Henri Matisse, La Gerbe (1953).
Photo: courtesy Stedelijk Museum.
The International Association of Art Critics United States has named its 2014 award winners.
Among the recipients are Kara Walker’s challenging project A Subtlety, organized by Creative Time in Brooklyn (see Kara Walker on Her Bittersweet Colossus), the blockbuster Henri Matisse cut-outs exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, which was co-organized with Tate Modern (see Matisse Cut-Outs at Tate Modern Rewrite Art History, and the Pierre Huyghe retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (see Is Pierre Huyghe the World’s Most Opaque Popular Artist? Ben Davis Sizes Up His LACMA Show).
Smaller projects like a Greer Lankton exhibition at New York’s Participant Inc., and a Mickalene Thomas exhibition at Chicago’s Kavi Gupta, were also recognized.
The winners are:
1) BEST PRESENTATION IN AN ALTERNATIVE VENUE (alternative space, public art, project space, or university gallery)
1st Place
“Kara Walker: A Subtlety” at Domino Sugar Factory, Brooklyn, organized by Creative Time
2nd Place
“Greer Lankton, LOVE ME,” at Participant Inc., New York
2) BEST TIME-BASED FORMAT (performance, video film, sound)
1st Place
“Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors,” at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (ICA Boston)
2nd Place
“Mary Reid Kelley: Working Objects and Videos,” at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, New York, 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,” at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
2nd Place
“Robert Rauschenberg: The Fulton Street Studio, 1953–54,” at Craig F. Starr Gallery
4) BEST SHOW IN A COMMERCIAL SPACE NATIONALLY
1st Place
“Mickalene Thomas: I was born to do great things,” at Kavi Gupta, Chicago
2nd Place
“Hiroshi Sugimoto: Acts of God,” at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
5) BEST MONOGRAPHIC MUSEUM SHOW IN NEW YORK
1st Place
“Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs,” at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, curated by Karl Buchberg and Jodi Hauptman
2nd Place
“Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor,” at MoMA, curated by Ann Temkin
6) BEST MONOGRAPHIC MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY
1st Place
“Pierre Huyghe” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, curated by Jarrett Gregory
2nd Place
“Dear Nemesis, Nicole Eisenman,” at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis and the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, curated by Kelly Shindler
7) BEST THEMATIC MUSEUM SHOW IN NEW YORK
1st Place
“From the Margins: Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis,” at the Jewish Museum, New York, curated by Norman L. Kleeblatt and Stephen Brown
2nd Place
“Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe,” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, curated by Vivien Greene
8) BEST THEMATIC MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY
1st Place
“Fiber: Sculpture 1960–Present,” ICA Boston, 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, for “The Cult of Jeff Koons” and “You Can’t Catch Picasso”
10) BEST ART REPORTING
1st Place
Jillian Steinhauer, at Hyperallergic
2nd Place
Randy Kennedy, The New York Times
11) BEST BLOG
1st Place
2nd Place