New York City
Pier 94, 12th Avenue at 55th Street
Thursday, March 27–Saturday, March 29: Noon–8 pm
Sunday, March 30: Noon–7 pm
The Armory Show, The International Fair of New Art, is celebrating its 10th annual exhibition with new art by more than 2,000 living artists from 160 of the world’s leading galleries and nonprofit organizations. Exhibitors will be coming from 39 different cities in 21 countries to create an exhibition that encompasses the richness and diversity of the international art world at its most current. This year’s 10th edition promises to be another record-breaking event: attendance in 2007 rose to 52,000 visitors, an increase from 47,000 in 2006, and total sales exceeded $85 million, rising from $62 million the previous year.
Continuing its commitment to cutting edge art, The Armory Show welcomes 15 new galleries to the show this year, including Juliette Jongma from Amsterdam, Nogueras Blanchard from Barcelona and i8 from Reykjavik. Several exhibitors will be presenting works by artists in the concurrent Whitney Biennial. Among them Canada, which is showing a one-person installation by Joe Bradley, David Kordansky Gallery, is devoting its booth to William E. Jones, and Susanne Vielmetter, who is featuring five Biennial artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Jed Caesar, Alice Koenitz, Rodney McMillian and Ruben Ochoa.
The Armory Show is the successor to the highly acclaimed Gramercy International Art Fairs that attracted thousands to their New York, Los Angeles and Miami shows between 1994 and 1998. The Armory Show was first presented in February 1999 at the 69th Regiment Armory, the very site of the now legendary Armory Show of 1913 that introduced modern art to America and for which the show is named.
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Artwork by John Waters |
Mary Heilmann, Yellow Wave, 2007 (left) Dottie Digi, 2007 (right) |
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Artwork by John Waters |
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