Visit The New Yorker's site to see Peter Schjeldahl's picks for the ten best shows of 2008:

"It was a signal if not banner year in the art world, when a market boom that had reduced all value to price peaked and commenced crashing. Amid last-call shows and auctions of arrogantly expensive stuff, some events prefigured the sorts of things we will talk about once a dolorous but bracing silence of cash registers has let us hear ourselves think again."