Best Art Exhibitions of 2010: The Daily Gazette

Karen Bjornland – the visual art writer for Schenectady’s Daily Gazette – compiled her list of the Best Art Exhibits of the Year (behind paywall), and here’s how she saw it in 2010:

1. “Picasso Looks at Degas” @ the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
2. “Andrew Wyeth: An American Legend” @ the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls
3. “Wrapped!: Search for the Essential Mummy” @ the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield
4. “2010 Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region” @ the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls
5. “Fred Tomaselli” @ Skidmore College’s Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs
6. “Larry Poons: Recent Paintings” @ the College of Saint Rose’s Massry Gallery, Albany
7. “Courier” @ UAlbany’s University Art Museum, Albany
8. “Battlesight” @ Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy
9. “The Naked Woman Show” @ House of Creative Soul, Saratoga Springs
10. “The Perfect Fit” & “Old Soles” @ Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany

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THE 2010 LIST OF LISTS:
Best Concerts of the Year: The Daily Gazette
Best Albums of the Year: Nippertown’s Matt Mac Haffie
Best Concerts of the Year That I Missed: Nippertown’s Greg Haymes
Best Local CDs of 2010: The Daily Gazette’s Brian McElhiney
Most Disappointing Concerts of 2010: Nippertown’s Greg Haymes
Best Albums of the Year: Justin Mikulka
Best Capital Region Theater of the Year: Nippertown’s Greg Haymes
Best Entertainers Who Moonlight as Artists of the Year: Art:21
Best Albums of the Year: Spin Magazine
Most Disappointing Capital Region Concert Cancellations of the Year: Nippertown’s Greg Haymes
Best Television Commercials of the Year: TV Squad
Best Feature Films of the Year: Roger Ebert
Best Albums of the Year: Brian Patneaude
Best TV Character Deaths of the Year: Entertainment Weekly
Best Viral Videos of the Year: Videogum
Best Albums & Best Selling Albums of the Year: Billboard
Best Concerts of the Year: Nippertown’s J Hunter
Best Country Albums: The Boot
Best Albums of the Year: WEXT’s Chris Wienk
Best TV Music Moments of the Year: Treble
Best Book Covers of the Year: The L Magazine
Best Folk Albums of the Year: About.com Guide
Best Albums of the Year: We Are Not a Rock Band
Best Movies of the Year: Christian Science Monitor
Best Television Shows of the Year: Channel Surfing
Best Concerts of the Year: Nippertown’s Andrzej Pilarczyk
Best Music Videos of the Year: IFC
Best Books of the Year: The New York Times Book Review
Best Live Acts of the Year: Paste Magazine
Best Poetry Books of the Year: Dan Chiasson of The New Yorker
Best Albums of the Year: Andy Maroney
Best Movie Titles of the Year That Sounded Like Porn, But, Alas, Were Not Porn: Movieline
Best DVDs of the Year: Rolling Stone
Best Albums of the Year: NME
Best Fiction of the Year: Salon
Best Jazz Albums of the Year: A Blog Supreme
Best Albums of the Year: Tim Livingston
Best Albums of the Year: Filter Magazine
Best Albums of the Year: Mojo Magazine