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Jerry Saltz (below), Senior Art Critic for New York magazine and regular Saatchi Online magazine contributor selects his top 10 hits of the year including the Whitney for its outstanding series of exhibitions, and a performance by Matthew Barney - 'On a Sunday afternoon in April, in a raw ground-floor cold-water loft twenty feet from the East River, Matthew Barney staged an extraordinary performance. A spellbound crowd watched him walk around slowly with a dog on his head; two half-naked women bent over backward in order to urinate in an arc, a marching band wore terrorist masks; a huge bull attempted to mate with a 1967 Chrysler.'

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Solo shows by Glenn Brown, Robert Gober, Ryan Trecartin and Qiu Anxiong are among the highlights of 2007 chosen by the British writer and Turner Prize judge, Michael Bracewell; Whitney curator Shamim M Momim (below) and New York-based critic Barbara Pollack.

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Artist Cornelia Parker (below) was most impressed by Georg Bazelitz at the Royal Academy in London, while Morgan Falconer reflects on the lack of impressive museum shows of contemporary art, selecting instead Mitchell Algus's show of neglected European artists from the 1960s and 1970s; and London photography gallerist Michael Hoppen picks at show at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris about social reportage and its beginnings.

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'The Painting of Modern Life' at the Hayward Gallery in London, and the opening of the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art in Beijing were the hits of the year for Kenny Schachter (below) and Karen Smith respectively, while for Mark Haworth-Booth the low point of the year was the death of the legendary photography curator, John Szarkowski.

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The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (below), Kris Martin at PS1 in New York and Michal Rovner at the Gallerie Haas in Berlin are among the highlights selected by this trio of two dealers and an art historian.

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Gregor Muir (below), director of Hauser and Wirth, London chooses Paul McCarthy's exhibition at SMAK in Ghent, artist Goshka Macuga picks Klaus Weber's The Big Giving at Herald Street, London, and Rebecca Geldard, Saatchi Online magazine contributor and freelance writer, singles out Armen Eloyan's solo show at the Parasol Unit in London.

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Fiona Rae (below) chooses the Louise Bourgeois show at Tate Modern; Sadie Coles nominates two survey shows for Richard Prince and Robert Gober; and Robert Storr remembers several stand-out studio visits he made during the 2007 Venice Biennale selection process.

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Matthew Collings (below) celebrates Georg Baselitz's show at the Royal Academy in London, Susan Bright chooses Taryn Simon's touring exhibition and book 'An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar', and David Gryn is most dazzled by Christian Marclay at White Cube.

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Maureen Paley's highlight of the year was David Wojnarowicz at Between Bridges; for Glenn Scott Wright it was the new MCA Denver museum; while fellow dealer Javier Peres (below) singles out the young Norwegian artist Gardar Eide Einarsson.

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The most rewarding show of the year for Ana Finel Honigman (below) was 'Seduced' at London's Barbican; for Bettina von Hase it was Anselm Kiefer at the Grand Palais in Paris; James Birch's favourite exhibition was the Pop art show at Gagosian in London; and Artangel co-founder James Lingwood selects Mike Kelley's solo show in Munster.

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Saatchi Online magazine's regular New York correspondent Doug McClemont (below) looks back over the 10 stand-out cultural moments of the year, including the new New Museum, Isa Genzken at David Zwirner, Daphne Fitzpatrick at Bellwether and the recreation of The Cock at Jeffrey Deitch's Soho gallery.

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Saatchi Online magazine's China correspondent, Stacey Duff (below), looks back over a year in which China saw the opening of the Ullens Center in Beijing, lots of important shows for established and emerging Chinese artists, and an unprecedented number of solo shows by non-Chinese artists, plus the launch of Saatchi Online in Mandarin with, so far, 10,000 art students in China registered on the site.

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Artist Peter Davies hails Rudolf Stingel as the 'new' Martin Kippenberger and Richard Prince; Dan Perfect, whose own show opens at Chisenhale on 16 January, chooses as his highlight of the year the Prunella Clough retrospective at Tate Britain; and for curator and artist Cedar Lewisohn the work in John Russell's show (below) at Matt's Gallery in London was 'so out there it's come back in, made a cup of tea and a cheese sandwich, then vomited it all up again in the style of a neon Jackson Pollock made out of raw meat.'

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Among Tim Marlow's top shows of 2007 was Anselm Kiefer's 'Sternenfall' at the Grand Palais in Paris; Jessica Morgan chooses Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; and Becky Smith (below) nominates Jeni Spota at Sister, LA.

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