fateman

By Johanna Fateman

Bong Joon-ho, Gisaengchung (Parasite), 2019, 4K video, color, sound, 131 minutes. Ki-jung (Park So-dam) and Ki-woo (Choi Woo-sik).

By Christina Li

Jeremy O. Harris, Water Sports; or Insignificant White Boys, 2019. Performance view, BOFFO, Fire Island Pines, Brookhaven, NY, June 22, 2019. Ken Barnett, Avon Haughton, Alex Fialho, and Jeremy O. Harris. Photo: Matthew Leifheit.

Jeremy O. Harris

By Christopher Glazek

Mercedes Azpilicueta, Un mundo raro (A Rare World), 2015, three-channel video projection, color, sound, 10 minutes.

By Ruth Estévez

Nil Yalter, Turkish Immigrants (detail), 1977, twelve gelatin silver prints, twelve pencil-on-paper drawings, dimensions variable.

By Sohrab Mohebbi

Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950–51, oil on canvas. Installation view, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2019. Photo: Robert Gerhardt.

Logical Revolts

Rashid Johnson, Native Son, 2019, HD video, color, sound, 103 minutes 41 seconds. Bigger Thomas (Ashton Sanders).

By Miriam Katzeff

Arthur Jafa, The White Album, 2019, digital video, color, sound, 29 minutes 55 seconds.

Henriette Huldisch

By Henriette Huldisch

Nan Goldin, Picnic on the Esplanade, Boston, 1973, Cibachrome, 27 1⁄2 × 40".

The Year in Friendship

December 2019

David Velasco on the year in friendship

By David Velasco

Senator Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn during the Army McCarthy hearings, Washington, DC, 1954.

Hannah Black on Roy Cohn

By Hannah Black

Stanley Love in his and Robert Melee’s kitchen, Lower East Side, New York, 1993. Photo: Robert Melee.

Stanley Love (1970–2019)

By Greg Zuccolo, Sarah Michelson

Nayland Blake, Crossing Object (Inside Gnomen), 2017, mixed media, approx. 72 × 34 × 34".

ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

By Andy Campbell

View of “Pittura/Panorama: Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, 1952–1992,” 2019, Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice. Left: For E.M., 1981. Right: Riverhead, 1963. Photo: Matteo De Fina.

Helen Frankenthaler

Museo di Palazzo Grimani

By Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Cristina Tufiño, Dancing at the End of the World, 2019, polymer clay, each approx. 9 × 4 × 8 1⁄2".

Cristina Tufiño

Galería Agustina Ferreyra

View of “Wael Shawky,” 2019. Background: The Gulf Project Camp: Carved wood (after ‘Nighttime in a City’ by Mir Sayyid Ali, c.1540), 2019. Foreground, from left: The Gulf Project Camp: Glass Sculpture # 1, 2019; The Gulf Project Camp: Sculpture # 5, 2019.

Lisson Gallery | 504 West 24th Street | New York

By Ania Szremski

Pierre Soulages

Lévy Gorvy Dayan | New York 64th Street

By Donald Kuspit

Tina Kim Gallery

By Barry Schwabsky

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Marian Goodman Gallery | New York

By Phyllis Tuchman

Elaine Cameron-Weir

By Colby Chamberlain

DC Moore Gallery

Ricco / Maresca Gallery

By Jeffrey Kastner

By Zack Hatfield

By Rachel Churner

Samuel Levi Jones

Galerie Lelong & Co.

By Michael Wilson

Ortuzar Projects

By Sasha Frere-Jones

By Zoë Lescaze

Penny Davenport

Fortnight Institute

By Charity Coleman

“Utopian Imagination”

Ford Foundation Gallery

By Allison Young

Anthony McCall, Throes II, 2011, video (silent, 15 minutes), haze machine. Installation view.

Albright-Knox Art Gallery

By Brian Sholis

Adrian Wong, The House That Snoopy Built, 2019, mixed media, 96 × 105 × 36".

Carrie Secrist Gallery

By Daniel Quiles

View of “Lily Cox-Richard,” 2019, Center: She-Wolf, 2019. On floor: Ramp (detail), 2019.

Lily Cox-Richard

Blanton Museum of Art

By Andy Campbell

Felix Schramm, Transom, 2019, gypsum, wood, pigment, 15' 2" × 14' 2" × 18' 8".

Jannis Kounellis and Felix Schramm

Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery

By Elizabeth Mangini

Naudline Pierre, Love Becomes Her, 2019, oil on panel, 34 × 48".

