BEST

The Future Is in His Hands – One of the
four 2019 Turner Prize winners, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, was tapped for the 2022 Future Fields
Commission, for which he will create a new work of art that
explores the nature of perception.

What Does 2020 Hold? – Artnet News’s Gray
Market columnist, Tim Schneider, makes seven highly specific predictions for the
coming year, including the return of an alleged fugitive
swindler.

Forward, March! – A team of archaeologists
has discovered more than 200 previously unknown terracotta warrior
sculptures, adding to the 6,000-strong army of famed
soldiers.

Happy Domain Day – The new year ushered in
a new batch of artworks to the public domain, meaning they can now
be freely reproduced for the first time since they
were each made, in 1934.

Catch Up Quick – In case you missed it,
our resident art critic, Ben Davis, combed through thousands of
works of art to distill the 100 most influential artworks of the
2010s.

Going Green in Vogue – The
glossy Vogue Italia magazine ditched elaborate photography in lieu of
illustrations for its January issue in an effort to cut
back on its carbon footprint.

Art for Justice – James “Yaya” Hough, who
served a 27-year murder sentence, is the first artist-in-residence
to be appointed by Philadelphia’s District Attorney’s
office.

WORST

Court Lets Landesman Loose – A court has
decided that Ex-Artforum staffer Amanda Schmitt may
proceed with part of her lawsuit against the magazine,
including claims that she suffered retaliation, though former
publisher and accused abuser Knight Landesman was cleared from the
case.

A Picasso Attack – Pablo Picasso’s 1944
painting Bust of a Woman was the subject of
a vicious attack at Tate Modern, and the
alleged attacker will be kept in jail until his first hearing.

All’s Not Fair – In the wake of
banana-gate at Art Basel, performance artist and activist Rod
Webber graffitied a Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theory onto
the Perrotin booth in red lipstick, and is now facing charges for
vandalism.

Scammers, Sacklers, and Sponsors, Oh My!
– Looking back on the past year, Artnet News narrowed
down some of the most contentious issues that dominated the 2019
art news cycle.

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