The 25 Best Art Exhibits of 2012

We're proud of the output and look forward to a year of more groundbreaking art and design. The 25 Best Art Exhibits of 2012

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2012 was a year of excellent art from all over the world. Whether in the form of painting, sculpture, street art, performance art, or otherwise, we saw a range of innovation and stories being told. Many artists embraced interactivity and futuristic technologies to communicate messages of the contemporary moment, while others reverted to objects and ideas of the past to show how far we've come. In all cases, we're proud of the output and look forward to a year of more groundbreaking art and design.

The 25 Best Art Exhibits of 2012

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25. Horses

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24. In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States

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23. Circa 1986

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22. Zoe Strauss: Ten Years

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21. TDM5: grafica italiana

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20. Weirded Out

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19. Animals and Grids

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18. The Modern Eye

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17. Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design

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16. Down Time

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15. Cloud City

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14. Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde

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13. Meta-Monumental Garage Sale

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12. Chuck Close

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11. The World Stage

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10. Sound & Vision

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9. Wrinkles of the City

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8. La Triennale, Intense Proximity

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7. Whitney Biennial 2012

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6. Keith Haring: 1978-1982

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5. Space Program: Mars

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4. Ghosts in the Machine

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3. Belief+Doubt

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2. Ai Weiwei: According to What?

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1. Picasso Black and White

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