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'.

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.

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