The end of the year marks two things: holiday vacations and list
time, when websites go into a frenzy of retrospection, looking back
on the year that was. Artnet News put together a boatload of
end-of-year features, which we’ve gathered all together here for
your convenience. From the most enlightening discoveries to the
worst art we saw, take a look back at the best and worst of
2019—before we move headlong into the next.

BEST

Which Emerging Artist
Dominated 2019? 12 Art-World Players Share Their Thoughts

Here Are the 10 Best Works
of Art We Saw in 2019, as Chosen by the Artnet News Staff

11 of the Most
Groundbreaking Discoveries of 2019, From the Priceless Painting in
Grandma’s Kitchen to the Secret of Stonehenge

These Were the 15 Most
Popular Artnet News Stories of 2019, From Finding Salvator Mundi to
One Very Expensive Penny

We Published More Than
2,700 Stories This Year. Here Are 22 of Our Favorites

9 Leading Advisors,
Dealers, and Art-World Insiders Tell Us Which Artists They Think
Are Poised to Break Out in 2020

WORST

It Was a Year of Turmoil.
Here Are the 11 Biggest Controversies That Rocked the Art World in
2019

Here Are the 8 Absolute
Worst Works of Art We Saw in 2019, as Chosen by the Artnet News
Staff

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Controversies, This Was the Best and Worst of the Art World in
2019 appeared first on artnet News.