TABLE OF CONTENTS

December 2016

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December 2016, Vol. 55, No. 4

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Trey Edward Shults, Krisha, 2015, HD video, color, sound, 83 minutes. Krisha (Krisha Fairchild).

Film: Best of 2016

John Waters

Bruce Conner, Breakaway, 1966, 16 mm, black-and-white, sound, 5 minutes. © Estate of Bruce Conner.

Film: Best of 2016

Amy Taubin

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, Lothringen! (Lorraine!), 1994, 35 mm, color, sound, 21 minutes. Colette (Emmanuelle Straub).

Film: Best of 2016

James Quandt

Barry Jenkins, Moonlight, 2016, HD video, color, sound, 110 minutes. Black (Trevante Rhodes).

Film: Best of 2016

Melissa Anderson

Bruce Conner, Three Screen Ray, 2006, three-channel digital video, black-and-white, sound, 5 minutes 14 seconds. Still from the 2016 HD digital remastering.

Film: Best of 2016

J. Hoberman

Cover of John Duncan’s Bitter Earth (iDEAL Recordings, 2016).

Music: Best of 2016

Cameron Jamie

Still from Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album Lemonade, multiple directors. Beyoncé.

Music: Best of 2016

Johanna Fateman

Still from GAIKA’s 2016 SECURITY mixtape film, directed by Gaika Tavares.

Music: Best of 2016

Chino Amobi

Laurie Anderson, Heart of a Dog, 2015, digital video, color, sound, 75 minutes.

Music: Best of 2016

John Roberts

Still from Julianna Barwick’s 2016 music video Nebula, directed by Derrick Belcham.

Music: Best of 2016

Angel Olsen

Books: Best of 2016

Trey Ellis

Books: Best of 2016

Jessica Morgan

Books: Best of 2016

Liz Larner

Books: Best of 2016

Daniel Baumann

Books: Best of 2016

Manuel Borja-Villel

Books: Best of 2016

Natasha Stagg

Books: Best of 2016

Yasmine El Rashidi

Books: Best of 2016

Terry Castle

The Artists’ Artists

Fikret Atay, Gina Beavers, Billy Al Bengston, Carol Bove, Dora Budor, Julien Ceccaldi, Anne Collier, Gregory Crewdson, Keren Cytter, Mira Dancy, Raul de Nieves, Angelina Dreem, Jimmie Durham, Gogy Esparza, Katharina Fritsch, Bernard Frize, Simon Fujiwara, Joe Fyfe, Charles Gaines, Liam Gillick, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Frank Heath, Thomas Hirschhorn, Evan Holloway, Alex Hubbard, Ralph Lemon, Sam McKinniss, Catherine Murphy, Emeka Ogboh, Howardena Pindell, Rashid Rana, Sean Raspet, Rachel Rose, Julian Schnabel, Karin Schneider, Cindy Sherman, Slavs and Tatars, Kiki Smith, Tao Hui, Torey Thornton, Cosima von Bonin, Stanley Whitney, Jack Whitten, Nicole Wittenberg, Wang Yin, Rose Wylie on the best of 2016

Sondra Perry, Lineage for a Multiple-Monitor Workstation: Number One, 2015. Performance view, Serpentine Pavilion, London, June 10, 2016. Sondra Perry. Photo: Lewis Ronald.

The Year in Performance

Andy Campbell on The Year in Performance

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Haig Aivazian, Two Women at a Fountain, 2016, yellow copper, wood, 27 1/2 × 38 3/8 × 59". From the series “Rome Is Not In Rome,” 2016. From Marrakech Biennale 6. Photo: Jens Martin.

BEST OF 2016

Steve McQueen, End Credits, 2012/2016, sequence of digital scans, black-and-white, sound, 12 hours 54 minutes; sound element: 19 hours 23 minutes. Installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photo: Ron Amstutz.

David Adjaye

Aristophanes’s The Birds, 414 BC, in a production directed by Nikos Karanthanos, 2016. Rehearsal view, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, September 16, 2016. Photo: Stavros Habakis.

