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Williams College Museum of Art Receives Exhibition
Award
Williamstown, MA—the New England Chapter of
the International Association of Art Critics/USA (AICA/USA)
has honored Prelude to a Nightmare: Art, Politics,
and Hitler’s Early Years in Vienna, 1903-1913
with the second-place award for Best Thematic Museum
Show of 2002-2003. The exhibition examined the formative
influence Vienna, Austria had on the young Adolf Hitler
and documented sources for his political, social,
and artistic beliefs in these early years that later
were manifest in the destructive power of Nazi Germany.
The New England chapter of AICA/USA is the first
chapter outside New York City to initiate regional
awards in visual arts selected by the area’s
member art critics. These prestigious awards annually
recognize exceptional and important work in the visual
arts contributed during the year by artists, curators,
gallerists, writers, and cultural institutions.
Prelude to a Nightmare: Art Politics, and Hitler’s
Early Years in Vienna, 1903-1913 was the Williams
College Museum of Art’s (WCMA) contribution to
The Vienna Project, a collaboration among eleven arts
and cultural institutions in the Berkshires that explored
more than four centuries of art from Vienna. An interactive
CD, now in production by American Beat and due out
later this year, will allow the public to virtually
experience the exhibition at WCMA.
Prelude to a Nightmare: Art Politics, and Hitler’s
Early Years in Vienna, 1903-1913 was on view at WCMA
during the summer and fall of 2002 and was organized
by Deborah Rothschild, Senior Curator of Modern and
Contemporary Art.
Rothschild received her doctoral and master’s
degrees from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York
University, and was awarded a certificate in museum
studies from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has
been a curator at WCMA since 1987 and has overseen
more than 60 exhibitions. Rothschild received a first-place
national AICA award in 2000 for the exhibition Introjection:
Tony Oursler mid-career survey, 1976-1999. Her distinguished
career includes the publication of books, including
Picasso’s ‘Parade:’ From Street to
Stage (London, Philip Wilson, 1991) and the award-winning
Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age: Selections from
the Merrill C. Berman Collection (New Haven, Yale
University Press, 1998), as well as articles in The
Metropolitan Museum Journal, The Arts Journal, The
Virginia Quarterly, and Art Magazine.
The Williams College Museum of Art is open Tuesday
through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sunday
from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission is free and the museum
is wheelchair accessible.
Contact: Suzanne Augugliaro, Public Relations Coordinator
413.597.3178; or via e-mail.
www.wcma.org
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