TABLE OF CONTENTS

December 2019

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December 2019, Vol. 58, No. 4

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COLUMNS

Bong Joon-ho, Gisaengchung (Parasite), 2019, 4K video, color, sound, 131 minutes. Kim Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho).

Film: Best of 2019

Amy Taubin

Todd Phillips, Joker, 2019, 35 mm, color, sound, 122 minutes. Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix).

Film: Best of 2019

John Waters

Pedro Costa, Vitalina Varela, 2019, HD video, color, sound, 124 minutes. Vitalina Varela.

Film: Best of 2019

James Quandt

Nina Menkes, Queen of Diamonds, 1991, 35 mm transferred to 4K video, color, sound, 77 minutes. Firdaus (Tinka Menkes).

Film: Best of 2019

Melissa Anderson

Pietro Marcello, Martin Eden, 2019, 16 mm transferred to 2K video, color, sound, 126 minutes. Martin Eden (Luca Marinelli) and Elena Orsini (Jessica Cressy).

Film: Best of 2019

J. Hoberman

Still from Kodak Black’s 2018 video Zeze, directed by Travis Scott.

Music: Best of 2019

Jace Clayton

Pinocchio performing at the Glove, New York, July 24, 2019. Photo: Jaime Salazar.

Music: Best of 2019

Polly Watson

Yoko Ono, 2002. Photo: Mark C. O’Flaherty/Camera Press/Redux.

Music: Best of 2019

Byron Coley

Marja Ahti performing at Sorbus Gallery, Helsinki, March 17, 2016. Photo: Sorbus.

Music: Best of 2019

Sarah Hennies

Sarah Michelson, june2019:I/\, 2019. Rehearsal view, 101 Greenwich Street, New York, June 23, 2019. Sarah Michelson. Photo: Paula Court.

The Year in Performance

Jennifer Krasinski

Books: Best of 2019

Marwa Helal

Books: Best of 2019

Marina Vishmidt

Books: Best of 2019

Morgan Bassichis

Books: Best of 2019

Zeynep Çelik Alexander

Books: Best of 2019

Mac Wellman

Books: Best of 2019

Elvia Wilk

Books: Best of 2019

Harry Dodge

Books: Best of 2019

Douglas Crase

Books: Best of 2019

Imani Perry

Books: Best of 2019

Pamela M. Lee

Books: Best of 2019

Terry Castle

Books: Best of 2019

Gary Lutz

Sean-Kierre Lyons, Charlene, 2019, felt, velvet, 39 × 34 × 53".

The Artists’ Artists

34 Artists Reflect on 2019

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Mercedes Azpilicueta, Un mundo raro (A Rare World), 2015, three-channel video projection, color, sound, 10 minutes.

Ruth Estévez

Stanley Love in his and Robert Melee’s kitchen, Lower East Side, New York, 1993. Photo: Robert Melee.

Stanley Love (1970–2019)

Greg Zuccolo and Sarah Michelson

Senator Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn during the Army McCarthy hearings, Washington, DC, 1954.

Clout Theory

Hannah Black on Roy Cohn

To My Friends

David Velasco on the year in friendship

Nan Goldin, Picnic on the Esplanade, Boston, 1973, Cibachrome, 27 1⁄2 × 40".

The Year in Friendship

Arthur Jafa, The White Album, 2019, digital video, color, sound, 29 minutes 55 seconds.

Henriette Huldisch

Rashid Johnson, Native Son, 2019, HD video, color, sound, 103 minutes 41 seconds. Bigger Thomas (Ashton Sanders).

Miriam Katzeff

Barnett Newman, Vir Heroicus Sublimis, 1950–51, oil on canvas. Installation view, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2019. Photo: Robert Gerhardt.

Logical Revolts

Ken Okiishi

Nil Yalter, Turkish Immigrants (detail), 1977, twelve gelatin silver prints, twelve pencil-on-paper drawings, dimensions variable.

Sohrab Mohebbi

Bong Joon-ho, Gisaengchung (Parasite), 2019, 4K video, color, sound, 131 minutes. Ki-jung (Park So-dam) and Ki-woo (Choi Woo-sik).

Christina Li

Martha Rosler, Cleaning the Drapes, ca. 1967–72, photomontage, 17 3⁄8 × 23 3⁄4". From the series “House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home,” ca. 1967–72.

Johanna Fateman

Sam Gilliam, Double Merge, 1968, acrylic on canvas. Installation view, Dia:Beacon, NY, 2019. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio.

Sam Gilliam

Ara Osterweil

Susanne Pfeffer

Wangechi Mutu, The Seated II, 2019, bronze. Installation view, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From The NewOnes, will free Us, 2019. Photo: Bruce Schwarz.

Naima J. Keith

Cady Noland, Cart Full of Action, 1986, metal cart, rims, rear-view mirror, exhaust, engine oil, battery charger, various plastics, oil-based car care products. Installation view, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, 2018. Photo: Fabian Frinzel.

Cady Noland

Jack Bankowsky

Nicole Eisenman

View of “Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams,” 2019, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Photo: Adrien Dirand.

Lynne Cooke

Tony Cokes, Testament A: MF FKA K-P X KE RIP, 2019, HD video, color, sound, 35 minutes 22 seconds.

BEST OF 2019

Jeremy O. Harris, Water Sports; or Insignificant White Boys, 2019. Performance view, BOFFO, Fire Island Pines, Brookhaven, NY, June 22, 2019. Ken Barnett, Avon Haughton, Alex Fialho, and Jeremy O. Harris. Photo: Matthew Leifheit.

Jeremy O. Harris

Christopher Glazek

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Nayland Blake, Dust, 2012, print on polyester, 72 × 49 1⁄2".

