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AICA-USA awards announced: International art critics association honors U.S. exhibits
The United States section of the International Association of Art Critics/AICA-USA has announced its annual awards to artists, curators, museums, galleries and other cultural institutions in recognition of excellence in the conception and realization of exhibitions.
The winning projects were nominated and voted on by AICA-USA’s 400 active members (which include this reporter). Exhibits were June 2009 to June 2010 were considered.
The 26 winners of first and second places in 12 categories, selected from more than 100 finalists, include exhibitions focusing on contemporary artists such as Marina Abramovic, Tino Seghal and Cai Guo-Qiang, the mid 20th-century artists Arshile Gorky and Yves Klein and the 19th-century and early 20th-century masters Henri Matisse, Otto Dix and Claude Monet, as well as thematic exhibitions dealing with the presence of women artists in pop art, history of performance art, and the Bauhaus.
The AICA Awards will be presented March 14 in New York by a group of distinguished curators, artists and former winners of AICA Awards, among them Chuck Close, Christo and Martin Puryear.
Elizabeth C. Baker, longtime editor of Art in America magazine, will be honored with a special Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field of Criticism.
To see the full list of AICA-USA awards, follow the jump.
BEST PROJECT IN A PUBLIC SPACE
First Place
“Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms”
Organized by the Fabric Workshop and Museum and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. Curated by Marion Boulton Stroud, Carlos Basualdo, and Adelina Vlas
Second Place (tie)
“Duke Riley: Those About to Die Salute You”
Organized by the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY. Curated by Hitomi Iwasaki
“Antony Gormley: Event Horizon”
Organized by Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York, NY. Curated by Debbie Landau
BEST SHOW IN A NON-PROFIT GALLERY OR SPACE
First Place
“Leon Golub: Live & Die like a Lion?”
Organized by The Drawing Center, New York, NY. Curated by Brett Littman
Second Place
“Ree Morton: At the Still Point of the Turning World”
Organized by The Drawing Center, New York, NY . Curated by Joao Ribas
BEST SHOW IN A UNIVERSITY GALLERY
First Place
“Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield”
Organized by the Hammer Museum of Art, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Robert Gober
Second Place
“Tania Bruguera: On the Political Imaginary”
Organized by Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY. Curated by Helaine Posner
BEST ARCHITECTURE OR DESIGN SHOW
First Place
“Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity”
Organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY in cooperation with the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Curated by Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman
Second Place (tie)
“Dead or Alive: Nature Becomes Art”
Organized by The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. Curated by David Revere McFadden and Lowery Stokes Sims
“ …OUT OF HERE: The Veterans Project (by Krzysztof Wodiczko)” Organized by The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA. Curated by Randi Hopkins
BEST SHOW INVOLVING DIGITAL MEDIA, VIDEO, FILM OR PERFORMANCE
First Place
“Tino Sehgal”
Organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. Curated by Nancy Spector
Second Place
“William Kentridge, I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine”
Organized by Performa, as part of Performa 09, Cedar Lake, NY. Curated by RoseLee Goldberg
BEST SHOW IN A COMMERCIAL GALLERY IN NEW YORK
First Place
“Claude Monet”
Organized by Gagosian Gallery. Curated by Paul Hayes Tucker
Second Place
“Primary Atmospheres: Works for California 1960-1970”
Organized by David Zwirner. Curated by Tim Nye and Kristine Bell
BEST SHOW IN A COMMERCIAL GALLERY NATIONALLY
First Place
“Lines, Shapes and Shadows: Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Richard Tuttle and Sol LeWitt”
Organized by Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA. Curated by Barbara Krakow and Andrew Witkin
Second Place
“Noriko Ambe: Artist Books, Linear-Actions Cutting Project”
Organized by Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX. Curated by Glenn Fuhrman
BEST MONOGRAPHIC MUSEUM SHOW IN NEW YORK
First Place
“Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present”
Organized by the Museum of Modern Art. Curated by Klaus Biesenbach
Second Place
“Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention”
Organized by The Jewish Museum. Curated by Mason Klein
BEST MONOGRAPHIC MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY
First Place
Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917”
Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Curated by Stephanie D’Alessandro and John Elderfield
Second Place
“Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective”
Organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA in association with Tate Modern, London and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Curated by Michael Taylor
BEST THEMATIC MUSEUM SHOW IN NEW YORK
First Place
“In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976”
Organized by the Museum of Modern Art. Curated by Christophe Cherix
Second Place
“100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009)”
Organized by MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY and Performa. Curated by Klaus Biesenbach and RoseLee Goldberg with additional curatorial advice from Jenny Schlenzka
BEST THEMATIC MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY
First Place
“Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968”
Organized by Rosenwald-Wolf, Hamilton Hall & Borowsky Galleries, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA . Curated by Sid Sachs
Second Place
“Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-1950s”
Organized by Newark Museum, Newark, NJ. Curated by Mary Kate O’Hare
BEST HISTORICAL MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY
First Place
“Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers”
Organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Curated by Kerry Brougher and Philippe Vergne
Second Place
“Otto Dix”
Organized by Neue Galerie, New York. Curated by Olaf Peters
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