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December 2021

list view Anne Imhof, Natures Mortes, 2021. Performance view, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, October 17, 2021. Levi Strasser. Photo: Nadine Fraczkowski.

December 2021, Vol. 60, No. 4

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Ida Applebroog, Indigo Bunting, 2018, UltraChrome dye and gel on mylar, 22 1⁄4 × 50 1⁄2".

BEST OF 2021

14 critics, curators, and artists look at the year in art
View of “Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE–2020 CE),” 2021, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Wall: Laurie Simmons, Girl Vent Press Shots, 1989. Pedestals, from left: Copper bowl, Afghanistan, late 15th century; Robert Morris, Box with the Sound of Its Own Making, 1961. Photo: Museum Associates/LACMA.

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Lynne Cooke’s highlights of 2021
Paula Rego, Untitled No. 6, 1998–99, pastel on paper on aluminum, 43 × 39 3⁄8".

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Cecilia Alemani’s highlights of 2021
MF DOOM’s performance mask.

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Erin Christovale’s highlights of 2021
Denilson Baniwa, Nhíromi, 2020–21, canoe and found objects from Rio Negro and Piraíbas de Piaçava, Brazil, video projection (color, sound, 33 minutes 44 seconds). Installation view, Sesc Sorocaba, Brazil, 2021. Photo: Matheus Jose Maria.

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Miguel A. López’s highlights of 2021
New Museum union action, New Museum, New York, June 25, 2019. Photo: Eddie Panta.

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Johanna Fateman’s highlights of 2021
David Hammons, Day’s End, 2014–21, stainless steel, precast concrete. Installation view, Gansevoort Peninsula, Hudson River, New York. Photo: Jason Schmidt.

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Jack Bankowsky’s highlights of 2021
View of “Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen?,” 2021–22, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar.

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Sky Hopinka’s highlights of 2021
Brothers Sick, Pareidolia (Vaccinate Now), 2021, dye-sublimation print on aluminum, 24 × 16". Image description: The black-and-white graphic features a silhouette of a person in profile holding a syringe in one hand. The silhouette has been mirrored both vertically and horizontally so that the figure appears in each corner of the graphic. Written above the figures in varying font sizes from top to bottom are “Stop Rationing Care,” “Stop Medical Apartheid,” “Vaccinate Now,” “Global Inoculation Against Viral Fascism,” “End Eugenics,” and at the bottom of the image “End Vaccine Hoarding.”

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Susanne Pfeffer’s highlights of 2021
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