Queer cutouts, portable candies, and a retrospective of an American master.
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Leave it to artists themselves new, old, and at the margins to prove them wrong.
Most of the fast action was in galleries large and small.
10.Felix Gonzalez-Torres, David Zwirner
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A giant psychic hole opened up, revealing how art can change before your astonished and grateful eyes.
9.Matthew Barney, Secondary, Matthew Barney Studio
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His use of coded color and materials like plastic is next to none.
8.Agata Slowak, Time Is Love, Fortnight Institute
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Her style of painting is an otherworldly yet spot-on commentary on contemporary sexuality.
7.Miyoko Ito, Matthew Marks Gallery
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Itos surreal, abstract images were made with a touch as soft as muffling cotton.
6.Xiyadie, Queer Cut Utopias, The Drawing Center
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5.Myrlande Constant, Drapo, Fort Gansevoort
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This work deserves a museum show soon.
4.Hilary Harkness, Prisoners From the Front, P.P.O.W.
These gorgeous paintings recast history through transness, race-switching, and Civil Warera romance.
3.Dana Schutz, Jupiters Lottery, David Zwirner
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It was amazing to see Schutz reach visionary heights in this eye-burning exhibition.
2.Tracey Emin, Lovers Grave, White Cube
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Emin is our Edvard Munch with a profound seers soul.
1.Henry Taylor, B Side, Whitney Museum of American Art
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