New York Magazine - USA (2022-01-03)

76 new york | january 3–16, 2022

THE 2021 APPROVAL MATRIX Our deliberately oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.

brilliant

highbrow

lowbrow

despicable

PHOTOGRAPHS: BLINKOFANAYE/FLICKR (JAN6); META; U.S SUPREME COURT; CHRIS RANK (ANDREW CUOMO); MICHAEL VADON (BANNON); IVAN RADIC (ANTI-VAXX); CAMERON SMITH/WHITE HOUSE (BIDEN); 432 PARK AVENUE; CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF; METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (NEEL); JOAN MARCUS (CAROLINE); FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX (ROONEY); RUVEN AFANADOR (OCTAVE APART); JERNEJ FURMAN/FLICKR (VACCINE); BALENCIAGA; MARC JACOBS; U.S OLYMPICS (BILES); ROCKETACE/FLICKR (QUITTING); MARK JONES/WIKIMEDIA (MARKLE); BOB JAGENDORF/FLICKR (PORTS); NETFLIX (WHITE LOTUS); SPECIALMEMEFRESH (STONKS); NETFLIX (MULANEY); MANDO GOMEZ (METS); WARNER BROS. (DUNE); SPARKS TRIBUNE (DROUGHT); ZACH CATANZARETI/FLICKR (PORTNOY); AMAZON (DELTA OMICRON); MARVEL; UMG/TAYLORSWIFT (ALL TOO WELL); COLUMBIA (ADELE); 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS (NETFLIX (SQUID GAMES); JAZMINE SULLIVAN; HULU (RESERVATION DOGS); ERIC LIEBOWITZ/FX (POSE); DREW DE FAWKES (BRITNEY); NETFLIX (INSIDE); LUIGI DE POMPEIS/ALAMY (BENNIFER); OLIVIA RODRIGO

How did it all

nd up beingup

oJoe Manchin?

Billionaireshateon

their supertall condo.

A bunch of politics-

minded tourists (and

some white-power

militia members)

storm the Capitol ...

... And the former

president’s loyal

minions clam up

to Congress.

Anti-vaxxers and the

vaxxed politicians who

areusingthem ...

Bidennui.

... AndCuomo

The bungled

Afghanistan

departure.

Lockdown 2,0

bookshelf: New

Ishiguro, Rooney,

Whitehead,

Shteyngart, Franzen.

The well-pitched

revival of Caroline,

or Change.

Balenciaga in Paris

(and Springfield)...

... And Marc

Jacobs at the

public library.

Justin Vivian Bond

(with Anthony Roth

Costanzo) in Only an

Octave Apart (and in

... Vaccines, Kiki & Herb Sleigh!).

boosters, and

mandates.

Simone Biles puts

hermental healthfirst.

Shouldn’t you?

Related: Many

people decided to

quittheir jobs.

Meghan and

Harry spill royal

teato Oprah.

If nothing else, our

new mayor’s gonna be

less of abummer

than.

The Great Supply

Chain Breakdown.

Where’s our stuff?

Thatending of

he White Lotus.

The dumb

broconomy of

meme stonks.

New owner,

same old Mets.

Dune and

West Side Story are

unavoidably

problematic ...

... But alot of

big-budget

to watch.

Wildfires, floods,

’n’ drought.

Mulaney sure did give

us a lot to talk about.

Delta Omicron:

worst frat ever.

Dave Portnoy,

uncancelable.

How many more

mediocre Marvel flicks

must we endure?

“All Too Well

(10-Minute Version)”

proves we never

tire of Taylor’s

relationship drama.

Squid Game’s gory

capitalist critique.

Adele’s 30

provides a

soundtrack to

all our future

divorces.

Jazmine Sulli

helped us j

get throug

Reservation Dogs

has an exciting

first season ...

... While Pose

sticks the landing

of its final one.

Bo Burnham’s

pandemic opus,

Inside. “drivers license” gave

us a song to scream-

sing to in our Lyft.

e B

ee

... Andneither

does Mark “Meta”

Zuckerberg.

The Trump Court

doesn’t care what

you think of it ...

gg

Cuomo ...

Alice Neel at the

Met—and

Jennifer Packer at

the Whitney.

TT

TTTT

funfun

Bennifer 2.0.

Britney is

freeeee!

vanan

stst

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