Ten Art Editions to Buy Now

I've always been obsessed with looking at editions you can buy online and it amazes me how many are available and forgotten. These are ten that I'd buy before they go (and um maybe have bought for myself already). I recommend all these 10 pieces. 

Jonathan Meese £500

Benedict Drew £120

Raymond Pettibon $2500

Dawn Mellor £50

Isabelle Cornaro £500

Duncan Campbell $150

Dorothy Iannone $100

Christina Mackie £240

Ed Atkins £150

Paulina Olowska £120 (or a pair for £200)

Best in Show 2014

My annual round of up of the top ten shows of the year made it on to Dazed this year (with explanation) but here is the round up again in list form (with my own picture selection)

1 PIERRE HUYGHE AT HAUSER AND WIRTH, SAVILE ROW

2 KERRY JAMES MARSHALL AT MUHKA ANTWERP

3 KP BREHMER or YVONNE RAINER AT RAVEN ROW LONDON

4 CAMILLE HENROT AT CHISENHALE AND NEW MUSEUM

5  PAUL MCCARTHY AT MONNAIE DE PARIS

6 ISA GENZKEN AT MCA CHICAGO

7 ED ATKINS AT SERPENTINE GALLERY

8 MICHAEL SMITH AT TRAMWAY, GLASGOW

9 ART AND SOUND AT FONDAZIONE PRADA, VENICE

10 THE MOVING MUSEUM, ISTANBUL

And special mentions to Sigmar Polke at the Tate Modern and Iwona Blaswick's incredible show with NEON in Athens 'A Thousand Doors'.

Five shows to see this month

Oliver Laric @ Tanya Leighton, Berlin opening Friday Nov 21 6-9pm

Selected by... curated by Michael Marriott and Jesse Wine at Limoncello, London opening Saturday Nov 22 3-5pm

Ed Atkins @ Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin opening Saturday Nov 22 6-8pm

Samara Scott @ The Sunday Painter, London Nov 29-Jan 18

Congratulations on your ugly handwriting, Cura Basement, Rome opening Nov 27 7pm

Chic-a-go

Couple of days and my two weeks in Chicago are up. 

The Iza Genzken at MCA and Christopher Wool at the Art Institute were everything I could have hoped for; I loved seeing Ed Atkins' full Even Pricks film at the Renaissance Society (in my eyes he does no wrong); William Pope L's Diversity Talk at the MCA dressed as a rat alongside a cow and rooster was rather amazing (despite the odd moment when we were all asked to sing America America which reminded me of the weird patriotic nationalist weirdness of growing up here) and I had a full on heart break in front of a purple Monet and sludgy Rothko.

Update Update

Lots of writing out and about at the moment (gosh whenever I write that explaining update delays it makes me cringe and think of this Cory Arcangel project!!)

So here are 10 things I have written and seen and recommend to all - aside from The Book of Hearts which has made appearance at Grand Central Station, Artwords and Scribbler (as well at the Observer magazine and Independent online)

1 I was turned on by these exhibitions: Gauguin at Ordovas, William Burroughs at Photographers Gallery, Stephen Willats at Raven Row, Cecile B Evans online AGNES piece for the Serpentine, Christian Jankowski at Lisson and the incredible Heath Bunting piece 'Skint' in the Contemporary Art Society show at Whitechapel

2 Interviews with Simon Denny and Nate Boyce respectively for Postmatter.com

3 Cover feature interview with Bjarne Melgaard about his Gavin Brown show for the Man/Boy issue of Sleek

4 The Return of Paris for Artsy

5 Top 10 Girls on Show for Dazed Digital

6 How art is getting to grips with on and offline space for Artsy

7 My Dazed Q&A with Ed Atkins now online

8 Piece on my September show at V1 Gallery included in issue 1 of Riposte

9 Issue 9 of Twin magazine on shelves with interview I did with Kerry James Marshall, pieces on Philip Lorca di Corcia, Nicola Tyson Copenhagen art scene and a curated exhibition project from Henry Kinman.

10 Interviews with Camille Henrot and Collier Schoor in the girls rule issue of Dazed

Image Tales of Paradise: Gauguin installation view, Photography by Mike Bruce at Ordovas 

Best in Show 2012

Here's my annual round up of the best exhibitions of 2012. These are the moments when my stomach flipped, brain blew and I got all excited. The reason why I refuse to say all art is rubbish. 

The list below of course does not include my hat trick of exhibitions this year - The Dark Cube at the Palais de Tokyo, E-Vapor-8 at 319 Scholes and Responsive Eyes at Jacob's Island - though of course they were a big focus for me...

1 Documenta (for so many reasons)

2 Bronze at the Royal Academy of Arts London

3 Ghosts in the Machine at the New Museum

4 Les Maitres du Desordre at Musee Quai Branly

5 Antoine Catala at 47 Canal Street

6 Ed Atkins at Chisenhale

7 Bruce Lacey at Camden Arts Centre

8 One on One at KW Berlin (especially for Jeremy Shaw's incredible hypnotic video installation)

9 Jeremy Deller at Hayward Gallery

10 The Historical Box at Hauser and Wirth

If you want to see previous annual round ups check: 2011, 2010 and 2009

Top 10 shows to see this month

I miss the old Time Out. I would occassionally get it to tick all the shows I had seen and circle the ones I had not. Now there is only artupdate et al to keep me entertained (thank god that exists) in non digital form.

I think I might try to make up for this with regular top 10 lists of shows to go to each month (as well as tweets which you can view at the bottom right of this blog)

1 Converse/Dazed Emerging Artist Award (opening Oct 25)

2 Ed Atkins @ Chisenhale (pictured above)

3 Rashid Johnson @ South London Gallery

4 Theaster Gates @ Whitecube Bermondsey (esp for the library piece)

5 After/Hours/Drop/Box @ AND/OR

6 Jesse Wine @ Limoncello

7 Bronze @ Royal Academy of Arts

8 Guy Rusha @ The Sunday Painter

9 Klein/Moriyama @ Tate Modern

10 Jack Strange @ Project Number (opens Oct 25)