{"id":6137,"date":"2016-08-28T00:29:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T00:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalfineartawards.org\/wp\/?page_id=6137"},"modified":"2016-08-28T00:37:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T00:37:07","slug":"accolades-recap","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/globalfineartawards.org\/index.php\/accolades-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Accolades Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Accolades and <\/strong>Endorsements from Award Nominees, Media, Partners and the Global Art Community<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are all very proud\u2026(this exhibition) received wide critical acclaim in the press, but this award is the most important testament to the huge impact the exhibition has had.\u201d <\/em>On their \u201cLight, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography\u201d exhibition receiving the award for Best Photography, Timothy Potts, Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat an incredible feat\u00a0you\u00a0pulled off \u2026I was amazed! Best wishes!! Dean\u201d <\/em>Dean Phelus, GFAA Judge and American Alliance of Museums\u2019 <\/strong>Senior Director of Leadership Programs<\/p>\n

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\u201cI can’t tell you how thrilled I am that the work is being recognized as a finalist for a Global Fine Art award. It is a wonderful honor. With great appreciation.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 Sarah Sze, Artist<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u201cI would never expect that this project would find such an enthusiastic public response and international recognition.\u201d <\/em>Moscow Kremlin Museum\u2019s <\/strong>exhibition Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Manifest of the New Style wins the Youniversal award, Dr. Olga Dmitrieva, Deputy General Director of Education<\/strong>, and Professor, Faculty of History, Moscow State University<\/p>\n

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“I wanted to thank you and the judges once more for the great honor that you have bestowed on the Metropolitan Museum and the Deccan exhibition.\u201d <\/em>Navina Haidar, Curator, Department of Islamic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/strong>,<\/p>\n

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“Thank you so much for the nomination of a 2015 Global Fine Arts Award!\u201c\u00a0 <\/em>Jessica Man, Curatorial Assistant to the Chief Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art,<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Thank you so much for your letter with the lovely news that Jaume Plensa\u2019s exhibition in Venice, Together, was recognized and acknowledged by your organization.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s always rewarding to know that the work of our artists is celebrated and appreciated.”\u00a0 <\/em>Mary Sabbatino,\u00a0Vice President\/Partner,\u00a0Galerie Lelong<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe really appreciate all the accolades that you have given our team and homeowners around South Africa that we work with. We mentioned the award to all the homeowners at our annual exhibition and they really enjoyed and all clapped and some even cried during our ceremony.<\/em><\/p>\n

May your organisation grow from strength to strength and may the award that we receive from you take us from strength to strength.\u201d <\/em>Siphiwe Ngwenya, <\/strong>Founder, The Maboneng Township Arts Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“This is wonderful news! Thank you.\u201d <\/em>John A. Giurini, Assistant Director Public Affairs, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“I am proud to receive the Global Fine Art Award for \u201cPermission to be Global\u201d and would like to thank the Jury and organizers of this memorable event”. <\/em>Ella Fontanals Cisneros, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u201cThank you \u2026and please extend our thanks to the judges for nominating the Guggenheim Museum’s 2014 exhibition, Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe, for this newly founded award.\u201d <\/em>Dr. Vivien M. Greene, Senior Curator, 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are thrilled to learn that Strange Beauty has been selected as a Finalist for a Global Fine Art Award. This is very exciting news\u2026Thank you again and best wishes for a very successful awards!\u00a0Yours sincerely,\u00a0Jane\u00a0\u201c <\/em>Jane Knowles, Head of Exhibitions<\/strong>, The National Gallery, London<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe at Creative Time are so proud to support this ambitious work, and to have had the immense privilege of working with visionary artist Kara Walker \u2026. This enormous, incisive, and resonant work underscores our belief that public art creates a unique space to engage in difficult conversations.\u201d <\/em>Anne Pasternak, President \/ Artistic Director<\/strong>, Creative Time, New York<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cThank you \u2026as you may know\u2026I shepherded the show and worked very closely with David Hockney\u2019s curator Gregory Evans. Very exciting\u201d <\/em>Richard Benefield, Deputy Director, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cThanks \u2026 the Global Fine Arts award. I am honored to be a finalist!\u201d <\/em>Sarah Kennel, Associate Curator, Department of Photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are delighted to hear that one of Dairy\u2019s exhibitions (Julian Schnabel: Every Angel has a Dark Side) has been nominated for a global award. Many thanks and best wishes\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Deirdre Kelly, Director, Dairy Art Centre, London<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201dThank you, we are all very excited about this nomination.\u201d <\/em>Lavinia Rinaldi,\u00a0press officer.\u00a0 Fondazione Palazzo\u00a0Strozzi, Florence<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are very honored to have been nominated!.. Thank you again for the nomination! Best wishes,\u201d <\/em>Lauren Bergman, Assistant Curator, Modern Art, LACMA, Los Angeles<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Accolades and Endorsements from Award Nominees, Media, Partners and the Global Art Community \u00a0 \u201cWe are all very proud\u2026(this exhibition) received wide critical acclaim in the press, but this award is the most important testament to the huge impact the exhibition has had.\u201d On their \u201cLight, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5957,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n