AICA awards for top shows - Artworld - International Association of Art Critics, U.S. chapter

The U.S chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) recently presented its awards for the best museum and gallery shows in the 2001-02 season. Some 400 members cast ballots for their favorite picks. The award for best monographic museum show outside New York went to the Eva Hesse exhibition, organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum Wiesbaden in Germany. The Philadelphia Museum of Art's Barnett Newman retrospective took second place. The Gerhard Richter survey at the Museum of Modern Art won top honors for best monographic museum show in New York; MOMA's Alberto Giacometti exhibition, co-organized with the Kunsthaus Zurich, came in second. The Whitney Museum's "Into the Light: The Projected Image, 1964-77" was voted best thematic museum show in New York City, while MOMA's "The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934" took second. "Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-72," organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Tate Modern, won the award for best thematic museum show outside New York. Coming in second place was the L.A. County Museum's "Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930."

Richard Serra's show at Gagosian Gallery was named best commercial gallery show in New York; the Martin Puryear exhibition at McKee Gallery came in second. The award for best show in a commercial gallery outside New York City went to the Lee Bontecou exhibition at Daniel Weinberg Gallery in L.A.; Catherine Opie's show at Regen Projects in L.A. took second place. For best show in a kunsthalle or alternative space, SITE Santa Fe's biennial exhibition, "Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism" took top prize; the Philadelphia ICA's Charles LeDray survey placed second in that category.

Tribute in Light, the temporary World Trade Center memorial created by Julian LaVerdiere, Paul Myoda, John Bennett, Gustavo Bonevardi, Richard Nash Gould and Paul Marantz, was honored as best show in a public space. The Andy Goldsworthy installation at Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, N.Y., placed second. The Eleanor Antin show at New York's Ronald Feldman Gallery was voted the best by a midcareer artist, while Lynda Benglis's exhibition at Franklin Parrasch, also in New York, came in second. The award for best show of an emerging or underknown artist went to Tom Burckhardt at Tibor de Nagy gallery in New York. Tying for second place in that category were Arturo Herrera at Brent Sikkema and Gillian Jagger at Phyllis Kind, both in New York.

Winning top honors for best architecture or design show was MOMA's "Mies in Berlin"; second place went to "Extreme Beauty, The Body Transformed" at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum. The award for best Web-based art was presented to John Baldessari's Still Life: Choosing and Arranging on L.A. MOCA's site [moca.org]. Coming in second was Jeanne Dunning's Tom Thumb: Notes Toward a Case History at Diacenter.org.

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