Until Next Year
First of all, thank you to everyone who texted me on Christmas night from the lobby of a movie theater to say that you just saw Babygirl and that “Deceptacon” was in the birthday party scene. (No, I haven’t seen it.) In that same spirit (the spirit of seeing a movie on Christmas night, I guess), I want to turn you on to Carole King’s “Chanukah Prayer,” which, in my family, we blast on one of our phones while we light candles. (It gets really good around the one-minute mark.)
Here’s just one more “year-end” paragraph. Some of my favorite things I wrote in 2024 (or, things I wrote about in 2023 that were still on view in 2024) include all the reviews I wrote for 4Columns, on Marie Laurencin, Tracey Emin, Stéphane Mandelbaum, Tiril Hasselknippe, Raven Chacon, the Whitney Biennial, Joan Jonas, Susan Cianciolo, and Mark Armijo McKnight. Also, I wrote an essay about the soundtrack of A.K. Burn’s and A.L. Steiner’s cult film Community Action Center for MoMA’s Magazine. In other news: This week for TCT, John Vincler put Jason Farago and Jackson Arn on his “worst” list. And Ajay Kurian’s brilliant op-ed was CULTURED’s #1 most-read article in December (and #5 for all of 2024)!
HAPPY NEW YEAR.