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Armory Week 2015

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Black Lives Matter Demonstrators Stage Die-In at the Armory Show

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 9, 2015March 12, 2015

On Saturday a group of artists and activists staged a protest at the Armory Show art fair, performing music, poetry, a dramatic reading of Eric Garner’s last words, and staging a die-in.

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The Good, the Bad, and the Cheesy at Pulse Art Fair

by Julia Friedman March 9, 2015March 9, 2015

This past weekend’s Pulse New York offered many examples of uninspiring or downright cheesy contemporary art, interspersed with a few gems.

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New York’s Armory Week Anti-Fairs: Clio and (Un)Scene

by Kemy Lin March 8, 2015February 16, 2016

In the midst of Armory Arts Week, the (Un)Scene Art Show and Clio Art Fair both bill themselves as “outsider” art fairs that emphasize passion and personality rather than fashion.

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At Volta, Artists Have a Room of Their Own

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino March 6, 2015March 6, 2015

Volta is unique among Armory Week art fairs in that each gallery booth exhibits a solo project by one artist. The fair is still sizable — 90 galleries in total — but it’s a nice change to devote your time to individual series of works.

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Art on Paper Joins the Armory Week Fold

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 6, 2015February 16, 2016

Despite Art on Paper’s name, the work on view at the first-time Armory Week fair includes as many different materials as at any other fair, with art created on paper and art inspired by paper on view.

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Traces of Extinct Animals at the Armory Show

by Ashley P. Taylor March 6, 2015March 8, 2015

The animals have gone missing from booth 844. Framed nature prints crowd the holly walls, but the auks, cougars, wolves, and woodpeckers that were once their subjects have been cut out, leaving blank spaces behind in a sort of artistic animal Rapture.

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There’s Nothing Sexier Than an Independent Art Fair

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 5, 2015March 7, 2015

“Viewer discretion advised: graphic sexual imagery,” reads some floor text that nobody seemed to notice or bother to read this afternoon as they entered Mendes Wood DM’s booth at the Independent.

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The 2015 Armory Show in 23 Superlatives

by Jillian Steinhauer March 4, 2015March 7, 2015

The 2015 Armory Show delivers pretty much what you’d expect of the 2015 Armory Show: some quite good art, some pretty bad art, and a lot of completely harmless stuff in between.

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Jam-Packed Spring/Break Art Show Pulls into Moynihan Station

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 4, 2015March 7, 2015

In its fourth year, Spring/Break Art Show is temporarily transforming the disused offices of Moynihan Station into an art fair based on the theme of “transaction.”

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Your Concise Guide to Armory Week 2015

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 2, 2015March 7, 2015

It’s time for the art world’s annual migration to the far, far, far west side of Midtown Manhattan for the Armory Show and its many satellite art fairs.

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