My top 12 exhibitions of 2023

This year I saw a lot of beautiful, inspiring, thought-provoking, memorable, urgent and necessary art. This list is in chronological order rather than based on preference because I enjoyed all of these art shows for very different reasons.

1. Sam Szafran "Obsessions d'un peintre" - Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris

2. Wangechi Mutu "Intertwined" - New Museum, New York City

3. Thomas J Price - V&A, London

4. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye "Fly in league with the night" - Tate Britain

5. Soheila Sokhanvari - Rebel Rebel, The Curve

6. Martin Wong "Malicious Mischief" - Camden Arts Centre

7. Anselm Kiefer "Finnegans Wake" - White Cube, London

8. Felice Casorati "Il concerto della pitttura" - Fondazione Magnani Rocca

9. Ragnar Kjartansson "Epic Waste of Love and Understanding" - Louisiana Museum

10. Firelei Baez - Louisiana Museum

11. Philip Guston - Tate Modern

12. Nicole Eisenman "What happened" - Whitechapel Gallery

Here's to plenty more salvific art in 2024. As always, it will keep me and many of you afloat in this deep, dark sea of uncertainty and anxiety.

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“Végétation dans l’Atelier”, 1980

© Sam Szafran

"Before Punk Came Funk", 2010

© Wangechi Mutu

"Lay It Down (On The Edge Of Beauty)", 2018

© Thomas J Price

"A Passion Like No Other", 2012 

© Lynette Yiadom-Boakye 

"The Love Addict", 2019

© Soheila Sokhanvari

"Chinese Laundry", 1984

© Martin Wong Foundation

"Ritratto di Silvana Cenni", 1922

© Felice Casorati

"Encyclopedia of Gestures (Jeu du Monde)", 2023

© Firelei Baez

"Dial", 1956

© The Estate of Philip Guston

"Coping", 2008

© Nicole Eisenman