Selected from 78 nominees in 22 countries, 5 continents and 52 cities, the third annual GFAA winners of the 2016 awards were honored at a black-tie Award Ceremony and Gala on February 11th<\/sup>, 2017. Museum directors and curators, gallery directors and owners, artists and art aficionados were among the guests at the historic National Arts Club in New York City. Some of the honorees in attendance include: Charles de Mooij, Director of Het Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch,The Netherlands; Gary Tinterow, Director Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Sean Hemingway, Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Susie Guzman, Director, Hauser and Wirth Gallery; Susan Davidson, Co-curator of\u00a0Rauschenberg in China<\/em>\u00a0with David White and Curatorial Advisor to the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; Helen Hsu, Assistant Curator, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; Lee Glazer, Curator, the Smithsonian Museum\u2019s Freer and Sackler Galleries; Bryan Keene, Assistant Curator, The J. Paul Getty Museum; Fariba Farshad, Director Candlestar, and Co-Founder Photo London; Lina Lin, Researcher, National Palace Museum, Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan); and Jonathan Henery, nephew of Christo, accepting the award for best Public Art on behalf of the artist Christo and Jeanne Claude.<\/p>\n The event was co-hosted by GFAA President and CEO, Judy Holm, and GFAA Advisory Board Chair, Lawrence M. Shindell, and presided over by Master of Ceremony, Peter Trippi, Editor in Chief of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine, and GFAA Advisory Board member, GFAA Judge emeritus.<\/p>\n Trippi says, \u201cConsider how hard art professionals work to conceive and organize their temporary exhibitions and installations of art and design, and also how much money is spent to mount and tour them. Now ask yourself: how are the best of these projects honored, after the lights have dimmed and the loaned artworks have headed home? Oddly, in a world teeming with award ceremonies for seemingly every possible artistic activity (think \u201cOscars\u201d), there is no program that recognizes such exhibitions\u2026<\/em> until the GFAA initiative was launched in 2014.<\/em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n This year\u2019s judges are Dean Phelus (American Alliance of Museums, Washington, D.C.); James M. Bradburne (Pinacoteca di Brera and Biblioteca Braidense, Milan); Gina Costa (independent art historian and curator, Director for marketing and public relations at the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Chicago); Barbara Aust-Wegemund,\u00a0independent art historian and curator, Hamburg); and Joe Lin-Hill (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo).\u00a0 They selected the winners in the following 11 categories: Contemporary and Post-War Art (solo artist and group\/theme); Impressionist and Modern Art (solo artist and group\/theme); Renaissance, Baroque, Old Masters and Dynasties (solo artist and group\/theme); Ancient Art; Public Art, Design, Photography and Fringe.<\/p>\n In addition to the juried awards, the final award, \u201cYouniversal,\u201d recognizes the best exhibition of the year as determined by public vote from people across the globe, which all nominees are eligible to win. Thousands of votes were cast during the voting period, from October 26th through November 13th, 2016. To expand the digital presence of GFAA further, a new award was added this year: YOU-2.\u00a0 The Top 10 Nominees, based on the Youniversal votes, became eligible for this Twitter-based award.<\/p>\n The Global Fine Art Awards 2016 Winners:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Best Contemporary \/ Post-War \u2013 solo artists<\/strong><\/p>\n Rauschenberg in China<\/a> \/ Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) \/ Beijing, China<\/p>\n Best Contemporary \/ Post-War \u2013 group or theme<\/strong><\/p>\n Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 \u2013 2016<\/a> \/ Hauser Wirth Schimmel Gallery \/ Los Angeles, USA<\/p>\n Best Impressionist \/ Modern \u2013 solo artist<\/strong><\/p>\n Degas: A New Vision<\/a> \/ National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of Fine Arts Houston \/ Melbourne, Australia; Houston, USA<\/p>\n Best Impressionist \/ Modern \u2013 group or theme (TIE)<\/strong><\/p>\n The Lost Symphony: Whistler and the Perfection of Art<\/a> \/ Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries \/ Washington DC, USA<\/p>\n Jewel City: Art from San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition<\/a> \/ de Young \/ Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco \/ San Francisco, USA<\/p>\n Best Renaissance, Baroque, Old Masters and Dynasties \u2013 solo artist (shared)<\/strong><\/p>\n Jheronimus Bosch – Visions of genius<\/a> \/ Het Noordbrabants Museum\/ Den Bosch, Netherlands<\/p>\n Bosch. The Centenary Exhibition<\/a> \/ Museo del Prado \/ Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n Best Renaissance, Baroque, Old Masters and Dynasties \u2013 group or theme <\/strong><\/p>\n Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts<\/a> \/ The J. Paul Getty Museum \/ Los Angeles, USA<\/p>\n Best Ancient Art <\/strong><\/p>\n Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World<\/a> \/ The Met Fifth Avenue \/ NYC, USA<\/p>\n Best Public Art<\/strong><\/p>\n Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Floating Piers<\/a> \/ Lake Iseo \/ Lake Iseo, Italy<\/p>\n Best Design<\/strong><\/p>\n Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology <\/a>\/ The Met Fifth Avenue \/ NYC, USA<\/p>\n Best Photography (shared)<\/strong><\/p>\n Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium<\/a> \/ Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and The J. Paul Getty Museum \/ Los Angeles, USA<\/p>\n Best Fringe \/ Alternative<\/strong><\/p>\n Susan Philipsz: War Damaged Musical Instruments<\/a> \/ Tate Britain \/ London, England<\/p>\n YOUNIVERSAL (shared)<\/strong><\/p>\n Jheronimus Bosch – Visions of genius<\/a> \/ Het Noordbrabants Museum\/ \u00a0Den Bosch, Netherlands<\/p>\n Bosch. The Centenary Exhibition<\/a> \/ Museo del Prado \/ Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n