Holidays: 5th Column
01.03.25
Our Top 15 Most-Read Reviews of 2024 4 Columns

The moment you’ve been waiting for is here. Drumroll, please . . . 

We’ve got music, we’ve got films, we’ve got novels, art exhibitions, poetry. Join us in a countdown of our top fifteen most-read reviews out of all the criticism we published in 2024.

Our weekly schedule of new issues resumes next Friday, January 10. If you’re still hungry for more in the meantime, browse through our archives for hundreds of past columns!

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Aruna D’Souza on Amy Sillman

Amy Sillman: To Be Other-Wise, installation view. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery. Photo: David Regen. © Amy Sillman.

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Tobi Haslett on Zong!

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Johanna Fateman on Whitney Biennial 2024

Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, installation view. Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art. Photo: Ron Amstutz. Pictured, left to right: Carmen Winant, The Last Safe Abortion, 2023; Julia Phillips, Mediator, 2020; Harmony Hammond, Patched, 2022; Harmony Hammond, Black Cross II, 2020–21; Harmony Hammond, Chenille #11, 2020–21.

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Geeta Dayal on Arooj Aftab

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Harmony Holiday on Beyoncé

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Melissa Anderson on The Substance

Demi Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle in The Substance. Courtesy Cinetic Media.

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Harmony Holiday on Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain during the taping of MTV Unplugged: Nirvana at Sony Studios in New York City, November 1993. Courtesy Getty Images. Photo: Frank Micelotta Archive.

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Sasha Frere-Jones on Notice

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Tobi Haslett on Stubble Archipelago

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Brian Dillon on Creation Lake

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Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Intermezzo

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Sasha Frere-Jones on Steve Albini

Steve Albini, San Francisco, 1991. Photo: Gail Butensky.

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Nick Pinkerton on Megalopolis

Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina and Nathalie Emmanuel as Julia Cicero in Megalopolis. Courtesy Lionsgate.

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Sasha Frere-Jones on The Intellectual Situation

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Julie Phillips on All Fours

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