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Art 2009: Best and Worst

Art 2009: Best and Worst

Picasso, Wallinger, Richter, Calle and Sacred Spanish art win - Hirst's the turkey

Mark Wallinger instals his stainless steel 'Time and Relative Dimensions in Space' at the Haywardphoto Paul MacDiarmid/Getty Images
2009 hasn’t been a vintage year for art, exactly - no queue-round-the-block showstoppers, if that’s your type of thing. Nonetheless the year was nicely topped and tailed by some memorable, and quietly seductive shows. My top five are Picasso, Mark Wallinger, Gerhard Richter, Sophie Calle and The Sacred Made Real.
2009 hasn’t been a vintage year for art, exactly - no queue-round-the-block showstoppers, if that’s your type of thing. Nonetheless the year was nicely topped and tailed by some memorable, and quietly seductive shows. My top five are Picasso, Mark Wallinger, Gerhard Richter, Sophie Calle and The Sacred Made Real.

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