What Were Your Favorites in 2010?

To mark the end of 2010, we paused to consider what has been cool, interesting, and noteworthy in recent months. Remember, art is more fun when experienced with the ones you love.
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We are three friends, who look at and participate in art, sometimes professionally, sometimes recreationally, sometimes together, but always with a sense of an adventure and excitement. As three opinionated viewers we have our own relational aesthetic, but tend to agree on some key visual events and social exhibitions that changed the ways we experience creation and each other. To mark the end of 2010, we paused to consider what has been cool, interesting, and noteworthy in recent months. Remember, art is more fun when experienced with the ones you love.

Clearly, this list is not all encompassing. But its a start. So please add to it. Edit it. Debate our choices. Come up with your own favorite categories and give us more to look out for in 2011! The full list is on Artlog.

-Joseph Sheftel, Suzanna Lee, Kyle DeWoody

Artlog 2010 Year in Review
Favorite Functional Art Piece(01 of06)
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Massachusetts Chandelier in Pipilotti Rist, Heroes Of Birth at Luhring Augustine

Favorite Group Show: In Stitches at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, Greater New York at MoMA PS1, Beyond the Sublime at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens

Favorite Art Installation(02 of06)
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Sarah Sze'sUntitled (Studio) at Tanya Bonakdar

Favorite Artist Takeover: Marina Abramovic at the MoMA

Favorite Wearable Art Show(03 of06)
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Nick Cave at Fowler Museum in LA and Norton Museum in PB.

Favorite Art Show To Hear (and see): Christian Marclay at the Whitney

Favorite Outdoor Art Experience(04 of06)
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Big Bambu at the Met.

Favorite Mixed Media Video Show: Tony Oursler at Lehmann Maupin

Favorite Art Party(05 of06)
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Creative Time Rum and Shine and Whitney Studio Party

Favorite Artist-For-A-Cause Party: Tom Sachs' Party for the Pelicans with The Endangered Species Coalition

Favorite Ecological Show(06 of06)
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