AICA Picks Top Shows - International Association of Art Critics - Brief Article

Art in America, Jan, 2001 by Stephanie Cash, David Ebony

The U.S. chapter of the International Association of Art Critics, which includes nearly 400 members, recently presented its awards for the top shows for the 1999-2000 season. The Guggenheim Museum won honors for best museum exhibition in New York City with "1900: Art at the Crossroads" taking first place and "The Worlds of Nam June Paik" coming in second.

"1900" also won for best exhibition catalogue; the publication for "The Bruce Conner Story, Part II" at the Walker Art Center placed second. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Sol LeWitt retrospective, now on view at the Whitney, won for best museum show outside New York City. "In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art," organized by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, took second place in that category. The Drawing Center's exhibition of the Prinzhorn Collection garnered the prize for best show in an alternative or public space. Second place in that category went to "The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture 1982-2000" at Exit Art. In the category of best show of an underknown or emerging artist, the top prize was shared by the Valle Export exhibition at the Galleries at Moore College and the Lee Mullican drawings show at the UCLA Hammer Museum. Second-place honors went to Pat Oleszko at the Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University. The award for best photography show went to the Grey Art Gallery for "Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, and Cindy Sherman," with Vik Muniz at Brent Sikkema and Ubu Gallery taking second. "The Un-Private House" at the Museum of Modern Art won first place in the best architecture or design show, followed by the Charles and Ray Eames show, organized by the Library of Congress. Winning the award for best video show was Tony Oursler's midcareer survey at the Williams College Museum of Art. Pipilotti Rist at Luhring Augustine came in second. The prize for best show in a commercial gallery went to Jenny Saville at Gagosian Gallery; Ursula von Rydingsvard at Galerie Lelong came in second.