Lawrence Rinder's top 10

Dean of graduate studies, California College of the Arts

1. Robert Gutierrez at Ratio 3

2. Ara Peterson at Ratio 3

3. 'Queremos Rock!' at Queen's Nails Annex

4. No-Neck Blues Band at CCA

5. Fraser Rotchford at CCA

6. Creativity Explored

7. Richard Tuttle at SFMOMA

8. Sniff at the Albany Bulb

9. Leonie Guyer and Michael Damm at Remote Satellite

10. Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore at the Judah L. Magnes Museum

Katie Kurtz's notable art events

Bay Guardian critic

The de Young Museum reopens I stopped by at 1 a.m. on Saturday night of opening weekend, and it was heart-warming to see that people were still willing to wait in line for a couple more hours to get in.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Gates (Central Park, NYC) Aside from the spectacle of the promenade, one highlight of the afternoon was seeing the expression on the Tavern on the Green bathroom attendant's face when a well-coiffed woman drunkenly stumbled out of a stall after throwing up. Spirits were all kinds of high that day.

My crystal ball told me a few years ago that other, smaller fairs would crop up during Art Basel Miami Beach, and not only has it come to pass, but the list is growing to include NADA, OMNIART-Miami, Frisbee, Pulse, and Aqua. Bay Area galleries such as Adobe Books' backroom gallery, Lisa Dent Gallery, Gregory Lind Gallery, and Traywick Contemporary were part of the Seattle-generated Aqua art fair.

Low Gallery opens and closes I only caught two shows. Bummer for me. See this issue's Critic's Choice, in Art listings.

The 'controversial' Suicide Girls-inspired cover of the summer issue of Fence Sexing up poetry is never a bad idea.

DJ Spooky's lecture (Axis Café) Mesmerizing.

Eleanor Harwood's top 10

Curator, Adobe Books' backroom gallery

1. 'The Zine Unbound: Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies' (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) Hot and Cold portion curated by Chris Duncan and Griffin McPartland; K48 portion curated by Scott Hug; and Werewolf Express portion curated by Trinie Dalton. Rene de Guzman and Berin Golonu also cocurated. Superenergetic show that made a large institution feel alive and accessible.

2. Leslie Shows (Jack Hanley Gallery) Wonderful, sensitive, imaginative work by an artist to watch.

3. The onslaught of 'one a day' shows curated by John Trippe (Low Gallery).

4. Jason Mecier's 'What Ever Happened to Farrah Fawcett?' (Adobe Books' backroom gallery) Yes, I curated the show – but Jason is one of the most overlooked artists in San Francisco.

5. 'The Triumph of Painting, Part 1' (Saatchi Gallery, London) I saw just the first show; seeing Peter Doig's paintings in person in the courthouse building made it great. The book is also a wonderful reference tool for painters. The survey show, which will continue through part six, resumes when the new Saatchi space opens and is worth seeing, if you can.

6. The line to get into the de Young's opening-night party The broad cross section of people willing to queue for hours to see the museum and the party was inspiring.

7. The Art Business Web site (www.artbusiness.com/openings.html), in particular the San Francisco art openings section. I don't always agree with Alan Bamberger's assessment of art, but the sheer volume of exhibits he gets to, and the quantity of images posted, make it a phenomenal resource.

8. Lawrence Rinder His being lured from the Whitney Museum back to California College of the Arts as the dean of graduate studies is a coup, and San Francisco is better for it.

9. The Miami art fairs For all of you who have seen the madness and feel jaded, and to those who haven't been, let me say that, from my vantage point as a wide-eyed first-timer, it was incredible. I've never seen so much real and fake beauty all in one place at one time.

10. Brion Nuda Rosch's curatorial efforts at Mimi Barr The art space and store opened in November 2003 and closed in January 2005, yet it was one of the places that kept San Francisco vibrant in 2005.