Top 5 Exhibitions
Anne Wilson, Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Watercolors by Winslow Homer, Art Institute of Chicago
“Adaptation,” Smart Museum
Chuck Walker, Hyde Park Art Center
Mark Wagner, Western Exhibitions
—Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Art Shows
Jenny Holzer, “Protect, Protect,” Museum of Contemporary Art
Edra Soto, “The Soto-Chacon Show,” Rowland Contemporary Gallery
Alan Lerner, Art on Armitage
“Made in Chicago: Portraits form the Bank of America,” LaSalle Collection/Chicago Cultural Center
“Benin—Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria,” Art Institute of Chicago
—Marla Seidell
Top Five Photography Shows
Delilah Montoya, La Llorona Gallery
Jowhara Alsaud, Schneider Gallery
Frederic Chaubin, Chicago Architecture Foundation
Jill Frank, Golden Gallery
Carla Gannis, Kasia Kay Art Projects
—Michael Weinstein
Top 5 Museum Shows
“The Smart Home: Green + Wired,” Museum of Science and Industry
“Chic Chicago,” Chicago History Museum
“The Glass Experience,” Museum of Science and Industry
“Soul Soldiers: African Americans and the Vietnam War,” DuSable Museum
“Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters,” Field Museum
—Laura Hawbaker
Top 5 Museum Shows
Edward Hopper, Art Institute
“Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others,” Spertus Museum
“Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light,” Art Institute
“Earth From Space,” Museum of Science and Industry
“Benin—Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria,” Art Institute
—Dennis Polkow
Top 5 Freshest Art Spaces
Swimming Pool Project Space
Old Gold
Hyde Park Art Center
65 Grand
No Coast
—Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Art Spaces We’ll Miss
Alfedena
Gescheidle
Garden Fresh
Contemporary Art Workshop
32nd & Urban
—Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Contemporary Art Exhibitions about Nature
“Biological Agents” at Gallery 400
Lora Fosberg at Linda Warren Gallery
“The Leaf and the Page,” Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery
“Future Farmers,” Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Claire Sherman, Kavi Gupta Gallery
—Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Art Exhibitions About Food
Maria Tomasula, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery
“Portraying Food in Contemporary Chinese Art,” Walsh Gallery
“Sugarcraft,” Kasia Kay Art Projects Gallery
Pamela Michelle Johnson, Urbanest
Isabelle du Toit, Byron Roche Gallery
—Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Feminist Art Exhibitions
“Ladylike,” Gosia Koscielak Gallery
“Henbane: Dialectics of the Feminine Sublime,” Medicine Park
“Are We There Yet? 40 Years of Feminism,” ARC Gallery
Amelia Falk, ARC Gallery
“A Minyan Without Men,” Woman Made Gallery
—Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Exhibitions/Events at Alt-Art Spaces
“Tomorrow,” Vega Estates
“The Baby,” Knock Knock Gallery
“Pere Portabella’s Masterpiece Vampir-Cuadecuc,” White Light Cinema
Sumi Ink Club and Lucky Dragons, Golden Age
“Zummer Tapez: Jim Trainor,” Roots and Culture
—Tim Ridlen
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