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The Armory Show’s 30^th anniversary edition showcases art at the forefront featuring curated sections and special presentations, alongside solo, dual artist, and thematic booths.
This year welcomes the fourth iteration of Armory Off-Site, which brings together performances across the city in addition to large-scale sculptural installations at the US Open. The fair will also present a newly redesigned theater as part of Armory Live, which features public conversations and the Curatorial Leadership Summit, the invitation-only symposium bringing nearly 100 curators to the fair. For its 30th anniversary, The Armory Show is partnering with Hästens for a special presentation that will recreate a hotel room inspired by the fair’s original 1994 edition at the Gramercy Park Hotel.
“This year’s programming reflects the vibrancy of the city in which it was founded. From city- wide performances and activations, to complex and diverse discussions, we’re thrilled to provide opportunities for our audience to engage with The Armory Show’s spirit of discovery at the fair and outside the walls of the Javits Center,” says Kyla McMillan, Director of The Armory Show.
To commemorate the fair’s 30th Anniversary and celebrate New York’s global leadership in the arts, The Armory Show 2024 brings together three curators practicing in New York. As in previous years Platform, Focus, and the CLS will all benefit from a unified thread, with the 2024 curated sections examining an overarching theme of art-historical reverberations and echoes in the present.
Curated by Eugenie Tsai, Platform will examine the overarching theme through
large-scale installations and site-specific works material, and spirit.
Curated by Robyn Farrell, Focus considers the experimental spirit of the fair’s founding in 1994 at The Gramercy Hotel and the namesake International Exhibition of Modern Art in 1913 at New York City's 69th Regiment Armory. Works in this section reflect on these avant-garde histories while probing the radical strategies and poetic interventions of interdisciplinary forms and cultural exchange.
Lauren Cornell will chair the seventh annual Curatorial Leadership Summit. The curatorial convening will directly examine conversations in and around art historical reverberations and echoes in the present. A public keynote presentation follows the closed-door session. In addition to the on-site summit, Cornell will be chairing the Virtual CLS event in the spring of 2024 leading up to the fair.