2020: The best in visual arts | The Daily Gazette
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It seems strange to be writing a “best of” list in 2020, during a year when it’s been difficult to focus on anything besides the seemingly never-ending deluge of bad news.
Yet, to not make a list would be to ignore the artists, curators, educators and others who marched on despite the dismal circumstances; who kept creating throughout the pandemic and a stressful election cycle. To highlight their work, we’ve put together a list of some of our favorite exhibitions of the year.
At the Hyde Collection
This Glens Falls institution started the year off strong with “Francisco Goya: The Caprichos Etchings and Aquatints” and “Dox Thrash, Black Life, and the Carborundum Mezzotint.” Both exhibitions focused on truth-telling in one way or another, through comedic scenes and works with fantastical creatures or through vivid portraits. Both captured societal changes and tried to depict the world around them as they saw it.