{"id":7533,"date":"2018-11-02T13:28:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T13:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalfineartawards.org\/wp\/?page_id=7533"},"modified":"2018-11-02T13:33:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T13:33:40","slug":"gfaa-2017-highlights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/globalfineartawards.org\/index.php\/gfaa-2017-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"GFAA 2018 Developments & 2017 Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Global Fine Art Awards program mission is to develop interest and passion for fine art and design, and to further its educational role in society. Its vision is to elevate the importance and relevancy of art in the world today: economically, socially, and culturally.<\/h3>\n

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\nGFAA is the first annual program ever created to recognize the best curated art and design exhibitions worldwide-\u00a0in museums, galleries, art fairs and biennials, as well as public installations. The award criteria are\u00a0excellence and innovation in exhibition design, historical context, educational value, and public appeal.<\/p>\n


\n<\/em>There are now 14 juried award categories, including a new award category this year – Global Artists<\/em>. This category distinguishes the lifetime body of work of the nominated artists, and whereby an award \u201cwinner\u201d will not be designated. Two final awards, Youniversal and YOU-2, are determined by online public voting on the GFAA website and on twitter. These two awards recognize the most popular exhibition of the year through voting across the globe, and all nominees are eligible to win. Almost 40,000 votes<\/em><\/strong> were cast last year during the voting period.<\/p>\n

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  • Contemporary or Post-War \u2013 solo artist<\/li>\n
  • Contemporary or Post-War \u2013 theme or group<\/li>\n
  • Impressionist or Modern \u2013 theme or group<\/li>\n
  • Impressionist or Modern \u2013 solo artist<\/li>\n
  • Renaissance, Baroque, Old Masters or Dynasties \u2013 solo artist<\/li>\n
  • Renaissance, Baroque, Old Masters or Dynasties \u2013 theme or group<\/li>\n
  • Ancient Art<\/li>\n
  • Public Art<\/li>\n
  • Design<\/li>\n
  • Photography<\/li>\n
  • Fringe<\/li>\n
  • Global Planet (new in 2017)<\/li>\n
  • Global Humanity (new in 2017)<\/li>\n
  • Global Artists (new in 2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    This year\u2019s returning 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); Joe Lin-Hill (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo); and Savita Apte, art historian and Co-Founder of Art Dubai.<\/p>\n

    The 4th<\/sup> Annual Award ceremony and events, open to the public, were attended by over 200 guests, including fifty VIPS, representing more than thirty Nominees. The GFAA program highlights the link between artists and their creations, the galleries that represent them, curated shows from the gallery, public art and museum worlds. In 2017, eleven galleries exhibiting at the concurrent Armory Show, a cultural collaborator of GFAA, represent more than fifteen 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

    Guests included Shirin Neshat, Winner of the premier Global Humanity Award, accompanied by her family and Miciah Hussey and Caroline Luce, representatives from the Gladstone Gallery; Galerie Lelong & Co. Director Mary Sabbatino, proxy for three nominated artists represented by the gallery \u2013\u00a0 Winner Andy Goldsworthy for the first Global Planet Award; past GFAA Winner for Public Art (2015) and 2017 Global Humanity Award Nominee Jaume Plensa, and the late Ana Mendieta, also nominated for Global Humanity for her lifetime of work. Sabbatino was accompanied by Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, niece and film archivist of Ana Mendieta.<\/p>\n

    Jay Levenson, Director of the International Program at The Museum of Modern Art also attended with MoMA\u2019s winning exhibition co-curator Jennifer Gray, for GFAA Best Design 2017,\u00a0Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive<\/em><\/p>\n

    Melissa Chiu,\u00a0director of the Smithsonian\u2019s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, accepted the Award for\u00a0\u00a0Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Slater B. Bradley, Nominated for Best Public Art Award for his Venice Biennale collateral installation\u00a0Slater B. Bradley: Sundoor at World\u2019s End<\/em>,\u00a0attended with Chloe Sevigny.\u00a0Bradley has been featured in solo exhibitions at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York (2000), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2005), among many others.<\/p>\n

    Farideh Lashai: When I Count, There Are Only You\u2026 But When I Look, There Is Only a Shadow,\u00a0<\/em>from the Museo Nacional Del Prado, in collaboration with the British Museum, received Honorable Mention for GFAA\u2019s Fringe Award.\u00a0 Traveling from Madrid to receive the Award, was curator\u00a0Ana Mart\u00ednez<\/em>\u00a0de Aguilar.\u00a0 The late artist\u2019s daughter, Maneli Keykavoussi, head of the\u00a0Farideh Lashai<\/em>\u00a0Foundation, Edward Tyler Nahem gallerists Paloma Martin Llopis and Brad Waywell, and Gallerist Leila Heller were also in attendance, honoring Lashai\u2019s last work.<\/p>\n

