■ Best show "Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer," Museum of Fine Arts
■ Best contemporary show "Jim Shaw: Entertaining Doubts," Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
■ Best group show "Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler," Rose Art Museum
■ Best 20th-century show "Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957," Institute of Contemporary Art
■ Best 19th-century show "Van Gogh and Nature," Clark Art Institute
■ Best Asian show "Hokusai," Museum of Fine Arts
■ Funniest show "Roz Chast: Cartoon Memoirs," Norman Rockwell Museum
■ Best Old Master show "Carlo Crivelli: Ornament and Illusion," Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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■ Most exciting reopening Wadsworth Atheneum
■ Honorable mention "Joan Jonas: They Come to Us Without a Word," US Pavilion, Venice Biennale
Sebastian Smee can be reached at ssmee@globe.com.