Christine Tohme

Walter Ohlson, Bridge Over Troubled Waters (detail), ca. 1960, poster, 30 × 40". From “The Hidden World,” in “Jim Shaw: The End is Here.”

Hal Foster

Grace Wales Bonner

Kai Althoff, untitled, 2011, wood stain, Plexiglas, rubber, metal, fabric, and silk-screen ink on wood. Installation view, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2016. Photo: Kai Althoff.

Jack Bankowsky

Miriam Cahn, Verhüllt (Covered), 2007, oil on canvas, 31 1/2 × 20 7/8".

Christine Macel

Bruce Nauman, Contrapposto Studies, i through vii, 2015–16, seven-channel HD video projection, color, sound, indefinite duration. Installation view, Sperone Westwater, New York, 2016. Study i and Study ii. © Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Jeffrey Weiss

Isa Genzken, Nofretete, 2014, seven Nefertiti busts with sunglasses, seven wooden plinths on casters, four steel panels. Installation view, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2015–16. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij.

Eva Birkenstock

View of “Daniel Buren: A Fresco,” 2016, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels. La salle des empreintes (Hall of Footprints), 2016. Photo: Philippe De Gobert. © DB/ADAGP.

Matthew Higgs

View of “Discordant Harmony,” 2015–16, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. Photo: Kazuhiro Uchida.

Du Keke

Greil Marcus

View of “Philippe Parreno: Anywhen,” 2016, Tate Modern, London.

Daniel Birnbaum

Anna Boghiguian, The Salt Traders (detail), 2015, mixed media. Installation view, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Photo: Peter Cox.

Claire Bishop

Bhupen Khakhar, Window Cleaner, 1982, oil on canvas, 36 × 36".

Bhupen Khakhar

Negar Azimi

View of “Henry Taylor,” 2016, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles. Wall, from left: yellow cap sunday, 2016; carolina miranda, 2016; fil’s house, 2016. Floor: Not Yet Titled, 2016. Photo: Joshua White.

Michael Ned Holte

View of “Zoe Leonard: In the Wake,” 2016, Hauser & Wirth, New York. From left: Total Picture Control (I), 2016; Untitled, 2015–16. Photo: Genevieve Hanson.

Tim Griffin

Vince Aletti

THE YEAR IN SHOCK

Lorna Simpson, Three Figures (detail), 2014, twelve panels, ink and silk screen on Claybord, overall 9' 8 3/4“ × 8' 1 1/2”.

Helen Molesworth

Al Khazar refugee camps, Hassan Sham, Iraq, October 26, 2016. Photo: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters.

Tariq Ali

Donald Trump. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Wendy Brown

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View of “Philippe Parreno: Anywhen,” 2016, Tate Modern, London. Artsimages/Alamy Live News.

Erika Balsom on Philippe Parreno

Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Maintenance Art Tasks 1973 (detail), album with gelatin silver prints, chain, and rags, 13 × 12 1/2 × 1 3/4". Photographs by Joshua Siderowitz, 1973.

Johanna Fateman on Mierle Laderman Ukeles

Frans Krajcberg, Untitled (Bailarinas), n.d., burned wood, natural pigments. Installation view. Photo: Leo Eloy.

Kevin McGarry on the 32nd São Paulo Bienal

Susan Te Kahurangi King, Untitled, ca. 1975–79, graphite, colored pencil, and crayon on paper, 17 × 11 1/2".

New York

Bradley Walker Tomlin, Number 4, 1952–53, oil on canvas, 60 × 48".

New Paltz, New York

Svetlana Alpers on Bradley Walker Tomlin

View of “Fred Wilson,” 2016.

Oberlin, Ohio

Michelle Grabner on Fred Wilson

Mary Ann Aitken, Untitled (Sherman Brothers Awnings), ca. 1985–89, oil on Masonite, 48 × 48".

Detroit

Lisa John Rogers on Mary Ann Aitken

Larry Achiampong, Glyth 4, 2013, digital montage on C-print, 21 1/4 × 28 3/4". From the series “Glyth,” 2013–14.

