Top 5 Gallery Shows Culture Mutt: Carl Baratta and Tserin Sherpa, Green Lantern Amy Vogel, Gallery 40000 John Parot, Western Exhibitions Carol Jackson, Gallery 400 at UIC Video Art & New Media Lounge, Around the Coyote Fall 2007 Festival —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Museum Shows Karl Wirsum, Chicago Cultural Center “Big Picture: A New View of Painting in Chicago,” Chicago History Museum Joseph Kohnke, Chicago Cultural Center “The New Authentics,” The Spertus institute Scott Short, Renaissance Society —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Photography Gallery Shows Rafael Rosario Laguna, Moka Gallery Myungkeon Koh, Andrew Bae Gallery Gao Zhen and Gao Qang, Walsh Gallery Chris Verene, Gescheidle Gallery Joel Sternfeld, Russell Bowman Art Advisory —Michael Weinstein
Top 5 Photography Museum Shows Colleen Plumb, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum “The Grammar of Landscape,” Illinois State Museum Robert Heinecken, Museum of Contemporary Photography Art Shay, Chicago Historical Society Mary Farmilant, International Museum of Surgical Sciences —Michael Weinstein
Top 5 Museum Shows “Vollard: Cézanne to Picasso,” Art Institute of Chicago “Darwin,” Field Museum “Wonderful Things: Harry Burton Photographs,” Oriental Institute “Body Worlds 2,” Museum of Science and Industry “The Gates of Paradise,” Art Institute of Chicago —Dennis Polkow
Top 5 Paintings “Go Fuck a Belly Dancer,” Yevgeniya Baras “Employees Must Wash Hands,” Chris Kerr “Tsunami,” Lisa Boumstein Smalley “Untitled,” Matt Stolle “Curdled sour marzipan and hidden leakage,” Amy Mayfield —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Chicago Art Scandals The Art Institute’s Gauguin sculpture declared a forgery Chicago artist Amber Swanson weds Real Doll in her own image Rembrandt etching stolen from Hilligoss Gallery Visitors sabotage CarianaCarianne installation at Hyde Park Art Center Paul Klein rallies artists to fight loss of public art forums —Jason Foumberg
