Youniversal Award 2016 and YOU-2
THANK YOU! to the thousands of voters who voted for our Youniversal Awards!
We are so excited to announce the Winner.
Which one of our Top 10 Youniversal Award Nominees is the Winner? Find out live at the GFAA Award Ceremony on FEB 11, 2017.
The Youniversal Winner has been selected by public votes – there was so much participation and excitement, GFAA launched “YOU-2”, a NEW twitter campaign for 2nd place for YOUNIVERSAL.
The TOP 10 Nominees with the most votes /retweets were eligible to be crowned YOU-2, and together will all GFAA Award Nominees and Winners, will be celebrated at the Award Ceremony.
VOTING (retweets on GFAA Twitter page) took place Jan 16 – 23, and is now closed
Thank you for voting! Tweet !
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TOP 10 GFAA Nominees for the Youniversal Award
(in random order)
- Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World / Kroller-Muller Museum, Tate Britain, Arp Museum / Otterlo, Netherlands; London, England; Remagen, Germany;
- Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio / Denver Art Museum, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum / Denver, USA; Madrid, Spain;
- Colour Unleashed. Modern Art in the Low Countries 1885-1914 / Gemeentemuseum Den Haag / The Hague, Netherlands;
- Jewel City: Art from San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition / de Young / Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco / San Francisco, USA;
- (shared) Jheronimus Bosch – Visions of a Genius / Het Noordbrabants Museum/ Den Bosch, Netherlands/ (shared) Bosch. The 5th Centenary Exhibition / Museo del Prado / Madrid, Spain;
- Adriaen van de Velde: Master of the Dutch Landscape / Rijksmuseum / Amsterdam, Netherlands (and Dulwich Picture Gallery / London);
- Caravaggio and the Painters of the North / Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza / Madrid, Spain;
- Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts / The J. Paul Getty Museum / Los Angeles, USA;
- Boris Godunov: From a Courtier to the Sovereign of all of Russia / The Moscow Kremlin / Moscow, Russia;
- A Labour of Love / The Museum of World Cultures / Frankfurt, Germany
The Youniversal Award, presented by Vastari
RULES: Vote for your favorite Youniversal Top 10 Nominee by tweeting the name of the Nominee with a hashtag #YOU-2 and mentioning @fineartawards. Vote as many times as you would like! The person with the most retweets wins a VIP ticket to GFAA Gala on Feb. 11 (value $1,000; travel expenses not included; winner will be announced by Jan 30, 2017). The YOU-2 Winner (2nd place for Youniversal Award) will be announced live during the GFAA Award Ceremony on Sat Feb 11, 2017.
TIMING: Voting begins 6:00 a.m. EST on MON JAN 16, 2017 and ends at 5:59 a.m. on MON JAN 23, 2017.
Please join us at the GFAA Award Ceremony and Gala – tickets are available now
Purchase your tickets HERE
Be among the first people in the world to discover the best exhibitions of the year.
Please support GFAA by attending our Award Ceremony and Gala – Saturday, February 11, 2017. The culmination of the year-long process to discover the best curated art and design exhibitions will be the celebration of all Nominees and the presentation of the Winners of the 2016 Global Fine Art Awards (GFAA). The Award Ceremony will be held at the historic and resplendent National Arts Club, on Gramercy Park in New York City.
Join the GFAA Leadership Team, Advisory Board and Judges as we celebrate this year’s nominees and reveal the winners of each award. Enjoy a sumptuous dinner and hosted bar.
Meet our “art star” celebrities – and share in the most important evening of the year for the Global Fine Art Awards program.
THANK YOU for voting to select the Youniversal Award – the twelfth and final award.
Your voice selects the Youniversal Award winner. The GFAA Nominee that received the most votes between Oct 26 and Nov 13 (midnight EST) will be named the most popular exhibition of the year-
The Youniversal Award, presented by Vastari.
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