NEW YORK —
We all enjoy reflecting on the previous year, especially in list form -
top 10, people of the year - so with just a couple of weeks left before we welcome in 2010, here's an art-related top 13 of the year...
The 400 active members of the
International Association of Art Critics (AICA) have nominated and cast their votes for the 2008-2009 art exhibitions of the year. The 26th annual awards recognize excellence in the conception and realization of exhibitions in the United States during the previous year. Honorees include artists, curators, museums and galleries. This year's award ceremony will take place at the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on February 16.
[Note: Members of the public may contact aicausaprogram@gmail.com for more information about attending the event. There are a limited number of seats available.]
The 2008/2009 AICA Award Winners:
1) BEST MONOGRAPHIC MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY
William Kentridge: Five Themes, organized by the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. Curator: Mark Rosenthal.
2) BEST THEMATIC MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY
Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. Curators: Stephanie Barron and Dr. Eckhart Gillen.
3) BEST MONOGRAPHIC MUSEUM SHOW IN NEW YORK CITY
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective, organized by the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Tate London, in partnership with the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Curators: Gary Tinterow assisted by Anne L. Strauss and Ian Alteveer.
4) BEST THEMATIC MUSEUM SHOW IN NEW YORK CITY
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Curator: Alexandra Munroe.
5) BEST SHOW IN A COMMERCIAL GALLERY IN NEW YORK CITY
Picasso: Mosqueteros, Gagosian Gallery, New York. Curator: John Richardson.
6) BEST SHOW IN A COMMERCIAL GALLERY NATIONALLY
John Altoon: Drawings 1962-1968, organized by The Box Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
7) BEST SHOW BY A NON-PROFIT GALLERY OR SPACE
Unica ZĂĽrn: Dark Spring, organized by The Drawing Center, New York. Curator: JoĂŁo Ribas.
8) BEST SHOW IN A UNIVERSITY GALLERY
The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles / Recent Art, organized by the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York. Curator: Lynn Gumpert.
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Dirt on Delight: Impulses that Form Clay organized by the Institute for Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Curators: Ingrid Shaffner and Jenelle Porter.
9) BEST SHOW IN A PUBLIC SPACE
The High Line NYC, organized by The High Line, New York. Curator: Lauren Ross.
10) BEST ARCHITECTURE OR DESIGN SHOW
Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Curators: Thomas Krens, David van der Leer, Maria Nicanor, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Margo Stipe and Oskar Muñoz.
11) BEST HISTORICAL SHOW
James Ensor, organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Curator: Anna Swinbourne.
12) BEST EXHIBITION OF DIGITAL MEDIA, VIDEO, OR FILM
Pipilotti Rist: Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters) organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Curator: Klaus Biesenbach.
13) BEST PERFORMANCE
Yvonne Rainer's RoS Indexical (2007) and Spiraling Down (2008) presented at REDCAT, Roy and Edna Disney/Cal Arts Theater, Los Angeles, CA in cooperation with the
J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Research Institute, and the World Performance Project at Yale University. Organizers: Mark Murphy, Emily Coates and Laurel Kishi.
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Critics Name the 13 Best Art Exhibits of 2009