The best of 2016: Seventeen distinguished contributors—David Adjaye, Christine Tohme, Hal Foster, Grace Wales Bonner, Jack Bankowsky, Christine Macel, Jeffrey Weiss, Eva Birkenstock, Matthew Higgs, Du Keke, Greil Marcus,
Daniel Birnbaum, Claire Bishop, Negar Azimi, Michael Ned Holte, Tim Griffin, and Vince Aletti—consider the year in art. “The Artists' Artists,” reflections of the most striking single work, event or exhibition of 2016, with responses by
Cindy Sherman,
Liam Gillick, Howardena Pindell,
Julian Schnabel, Bernard Frize, Simon Fujiwara, and more. Plus, Top Tens on the best in film, music, books, and performance from John Waters, Angel Olsen, and Terry Castle, and a special section on “The Year In Shock.”
Artforum is the leading
contemporary art magazine and holds the unique roles of institution, nexus, and foremost tastemaker of the art world. It delivers the highest level of critical discourse about contemporary visual culture to a diverse international audience and is often the first to identify artists whose work comes to define eras. Launched in California in 1962,
Artforum moved to New York in 1967, where it is still based.
