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Best of 2011: Exhibitions

CultureCritic | 20.December.2011 | 16:37
With Dada approaching its centenary and pockets of counter-culture making a welcome return to the world's cities, you might expect the visual arts to start upping its game. In 2011, however, no paradigm-busting artists emerged, nor did any stylistic innovations help us navigate the data-swamp of our 21st-century lives. Instead, many of the year's most exciting shows looked back to the old masters; da Vinci came back in a huge way, while the Tate cemented Gerhard Richter's reputation as one of the world's greatest living artists. It seems that even in these hard times, us proles can't help admiring the consumer items of the fabulously rich...

The Critometer Top 10



1. Vivian Maler - A Life Uncovered (100%)

2. Toulouse-Lautrec and Jane Avril - Beyond The Moulin Rouge (96%)

3. Leonardo da Vinci - Painter At The Court Of Milan (95%)

4. Watteau's Drawings: Virtuosity And Delight (92%)

5. Eyewitness - Hungarian Photography (91%)

6. John Stezaker (90%)

7. Treasures Of Heaven (90%)

8. 11 Rooms (90%)

9. Degas And The Ballet - Picturing Movement (88%)

10. Jan Gossaert's Renaissance (87%)

= Devotion By Design: Italian Altarpieces Before 1500 (87%)

Staff Picks

George Shaw

"It is a travesty he didn't win the Turner prize."    

                                                                                                                                    

Gerhard Richter - Panorama (85%)

"Everyone else can stop painting now."

The Indiscipline of Painting - International Abstraction From The 1960s To Now

"I was mesmerised to the point of total occular failure."

Miracles & Charms

"The Mexican votive paintings were something of a revelation." 

Wim Wenders - Places, Strange And Quiet

"Quiet and absorbing, as you'd expect."

 ...and finally

 Not their year...

Modern British Sculpture (38%)

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