Andy Campbell on Nayland Blake

View of “Pittura/Panorama: Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, 1952–1992,” 2019, Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice. Left: For E.M., 1981. Right: Riverhead, 1963. Photo: Matteo De Fina.

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Helen Frankenthaler

Hajra Waheed, Landscape 1–9, 2019, oil on tin, each 5 × 7".

Toronto

Gabrielle Moser on Hajra Waheed

Vaclav Pozarek, Drei Neon (Three Neon), 1988, wood, 9 7⁄8 × 29 1⁄2 × 29 1⁄2".

Zurich

Adam Jasper on Vaclav Pozarek

View of “Maria Lai,” 2019. Background, from left: Una finestra sul mondo (A Window on the World), 1966; Una finestra sul mondo II (A Window on the World II), 1966; Telaio (Looms), 1965. Foreground: Oggetto paesaggio (Landscape Object), 1967.

Rome

Alessandra Pioselli on Maria Lai

Sylvie Auvray, Untitled, 2019, ceramic, plaster, fabric, 52 × 20 7⁄8 × 9 7⁄8".

Paris

Mara Hoberman on Sylvie Auvray

Dorothy Cross, Listen Listen, 2019, marble; left: 6 1⁄4 × 28 3⁄8 × 17 3⁄4“; right: 6 1⁄4 × 27 1⁄8 × 17 3⁄4”.

Dublin

Declan Long on Dorothy Cross

Maria Pininska-Beres, Window in Spring, 1976, plywood, canvas, cotton, acrylic, 57 1⁄8 × 81 1⁄8 × 20 7⁄8".

London

Djanira da Motta e Silva, Vendedora de flores (Flower Seller), 1947, oil on canvas, 39 5⁄8 × 25 5⁄8".

Rio de Janeiro

Felipe Scovino on Djanira da Motta e Silva

Marepe, Satélite baldio (Vacant Satellite), 2006–2007, buckets, screws, 118 1⁄8 × 118 1⁄8 × 118 1⁄8".

São Paulo

Ela Bittencourt on Marepe

View of “Piotr Łakomy,” 2019. Background, from left: Fenix (03), 2012–19; Fenix (01), 2012–19; Fenix (04), 2012–19. Foreground: Fenix (02), 2012–19.

Warsaw

Nuit Banai on Piotr Lakomy

Naudline Pierre, Love Becomes Her, 2019, oil on panel, 34 × 48".

Los Angeles

Nina Canell, Brief Syllable (Truncated), 2017, subterranean cable fragment, 9 × 25 5⁄8 × 9". From “Transmissions.”

Vienna

Yuki Higashino on “Transmissions”

Sophie von Hellermann, Urania, 2019, acrylic on canvas, 78 3⁄4 × 74 3⁄4".

Berlin

Sarah Abu Abdallah, The Salad Zone, 2013, video, color, sound, 21 minutes 27 seconds.

Hamburg

Nina Möntmann on Sarah Abu Abdallah

Diamond Stingily, In the Middle but in the Corner of 176th Place (detail), 2019, trophies; four metal shelves, each 7' 2 5⁄8“ × 14' 9 1⁄8” × 2' 1 5⁄8".

Munich

Jacob Proctor on Diamond Stingily

Jannis Varelas, Mother of Fools, 2019, mixed media on canvas, 98 3⁄8 × 82 5⁄8".

Athens

Klea Charitou on Jannis Varelas

Zhanna Kadyrova, Second Hand, 2017, mixed media, 36 3⁄4 × 20 7⁄8 × 1 1⁄8". From the series “Second Hand,” 2014–.

Prague

Noemi Smolik on Zhanna Kadyrova

Nilbar Güres, Die Schublade (The Drawer), 2019, mixed media on fabric, 70 7⁄8 × 55 1⁄8".

Istanbul

Kaya Genç on Nilbar Güres

Priya Ravish Mehra, Untitled (1/C-3), 2016, twigs, paper pulp, 22 × 14 1⁄2".

Mumbai

Zeenat Nagree on Priya Ravish Mehra

Naeem Mohaiemen, Rankin Street, 1953, 2013, video, black-and-white, sound, 8 minutes.

Kolkata

Skye Arundhati Thomas on Naeem Mohaiemen

Haroon Mirza, Copy of 9/11–11/9, 2019, mixed media. Installation view.

Nanjing

Travis Jeppesen on Haroon Mirza

Patrick Lundberg, No title (detail), 2019, mixed media, 45 1⁄4 × 3⁄8".

Auckland

Anthony Byrt on Patrick Lundberg

View of “Kristine Woods,” 2019. Background, from left: Felt Around Federal Standard 33538, 2019; of or related to (gramma), 2019. Foreground: Simile, 2019.

New York

Cristina Tufiño, Dancing at the End of the World, 2019, polymer clay, each approx. 9 × 4 × 8 1⁄2".

Mexico City

Gaby Cepeda on Cristina Tufiño

Anthony McCall, Throes II, 2011, video (silent, 15 minutes), haze machine. Installation view.

Buffalo

Brian Sholis on Anthony McCall

Adrian Wong, The House That Snoopy Built, 2019, mixed media, 96 × 105 × 36".

Chicago

Daniel Quiles on Adrian Wong

View of “Lily Cox-Richard,” 2019, Center: She-Wolf, 2019. On floor: Ramp (detail), 2019.

Austin

Andy Campbell on Lily Cox-Richard

Felix Schramm, Transom, 2019, gypsum, wood, pigment, 15' 2“ × 14' 2” × 18' 8".

San Francisco

Elizabeth Mangini on Jannis Kounellis and Felix Schramm