Outsiders, Renaissance masterpieces, crazy quilts, and more.

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In November, Sothebys made history when it sold a painting made by artificial intelligence for a million bucks.

Still, Sothebys described the sale as a new frontier in the global art market.

10.Ayiti Toma II: Faith, Family, and Resistance, Luhring Augustine

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9.Matthew Barney / Alex Katz, OFlahertys

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Feral genius Jamian Juliano-Villani deployed two giants of American art to remake a haunted pop-up space.

8.Huma Bhabha, David Zwirner

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Bhabhas great bronze figures are like Giacometti sculptures bulked up and torn apart by steroids.

7.Yvonne Wells, Fort Gansevoort

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This self-taught 84-year-old Alabama-based living treasure created abstract quilts that spoke of beautiful and conflicted American histories.

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6.Klara Liden, Reena Spaulings

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The result ends up being a perfect metaphor for art: a useless action that ends up being useful.

5.Arthur Jafa, Gladstone

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Jafas masterful film makes clear that Bickle was also motivated by racism.

4.Clarity Haynes, New Discretions

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The results were spectacular, allowing us to see and think about this mystic gift.

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3.Christopher Wool, 101 Greenwich St.

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The result was a wraparound exercise in forgoing the gallery system.

2.Siena: The Rise of Painting, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The miracle that is early Sienese painting is an origin point for all western art.

1.The Way I See It, Drawing Center

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KAWS, a selection of which he displayed this fall.

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KAWS supposedly owns 4,000 works by artists like these.

A museum should show this extraordinary amassment.

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