Major exhibitions of work by Richard Serra (Season 1), Vija Celmins, Martin Puryear, and Kara Walker (all Season 2) all made it onto TIME Magazine’s annual Top 10 Exhibitions list.
Serra’s seminal retrospective at MoMA clocked in at number 1, a show that, according to TIME, was the “artworld thriller of the year.” Vija Celmins’ drawings show at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (#3 out of 10), garnered similar hyperbole, as did Puryear’s current retrospective at MoMA (#5; TIME’s art and architecture critic/blogger Richard Lacayo proclaims Puryear “one of the greatest living American artists”). Walker rounds out the Art21-related roster at #6, her current Whitney retrospective described as “a fearless combination of righteous anger, ruthless clarity and fierce imagination.”
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