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Akeem Smith, Social Cohesiveness (detail), 2020, still from the three-channel digital video component (color, sound, 32 minutes 53 seconds) of a mixed-media installation additionally comprising foam, resin, and plaster screens, steel, wheels, wrought-iron chairs.
THE ARTISTS’ ARTISTS
THE ARTISTS’ ARTISTS
Twenty-three artists reflect on 2021
Ida Applebroog, Indigo Bunting, 2018, UltraChrome dye and gel on mylar, 22 1⁄4 × 50 1⁄2".
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BEST OF 2021
14 critics, curators, and artists look at the year in art
View of “Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE–2020 CE),” 2021, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Wall: Laurie Simmons, Girl Vent Press Shots, 1989. Pedestals, from left: Copper bowl, Afghanistan, late 15th century; Robert Morris, Box with the Sound of Its Own Making, 1961. Photo: Museum Associates/LACMA.
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Lynne Cooke’s highlights of 2021
Paula Rego, Untitled No. 6, 1998–99, pastel on paper on aluminum, 43 × 39 3⁄8".
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Cecilia Alemani’s highlights of 2021
December 2021
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BEST SHOWS OF 2021
David Joselit on “Illiberal Arts”
MF DOOM’s performance mask.
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Erin Christovale’s highlights of 2021
Denilson Baniwa, Nhíromi, 2020–21, canoe and found objects from Rio Negro and Piraíbas de Piaçava, Brazil, video projection (color, sound, 33 minutes 44 seconds). Installation view, Sesc Sorocaba, Brazil, 2021. Photo: Matheus Jose Maria.
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Miguel A. López’s highlights of 2021
Wu Tsang, Anthem, 2021, 5K video, color, sound, 20 minutes. Installation view, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Beverly Glenn-Copeland. Photo: David Heald.
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BEST SHOWS OF 2021
Malik Gaines on Wu Tsang
New Museum union action, New Museum, New York, June 25, 2019. Photo: Eddie Panta.
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Johanna Fateman’s highlights of 2021
Paul Cézanne, Route à travers bois (Road Through the Woods), ca. 1900, pencil and watercolor on paper, 18 1⁄4 × 23 1⁄2".
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BEST SHOWS OF 2021
Amy Sillman on “Cézanne Drawing”
David Hammons, Day’s End, 2014–21, stainless steel, precast concrete. Installation view, Gansevoort Peninsula, Hudson River, New York. Photo: Jason Schmidt.
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Jack Bankowsky’s highlights of 2021
Kara Walker, untitled, 1997–99, watercolor and ink on paper, 10 1⁄4 × 7 1⁄8". From the thirteen-part suite Untitled, 1997–99.
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BEST SHOWS OF 2021
Darby English on Kara Walker
View of “Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen?,” 2021–22, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar.
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Sky Hopinka’s highlights of 2021
Anne Imhof, Natures Mortes, 2021. Performance view, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, October 15, 2021. Levi Strasser and Florine Olufs. Photo: Nadine Fraczkowski.
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BEST SHOWS OF 2021
Caroline Busta and Lil Internet on Anne Imhof’s Nature Mortes
Brothers Sick, Pareidolia (Vaccinate Now), 2021, dye-sublimation print on aluminum, 24 × 16". Image description: The black-and-white graphic features a silhouette of a person in profile holding a syringe in one hand. The silhouette has been mirrored both vertically and horizontally so that the figure appears in each corner of the graphic. Written above the figures in varying font sizes from top to bottom are “Stop Rationing Care,” “Stop Medical Apartheid,” “Vaccinate Now,” “Global Inoculation Against Viral Fascism,” “End Eugenics,” and at the bottom of the image “End Vaccine Hoarding.”
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Susanne Pfeffer’s highlights of 2021
Albert Pinkham Ryder, Jonah (detail), ca. 1885–95, oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard, 27 1⁄4 × 34 3⁄8".
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BEST SHOWS OF 2021
John Kelsey on Albert Pinkham Ryder
Maspeth, NY, 4:27 AM, August 8, 2021. Photo: Sam Penn.
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THE YEAR IN HELL
hannah baer and Monica Huerta reflect on this year’s hell
Thompson, NY, 6:32 AM, September 18, 2021. Photo: hannah baer.
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DANCE UNTIL THE WORLD ENDS
hannah baer on rave and revolution
Grids of hay stabilize against desertification, Minqin, China. Photo: Michael Reynolds/EPA/Shutterstock.
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AN ESSAY WRITTEN IN SAND
Monica Huerta on this year’s hell
Anne Imhof, Natures Mortes, 2021. Performance view, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, October 17, 2021. Levi Strasser. Photo: Nadine Fraczkowski.
Anne Imhof, Natures Mortes, 2021. Performance view, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, October 17, 2021. Levi Strasser. Photo: Nadine Fraczkowski.
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