The Year in Review: 2018 as Witnessed by 24 Artists

Walker Reader’s annual series of year-end lists returns for its seventh and biggest edition. Twenty-four artists from across disciplines and geographies weighed in on the most noteworthy events, ideas, and news items of the year. A few of my favorites: Christine Sun Kim, an artist whose first language is ASL; Citizen author Claudia Rankine; sisters and podcasters (How to Survive the End of the World) Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown (who wrote the excellent book, Emergent Strategy); St. Paul poet Danez Smith; Native American visual artist Andrea Carlson; black AI-based artist and technologist Stephanie Dinkins, and Chitra Ganesh, an artist whose practice brings “to light narrative representations of femininity, sexuality, and power typically absent from canons of literature and art. “