top ten

AMY TAUBIN’S BEST FILMS OF 2021

top ten

J. HOBERMAN’S BEST FILMS OF 2021

top ten

JAMES QUANDT’S BEST FILMS OF 2021

top ten

CASSIE DA COSTA’S BEST FILMS OF 2021

top ten

ALAN LICHT’S BEST MUSIC OF 2021

top ten

JJJJJEROME ELLIS’S BEST MUSIC OF 2021

top ten

SASHA GEFFEN’S BEST MUSIC OF 2021

top ten

HARMONY HOLIDAY’S BEST MUSIC OF 2021

top ten

JOHN WATERS’S BEST FILMS OF 2021

THE ARTISTS’ ARTISTS

Twenty-three artists reflect on 2021

BEST BOOKS OF 2021

BRUCE HAINLEY ON CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT’S CHECKOUT 19

BEST BOOKS OF 2021

THOMAS (T.) JEAN LAX ON JEREMY ATHERTON LIN’S GAY BAR: WHY WE WENT OUT

BEST BOOKS OF 2021

JOAN KEE ON AFRO-ATLANTIC HISTORIES

BEST BOOKS OF 2021

NEGAR AZIMI ON MARIA STEPANOVA’S IN MEMORY OF MEMORY

BEST BOOKS OF 2021

DENNIS COOPER ON DEREK MCCORMACK’S CASTLE FAGGOT AND JOY WILLIAMS’S HARROW

BEST BOOKS OF 2021

MOLLY WARNOCK ON ALEXANDER NEMEROV’S FIERCE POISE: HELEN FRANKENTHALER AND 1950S NEW YORK

BEST BOOKS OF 2021

DODIE BELLAMY ON MEGAN MILKS’S SLUG AND OTHER STORIES

BEST BOOKS OF 2021

COLBY CHAMBERLAIN ON JESSICA VAUGHN’S DEPRECIATING ASSETS

BEST BOOKS OF 2021

JACKIE ESS ON HOLLY MELGARD’S FETAL POSITION

BEST OF 2021

14 critics, curators, and artists look at the year in art

TOP TEN

Lynne Cooke’s highlights of 2021

TOP TEN

Cecilia Alemani’s highlights of 2021

BEST SHOWS OF 2021

David Joselit on “Illiberal Arts”

TOP TEN

Erin Christovale’s highlights of 2021

TOP TEN

Miguel A. López’s highlights of 2021

BEST SHOWS OF 2021

Malik Gaines on Wu Tsang

TOP TEN

Johanna Fateman’s highlights of 2021

BEST SHOWS OF 2021

Amy Sillman on “Cézanne Drawing”

TOP TEN

Jack Bankowsky’s highlights of 2021

BEST SHOWS OF 2021

Darby English on Kara Walker

TOP TEN

Sky Hopinka’s highlights of 2021

BEST SHOWS OF 2021

Caroline Busta and Lil Internet on Anne Imhof’s Nature Mortes

TOP TEN

Susanne Pfeffer’s highlights of 2021

BEST SHOWS OF 2021

John Kelsey on Albert Pinkham Ryder

THE YEAR IN HELL

hannah baer and Monica Huerta reflect on this year’s hell

DANCE UNTIL THE WORLD ENDS

hannah baer on rave and revolution

AN ESSAY WRITTEN IN SAND

Monica Huerta on this year’s hell

New York

• Cassie Packard on Shigeko Kubota

• Jan Avgikos on Georges Mathieu

• Alex Jovanovich on Thomas Nozkowski

• Donald Kuspit on Richard Rezac

• Chloe Wyma on Paul Thek

• Jeffrey Kastner on Diane Simpson

• Barry Schwabsky on Wallace Berman

• Jennifer Krasinski on Michael Mahalchick

• Coco Romack on Joey Terrill

• Wendy Vogel on Jill Freedman

• Jesse Dorris on Justin Liam O'Brien

• Gabriel H. Sanchez on Onyedika Chuke

Potomac

• Ian Bourland on Faith Ringgold

Chicago

• Michelle Grabner on Dutes Miller

Los Angeles

• Andrew Berardini on Aria Dean

• Ashton Cooper on Anita Steckel

• Suzanne Hudson on Lee Bontecou

• Jane McFadden on Laurie Nye

Mexico City

• Fabiola Iza on Lorena Ancona

São Paulo

• Evan Moffitt on “Our North Is the South”

Buenos Aires

• Karen Grimson on Verónica Madanes

London

• Daniel Culpan on Leon Kossoff

• Emily LaBarge on Rita Keegan

Marseille

• Mara Hoberman on Lydia Ourahmane

Metz

• Lillian Davies on “Face à Arcimboldo”

Madrid

• Javier Montes on Alvaro Urbano

Milan

• Giorgio Verzotti on Armando Andrade Tudela and Daniel Steegmann Mangranè

Piraeus

• Rahel Aima on Christodoulos Panayiotou

Graz

• Gregor Quack on Doreen Garner

Berlin

• Kristian Vistrup Madsen on Phung-Tien Phan

Munich

• Alexander Scrimgeour on “im/possible images”

Aalst

• Adam Kleinman on Dora García

Warsaw

• Camila McHugh on Wilhelm Sasnal

Kosovo

• Barbara Casavecchia on Autostrada Biennale

Istanbul

• Kaya Genç on Emre Hüner

Tbilisi

• Inga Lāce on Melike Kara

Guangzhou

• Travis Jeppesen on “Don’t Kill Me I’m in Love!”

Hong Kong

• Chris Wan on “Liquid Ground”

Melbourne

• Helen Hughes on Darren Sylvester