Off Center

Kara Walker installing her exhibition at the Walker Art Center in 2007.

The Walker’s exhibition Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love has won one of the museum industry's most prestigious honors — “best monographic museum show,” by the International Association of Art Critics/USA Awards.

The awards, the art world’s equivalent to those given by the New York Film Critics Circle and the Drama Desk, recognize artists, curators, critics, scholars, cultural institutions, museums, and galleries nationally for their contributions to the field. A ceremony for the honors is March 17 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

Curated by Walker Deputy Director and Chief Curator Philippe Vergne and Assistant Curator Yasmil Raymond, the exhibition has received wide critical attention since premiering at the Walker in spring 2007, including cover stories in Art in America and Artforum, and features in New Yorker, The New York Times, Art+Auction, and W. In addition, the American Institute of Graphic Arts cited the catalogue cover in its annual 50 Books/50 Covers. Kara Walker was named last spring to "The Time 100" among "people who shape our world."

Here is the complete list of award winners for 2006/2007:

BEST MONOGRAPHIC MUSEUM SHOW

First place: Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love. Organized for the Walker Art Center. Curator: Philippe Vergne and Yasmil Raymond

Second Place (tie): Rudolf Stingel. Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Curator: Francesco Bonami; A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s. Organized by the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Curator: Constance Lewallen

BEST THEMATIC MUSEUM SHOW NATIONALLY

First place: The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection. Organized by the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin. Curator: Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro.

Second Place: WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution. Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Curator: Connie Butler

BEST MONOGRAPHIC MUSEUM SHOW (NEW YORK CITY)

First Place: Gordon Matta-Clark: You are the Measure. Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Curator: Elizabeth Sussman

Second Place: Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years. Organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Curators: Kynaston McShine and Lynne Cooke

BEST THEMATIC MUSEUM SHOW (NEW YORK CITY)

First Place: Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s. Organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Curator: Sabine Rewald, Jacques and Natasha Gelman

Second Place: Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video. Organized by the International Center of Photography. Curators: Brian Wallis, Christopher Phillips, Edward Earle, Carol Squiers, Joanna Lehan

BEST SHOW IN A COMMERCIAL GALLERY (NEW YORK CITY)

Daughters of New York DADA. Organized by the Francis F. Naumann Fine Art

BEST SHOW IN A COMMERCIAL GALLERY

John Baldessari. Organized by Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

BEST SHOW BY AN ALTERNATIVE SPACE or SMALLER ORGANIZATION

First Place: Moving Pictures. Organized by Williams College Museum of Art. Curator: Nancy Mowll Mathews

Second Place: High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975. Organized by Independent Curators International. Guest curator Katy Siegel with David Reed advisor

BEST SHOW IN A PUBLIC SPACE

Anish Kapoor: Sky Mirror. Rockefeller Center, New York. Organized by the Public Art Fund

BEST ARCHITECTURE or DESIGN SHOW

First Place: Poiret: King of Fashion. Organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Curators: Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton

Second Place: Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Curator: Brooke Hodge

BEST HISTORICAL SHOW

First Place: Manet and the Execution of Maximilian. Organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Curator: John Elderfield

Second Place: Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History. Organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Curators: by Carmen Giménez and Francisco Calvo Serraller

BEST EXHIBITION OF TIME-BASED ART (VIDEO, FILM, or PERFORMANCE)

Joan Jonas: The Shape, The Scent, The Feel Of Things. Organized by Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, NY