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They Take The Prizes For The Best Exhibitions and Catalogues In 2009

Awards season continues… 

Bauhaus catalogue.jpgIt’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?

 

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About Judith H. Dobrzynski

Now an independent journalist, I've worked as a reporter in the culture and business sections of The New York Times, and been the editor of the Sunday business section and deputy business editor there as well as a senior editor of Business Week and the managing editor of CNBC, the cable TV

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