Deser for Jacques-Laure Le Tonnelier, Bailli de Breteuil (detail; c. 1778), Luigi Valadier, installation view, Frick Collection, New York, 2018. Patrimonio Nacional, Palacio Real, Madrid and Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid. Photo: Michael Bodycomb

Exhibition of the Year

‘Luigi Valadier: Splendor in Eighteenth-Century Rome’

21 Nov 2019
Self-portrait (detail; 1942), Van Leo. Van Leo Collection at the Arab Image Foundation, Beirut

Digital Innovation of the Year

Arab Image Foundation

21 Nov 2019
Intaglio with bust of Antinous (131–38 AD), Italy or Greece

Acquisition of the Year

Gems from the Sangiorgi Collection

21 Nov 2019

Artist of the Year

Frank Bowling The first major show of his work in the UK, a survey of Bowling’s 60-year career at Tate…

15 Nov 2019

Exhibition of the Year

Bernard van Orley: Brussels and the Renaissance BOZAR, Brussels 20 February–26 May With more than 100 works on show, this…

15 Nov 2019

Museum Opening of the Year

Africa Museum, Tervuren Reopened December 2018 After a five-year renovation the Africa Museum just outside Brussels, which was once known…

15 Nov 2019

Book of the Year

Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered Carmen C. Bambach Yale University Press Bambach’s four-volume account of the artist’s life and work is…

15 Nov 2019

Acquisition of the Year

Centraal Museum, Utrecht The Wedding of Cupid and Psyche (1601–03), Joachim Wtewael In 1933, a catalogue of works by Joachim…

15 Nov 2019

Digital Innovation of the Year

Arab Image Foundation In May 2019 the Arab Image Foundation completed its $255,000 digitisation initiative (launched in 2017) ahead of…

15 Nov 2019

Haig Aivazian

Beirut

4 Sep 2019
Photo: Sofia Dadourian

Reem Fadda

Director, Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation, Abu Dhabi

4 Sep 2019
Photo: Matin Jameie; courtesy Dastan’s Basement

Hormoz Hematian

Founding Director, Dastan’s Basement, Tehran

4 Sep 2019

Dana Farouki

New York

4 Sep 2019

Sophia Al-Maria

London

4 Sep 2019

Adib Dada

Beirut

4 Sep 2019

Dyala Nusseibeh

Director, Abu Dhabi Art, Abu Dhabi and London

4 Sep 2019

Ismail Fayed

Writer and critic, Cairo

4 Sep 2019

Alia Fattouh

Director, Athr Gallery, Jeddah

4 Sep 2019

Nora Razian

Head of Exhibitions, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai

4 Sep 2019
Photo: Rick van Lent

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme

Ramallah and New York

4 Sep 2019

Abdullah Al Turki

Riyadh and London

4 Sep 2019

Maryam Al Dabbagh

Managing Director, Rouya Consultancy and Ila Al Aman, Sharjah

4 Sep 2019