AICA Announces Best Exhibitions of 2005-2006 Season

An awards ceremony will be held in New York, February 21.

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The International Association of Art Critics/USA (AICA USA) has revealed the recipients of its 2005-2006 Annual Awards, honoring the best exhibitions of the season. This year’s list includes the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Christie’s, and SFMOMA, among others.

On February 21, the AICA Awards Ceremony, free of charge and open to the public, will be held at El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY from 6 to 8 pm.

Bestowed to artists, curators, gallerists, critics, scholars, cultural institutions, museums, and galleries, the awards nationally honor excellence in the conception and realization of exhibitions.

Winners are selected by AICA members. A complete list of winners is below.

BEST MONOGRAPHIC MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY

First place
Robert Rauschenberg: Combines. Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Curator: Paul Schimmel

Second Place
The Art of Richard Tuttle. Organized by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Curator: Madeleine Grynsztejn

BEST THEMATIC MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY
First Place
Dada. Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Curators: Leah Dickerman, Laurent Le Bon and coordinating curator for MoMA: Anne Umland.

Second Place
The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America. Presented at the Hammer
Museum and organized by the Yale University Art Gallery. Curators: Jennifer Gross, with Susan Greenberg

BEST MONOGRAPHIC MUSEUM SHOW IN NEW YORK CITY
First Place
David Smith: A Centennial. Organized by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Curator: Carmen Gimenez

Second Place
Eva Hesse: Sculpture. Organized by The Jewish Museum. Co Curator: Fred Wasserman, and guest co-curator: Elizabeth Sussman

BEST THEMATIC MUSEUM SHOW IN NEW YORK CITY

First Place
The Downtown Show: The New York Scene, 1974-1984. Organized by Grey Art Gallery and Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University. Curator: Carlo McCormick in consultation with Lynn Gumpert, and Marvin J. Taylor.

Second Place
Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary Photography.
Organized by International Center of Photography. Curator: Okwui Enwezor

BEST SHOW IN A COMMERCIAL GALLERY IN NEW YORK

William Kentridge: The Magic Flute: Drawings and Projections. Marian Goodman Gallery.

BEST SHOW IN A COMMERCIAL GALLERY NATIONALLY
David Ireland. Jess & Al Souza at Moody Gallery, Houston,TX.

BEST SHOW IN A TEMPORARY OR ALTERNATIVE SPACE

First Place
Donald Judd: Selected Works from the Judd Foundation. Presented by Christie's and organized by Judd Foundation, exhibition installation and design by Flavin Judd

Second Place
Neo Sincerity. Apex Art. Curator: Amei Wallach.

BEST SHOW IN A PUBLIC SPACE

Robert Smithson: Floating Island to Travel Around Manhattan Island. Organized by Minetta Brook in collaboration with the Whitney Museum under the direction of Eugenie Tsai and Chrissie Isles Curated by Diane Shamash and Nancy Holt, with assistance from Diana Balmori and Floating Cinema
Project realized in association with the Robert Smithson Estate, represented by the James Cohan Gallery.

BEST ARCHITECTURE OR DESIGN SHOW

First Place
Andrea Zittel: Critical Space. Co- organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Curators: Paola Morsiani and Trevor Smith.

Second Place
Zaha Hadid. Organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Curated by Germano Celant and Monica Ramirez-Montagut

BEST HISTORICAL SHOW
Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings. Organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Van Gogh Museum. Curators: Colta Ives, Susan Alyson Stein, Sjraar van Heugten, and Marije Vellekoop.

BEST EXHIBITION OF TIME BASED ART (VIDEO, FILM, or PERFORMANCE )

Marina Abramovic: Seven Easy Pieces, Guggenheim Museum.
Curator: Nancy Spector with Jennifer Blessing