December 31, 2021 • View in browser

Good morning. ☁️ The year is almost over and here’s to hoping that 2022 brings more pleasant surprises and joy, because 2021 was, let’s admit it, a mess. Wishing you and your loved ones a wonderful New Year!

Today, our powerless list is out, and here’s to hoping you’re not on it. Also, a list of our most popular stories of the year, and reviews of Darrel Ellis and Judith Bernstein.

— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2021 Edition

Welcome to our annual list which highlights those who are rendered powerless in a system influenced by the super-rich and the institutions and businesses that serve them.

Hyperallergic's Most Popular Posts of 2021

This year's list shows us Hyperallergic readers have a wide-ranging appetite for news, reviews, and opinions.

IN OTHER NEWS

A Wikipedia auction at Christie’s offered founder Jimmy Wales’s strawberry iMac from 2000 and an NFT of the first Wikipedia edit made in 2001.

Clark Richert, one of Colorado’s most prominent artists, passes away at 80 years old.

LATEST REVIEWS

A Philosopher-Painter for Troubled Times

Judith Bernstein is a great artist whose boldly original paintings forcefully respond to the troubled life of our present culture. | David Carrier

Darrel Ellis's Powerful Investigations of Identity Through Family Photographs

Unlike many of his contemporaries, who centered their own lives and loves in relation to contemporary queer culture and the AIDS epidemic, Ellis looked backward. | Megan N. Liberty

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FROM THE ARCHIVE

Celebrate New Year’s with Vintage Cards of Lucky Pigs and Drunken Butterflies

Celebrate the New Year with these 19th and early 20th-century postcards, featuring lucky pigs, pensive pansies, and menacing snowmen. | Allison Meier

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

The Museum of Homelessness, the People’s History Museum, Fast Familiar, and Jean Campbell won the Activist Museum Award of the UK’s Research Centre for Museums and Galleries.

Dustin Klein and Alex Criqui are among the winners of a Mellon Foundation Monuments Project grant for their proposal, “Recontextualizing Richmond.”

TRANSITIONS

Teresa Iarocci Mavica has stepped down as director of the V-A-C Foundation in Moscow.

MOST POPULAR

A Strange Hallucination Plagues Tilda Swinton in Memoria

An App Gives You the Truth Behind 10 Looted Objects in the British Museum

Artists Say Plagiarized NFTs Are Plaguing Their Community

Dozens of Israeli Artists Ask to Withdraw From Exhibition After a Political Artwork Was Removed

Rethinking Kandinsky