Top 5 Art Exhibitions Amalia Pica at the Museum of Contemporary Art Haseeb Ahmed and Daniel Baird at Roots & Culture Slow Read at Glass Curtain Gallery Terry Adkins at the Block Museum of Art Josiah McElheny at the Arts Club of Chicago —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Art Trends of 2013 Stock photography Dropcloths Vertical stripes Ontology Artifacts —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Art Buzzwords of 2013 Maker Service media Community Speculative (is the new abstract) Failure —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Art Terms to Retire New media Selfie Outsider art Curate Gallerina —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Art Spaces We’ll Miss Mess Hall (2003-2013) Thomas Robertello Gallery (2006-2013) Ebersmoore (2009-2013) Roxaboxen (2009-2013) Kirk’s Apartment (2009-2013) —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 New Art Venues that Opened in 2013 Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry Kavi Gupta Gallery’s Elizabeth Street location Paris London Hong Kong Dos Perros Projects Coat Check Gallery —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Art Comebacks of 2013 Amanda Ross-Ho’s plaza project at the Museum of Contemporary Art Dread Scott at Gallery 400 Feminism Carrie Secrist Gallery Elmhurst Art Museum —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Art Exhibition Titles of 2013 “Little Man Pee Pool Party: The Whiz Paddler’s Lament” at Antena Gallery “Party Cut,” Rebecca Morris at Corbett vs. Dempsey “A Day for Cake and Accidents,” Jessie Mott at Threewalls “Low-Dose No-Doz,” Ryan Duggan at Johalla Projects “Cup Freaketh Over,” Diane Christiansen at Kasia Kay Art Projects —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Places to Attend an Art Lecture Graham Foundation Artists Connect series at the Art Institute of Chicago Open Practice Committee at the University of Chicago’s Department of Visual Arts Visiting Artists Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Arts Club of Chicago —Jason Foumberg
Top 5 Photography Shows Meredith Zielke and Yoni Goldstein at the International Museum of Surgical Science Linda Adele Goodine at Gallery 19 Natalie Krick at Coat Check at David Weinberg Jennifer Greenburg at Schneider Gallery Holly Roberts at Catherine Edelman Gallery —Michael Weinstein
Top 5 Perks of Being A Newcity Art Critic Hot cider and whiskey on cold, rain-soaked days in Lloyd Dobler gallery Comped copies of exhibition catalogs which would otherwise be prohibitively expensive Finding out the Art World is more inclusive than one would think Constant exposure to new art The comforting thought of one day working from Miami in December —B. David Zarley
Top 5 Basements to See Art Alcatraz GAG The Sub-Mission Edra Soto’s basement at The Franklin Co-Prosperity Sphere’s basement dance club —Kelly Reaves
Top 5 Artists to Get Your Gross On With Gregory Jacobsen Meg McCarville Paul Nudd Otto Splotch Mariano Chavez —Kelly Reaves
Top 5 Galleries West of Western Comfort Station The Hills Esthetic Center The Storefront Terrain Exhibitions The Franklin Outdoors —Kelly Reaves
Top 5 Graffiti/Street Artists/Crews Most Visible from the El EDEM CMW BWO Goosenek TYLER MEGA —Abraham Ritchie
Top 5 Social Media Presences that Could be Art Theodore Darst (@theodope) Geoffrey Todd Smith (Facebook) Dana Bassett (@WhatstheT_DB) Jon Satrom (@jonsatrom) Carl Baratta (Facebook) —Abraham Ritchie
