January 2009
Organized by The Jewish Museum, New York in collaboration with the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, Action/Abstraction is the first major U.S. exhibition to reconsider Abstract Expressionism in over 20 years.
Each year the AICA's 400 members vote for the best exhibitions produced during the season. These awards are given in recognition of the exceptional and important work in the visual arts contributed that year by artists, curators, gallerists, writers, scholars, and cultural institutions.
Last year's winners included the Museum of Modern Art, LA MoCA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The AICA Awards ceremony will honor the award recipients with a formal presentation.
The New Yorker hailed Action/Abstraction as one of the 10 best art shows of 2008 and Time Magazine's 'Looking Around' blog called the exhibition, "the world's greatest classroom slide lecture, except that it's been done with real paintings and sculpture, some of them of the first order."
Artforum said Action/Abstraction "promises a fresh take on those fabled denizens of Tenth Street. By placing unprecedented emphasis on contemporaneous academic criticism and the mass media, this show…claims the persistent centrality of social history."
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