Defending Works Left on the Cutting Room Floor of Our ‘Best Artworks of the 21st Century’ List

Our list of the best artworks of the 21st century features 100 pieces and 15,000 words of copy, but for the editors of ARTnews and Art in America, it was still not enough.Left on the cutting room floor were many, many pieces we still cared a lot about. Some didn’t end up making the final list because the editors couldn’t agree on their merits. Some didn’t make it because they occurred to us only late in the process, once the list had been settled upon. And some didn’t mak