Announcing the AICA-USA Irving Sandler Award for Distinguished Art Criticism

October 29, 2018

AICA-USA is pleased to announce the establishment of The Irving Sandler Award for Distinguished Art Criticism.

As an organization devoted to serving art writers and critics, we are committed to promoting and honoring excellence in emerging art critics.

At a time when the very role and value of art criticism are in question, we look for guidance and inspiration to esteemed art critic and beloved board member and friend, Irving Sandler, who has tirelessly illuminated the role of art, artists and art criticism in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Beginning in 2019, AICA-USA will bestow The AICA-USA Irving Sandler Award for Distinguished Art Criticism to a talented emerging art critic on an annual basis.

This award marks a continuation of AICA-USA’s dedication to emerging critics and to excellence in art writing, exemplified by its existing programs: The Art Critic Mentoring Program, organized in partnership with the Cue Art Foundation; the Art Writing Workshop, a partnership with the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program; and the annual Distinguished Critic Lecture, hosted in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.