    Additional Nominees at the event included Museum Director and curator Erlend Hoyersten and curator Jacob Vengberg Sevel, Winners of Best Public Art Award for the Triennial THE GARDEN \u2013 End of Times; Beginning of Times, at ARos Aarhus Kunstmuseum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s Winners Dr. Maxwell (Mike) K. Hearn, Douglas Dillon Chairman of Asian Art, and Dr. Jason Sun, Brooke Russell Astor Curator of Chinese Art; Getty Museum Winners, Co-Curators Dr. Kristen Collins and Dr. Kenneth Lapatin;\u00a0Director of Exhibitions and Collections from the International Center of Photography (ICP), whose\u00a0Perpetual Revolution<\/em>\u00a0exhibition won for Best Photography Award; Asia Society\u2019s Shayne Doty, Managing Director for Philanthropy, Nominated for\u00a0Secrets of the Sea: A Tang Shipwreck and Early Trade in Asia<\/em>; Winner Dr. Catherine Whistler, Curator from the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University; Diane Tuft, Nominated photographer for the show\u00a0Arctic Melt<\/em>, with gallerists from Marlborough Gallery in New York; Tamara Chalabi and Paolo Columbo, Ruya Foundation\u2019s Directors and Co-Curators of the Iraq Pavilion from the Venice Biennale which was a Finalist for the Best Public Art Award; London-based Global Humanity Nominee Baiqu Gonkar, Director and Curator of\u00a0Art Represent<\/em>, who was also a Panelist.<\/p>\n

    Kris Callens, Director of the Fries Museum (Netherlands), which organized the Lawrence Alma-Tadema exhibition seen at three museums across Europe- which received Honorable Mention for the Youniversal Award, and Winner of YOU-2, the two public Awards. Amalia Cosmetatou,\u00a0Executive Director and Director of Cultural Affairs and\u00a0Roberta Casagrande-Kim,\u00a0Assistant Manager of Exhibitions and Publications of the Onassis Foundation USA, representing nominated exhibition\u00a0A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC \u2013 200 AD<\/em>\u00a0, were honored by the presence of a number of colleagues. Their exhibition was crowned the Youniversal Award winner, after receiving the highest number of votes in the four-year history of the Award.<\/p>\n

    Susie Guzman, Director at Hauser & Wirth for Nominees Philip Guston, Lygia Pape and Hans Arp; Directors from the Alison Jacques Gallery in London supported the Nominee, the late Ana Mendieta; representatives from David Zwirner and Levy Gorvy also attended for their Nominated artist\u2019s works.<\/p>\n

    Geographic, scale, ethnic and gender diversity are essential considerations in the research and nominating process.\u00a0 The 85 Nominees last year represent works from 6 continents, 28 countries and 60 cities \u2013 from Beijing to Boston, from Melbourne to Montr\u00e9al. Nineteen percent (19%) of this year\u2019s Nominees are created by or are about Asian and Middle Eastern art and artists. One of the most prominent awards \u2013\u00a0Best Contemporary and Post-War Art<\/em>, features women in 3 of the 8 Nominees. Almost two-thirds of the Nominees emanate from lesser-known institutions and private initiatives, and the remaining 37% of the GFAA Nominees are from the top 100 art museums visited in the world (The Art Newspaper,<\/em>\u00a0April 2015).<\/p>\n

    In addition to the award ceremony the evening of March 8, GFAA launched a series of three panels, hosted by corporate sponsor, K&L Gates LLP. These panels, which took place the morning of March 8, were moderated by Dean Phelus, Senior Director of Leadership Programs at the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), and GFAA Judge; and by Desiree Moore, Partner at K&L Gates.<\/p>\n

    Young Visionaries, Benefactors at the $1,000+ level and Corporate Sponsors also received invitations to the exclusive GFAA After-Party held immediately following the Award Ceremony at the National Arts Club on Gramercy Park.\u00a0 The event was organized by the GFAA Young Visionaries Committee, which provided an intimate opportunity to mingle with our art-stars.\u00a0 The party featured open bar, light bites and a DJ.<\/p>\n

    Timothy Potts, Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, says \u201c\u2026this exhibition paints a vivid picture of the dynamic interchange of ideas, narratives, styles and images that characterized these eras. It is a useful reminder that globalization is not a new phenomenon. Indeed, it has lain at the foundation of much of our intellectual, artistic, social and economic life throughout history.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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