
BEST OF 2022
THE READYMADE and the found object have long run on empty, but Cornelia Parker has discovered her own way to recharge them. As demonstrated in a survey last summer at Tate Britain, crisply curated by Andrea Schlieker, director of exhibitions and displays, the sixty-six-year-old English artist passes these familiar devices through an inventive crucible of unexpected materials and shows the alchemical results in stunning arrangements. In the process, Parker also reanimates the post-Minimalism of Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman, and Richard Serra, whose famous 1987 Verb List (“to roll, to crease, to fold,