Top 5 Museum Shows Olafur Eliasson, Museum of Contemporary Art Your Pal, Cliff: Selections from the H.C. Westermann Study Collection, Smart Museum Paul Chan, Renaissance Society Mary Lou Zelazny, Hyde Park Art Center James Castle: A Retrospective, Art Institute of Chicago —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Gallery Shows Rob Carter, Ebersmoore Gallery Big Youth, Corbett vs. Dempsey Sarah Krepp, Roy Boyd Gallery Everybody! Visual resistance in feminist health movements, 1969-2009, I Space Ali Bailey, Golden Gallery —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Alt-Space Shows Carroll Dunham, He Said She Said Stolen, Garage Spaces Psychic Reality, Heaven Gallery Dr wax captures the big and small machines for the enjoyment of the people, DOVA Temporary Young Sun Han, Swimming Pool Project Space —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Print Shows Buddhist Printing at the Derge Parkhang, Columbia College Center for Book & Paper Arts Multiples, Parts, and Pieces, Art Institute of Chicago Without You I am Nothing: Cultural Democracy from Providence and Chicago, Green Lantern Gallery Egle Vertelkaite and Birute Zokaityte, Chicago Cultural Center New prints from Fresh Hot Press, Western Exhibtions —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Spaces We’ll Miss Scott Projects Alogon I Space Twelve Galleries Incubate —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 New Spaces Mvseum Clutch Gallery Ebersmoore Eel Space Spoke —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Painting Shows Austin Eddy, Golden Gallery Will Staples, 65Grand Constellations, Museum of Contemporary Art Now that’s what I call painting, Scott Projects Pop Sizzle Hum, Tony Wight Gallery —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Drawing Shows Midwestern Blab, A+D Gallery Chuck Walker, Linda Warren Gallery Deb Sokolow, Spertus Museum Molly Springfield, Thomas Robertello Gallery Eric Ellis, The Coop —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Groundbreakers The Modern Wing, Art Institute of Chicago Tamms Year Ten mud stenciling Studio Chicago year-long exhibition program Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia: Art & Politics in Jazz-Age Chicago, Mess Hall The Opportunity Shop —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Design Shows Public Works, Andrew Rafacz Gallery Konstantin Grcic, Art Institute of Chicago Dimension and Typography, I Space Criteria, A+D Gallery Memphis, Milano, Rowley Kennerk Gallery —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Photography Shows at University Galleries Iran Inside Out, DePaul University Art Museum Nina Berman, Roosevelt University Gage Gallery Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture, Museum of Contemporary Photography Double Exposure, DePaul University Art Museum Jon Lowenstein and Carlos Javier Ortiz, Roosevelt University Gage Gallery —Michael Weinstein
Top 5 Photography Shows at Galleries and Public Museums Crisanta de Guzman, Woman Made Gallery Liu Bolin, Schneider Gallery Bert Hardy, Stephen Daiter Gallery Photographs of the Aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire, City Gallery Barbara Crane, Chicago Cultural Center —Michael Weinstein
Top 5 Art Controversies That Never Exploded Peter Lemke ‘steals’ street art for his gallery Authenticity of Rodin sculptures questioned at Loyola University Museum of Art Spertus Museum cuts ambitious exhibition schedule Artists threaten to protest Chicago Tribune for lack of African-American coverage Grolsch quits free distribution at art openings —Jason Foumberg
