Best of Chicago: Art

Newcity’s Best of Chicago 2008 has been released. Here are the art items:

Love Hurts: A Consideration of the Life and Chicago Works of Gregory Bae at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago "Chicago Works: Gregory Bae" is a powerful testament to Bae’s wonder at the intersection of life and love— an invitation to turn toward, rather than away from, the pleasure and pain of the endings that make beginnings so worthwhile.
Chicago Art Oximeter: A Review of LatinXAmerican at the DePaul Art Museum Not surprisingly, the most captivating moments in the exhibition are those that unite thematic framing with formal kinship.
Seen Enough Monet Yet? A Review of Monet and Chicago at the Art Institute of Chicago This exhibition combines the museum’s permanent collection with dozens of pieces borrowed from local collectors.
Art 50 2022: Chicago's Visual Vanguard This year’s Art 50 acknowledges the important work of the gallerists, collectors, administrators and more who make Chicago’s art world run.
Fictioning the Self: Martine Syms at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago For this exhibition, she uses herself as a subject to examine how mass media and social networks can start a feedback loop that fictionalizes reality and realizes fiction.
Bloomed: A Review of The Obama Portraits at The Art Institute of Chicago America’s first African American First couple is depicted by the first two African-American artists to be selected for the feat.

Best art exhibit (in the last year or so)