The Krieger List: I On the Arts' Top 2018

Hello, gentle readers! I'm sharing my favorite media of the past year. If it's got a link, it means I wrote about it, except when I'm linking to writing I liked! Enjoy! Dig in!

• Favorite Movie: Widows, dir. Steve McQueen/Shoplifters, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Runner-Up: Eighth Grade, dir. Bo Burnham

• Honorable Mentions (alphabetical order): 
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, dir. Casey Wilder Mott
• American Animals, dir. Bart Layton
• Black Panther, dir. Ryan Coogler
• Deadpool 2, dir. David Leitch
• Gemini, dir. Aaron Katz
• Hotel Artemis, dir. Drew Pearce
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, dir. Peter Ramsey, Robert Persichetti Jr., Rodney Rothman
• Support the Girls, dir. Andrew Bujalski
• The Death of Stalin, dir. Armando Iannucci
• The Favourite, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
• Thoroughbreds, dir. Cory Finley
• To All the Boys I've Loved Before, dir. Susan Johnson
• Notable Movies I Saw in 2018 for the First Time:
• Face/Off, dir. John Woo (1997)
• Watchmen (Director's Cut), dir. Zack Snyder (2009)
• Some movie performances of 2018 I especially liked:
• Sakura Ando, Shoplifters
• Jessica Barden, The New Romantic
• Olivia Cooke, Thoroughbreds
• Charlie Day, Hotel Artemis
• Daniel Kaluuya, Widows
• Rachel McAdams, Game Night
• Evan Peters, American Animals

• Favorite Television Show: Killing Eve (BBC America)
• Runner-Up: The Little Drummer Girl (AMC)

• Honorable Mentions: 
• A Very English Scandal (Amazon)
• Dear White People, season 2 (Netflix)
• GLOW, season 2 (Netflix)
• John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous (Netflix)
• Queer Eye (Netflix)
• Sharp Objects (HBO)
• Succession (HBO)
• Notable Television Shows I Watched in 2018 For the First Time: 
• GLOW (Netflix) (2017-ongoing)
• Halt and Catch Fire (in a stunning reversal from my 2014 opinion!) (AMC) (2014-2017)
• Oh, Hello (Netflix) (2017)
• One Day at a Time (Netflix) (2017-ongoing)
• The Americans (FX) (2013-2018)

• Favorite Book: Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
• Runner-Up: Calypso, David Sedaris (and I interviewed him here!)

• Honorable Mentions: 
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, John Carreyrou
• I Still Dream, James Smythe 
• Notable Books I Read in 2018 For the First Time*: 
• Authority (Southern Reach Trilogy, #2), Jeff Vandermeer
• The Idiot (2017), Elif Batuman
• The Raven Cycle (2012-2016), Maggie Stiefvater
• The Resurrection of Joan Ashby (2017), Cherise Wolas
• The Subtle Knife (1997) and The Amber Spyglass (2000), Philip Pullman
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1995), Haruki Murakami

*I clearly read way more books from other years than from this year. It's not a knock on the books of 2018! I just liked more from previous years... because there were more previous years.

• Favorite Music: Dirty Computer, Janelle Monáe
• Honorable Mentions: 
• "2002," Anne-Marie
• "Fallingwater," Maggie Rogers
• "Hearts Beat Loud," Keegan DeWitt (from the movie, which I reviewed here)
• "House of Woodcock," Jonny Greenwood (from the soundtrack for The Phantom Thread)
• "Shallow," Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga (from A Star is Born)
• "The Other Side," Betty Who
• "Toy," Netta
• "What's the Deal with David?" Oh Pep!
• Notable Music I Listened to in 2018 For the First Time: 
• "All of You," Betty Who (2014)
• "Crabbuckit," k-os (2004)
• Dopamine, BØRNS (2015)
• "Glory Days," Betty Who (2014) 
• "Havana," Camila Cabello (2017)
• "I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman," k-os (2009)
• Melodrama, Lorde (2017)
• "No Scrubs," TLC (1999)
• The End is Not the End, House of Heroes (2008)
• "The World According to Chris" Carrie the Musical soundtrack (2012)
• "You Know My Name" (2006), Chris Cornell
• "You're No Good," Linda Ronstadt (1979)

• Art/Museum Experience: Tenement Museum Tour and Discussion
• Runner-Up: Museum of the Moving Image, NYC

