Park Avenue Armory appoints Alex Poots artistic director

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Rebecca Robertson, President and Executive Producer of Park Avenue Armory, announced that Alex Poots has been appointed Artistic Director, and will start work in early 2012 on the development of the Armory’s 2013 season. Mr. Poots is the Festival Director of the biennial Manchester International Festival in England, a position he will continue to hold. Park Avenue Armory is a new cultural institution that works with artists in the creation of works that are catalyzed by the scale and [...]

Turkish Modern Artists Featured at 14th International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair

NEW YORK, NY.- Four leading Turkish modern artists, competitively selected by the Turkish Cultural Foundation (TCF) will have the opportunity to present their work at the 14th International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair (SOFA NEW YORK), held from April 14-17 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. The four artists, Ayhan Tomak, Ebru Dosekci, Semra Ecer and Yildanur Ketenci, will exhibit at SOFA NEW YORK thanks to the support of the Turkish Cultural Foundation, a U.S. non-profit [...]

Armory Show Opens 13th Edition as Centerpiece to the Biggest Week of Art in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- The Armory Show opened its thirteenth edition of the fair. The Armory Show 2011 features 274 blue-chip contemporary and modern art galleries from 31 countries. Keeping the focus ever on the artist, The Armory Show’s 2011 commissioned artist is Gabriel Kuri. Kuri’s work complements the special section Armory Focus: Latin America. As always, a robust calendar of VIP events, the Open Forum series of panels and roundtables featuring some of today’s greatest art minds, and collaborations with [...]

14th International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair to Open April 14-17, 2011

NEW YORK, NY.- Internationally recognized for its outstanding cutting-edge contemporary decorative arts and design, the 14th International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair (SOFA NEW YORK) will open to the public on Thursday, April 14, and continue through Sunday, April 17, 2011, at the Park Avenue Armory. “This year, SOFA NEW YORK welcomes a number of outstanding new international exhibitors,” said Lyman. Making their debut are contemporary Asian specialists Korean Craft and Design Foundation (Seoul) and Ippodo Gallery (New York). Gallery [...]

14th Annual Sculpture Objects & Funtional Art Fair to Open April 14-17, 2011 at Park Avenue Armory

New York- Internationally recognized for its outstanding cutting-edge contemporary decorative arts and design, the 14th International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair (SOFA NEW YORK) will open to the public on Thursday, April 14, and continue through Sunday, April 17, 2011, at the Park Avenue Armory, it was announced by Mark Lyman, Founder/ Director of SOFA and President, The Art Fair Company. SOFA NEW YORK 2011 Opening Night Preview, by invitation only, is on Wednesday, April 13, from 5:00-7:00 pm, [...]

Carlton Rochell Asian Art to Participate in Winter Antiques Show at Park Avenue Armory

NEW YORK, NY.- Carlton Rochell, specializing in art from India, the Himalayas and Southeast Asia, will exhibit museum-quality works ranging from the 1st century A.D. to the 19th century at the Winter Antiques Show, a first for this collecting category at the fair. The Winter Antiques Show, celebrating its 57th year as the preeminent antiques show in America, will showcase 74 renowned international dealers specializing in American, English, European, Antiquities and Asian fine and decorative arts. Carlton Rochell will add [...]

Leonardo’s Last Supper by Peter Greenaway Opens Today at Park Avenue Armory

NEW YORK, NY.- Visionary artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway will premiere an epic and immersive multimedia work based on Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper this December at Park Avenue Armory, marking the first U.S. presentation of the artist’s installation work. Through his incisive manipulation of light, sound, and theatrical illusion, Greenaway creates a series of dynamic audio-visual environments that provoke new ways of seeing Leonardo’s masterpiece. The installation includes a meticulously detailed “clone” of the painting set within a [...]

Fair Weather at The International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show

NEW YORK, NY.- Sixty-five of the world’s most influential art and antique dealers converged on the Park Avenue Armory, October 22-28, 2010 to participate in the 22nd annual International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show, a greatly anticipated event of the New York fall season. The prestigious “International Show” – which is the flagship fair organized by Anna and Brian Haughton – has retained its position as the premier showcase in America for top dealers from Europe and the United States for [...]

America’s Most Venerable Art Fair to Return at the Park Avenue Armory

NEW YORK, NY.- The Art Show, the country’s longest running national art fair, opens its doors in New York on March 2, 2011. Now in its 23rd year, The Art Show brings together museum quality exhibitions of art ranging from cutting-edge, 21st century works, to museum-quality pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries. Organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) to benefit Henry Street Settlement, the fair’s commitment to curatorial expertise and diversity is ever-present in the show’s [...]

Leonardo’s Last Supper by Peter Greenaway at Park Avenue Armory

NEW YORK, NY.- Visionary artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway will premiere an epic and immersive multimedia work based on Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper this December at Park Avenue Armory, marking the first U.S. presentation of the artist’s installation work. Through his incisive manipulation of light, sound, and theatrical illusion, Greenaway creates a series of dynamic audio-visual environments that provoke new ways of seeing Leonardo’s masterpiece. The installation includes a meticulously detailed “clone” of the painting set within a [...]

Park Avenue Armory Welcomes Yoshitomo Nara + YNG for Open Studio

NEW YORK, NY.- Park Avenue Armory, in collaboration with Asia Society Museum, will host an open studio with Yoshitomo Nara and his collaborative team, YNG. In the Armory’s soaring 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall, Nara and YNG will reconstruct the large-scale installation work Home, which will include a display of Nara’s drawings and other objects. Nara will also establish a temporary studio adjacent to the drill hall, to create new drawings and other works while the team works on the [...]

Haughton Announces Dealers and Plans for the 22nd Annual International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show

NEW YORK, NY.- Haughton International Fairs have announced a superb roster of 62 world-class exhibitors — with an unprecedented dealer return rate– for the 2010 edition at the Park Avenue Armory. The prestigious “International Show” – the flagship fair organized by Anna and Brian Haughton, has retained its position as the premier platform in America for top dealers from Europe and the United States for the past twenty-two years. It is a must for collectors, connoisseurs, museum curators and interior [...]

Christian Boltanski Creates Monumental New Installation Filling Park Avenue Armory

NEW YORK, NY.- French artist Christian Boltanski has created a monumental new work for Park Avenue Armory’s soaring 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall, filling the space with thousands of pieces of discarded clothing and a soundtrack of reverberating heartbeats. This installation is Boltanski’s largest and most ambitious project ever staged in the United States— an affecting and poetic spectacle that explores concepts of human identity, memory, and loss. On view from May 14 – June 13, 2010, Boltanski’s No Man’s [...]

Monumental Commission for MoMA on View at the 53rd Street Entrance

NEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin announced Mickalene Thomas’ completion of a monumental commission for the Museum of Modern Art entitled Le dejeuner sur l’herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires, which will remain on view in the window of the Museum’s 53rd Street entrance through December 2010. Mickalene Thomas creates works that introduce a complex vision of what it means to be a woman and expand common definitions of beauty. She has chosen her subjects for this body of work with an [...]

Christian Boltanski to Create Monumental Installation at Park Avenue Armory

NEW YORK, NY.- French artist Christian Boltanski will create a monumental new work for Park Avenue Armory’s soaring 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall, filling the space with thousands of pieces of discarded clothing and a soundtrack of reverberating heartbeats. This installation will be Boltanski’s largest and most ambitious project ever staged in the United States—an affecting and poetic spectacle that explores concepts of human identity, memory, and loss. On view from May 14 – June 13, 2010, Boltanski’s No Man’s [...]

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