Old, Weird Winner

Congrats to Toby Kamps for winning an International Art Critics Award!

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AICAUSA AWARDS 2009
The International Association of Art Critics/USA bestows its annual awards honoring artists, museums and curators at the Guggenheim Museum on Mar. 2, 2009. The kudos are distributed by vote of the U.S. chapter of AICA, which now boasts over 400 members. To attend the event, contact aicausaprogram@gmail.com

* The award for "best monographic museum show nationally" goes to "Jasper Johns: Gray," organized by curators James Rondeau and Douglas Druick for the Art Institute of Chicago in cooperation with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Second place goes to "Dali: Painting & Film," which appeared at the Tate Modern, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.

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* The award for "best thematic museum show nationally" goes to "The Old, Weird America," organized by curator Toby Kamps for the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston. Second place goes to "Declaring Space: Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein," organized by Michael Auping at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

* The award for "best monographic museum show in New York City" [oh brother. New Spork gets its own categories] goes to "Louise Bourgeois," which was organized by Nancy Spector for the Guggenheim Museum in collaboration with curators at Tate Modern and Centre Pompidou. Second place goes to "Martin Puryear," organized by John Elderfield for the Museum of Modern Art.

* The award for "best thematic museum show in New Spork City" goes to "Action / Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940-1976," which appeared at the Jewish Museum as well as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Saint Louis Art Museum. Second place goes to "Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today," organized by Ann Temkin for the Museum of Modern Art.

* The award for "best show in a commercial gallery in New Spork City" goes to "Who’s Afraid of Jasper Johns" at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery, an exhibition conceived by Urs Fischer and Gavin Brown. Second place goes to "Jess: Paintings and Paste-Ups" at Tibor de Nagy Gallery.

* The award for best show in a commercial gallery nationally" goes to "James Welling" at Regen Projects in Los Angeles. Second place goes to "Jay Defeo: Applaud the Black Fact" at Nielsen Gallery in Boston.

* The award for best show by a nonprofit gallery or space" goes to "Frederic Kiesler: Co-Realities," organized by Dieter Bogner and Joao Ribas and appearing at the Drawing Center. Second place goes to "Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City," organized by Stephen Pinson at the New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library.

* The award for "best show in a university gallery" goes to "Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy," organized by Deborah Rothschild at the Williams College Museum of Art. Second place goes to "New York Cool: Painting and Sculpture from the NYU Art Collection," organized by Pepe Karmel for the Grey Art Gallery, NYU.

* The award for "best show in a public space" goes to "Playing the Building: An Installation by David Byrne," organized by Creative Time and curated by Anne Pasternak. [That shit is MAD. CLICK HERE and HERE for links] Second place goes to “Mike Nelson: A Psychic Vacuum," organized by Nato Thompson, also for Creative Time.

* The award for "best architecture or design show" goes to "Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe," curated by K. Michael Hays and Dana Miller and appearing at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Second place goes to "Design and the Elastic Mind," organized by Paola Antonelli at the Museum of Modern Art.

* The award for the "best historical show" goes to "Gustave Courbet," organized by Gary Tinterow and Kathryn Calley Galitz for the Metropolitan Museum and the Musée d’Orsay. Second place goes to "Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions," organized by Keith Christiansen and Pierre Rosenberg and appearing at the Metropolitan Museum and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao.

* The award for the "best exhibition of digital media, video or film" goes to "California Video," organized by Glenn Phillips for the J. Paul Getty Museum. Second place goes to "Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz," organized by Klaus Biesenbach for the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.

* The award for the "best performance" goes to "Allan Kaprow: 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (Re-doing)," presented by Performa 07 in cooperation with Haus der Kunst, Munich, at Deitch Studios in Long Island City. The curator was Stephanie Rosenthal. Second place goes to "Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: A Project by Paul Chan," co-produced by Creative Time and the Classical Theatre of Harlem.