To take stock of the past year, Artforum asked an international group of artists to select a single exhibition or event that most memorably caught their attention in 2021.DARREN BADER “The Medici: Portraits and Politics 1512–1570” (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) My first trip to the Met in at least seventeen months provided placid, people-free galleries, tears of simple happiness, and blessedly bad network service. My special exhibition mission was not to merely relish Florentine masters on loan, but to attend an unofficial Bronzino survey (the routine-dulled Frick portrait [Lodovico
ILKLEY Cinema will re-open next week with a screening of a film shot in the town. The cinema welcomes back audiences on Monday, May 17 and will finally screen Say Your Prayers, a thriller starring Sir Derek Jacobi set in Ilkley Literature Festival. It was originally due last November but was postponed when cinemas closed in the second lockdown. With a cast that also includes Motherland star Anna Maxwell Martin, Say Your Prayers is about two “radical Christian hitmen” who travel to Ilkley to assassinate an atheist writer, a festival guest. The film was originally due for release as ‘video on demand’ but when approached by Ilkley Cinema, Bradford City of Film director David Wilson worked with the British Board of Film Classification and Bradford Council’s licensing department on securing a 12A certificate for a cinema screening.