December 30, 2022
Good afternoon. 🌤️ Some publications choose to celebrate the powerful; at Hyperallergic, we prefer to stand with the powerless. So here it is: our list of the 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World, the 2022 edition. It's our annual reminder that our struggles are connected and that the only good thing you can do with power is share it. As per tradition, we spiced up the list with some humor because, much like art, it's a basic human need.
That's not all. Check out our recommendations for the best art books and films of 2022, as well as our editor Valentina Di Liscia's reflections on the major news events of the past year.
This is our last daily newsletter of 2022. Thanks so much for reading. I wish you a truly Happy New Year!
— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor
The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2022 Edition
It’s the end of the year, so that means it’s time for our annual list that highlights those who are often rendered powerless in a system ruled by the oversized influence of the super-rich and their courtiers.
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HIGHLIGHTING THE YEAR
The Art Stories That Defined 2022
There was more to this year’s art news than tomato-souped Van Goghs — though that made our list, too. | Valentina Di Liscia
The Best Art Books of 2022
Our contributors picked 20 must-reads that informed and broadened their worldviews this year.
The Top 10 Films of 2022
Nope, Neptune Frost, and Laura Poitras’s portrait of Nan Goldin are on our list of the best films made this year.
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LATEST REVIEWS
The Private Passions of Henry Fuseli
Fuseli and the Modern Woman is immensely pleasurable for the technical facility of an artist pursuing his own personal interests in an incredibly idiosyncratic style. | Olivia McEwan
Cinthia Marcelle Celebrates Collaboration Through Chaos
Collaboration in Marcelle’s work pursues ambiguity and disorder in order to destabilize hierarchies of race and class. | Emily Sun
GRADUATE PROGRAMS TO APPY FOR
MFA, MA, and PhD Programs to Apply for by Early 2023
Organized by geographic region, a list of arts-related graduate programs to explore and apply to before deadlines close.
TRANSITIONS
Edgar “Dook” Chase IV was appointed chair of the board of directors of the New Orleans African American Museum of Art, History and Culture.
The Columbus Museum of Art named Terri Gehr interim director following the retirement of Nannette Maciejunes.
AWARDS & ACCOLADES
Green Box in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado has announced its 2023 Artists in Residence. They are Stillhouse Junkies, Amir Amiri, Paula Bohince, Arvin Ramgoolam, Brooke Smiley, Nikki Pike, Edwin Ushiro, Carole d’Inverno, and Bill Frisell.
The Studios at MASS MoCA named Asma Khoshmehr, Grace Talusan, Julio Cesar Diaz, Juyon Lee, Sarah Stefana Smith, Jason Montgomery, and Deborah Obanla its 2023 Massachusetts Artist Fellows; Hanna Sobolieva, Cima Khademi, Clemente Sajquiy-Ramirez were selected for the Iris Residency.
