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Rhea Dillon, broken, smacked and smothered., 2022, sapele mahogany, oil stick on paper, 37 1⁄2 × 49 1⁄4 × 9 1⁄4".
Twenty-six artists reflect on 2022
View of “Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept,” 2022, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. From left: Charles Ray, Ninety-Nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall, 2021; Charles Ray, Burger, 2021; Charles Ray, Jeff, 2021. Photo: Ron Amstutz.
Sixteen critics, curators, and artists look at the year in art
Cornelia Parker working on Thirty Pieces of Silver (1988–89), 1988. Photo: Edward Woodman. © Edward Woodman. All Rights Reserved, DACS.
Hal Foster on Cornelia Parker
Zoe Leonard, Al río/To the River (detail), 2016–22, gelatin silver prints, C-prints, ink-jet prints, dimensions variable.
Lynne Cooke’s highlights of 2022
Lee Jungseop, Bird, ca. 1950s, oil on paper, 8 7⁄8 × 7 1⁄2". From “MMCA Lee Kun-hee Collection: Lee Jung Seop.”
Joan Kee’s highlights of 2022
Dawoud Bey, Untitled #4 (Leaves and Porch), 2017, mounted gelatin silver print, 48 × 59".
Sampada Aranke on “Citing Black Geographies”
Deana Lawson, Roxie and Raquel, 2010, ink-jet print, 35 × 42 3⁄4".
Jack Bankowsky’s highlights of 2022
View of “Nick Cave: Forothermore,” 2022–23, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Photo: Nathan Keay.
Huey Copeland’s highlights of 2022
Suzanne Bocanegra, Honor, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor, 2022. Performance view, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 19, 2022. Suzanne Bocanegra and Lili Taylor. On-screen: Bernard van Orley, Honor, ca. 1520–32. Photo: Stephanie Berger.
Claire Bishop on Suzanne Bocanegra
Yvonne Rainer, Hellzapoppin’: What about the bees?, 2022. Performance view, New York Live Arts, October 5, 2022. Brittany Engel-Adams. Photo: Maria Baranova.
Johanna Fateman’s highlights of 2022
Justin Vivian Bond and Anthony Roth Costanzo, Only an Octave Apart, 2021. Rehearsal view, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY, September 20, 2021. From left: Justin Vivian Bond and Anthony Roth Costanzo. Photo: Teddy Wolff.
Thomas (T.) Jean Lax’s highlights of 2022
Nam June Paik, The More, the Better, 1988, 1,003 monitors, steel structure, four-channel video, sound, indefinite running time. Installation view, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea, 2022. Photo: Woo Jongduk.
Andrew Russeth on Nam June Paik
Amol K Patil, Black Masks on Roller Skates (detail), 2022, mixed media. Installation view, Hübner areal, Kassel, 2022.
Đỗ Tường Linh’s highlights of 2022
Xinyi Cheng, Where do the noses go?, 2021, oil on canvas, 23 5⁄8 × 28 3⁄4".
Xiaoyu Weng’s highlights of 2022
Janet Henry and Linda Goode Bryant at Just Above Midtown, 50 West 57th Street, New York, December 1974. Photo: Camille Billops.
Malik Gaines on “Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces”
Gisèle Vienne, WORKS (detail), 2003–21, fifteen dolls, forty photographs. Installation view, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, 2021. Photo: Martin Argyroglo.
Anna Gritz’s highlights of 2022
Barbara Kruger’s 1990 Pope Fetus I, New York, 1990.
Johanna Burton’s highlights of 2022
Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, 2022, HD video, color, sound, 117 minutes. Nan Goldin.
Christopher Glazek on "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed"
Banu Cennetoğlu, right?, 2022, string, helium, Mylar balloons. Installation view. Photo: Sean Eaton.
Zack Hatfield on the 58th Carnegie International
Reopening ceremony for Nam June Paik’s 1988 The More, the Better, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea, September 15, 2022.
Reopening ceremony for Nam June Paik’s 1988 The More, the Better, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea, September 15, 2022.
December 2022
VOL. 61, NO. 4
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