International Association of Art Critics Announce 2014 AICA Award Winners

International Association of Art Critics

The International Association of Art Critics which is headquartered in New York have announced their awards for the 2014-2015 year.  AICA-USA’s membership comprises the largest national section of AICA International: over 400 distinguished critics, curators, scholars, and art historians working throughout the United States. AICA-USA is intent on international communication, elevating the values of art criticism as a discipline, and acting on behalf of the physical and moral defense of works of art.

AICA-USA organises several annual events: a distinguished critic lecture at the New School in New York, a panel discussion about art criticism topics at the College Art Association convention, an annual awards ceremony honoring exhibitions in museums and commercial galleries, and tours to artists’ studios in emerging art neighborhoods. We collaborate with hosting organizations to present topical seminars, panels, and discussions, and partner with Cue and Warhol Foundations to operate mentorship programs for young critics. Each year, in a widely covered event, AICA-USA presents museums, galleries and alternative spaces with Best Show awards, and is the only organization to award excellence in museum and gallery exhibitions. It does so to indicate the standards by which its members judge what they see. An active Professional Issues Committee concerns itself with working conditions for critic, and an Advocacy Committee investigates issues of concern to the profession and advises the board and the membership on actions to take.

Here are the Awards

 

1) BEST PRESENTATION IN AN ALTERNATIVE VENUE (alternative space, public art, project space, or university gallery)

1st Place

Kara Walker: A Subtlety / Domino Sugar Factory, Brooklyn, NY / Creative Time

2nd Place

Greer Lankton, LOVE ME / Participant Inc., New York, NY

 

2) BEST TIME-BASED FORMAT (performance, video film, sound)

1st Place

Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors / Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

2nd Place

Mary Reid Kelley: Working Objects and Videos / Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY / Curated by Daniel Belasco

 

3) BEST SHOW IN A COMMERCIAL SPACE IN NEW YORK

1st Place

Nancy Grossman: The Edge of Always, Constructions from the 1960s / Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

2nd Place

Robert Rauschenberg: The Fulton Street Studio, 1953­–54 / Craig F. Starr, New York, NY

 

4) BEST SHOW IN A COMMERCIAL SPACE NATIONALLY

1st Place

Mickalene Thomas: I was born to do great things / Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL

2nd Place

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Acts of God / Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

5) BEST MONOGRAPHIC MUSEUM SHOW IN NEW YORK

1st Place

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs / MoMA New York, NY / Curated by Karl Buchberg   and Jodi Hauptman

2nd Place

Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor / MoMA, New York, NY / Curated by   Ann Temkin

 

6) BEST MONOGRAPHIC MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY

1st Place

Pierre Huyghe / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA / Curated by Jarrett Gregory

2nd Place

Dear Nemesis, Nicole Eisenman / Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; ICA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA / Curated by Kelly Shindler

 

7) BEST THEMATIC MUSEUM SHOW IN NEW YORK

1st Place

From the Margins: Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis / The Jewish Museum, New York, NY / Curated by Norman L. Kleeblatt and Stephen Brown

2nd Place

Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe / Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY / Curated by Vivien Greene

 

8) BEST THEMATIC MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY

1st Place

Fiber: Sculpture 1960-Present / ICA Boston, Boston, MA / Curated by Jenelle Porter

2nd Place

Neo-Impressionism and the Dream of Realities: Painting, Poetry, Music / The    Phillips Collection, Washington, DC / Curated by Cornelia Homburg

 

9) BEST CRITICISM

1st Place

Holland Cotter / The New York Times

2nd Place

Jed Perl / New York Review of Books / “The Cult of Jeff Koons” and “You Can’t Catch Picasso”

 

10) BEST ART REPORTING

1st Place

Jillian Steinhauer / Hyperallergic

2nd Place

Randy Kennedy / The New York Times

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