Museum Curator Awards for 2006

The Association of Art Museum Curators recently announced its member-selected awards for excellence for 2006. Receiving awards for best exhibition or installation were Elisabeth Sussman and Catherine de Zegher for "Eva Hesse Drawing" at the Menil Collection in Houston and the Drawing Center, New York; Sabine Rewald for "Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s" at the Metropolitan Museum; and Jennifer Gross and Susan Greenberg Fisher for their installation of the traveling Societe Anonyme exhibition at the UCLA Hammer Museum.

The award for outstanding exhibition catalogue was shared by Leah Dickerman of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., for Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris, and Deborah Wye and Wendy Weitman for Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples/1960 to Now at the Museum of Modern Art. Receiving an honorable mention in that category were Sarah D. Coffin, Darra Goldstein and Ellen Lupton for Feeding Desire at the CooperHewitt National Design Museum in New York. Linda Wolk-Simon was recognized for her essay focusing on a single work, Raphael at the Metropolitan: The Colonna Altarpiece, while Jay A. Clarke's essay in Edvard Munch: An Anthology received the prize for best essay focusing on a group of objects. Teresa A. Carbone won the prize for best catalogue based on a permanent collection with American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: Artists Born by 1876.

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