BEST OF 2001: 10 TOP TENS
Over the next twenty pages, ten Artforum contributors remember the high points of the past year.
Cover, spiral from top left: Luc Tuymans, Absence, 2001. oil on canvas, 47 1/4 x 53 1/4. Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Head #23 (detail), 2000. color photograph, 48 x 60". Vik Muniz, Clouds, 2001, skywriting, New York City. Presented by Creative Time. Photo: Charlie Samuels. Thomas Ruff, d.p.b. 08 (detail), 2000, color photograph, 51 1/8 x 70 7/8". Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam—Towards the Complex—For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards, 2001, 12-minute color video. Jeff Mermelstein, September 11th 2001 (detail), color photograph. David Goldblatt, Fifteen-year-old Lawrence Matjee after his assault and detention by the Security Police, Khotso House, de Villiers Street, 25 October, 1985, black-and-white photograph. Olafur Eliasson, Moss Wall (detail), 1993–2001, wall covered in moss, dimensions variable. Installation view, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. Thomas Hirschhorn, Laundrette, 2001, mixed media. Installation view, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Napoleon Bonaparte (detail), 1999, black-and-white photograph, 58 3/4 x 47". Pierre Huyghe, Les Grands ensembles, 1993–200, stills from a color video, 8 minutes. Irving Penn, untitled (detail), 2001, Vogue, July 2001. Condé Nast Publications. Andreas Gursky, Tote Hosen (detail), 2000, color photograph, 6' 10" x 16' 8". Tacita Dean, Berwick Lighthouse (detail), 1996, color photograph, 18 x 24". Jack Goldstein, MGM (detail), 1975, still from a color film in 16 mm, 2 minutes. Lucinda Devlin, Lethal Injection Chamber, Stateville Correctional Center, Joliet, Illinois, 1991, color photograph, 51 3/16 x 70 7/8".
DECEMBER 2001
VOL. 40, NO. 4
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