
Jennifer Packer, “An Exercise In Tenderness,” 2017
Top 5 Museum and Institutional Shows
The Renaissance Society – Jennifer Packer
Arts Club of Chicago – Ralph Coburn
Block Museum of Art – William Blake and the Age of Aquarius

David Leggett, “Their Funeral Our Dance Floor, ” 2017. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 16 x 16 inches / Photo: Evan Jenkins
Top 5 Commercial Gallery Shows
Patron Gallery – Bethany Collins
Andrew Rafacz Gallery – Robert Burnier
Shane Campbell Gallery – David Leggett
Corbett vs. Dempsey – Christopher Williams
Top 5 Noncommercial/Alt Shows
Iceberg Projects – Arnold Kemp
Roots & Culture – Jesse Malmed & Derrick Woods-Morrow
Chicago Cultural Center – Candida Alvarez
Goldfinch Gallery – Mari Eastman
Adds Donna – Alejandro Jimenez-Flores

Wolf Vostell’s “Concrete Traffic” being transported to the University of Chicago, June 1970. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Library and Archives. / Photo: Jean-claude LeJeune
Top 5 Art Happenings
Museum of Contemporary Art Turns Fifty
Smart Museum of Art’s Vostell Concrete Parade
The End of the West Loop Scene
Ann Nathan Gallery Closes
Cai Guo-Qiang Blows Off the Roof to Commemorate Seventy-five Years in the Nuclear Age

Hélio Oiticica with “P8 Parangolé Cape 5, Homage to Mangueira (P8 Parangolé capa 5, Homenagem à Mangueira,” 1965, at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1969. César and Claudio Oiticica Collection, Rio de Janeiro.
Top 5 Canon-Correcting Exhibitions
Art Institute of Chicago – Hélio Oiticica
Kavi Gupta – Gerald Williams
DePaul Art Museum – “One day this kid will get larger”
Art Institute of Chicago – Tarsila Do Amaral
Chicago Cultural Center – Eugene Eda’s Doors for Malcolm X College

Michael Rakowitz, “May the Arrogant Not Prevail,” 2010. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Top 5 Chicago Homecomings
Museum of Contemporary Art – Michael Rakowitz
Art Institute of Chicago – Cauleen Smith
Intuit – Henry Darger Exhibition Series
Milwaukee Art Museum – Rashid Johnson
SAIC Sullivan Galleries – Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert is a curator, critic and editor. She is the inaugural Curator of Contemporary Art at the Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University. She was formerly Curatorial Fellow at the Chicago Artists Coalition, Art Editor of Newcity and Assistant Curator at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University.