Lilli Carré: Untitled, 2010, screen print, 8 x 8 inches. Photo by Angee Leonnard.
Top 5 People and Places We’ll Miss Kathryn Hixson David Weinberg Gallery Rowley Kennerk Gallery Green Lantern Gallery James Garrett Faulkner —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Solo Exhibitions Edra Soto/Ebersmoore Gallery Philip Hanson/Corbett vs. Dempsey Lilli Carré/Spudnik Press Gladys Nilsson/Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art Ian Weaver/Packer Schopf Gallery —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Public Art Projects Ray Noland’s “Run Blago Run” Pop-Up galleries in the Loop Nomadic Studio/DePaul University Art Museum Hui-min Tsen’s tours of the Chicago Pedway Marwen —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 New Art Spaces Club Nutz The Mission Projects Peregrine Program Adds Donna Iceberg Projects —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Curated Exhibitions Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art/MCA New Icon/Loyola University Museum of Art La Frontera/Museum of Contemporary Photography Tomboy/Glass Curtain Gallery Things to Be Next to/Three Walls —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Documentary Photography Shows Documenting the Global Recession/Roosevelt University Gage Gallery Dina Petrakis/Humboldt Park Boathouse W. Eugene Smith/Chicago Cultural Center La Frontera/Museum of Contemporary Photography Eugene Richards/Roosevelt University Gage Gallery —Michael Weinstein
Lauren Simonutti: "Helpless," 2008
Top 5 Art Photography Shows Lauren Simonutti/Catherine Edelman Gallery Laszlo Moholy-Nagy/Loyola University Museum of Art Patrick Nagatani/International Museum of Surgical Sciences Resilience/Instituto Cervantes Proof/Catherine Edelman Gallery —Michael Weinstein
Top 5 Exhibitions Arts of Privacy 1850-1900/Smart Museum William Eggleston/Art Institute of Chicago Lewis Baltz: Prototypes/Ronde de Nuit at Art Institute of Chicago Luc Tuymans/Museum of Contemporary Art Maya Lin/Arts Club of Chicago —Janina Ciezadlo
Top 5 Disagreements in the Visual Arts Tony Tasset’s “Eye” Liam Gillick’s exhibition at the MCA Apartment galleries evicted by the City of Chicago Art Loop Open Chicago-area institutions screen David Wojnarowicz video in response to censorship by the Smithsonian —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Large-Scale Wall Installations or Paintings Jeff Zimmermann/Chicago Cultural Center J. Thomas Pallas/Antena Gallery Eun Hyung Kim/Gallery 400 Dana DeGiulio/Devening Projects Leeza Meksin/Glass Curtain Gallery —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Vital People for the Visual Arts in Chicago Theaster Gates Rebecca Zorach Shannon Stratton Jim Duignan Dawoud Bey —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Vital Programs and Institutions for the Visual Arts in Chicago Proximity Magazine Chicago Artists Resource The Suburban Chicago Art Department Corbett vs. Dempsey —Jason Foumberg
