On Wednesday at 12:00 p.m. sharp, Jenny Jaskey met me at New York’s blustery Pier 94 for the Armory Show preview. Jaskey, the director and curator of The Artist's Institute—a Hunter College-affiliated…
On Kathy Grayson’s Instagram account about a week ago, the gallerist and artist posted a detail from a new work by Brad Troemel and commented: “I guess it was only a matter of time until…
Appointed to her post at El Museo in December, Martínez had just spent three years as part of the Documenta 13 curatorial team, while also serving as chief curator at MACBA, Barcelona. When you…
This year for the first time the annual Armory Show has a program of performance and film. It is modest, to be sure, but it could prove a refreshing alternative to viewing the booths.
What started out as an alternative event located in a shabby chic hotel had become a grueling super-sized trade fair. This week, the Armory Show will demonstrate whether it can reinvent itself yet a…
A lot of people, speaking off the record, have been down on the Armory since last year. The once scrappy downtown fair that started in the once scrappy Gramercy Park Hotel has become the fair that eve…
Each year, members of the prestigious Art Dealers Association of America come to New York to put on a show, the Art Show, to be exact. The 2011 Art Show (March 2–6) at the Park Avenue Armory, its 23rd…
Art in America presents its curtain raiser to the New York art world's March Madness, the 2011 edition of Armory Week. Here are just some of the off-site highlights to hit this week.
What more can you ask of the Armory Show Modern than to provide a few transcendent moments with some art-historical significance and a bit of emotional depth?
For its first commissioned art installation, the Park Avenue Armory and curator Tom Eccles invited Brazillian artist Ernesto Neto to design one of his amorphous, interactive installations for the Armo…