Jewish Museum Presents Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention

The Jewish Museum is pleased to announce that the 2009 exhibition, Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention, has received an award for Best Monographic Museum Show from the US section of the International Association of Art Critics/AICA-USA. Alias Man Ray is one of 26 winners in 12 categories, nominated and voted on by the 400 active members of AICA-USA. Fellow winning institutions include UCLA's Hammer Museum of Art; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Neue Galerie, New York.

The Jewish Museum congratulates Mason Klein, Curator, Fine Arts, The Jewish Museum, who conceived of and organized the Alias Man Ray exhibition.

The AICA-USA awards ceremony, which has been held annually for more than 25 years, will take place at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art on March 14, 2011 at 6 PM.

A groundbreaking presentation, Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention explored Man Ray's diverse artistic achievements in all media-paintings, photographs, objects, sculptures, films, and writings-examining them in the context of his personal history. This was the first exhibition to consider how Man Ray's life and artistic career were shaped by his turn-of-the-century American Jewish immigrant experience.

About The Jewish Museum
Widely admired for its exhibitions and educational programs that inspire people of all backgrounds, The Jewish Museum is the preeminent United States institution exploring the intersection of 4,000 years of art and Jewish culture. The Jewish Museum was established in 1904, when Judge Mayer Sulzberger donated 26 ceremonial art objects to The Jewish Theological Seminary of America as the core of a museum collection. Today, the Museum maintains an important collection of 26,000 objects-paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, archaeological artifacts, ceremonial objects, and broadcast media.