BEST SHOWS OF 2021
Caroline Busta and Lil Internet on Anne Imhof’s Nature Mortes
Haute Mess
House of Gucci loses the thread
THE ARTISTS’ ARTISTS
Twenty-three artists reflect on 2021
Light Years
The Met’s Afrofuturist period room thinks inside the box
DANCE UNTIL THE WORLD ENDS
hannah baer on rave and revolution
O Holy Night
On Kiki & Herb’s queer holiday cheer
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PRINT January 1982
JOHN WATERS' DIVINE COMEDY
Scott MacDonald
This week, the editors celebrate filmmaker, author, artist—and sometime Artforum contributor—John Waters, featuring his conversation with film scholar Scott MacDonald from the January 1982 issue. Waters’s Top Ten films of 2021 is one of the many highlights in the magazine’s December issue, on newsstands now. And look out for A John Waters Christmas, which he’s performing live this month at various venues across the country.
Who else but John Waters could sport monikers like “Master of Sleaze” and “Filth Elder” as chicly as his Commes des Garçons suits? In 1981, he sat down with scholar Scott