International Association of Art Critics Announces Award Winners

NEW YORK—The International Association of Art Critics (AICA) has announced the winners of the 20th annual honors. The awards, which recognize the best offerings of the 2006-07 season, will be presented on March 17, 2008, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Taking top honor for traveling thematic show is "The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection," which was organized by Austin's Blanton Museum of Art and traveled to the Grey Art Gallery at New York University. Top traveling monographic show went to the Kara Walker survey organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art through February 3.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art snagged the award for best architecture or design show for "Poiret: King of Fashion," while MoMA won best historical show for "Manet and the Execution of Maximilian." L.A.'s Margo Leaving Gallery took top commercial gallery exhibition with its John Baldessari show last spring.

The AICA also allows local chapters to present awards for the best offerings in their own cities. In New York, the best thematic show went to "Glitter and Doom," the Met's survey of Weimar-era German art, and best monographic show went to the Whitney's Gordon Matta-Clark retrospective. Best commercial gallery show went to Francis F. Naumann Fine Art for "Daughters of New York Dada."