Archive Highlights


Awards

  • 2009 AICA Awards

    The 2008-2009 AICA Awards Ceremony took place in March 23, 2010.

  • 2008 AICA Awards

    The 2007-2008 AICA Awards Ceremony took place March 2, 2009

  • 2007 AICA Awards

    2006-2007 AICA Awards Ceremony took place March 17, 2008 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. This year's stellar line up of winning shows included Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, organized by the Walker Art Center, The Whitney's Gordon Matta-Clark: You are the Measure, and the Metropolitan Museum's Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s, as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Irving Sandler.

  • 2006 AICA Awards

    THE 2005-2006 AICA AWARDS CEREMONY took place Thursday, February 2, 2007 at the Jewish Museum, with Michael Kimmelman as emcee. A special award was given to John Russell for Distinguished Contribution to the Field of Criticism.

  • 2005 AICA Awards

    U. S. ART CRITICS ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS OF 2003-2004 ANNUAL AWARDS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, New York City - December 15, 2004. At a ceremony at the Museum of Modern Art to be held on the evening of January 25, 2005, the International Association of Art Critics/USA will present its 2003-2004 AICA Awards to museums and galleries for excellence nationally in the conception and realization of exhibitions. MoMA chief curator John Elderfield will serve as Master of Ceremonies for the event, which will be attended by museum curators, artists, and gallerists from around the country.

Conferences

  • Doubletalk Panel

    Doublethink & Doubletalk: The Art and Politics of Language International Art Critics Association (AICA/USA) Presents Panel Discussion, October 6, 2004, at The New York Public Library featuring Barbara Kruger, David Levi-Strauss, Nancy Snow, and Boris Groys, moderated by Arthur Danto

Special Events

  • “Critics’ Dilemmas” a panel discussion at Rubin Museum of Art

    May 23, 2011. A guided tour of the Rubin Museum of Art’s new exhibition, preceding our Annual Meeting. The exhibition on view “Quentin Roosevelt’s China: Ancestral Realms of the Naxi,” unites approximately 100 works of Naxi religious art primarily acquired in the early-to mid-20th century by Quentin Roosevelt, grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, as well as by the botanist-explorer Joseph Rock. The Annual Meeting will be followed by the panel “Critics’ Dilemmas: Naughty, Nice, or just Plain Honest”. Participants include: Elisabeth Kley, Barbara MacAdam, Peter Plagens, and Walter Robinson. The panel of guests will discuss the current state of art and art criticism. AICA member and Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, MA, João Ribas will moderate the panel.

  • The Third Annual AICA-USA Distinguished Critic Lecture: Roberta Smith

    The Third Annual AICA-USA Distinguished Critic Lecture: Roberta Smith at The New School University, November 5, 2009

  • Holland Cotter: “Art Critic, So What?” Lecture, Nov. 11, 2010-Audio Recording

    An audio recording of the Holland Cotter: “Art Critic, So What?” Lecture at the Vera List Center, The New School University, November 11, 2010. Photo credits for above photographs- #1 courtesy of Phyllis Tuchman. #2 & #3 courtesy of ©by Jill Krementz

  • Kim Levin Reception

    On January 10, 2006, Ronald Feldman Gallery hosted a special reception for Kim Levin, former AICA/USA president and president of AICA International, on the occasion of the exhibit "Notes and Itineraries." These were her collection of gallery announcements on which she took notes, forming the basis of art reviews."

  • 2005 Christo Symposium

    THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ART CRITICS (AICA/USA) ­­is pleased to announce a day-long symposium in connection with the installation of "The Gates: Central Park, New York" by the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. ­ ART, DEMOCRACY AND PUBLIC SPACE: THE CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE EFFECT Guggenheim Museum February 25, 9:15 AM to 5 PM (Enter Auditorium at 88th Street and Fifth Avenue)