{"id":7701,"date":"2019-01-13T16:37:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T16:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalfineartawards.org\/wp\/?page_id=7701"},"modified":"2019-01-14T12:24:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T12:24:22","slug":"press-release-gfaa-awards-3-12-19","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/globalfineartawards.org\/index.php\/press-release-gfaa-awards-3-12-19\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GLOBAL FINE ART AWARDS ANNOUNCES THE 5TH ANNUAL AWARD CEREMONY AND GALA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Global Fine Art Awards announces the 5th<\/sup> Annual Award Ceremony and Gala<\/strong><\/p>\n

Announcing 5th Annual GFAA Awards press release (download PDF)<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

New York, NY January 9, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Tuesday, March 12, 2019, the Global Fine Art Awards (GFAA) will celebrate art and culture by honoring this year\u2019s 94 nominees and crowning the 15 award winners at the 5th Annual Award Ceremony and Gala<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The black-tie gala will take place at the Harold Pratt House, a historic New York mansion.\u00a0 The event will be hosted by the American Alliance of Museum\u2019s Dean Phelus, as well as GFAA Founder and President, Judy Holm and the GFAA Advisory Board. Peter Trippi, a member of the GFAA Executive Committee and Judge Emeritus, will join as the Master of Ceremonies. Trippi is editor-in-chief of\u00a0Fine Art Connoisseur<\/em>\u00a0magazine.<\/p>\n

Phelus, a five-year tenured GFAA Judge, states, \u201cthe GFAA nominees demonstrate the universal power of art to facilitate a sense of individual and collective identity, enlighten through knowledge and nurture an understanding of our connections to the world and to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

GFAA Judges have selected 13 winners to be revealed during the award ceremony \u2013 one in each of the following categories: Contemporary and Post-War \u2013 solo artist; Contemporary and Post-War \u2013 group or theme; Impressionist and Modern \u2013 solo artist; Impressionist and Modern- group or theme; Renaissance, Baroque, Old Masters and Dynasties \u2013 solo artist; Renaissance, Baroque, Old Masters and Dynasties\u00a0 \u2013 group or theme; Ancient Art; Photography; Design; Fringe; Public Art; Global Planet and Global Humanity (the new awards that premiered last year); and Youniversal and YOU-2, which are given to the most\u00a0popular<\/em>\u00a0nominees and are selected by public voting on the GFAA website and social media.<\/p>\n

In continuing GFAA\u2019s recognition of social issues addressed by many artists and institutions, GFAA premiers a new award category this year called Global Artists. This category distinguishes the lifetime body of work of the nominated artists.\u00a0The new award is juried but will not designate a single winner.<\/p>\n

The event, which is open to the public, will be attended by many of the nominees, as well as benefactors, patrons, corporate sponsors, collectors, gallerists and art aficionados. Many prominent guests including GFAA nominees and other VIPs have already confirmed their attendance at the Award Ceremony: nominated artist Jenny Holzer and Michael Frahm, artistic director of Blenheim Palace Art Foundation; Tim Marlow, artistic director of London\u2019s Royal Academy of Art; Joan Weinstein, acting director of the Getty Foundation; Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum; nominated artist Fred Wilson; Douglas Baxter, president of PACE; nominated artist Rodney McMillian;\u00a0Louis Grachos, executive director and CEO of The Contemporary Austin; Vicente Todoli, artistic director of the Pirelli Hangar Bicocca; Ruth Berson, deputy museum director of Curatorial Affairs at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Sarah Beam-Borg, senior exhibitions manager of the Aga Khan Museum; Konstantin Akinsha, chief curator of the Ludwig Museum, Hungary; Lilly Tuttle, curator at Museum of the City of New York; Eva Respini, chief curator of ICA Boston; Jay Levenson, director of International Program at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Jennie Goldstein, assistant curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art; G. Martin Moeller, Jr., senior curator of the National Building Museum, Washington D.C.; senior directors and curators from the Solomon R. Guggenheim, Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and executives from the American Alliance of Museums and other GFAA Partners.<\/p>\n

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. This year, eleven galleries exhibiting at the Armory Show, a cultural collaborator of GFAA, represent more than twenty-four 2018 GFAA Nominees including:<\/p>\n