Best in Show 2013

Time for the annual year round up again.
1 Mike Kelley at PS1

2 Michael Landy 'Saints Alive' at The National Gallery

3 'Jimmy Merris Sings The Blues' at Seventeen Gallery

4 Martin Kippenberger 'Sehr Gut' at Hamburger Banphof

5 Danny McDonald at Cabinet

6 Wolfgang Tillmans 'Central Nervous System' at Maureen Paley

7 Re-View: Onnasch Collection at Hauser and Wirth London

8 Philippe Parreno at Palais de Tokyo

9 Pierre Huyghe at Centre Pompidou

10 Cameron Jamie at Kunsthalle Zurich

Also notable: Thomas Zipp 'Comparative Investigation About The Disposition of the Width of a Circl' in Venice; Scott Treleavan at Invisible Exports; Travess Smalley at Higher Pictures; Alex Hubbard at Maccarone; David Horvitz at Chert Berlin; Ian Tweedy and N Dash at Dover Street Arts Club 

Show I've been most gutted to miss: Isa Genzken at MoMA (and I'm also sad there arent more women and group shows in my top ten)

This year I've curated 'Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye' at V1 Copenhagen and 'Is That All There Is?' screening at Import Projects

A Year in Art (my column from current issue of House magazine)

Top 10 Books for Christmas

I admit there is nothing notably festive about my selection but here goes. Apart from my last book 100 New Artists or course.

1 The Hidden Mother by Linda Fregni Nagler (MACK) (pictured above)

2 The Parapornographic Manifesto by Carl Michael Edenbourg

3 Xerography (catalogue from exhibition at Firstsite, Colchester)

4 Inner Planets by Cameron Jamie (Kunsthalle, Zurich)

5 Buffalo Zine No 2 - its a magazine but it really is incredible.

6 Art and Queer Culture (Phaidon)

7 My Mirage by Jim Shaw (JRP Ringier) admit it came out a year or so ago but its such a good present.

8 It's Nice That Annual 2013

9 The Holy Bible by Broomberg and Chanarin (MACK)

10 Elad Lassry: 2000 Words (The Urs Fischer and Josh Smith in the series are also very good)

Top 10 galleries

Perusing the aisles of Sunday, Frieze et al I thought I'd make a list of my top emerging galleries (esp as the Space of the Month slot is ending in Dazed)

The Sunday Painter (London) 

Exhibiting Artists - Samara Scott, Rob Chavasse, Rhys Coren

Seventeen Gallery (London) 

Exhibiting Artists - Oliver Laric, Jon Rafman, David Raymond Conroy

47 Canal Street (NYC) 

Exhibiting Artists - Michele Abeles, Antoine Catala

Ramiken Crucible (NYC)

Exhibiting Artists - Borden Capalino, Bjarne Melgaard

Kraupa Tuskany-Zeidler (Berlin)

Exhibiting Artists - Sture Johanesson, Katja Novitskova

Isabella Bortolozzi (Berlin)

Exhibiting Artists - Stephen G Rhodes, Ed Atkins, Danny McDonald

Karma International (Zurich)

Exhibiting Artists - Keichii Tanammi, Tobias Madison, Ida Ekblad

Altman Siegel (San Francisco)

Exhibiting Artists - Sara Vanderbeek, Trevor Paglen, Nate Boyce (pictured above)

Daniel Faria (Toronto)

Exhibiting Artist - Shannon Bool, Iris Haussler

Untitled (NYC)

Exhibition Artists: N Dash, Ian Tweedy, Brendan Fowler

Post Frieze 2013

Here are the blogs I wrote for Dazed
Day 1: The Build up
Day 2: The Fair
Day 3: The Rest
Day 4: The End and the Best

(Images from top Cory Arcangel at Team Gallery, Adrian Villar Rojas at Serpentine Sackler Gallery, Jordan Belson at Raven Row)

A Frieze Has Come Upon Us

Frieze is here and I am prepping for a VERY busy week. 

My preview highlights from the fair are up on Artsy, I am taking over the Dazed Magazine's Instagram all week @dazedmagazine, will be tweeting highlights from my private view timetable (which you can see here at the bottom right as well as on twitter @roughversion) and writing daily run downs for for Dazed Digital (links to follow).

I also had a very louche Artforum diary debut where I was snapped with the lovely Robert Bound from Monocle.