Best of 2011: Sebastien Barre’s Best of the Year
BEST CONCERTS
TV on the Radio at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs.
Four Tet + Jon Hopkins at EMPAC at RPI, Troy
BEST ART EXHIBITS
“The Strange World of Albrecht Dürer” at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
“Spaces: Photographs by Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth” at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
“Alumni Invitational 3” at Skidmore College’s Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs
“Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge” at MASS MoCA, North Adams
BEST ARTS EVENT
Living Walls at various locations, Albany
BEST THEATER
Phantom Limb’s “69 S.” at EMPAC at RPI, Troy
By Sebastien Barre, photographer and Nippertown contributor
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Paste Magazine’s Top 20 New Bands
J. Eric Smith’s Top Album
Rolling Stone’s Top 10 Albums
Brian Patneaude’s Top 5 CDs
American Film Institute’s Top 10 Movies
Stanley Johnson’s Top 10 Concerts
Richard Brody’s Top Books
That Durer show was probably one of my two favorite exhibitions I ever saw at the Clark (the John Singer Sargent show from a few years back moved me equally well) . . . . I’m glad that my last trip to Williamstown included that gem of a show: exceptional art, exceptionally well curated and presented.