Wade Guyton: Das New Yorker Atelier, Abridged at the Serpentine Galleries, London.Bernardo Pacquing at Silverlens Galleries, Manila.Marie Harnett’s Still at Alan Cristea Gallery, London.Artist Rooms: Joseph Beuys at Tate Modern, London.Artist Rooms: Bruce Nauman at Tate Modern, London.TJ Wilcox’s Gentlemen at Sadie Coles, London.Arthur Jafa’s Love is the Message, the Message is Death at Store Studios (co-presented by the Serpentine Galleries and The Vinyl Factory), London.Nilo Ilarde’s Fools of the Trade at Artinformal, Manila.Elaine Navas’s Nothing Moves Itself at Artinformal, Manila.D, a group show curated by Gary-Ross Pastrana at Vinyl on Vinyl, Manila.M ariano Ching and Yasmin Sison’s Traveling on the Edges of Lost Maps at MO_Space, Manila.Bruce Conners’s “Crossroads” from Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 at the Whitney, New York.Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency at the MoMA, New York.(In no particular order, and excludes shows I or my family was part of because, well… those are a very not impartial given.) I basically subsisted on television this year, but here are my favourite 2017 releases (in no particular order). Very sure I’m forgetting like… a lot, but other fun films I enjoyed watching were Spider-man: Homecoming, Kong: Skull Island, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. But in (very) recent memory, the films released this year that I thoroughly enjoyed are Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig), heartwarming coming-of-age and Very Much My Jam Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino), the very beautiful cause of many sleepless nights spent lying in residual want Don’t Break Down (Tim Irwin and Keith Schieron), exhilarating and sad (?) Jawbreaker documentary that awakened a latent crush on Blake Schwarzenbach which thankfully went away and Thelma (Joachim Trier), beautiful and mysterious with large spaces of quiet meant to keep your feelings expanding. Movies, I find hard to track because I don’t… keep track, haha. * Complete list of finished titles can be found here. Not all of them were published in 2017, so… uh, sorry about that. Here are the ones I really liked, out of the 19 I finished as of writing. I read a lot this year, especially towards the end… but I didn’t read a lot of books in full. Vincent’s Masseduction, Molly Burch’s Please Be Mine, Paramore’s After Laughter, and Harry Styles’ self-titled debut.ĮDIT: … As predicted, a late addition: Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile’s Lotta Sea Lice is also really good. Other notables: Wolf Parade’s Cry Cry Cry, Sufjan Stevens’ The Greatest Gift, Big Thief’s Capacity, Alvvays’ Anti-Socialites, St. Waxahatchee’s Out in the Storm - sounds like the cool girl you’ve (I’ve) always wanted to be.Japanese Breakfast’s Soft Sounds from Another Planet - somehow makes you want to play the guitar?.Vagabon’s Infinite Worlds - so far, my favourite winter blanket.Jay Som’s Everybody Works - warm, easy music for languid summer drives or day-time lounging.Sorority Noise’s You’re Not As _ As You Think - honest and open unlikely lifeline for when you are edging closer to the edge.Lorde’s Melodrama - post-hedonism sadness with no regret, set to music you can’t help but dance to.Rostam’s Half-Light - it’s like resurfacing from being submerged in a lake to warmth and the sun in your eyes.Phoebe Bridgers’ Stranger in the Alps - melancholy mountain music to put on whilst on the tube, thinking about mortality and how you got to where you are.The National’s Sleep Well Beast - Matt Berninger whisper-sings intimations of a life flashing before your eyes, sometimes out of order.Julien Baker’s Turn Out the Lights - gives shape to all your deep-buried sorrows, brings them to the surface, and reassures that darkness can co-exist with light.Everything I feel about Brand New is in shambles (but I don’t want to get into that right now-I am now a master of deflection) here’s a better (I think?) list: If you’re not familiar with the emo news circuit - which, who is anymore? - Jesse Lacey was accused (and admitted to with a… sorta apology/non-apology) of sexual abuse of a minor when he was 24 years old ¹. Once upon a time, Brand New’s Science Fiction had a sure spot on this list. Julien Baker at Union Chapel, London Albums two seconds after publishing, but such is life. I’ll likely see something I want to edit out, etc. But we’re not having that today.īecause my memory is kind of gone, also, this is probably not an accurate list. how am I, how am I, which is what my family is probably going to appreciate more. lists of things I enjoyed as opposed to a check-in, i.e. I haven’t been around on here (obviously) but I figured I’d ease into it a little bit by writing about things that are easier to write, i.e.
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