Awards season continues…
It’s especially gratifying to win recognition from peers, and this week the Association of Art Museum Curators announced their awards for excellence in 2009. There ought to have been celebrations at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston, Williams College Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art — especially MoMA, which took home two honors.
I’m going to list only the top awards; you can read about the runners-up and the honorable mentions here.
First the catalogues:
Outstanding Catalogue Based on a Permanent Collecton: Michael R. Taylor, et. al., at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for Marcel Duchamp: Etant donnes
Outstanding Exhibition Catalogue: Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman, of the Museum of Modern Art, for Bauhaus, 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
Outstanding Article, Essay or Extended Catalogue Entry: Nancy Mowll Mathews, of Williams College Museum of Art, for “Prendergast in Italy” in Prendergast in Italy
And the exhibitions:
Outstanding Exhibition, Eastern Time Zone: A tie! Bauhaus, 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, at MoMA, curated by Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman, and Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, curated by Frederick Ilchman
Outstanding Exhibition, Central Time Zone: Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth, Art Institute of Chicago, curated by Jay A. Clarke
Outstanding Exhibition, Pacific Time Zone: Art of Two Germanies/Cold War Cultures, LACMA, curated by Stephanie Barron and co-curator Eckhart Gillen
Hmmm. What happened to Mountain time?
What the awards need now is a catchy name, something like the Webbys or the Tonys. Any thoughts?