ASSOCIATION OF ART MUSEUM CURATORS ANNOUNCES AWARDS

The Association of Art Museum Curators announced their latest round of awards for excellence this week at the group’s annual meeting in New York, reports the Los Angeles Times’s Suzanne Muchnic.

Among the winners is LACMA’s reinstallation (helmed by senior curator Stephanie Barron) of the museum’s permanent collection of modern art, including the recent acquisition of the Janice and Henri Lazarof collection; it was cited as the most outstanding exhibition or installation in the Pacific-time-zone category.

In the Eastern time zone, the judges called a tie between the Museum of Modern Art’s “Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927–1937,” curated by Anne Umland, and the Jewish Museum’s “Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976.” The latter was curated by Norman Kleeblatt and a team of consultants in collaboration with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, and the Saint Louis Art Museum. “Action/Abstraction” also garnered the Central-time-zone award for its Saint Louis edition, curated by Charlotte Eyerman.

Among the publications honored by the association, Drawn by New York: Six Centuries of Watercolors and Drawings at the New York Historical Society by Roberta J. M. Olson was named the most outstanding catalogue of a museum’s permanent collection. Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans”—Expanded Edition by Sarah Greenough was deemed the best exhibition catalogue. “Marsden Hartley’s Aryanism: Eugenics in a Finnish-Yankee Sauna” by Randall R. Griffey was the top essay.