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Best of 2022: The biggest art stories mattered more than soup thrown on a Van Gogh

A fire extinguisher used by a Just Stop Oil demonstrator to spray an orange substance on the window shop of the Aston Martin car show room, during an action by environmental activist group in London on Oct. 16, 2022.

LOS ANGELES — The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, but museum and gallery exhibitions are getting back on track. Rather than write the usual list of 10 best shows, I'm sharing these 10 art stories that caught my eye this year.

Gender spree

The concentrated institutional effort toward gender equity in art museum exhibitions continues to bear fruit. In addition to group shows like those at Pomona's American Museum of Ceramic Art ("Breaking Ground: Women in California Clay") and the Orange County Museum of Art ("13 Women"), a flurry of solo retrospectives of important artists marks the year. Standouts include Niki de Saint Phalle and Alexis Smith at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Christina Fernandez

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