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POLLY WATSON’S BEST MUSIC OF 2022
Source artforum.com Polly Watson is a musician, writer, and editor based in New York. 1 TAMIO SHIRAISHI (67th Avenue station, Queens, NY, March 26) The experimental saxophonist will occasionally issue last-minute
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PLANNINGTOROCK’S BEST MUSIC OF 2022
Source artforum.com Planningtorock (Jam Rostron) is a trans nonbinary music producer and artist known for chronicling themes of gender identity, queerness, and being trans in their music. 1 SUDAN ARCHIVES, “SELFISH
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JACE CLAYTON’S BEST MUSIC OF 2022
Source artforum.com Jace Clayton is an artist and writer also known for his work as DJ/rupture. 1 REMA, “CALM DOWN” (Jonzing World) Flawless Nigerian pop optimizedfor global consumption, complete with love-song
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SASHA GEFFEN’S BEST MUSIC OF 2022
Source artforum.com Sasha Geffen is a writer living in Denver and the author of the book Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary (University of Texas Press, 2020). 1 SHYGIRL, NYMPH (Because Music) Shygirl’s
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ERIKA BALSOM’S BEST FILMS OF 2022
Source artforum.com Erika Balsom is a reader in film studies at King’s College London. 1 “ENFIN LE CINÉMA! ARTS, IMAGES, ET SPECTACLES EN FRANCE (1833–1907)” (Musée d’Orsay, Paris; curated by Dominique Païni, Paul
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JAMES QUANDT’S BEST FILMS OF 2022
Source artforum.com James Quandt is a film critic and curator based in Toronto. 1 WHERE IS THIS STREET? OR WITH NO BEFORE AND AFTER (João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata) In this most poignant of pandemic
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AMY TAUBIN’S BEST FILMS OF 2022
Source artforum.com Amy Taubin is a contributing editor for Artforum who lives, writes, and teaches in New York. 1–3 AGHDRA (Arthur Jafa), EO (Jerzy Skolimowski), and SEE YOU FRIDAY, ROBINSON (Mitra Farahani) A tie
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JOHN WATERS’S BEST FILMS OF 2022
Source artforum.com The twenty-city “John Waters Christmas Show” tour began November 29 in San Francisco. 1 PETER VON KANT (François Ozon) By far the best movie of the year. Fassbinder’s classic lesbian melodrama is
