Black Tie (optional)<\/strong><\/p>\n Reservations required, tickets available online now\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Be part of one of the most exciting and important events of the year in art.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n This official GFAA event, organized by the Young Visionaries Committee, takes place at the (private and very exclusive)\u00a0 National Arts Club<\/a>\u00a0directly overlooking Gramercy Park, and provides the unique opportunity to meet and mingle with the GFAA art-stars, gallerists, major art collectors and VIPs from GFAA’s cultural collaborator –\u00a0The Armory Show, <\/em><\/strong>New York’s\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>premier art fair and a leading cultural destination for discovering and collecting the world\u2019s most important 20th- and 21st-century art.<\/p>\n Guests will enjoy open bar, light bites, art videos of our Award Nominees and curated DJ dance music – The venue features a billiard room, two art galleries and a dance floor.\u00a0 The event is organized by our YV Committee, chaired by Desiree Moore; vice-chair Marta Nowakowski; event chair Remi Koukou\u200b; New York YV team leaders are Daniel Albarran, and Pergrin Pervez.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Party with some of the newly crowned award winners, and enjoy the company of GFAA Nominees and Cultural Partners, including VIPs from The Armory Show<\/a>.\u00a0 Award Ceremony guests include Shirin Neshat<\/a>, Nominee for the Global Humanity Award, accompanied by curator Thomas Kellein; Berlin-based artist Slater B. Bradley<\/a>, nominated in the Best Public Art category for his installation Sundoor at World’s End<\/em> at Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena during the Venice Biennale, accompanied by Chloe Sevigny; London\u2019s Royal Academy of Arts<\/a> Curator Edith Devaney, nominated for Abstract Expressionism<\/em>, which later travelled to the Guggenheim Bilbao; Museum Director Erlend Hoyersten and curator Jacob Vengberg Sevel<\/a>, nominated for Best Public Art Award for the Triennial at ARos Aarhus Kunstmuseum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>\u2019s Deputy Director of Exhibitions, Quincy Houghton, spokesperson for the five nominations for The Met; Met Nominees Dr. Maxwell (Mike) K. Hearn, Douglas Dillon Chairman of Asian Art, and Dr. Jason Sun, Brooke Russell Astor Curator of Chinese Art<\/a>; Nominees from the Getty Museum<\/a>, Co-Curators Dr. Kristen Collins and Dr. Kenneth Lapatin; Hirshhorn Museum Director Melissa Chiu<\/a> for the nominated Yayoi Kusama exhibition Infinity Mirrors<\/em><\/a>; Mark Lubell, Executive Director, and Erin Barnett, Director of Exhibitions and Collections from the International Center of Photography (ICP);<\/a> Asia Society Nominee Dr. Adriana Proser<\/a>; Nominee Dr. Catherine Whistler, Curator from the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University<\/a>; Diane Tuft, Nominated photographer for the show Arctic Melt<\/em>, represented by Marlborough Gallery in New York<\/a>; Ruya Foundation\u2019s Directors and Co-Curators of the Iraq Pavilion from the Venice Biennale<\/a>, Tamara Chalabi and Paolo Columbo; Nominee Baiqu Gonkar, Director of Art Represent<\/em><\/a>; Kris Callens, Director of the Fries Museum (Netherlands), which organized the Lawrence Alma-Tadema exhibition<\/a> seen at three museums across Europe; Susie Guzman, Director at Hauser & Wirth for Nominees Philip Guston and Lygia Pape<\/a>; Galerie Lelong & Co.\u2019s Mary Sabbatino<\/a> for nominated artists Jaume Plensa, Andy Goldsworthy and the late Ana Mendieta; Gallerist Alison Jacques also for the late Ana Mendieta; Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, niece and film archivist of Nominated artist Ana Mendieta for the premier GFAA Global Humanity award; Munich-based curators Sam Bardouil and Till Fellrath, whose exhibition Art et Libert\u00e9: Rupture, War and Surrealism in Egypt<\/a> <\/em>premiered at the Centre Pompidou in Paris,<\/a> and concludes at the Tate Liverpool.<\/a><\/p>\n Eleven galleries exhibiting at the concurrent Armory Show<\/a>, a cultural collaborator of GFAA, represent more than fifteen 2017 GFAA Nominees including: Yayoi Kusama, Kerry James Marshall, Andy Goldsworthy, Jaume Plensa, Ana Mendieta, Wifredo Lam, Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, Irving Penn, Ai Weiwei and William Eggleston.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/globalfineartawards.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/GFAA-globe-mosaic-png-150x150.png\")
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