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From: art reviews Category: Art Date: 30 December 2009 Time: 09:42 AM Review: Dontcha hate those waste of space, journalists on holidays, top tens which fill the the net and newspapers around this time of year adding to the depressing nothingness of the festive season! So here we go: BEST FIVE SHOWS OF THE NOUGHTIES -Matisse/Picasso astonishingly beautiful when they play off each other. Matisse better. -The Sopranos really great tv, like a novel, far better than overhyped dull The Wire -The first frieze art fair. Yes it is what it is. And painting dominates cos it's what sells as it hangs well. -David Smith at Tate Modern. finally sculpture makes sense -Vyner Street at its peak. The crowds make you think one monkey must be shakespeare. The lows of the noughties - Invading Iraq, a mistake of catastrophic proportions which may lead to Tory disaster. - The Venice Biennale for the third time, socially pseudopolitical worthy, proposal driven art fouling the beautiful dream. - frieze magazine- pretending to be clever about bizness. -Tate Modern Turbine Hall- patronsing with funfair art. -All gallerists and collectors everywhere talking on mobile phones and namedropping and ignoring unvip people.. it's the fucking art that matters, not which rich idiot bought it.