Best of 2022

The best entertainment of the year, as chosen by Vultures critics.

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Henri Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911.

And were revisiting stories too, like Matisses optic wonderThe Red Studio.

For art lovers willing to pore over as much as possible, 2022 shone its ever-loving light on us.

10.Yu-Wen Wu,Walking to Taipei, Independent Art Fair

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(Strangely, she was never able to get this search result again.)

9.Tiona Nekkia McClodden, MASK/CONCEAL/CARRY, 52 Walker

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This show had that kind of power.

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7.Al Freeman, 56 Henry

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6.Wolfgang Tillmans, To look without fear, MoMA

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Tillmanss show is a walk-in book of hours of a life in photography.

Armig Santos, Yellow Flowers, 2022.

A ferocious mind giving dignity to everything he sees.

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I imagine Halsey going on to great things in large spaces.

Al Freeman, Pepto Bismol on Checkered Floor, 2022

4.Paulina Peavy, Andrew Edlin

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Her work shows us a tremendous undiscovered country.

3.The Patriot, OFlahertys

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Wolfgang Tillmans, Icestorm, 2001.

2.Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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This mind-blowing exhibition gathers together rarely seen archaic works of Mayan art.

A cosmos of watching carved faces.

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1.Matisse: The Red Studio, Museum of Modern Art

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The collector rejected it, but Matisse had already crossed an aesthetic Rubicon.

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Paulina Peavy, Untitled, ca. 1930–60.

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Mayan throne from the 8th century

Henri Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911, with other works.