• Honorable Mentions: 
• Contemporary Photo Competition, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
• An Incomplete History of Protest, Whitney Museum, NYC (technically viewed 12/31/17)
• Kahlil Joseph: Shadow Play, New Museum, NYC (technically viewed 12/31/17)
• Kukuli Velarde, The Complicit Eye, Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia
• Landscapes After Ruskin, Grey Art Gallery, NYC
• Making Room: Housing in a Changing America, National Building Museum, Washington D.C.
• Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
• The Jewish Museum, NYC

• Non-Fiction Writing I Read That I Liked From 2018 (in chronological order):
• Lili Loofbourow, "The female price of male pleasure," The Week, January 25, 2018.
• Kent Russell, "The Disaster Tourist," Huffington Post, January 25, 2018.
• Jason Fagone, "Jerry and Marge Go Large," Huffington Post, March 1, 2018.
• Lili Loofbourow, "The Male Glance," Virginia Quarterly Review, March 5, 2018.
• Laura Raicovich, "Why in the Age of Trump, I Believe the Art World Must Become a Sanctuary," Frieze, March 14, 2018.
• Nathan J. Robinson, "The Intellectual We Deserve," Current Affairs, March 14, 2018.
• Lizzie Presser, "Whatever's your darkest question, you can ask me," The California Sunday Magazine, March 28, 2018.
• Dayn Perry, "The White Sox ballpark in Chicago that never was and could have changed history," CBS Sports, April 10, 2018.
• Peter Kornbluh, "‘My Dearest Fidel’: An ABC Journalist’s Secret Liaison With Fidel Castro," Politico, April 20, 2018.
• Elif Batuman, "Japan's Rent-a-Family Industry," The New Yorker, April 30, 2018.
• Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, "Valley View: An Armenian Diasporic Account in Lieu of a Glendale Biennial Review," Los Angeles Review of Books, May 27, 2018.
• Jessica Pressler, "How Anna Delvey Tricked New York's Party People," The Cut, May 28, 2018.
• Bryan Washington, "Finding Peace at the Rothko Chapel: What Local Arts Can Teach Us About Our Cities—and Ourselves," Catapult, June 11, 2018.
• Will Leitch, "The Sports World Needs Its #MeToo Moment," New York Magazine, June 27, 2018.
• Matt Zoller Seitz, "Bill Maher Is Stand-up Comedy’s Past. Hannah Gadsby Represents Its Future," Vulture, July 12, 2018.
• Carolina A. Miranda, "Wanted: male architect willing to navigate his own building in a skirt," Los Angeles Times, July 15, 2018.
• Anne Helen Petersen, "The New Gwen Stefani Is A Lot Like The Old One," Buzzfeed News, July 17, 2018.
• Arielle Angel, "Art in a State of Emergency," Jewish Currents, July 31, 2018.
• Sam Englert, "Judaism, Zionism, and the Nazi Genocide," Historical Materialism, volume 26, issue 2, July 2018.
• Naomi Klein, "Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not 'Human Nature'," The Intercept, August 3, 2018.
• Merve Emre, "All Reproduction Is Assisted," Boston Review, August 14, 2018.
• Meghan Daum, "My Love Affair with the Intellectual Dark Web," August 24, 2018.
• Elizabeth Bruenig, "What do we owe her now?" Washington Post, September 21, 2018.
• Sarah Miller, "The Movie Assassin," Popula, September 30, 2018.
• Catherine Wagley, "How One Woman’s Punishment for Putting Up a Mural Has Exposed a Deep, Bitter Divide in the Los Angeles Art Community," Artnet, October 18, 2018.
• Josh Roiland, "Something Like Springtime," Popula, November 11, 2018.
• Dave Holmes, "Terry Crews is a Model of a Man," Esquire, November 29, 2018.
• Brian Palmer and Seth Freed Wessler, "The Costs of the Confederacy," Smithsonian Magazine, December 2018.
• Dorian Batycka, "The Athens Biennale Negligently Satirizes the Aesthetics of the Alt-Right," Hyperallergic, December 7, 2018.
• Notable Writing I Read in 2018 For the First Time:
• Brian Droitcour, "Public Spaces," The New Inquiry, October 29, 2012.
• Laura Reilly, "Farm to Fable," Tampa Bay Times, series beginning in April 2016.
• Ronald Aronson, "The Privatization of Hope," Boston Review, April 26, 2016.
• Rachel Aviv, "The Trauma of Facing Deportation," The New Yorker, April 3, 2017.