Chicago

Daniel Quiles on Larry Achiampong

Mira Schor, “Power” Figure: The Great Man Speaks, 2016, ink, Flashe paint, and gesso on tracing paper, 64 × 24". From the series “‘Power’ Frieze,” 2016.

Los Angeles

Raphael Albert, Miss Caribbean Queen with fellow contestants, ca. 1970s, gelatin silver print, 30 × 30".

London

Lara Almarcegui, Rocks of Spitsbergen (Svalbard), 2014, self-adhesive vinyl, dimensions variable.

Paris

Florian Meisenberg, FM/M 188, 2016, airbrushed india ink, oil paint, and iridescent acrylic paint on canvas, 54 1/2 × 112 3/4 × 1 1/4".

Berlin

Mimmo Rotella, Other Scenes, 1968, photographic emulsion on canvas, 36 1/4 × 28 3/4".

Milan

Sergio Vega, Modernismo Chamánico (Cathedral-Pineapple-Bossa Nova), 2016, digital print on paper, paint, record player, vinyl. Installation view. Photo: Danilo Donzelli.

Naples

Eugenio Viola on Sergio Vega

View of “Ana Roldán,” 2016. Photo: Andreas Furrer.

Zurich

Hans Rudolf Reust on Ana Roldán

View of “Yto Barrada,” 2016. Photo: Iris Ratzinger.

Vienna

Nuit Banai on Yto Barrada

Tarek Atoui, WITHIN, Sound Massage Workshop with Thierry Madiot, 2016. Performance view, Grieg Academy, University of Bergen, Norway. From Bergen Assembly. Photo: Thor Brødreskift.

Bergen, Norway

Rachael Rakes on Bergen Assembly

Martin Ebner, Film Without Film (after The Evil Faerie by George Landow, FLUX Film No. 25, 1 min., 1966), 2013, PVC tube, wood, 11 3/4 × 15 1/2 × 1 1/2".

Vilnius

Neringa Černiauskaite on Kitty Kraus and Martin Ebner

David Salle, Playing, Dreaming, 2015, oil, acrylic, crayon, and ink-jet print on linen, 78 × 101 3/4".

Hong Kong

Arthur Solway on David Salle

Wook-kyung Choi, This is what you see, 1975, acrylic on canvas, 70 1/2 × 96".

Seoul

Kate Sutton on Wook-kyung Choi

İnci Furni, Where Is Eros?, 2016, watercolor on paper, 19 × 24 3/4". From the eight-part suite Where Is Eros, 2015.

Istanbul

Mine Haydaroglu on İnci Furni

Saba Innab, Then We Realized, Time Is Stone, 2016, concrete, metal, terrazzo, dimensions variable.

Beirut

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Saba Innab

Reza Aramesh, Action 165, Study of the Head as Cultural Artifact, 2016, handcarved Carrara marble, 17 3/4 × 10 × 10". From the series “Study of the Head as Cultural Artifact,” 2016–.

Tehran

Sylwia Serafinowicz on Reza Aramesh

Jeram Patel, Untitled, ca. 1960, burnt wood, 19 × 25".

New Delhi

Meera Menezes on Jeram Patel

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ghost Teen, 2009, ink-jet print, 29' 6“ × 49' 3”.

Chiang Mai, Thailand

Alexandre Melo on Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tobias Putrih, Compressions I, 2016, cardboard, plywood, metal, wooden clothespins, elastic rope, 39 3/4 × 42 1/8 × 3 1/2". From the series “Compressões” (Compressions), 2016.

São Paulo

Tobi Maier on Tobias Putrih

Fritzia Irízar, Untitled (Golden Green), 2016, gold-plated sprinkler, water, tezontle, pyrite, 16' 6“ × 13' × 6”.

Mexico City

Gabriela Jauregui on Fritzia Irízar

Gareth Sansom, An Idea of Thee, 2015–16, oil and enamel on linen, 72 × 66 1/2".

Melbourne

Charles Green on Gareth Sansom