Naudline Pierre

Shulamit Nazarian

By Ashton Cooper

Jeffrey Deitch | 925 N Orange Drive

By Catherine Taft

By Andrew Berardini

The Pit Los Angeles

By Suzanne Hudson

Hajra Waheed, Landscape 1–9, 2019, oil on tin, each 5 × 7".

The Power Plant

By Gabrielle Moser

Marepe, Satélite baldio (Vacant Satellite), 2006–2007, buckets, screws, 118 1⁄8 × 118 1⁄8 × 118 1⁄8".

Pinacoteca do Estado / Estação Pinacoteca

By Ela Bittencourt

Djanira da Motta e Silva, Vendedora de flores (Flower Seller), 1947, oil on canvas, 39 5⁄8 × 25 5⁄8".

Djanira da Motta e Silva

Casa Roberto Marinho

By Felipe Scovino

James Rosenquist, Coenties Slip Studio, 1961, oil on canvas and shaped hardboard, 34 × 43".

James Rosenquist

Thaddaeus Ropac | London

By Daniel Culpan

Maria Pininska-Beres

By Lizzie Homersham

By Emily LaBarge

Dorothy Cross, Listen Listen, 2019, marble; left: 6 1⁄4 × 28 3⁄8 × 17 3⁄4"; right: 6 1⁄4 × 27 1⁄8 × 17 3⁄4".

Sylvie Auvray, Untitled, 2019, ceramic, plaster, fabric, 52 × 20 7⁄8 × 9 7⁄8".

Galerie Laurent Godin

By Mara Hoberman

View of “Maria Lai,” 2019. Background, from left: Una finestra sul mondo (A Window on the World), 1966; Una finestra sul mondo II (A Window on the World II), 1966; Telaio (Looms), 1965. Foreground: Oggetto paesaggio (Landscape Object), 1967.

MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo

By Alessandra Pioselli

Vaclav Pozarek, Drei Neon (Three Neon), 1988, wood, 9 7⁄8 × 29 1⁄2 × 29 1⁄2".

Galerie Francesca Pia

Nina Canell, Brief Syllable (Truncated), 2017, subterranean cable fragment, 9 × 25 5⁄8 × 9". From “Transmissions.”

“Transmissions”

By Yuki Higashino

Roman Ondak, Aeon, 2019, wood, metal, paint, 10' 8" × 2' 7 1⁄2" × 2' 7 1⁄2".

Esther Schipper

By Martin Herbert

Sophie von Hellermann

By Kristian Vistrup Madsen

Sarah Abu Abdallah, The Salad Zone, 2013, video, color, sound, 21 minutes 27 seconds.

Sarah Abu Abdallah

Kunstverein in Hamburg

By Nina Möntmann

Diamond Stingily, In the Middle but in the Corner of 176th Place (detail), 2019, trophies; four metal shelves, each 7' 2 5⁄8" × 14' 9 1⁄8" × 2' 1 5⁄8".

Diamond Stingily

Kunstverein München

By Jacob Proctor

View of “Piotr Łakomy,” 2019. Background, from left: Fenix (03), 2012–19; Fenix (01), 2012–19; Fenix (04), 2012–19. Foreground: Fenix (02), 2012–19.

Avant-Garde Institute

Jannis Varelas, Mother of Fools, 2019, mixed media on canvas, 98 3⁄8 × 82 5⁄8".

By Klea Charitou

Zhanna Kadyrova, Second Hand, 2017, mixed media, 36 3⁄4 × 20 7⁄8 × 1 1⁄8". From the series “Second Hand,” 2014–.

Zhanna Kadyrova

ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN

By Noemi Smolik

Nilbar Güres, Die Schublade (The Drawer), 2019, mixed media on fabric, 70 7⁄8 × 55 1⁄8".

Priya Ravish Mehra, Untitled (1/C-3), 2016, twigs, paper pulp, 22 × 14 1⁄2".

Priya Ravish Mehra

Chemould Prescott Road

By Zeenat Nagree

Naeem Mohaiemen, Rankin Street, 1953, 2013, video, black-and-white, sound, 8 minutes.

Naeem Mohaiemen

EXPERIMENTER, Hindusthan Road

By Skye Arundhati Thomas

Haroon Mirza, Copy of 9/11–11/9, 2019, mixed media. Installation view.

Sifang Art Museum

By Travis Jeppesen

Patrick Lundberg, No title (detail), 2019, mixed media, 45 1⁄4 × 3⁄8".

Patrick Lundberg

By Anthony Byrt

December 2019

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