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From a Wedding Dress to a Dagger, Examining the Gifts Countries Give Each Other
In alignment with the focus on contemporary African art, fair organizers appointed Kapwani Kiwanga as this year’s Armory Artist Commission.
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From Míro's Studio to Ledger Art, Standouts of the Armory Show's Modern Section
The Armory Show is thought of first and foremost as a venue for buying contemporary art, but on the fair's southern pier dealers quietly move Modern masterpieces worth millions.
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An Immersive Dyke Bar and Other Mixed-Media Moments from Pulse Art Fair
The jukebox is quiet and there's prosecco flowing, but anachronisms aside, Macon Reed's "Eulogy for the Dyke Bar" installation is a vibrant tribute to the disappearing lesbian bar.
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Spring/Break, a Sprawling Alternative Art Fair that Delivers
On Tuesday, at the preview of the Spring/Break Art Show, a writer I know told me she'd been sent there on an assignment to cover the "little" fairs surrounding the Armory Show.
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Finding Jesus, "YOUR MOM," and Other Surprises at the 2016 Armory Show
The 2016 edition of the Armory Show art fair opens to the public tomorrow, but already during today's preview piers 92 and 94 were crawling with collectors, curators, and critics.
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Your Concise Guide to Armory Week 2016
Like a noble grizzly emerging, famished and irritable, from her den after months of hibernation, the New York art world is roaring aggressively into action for the annual Armory Week fairs.
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Join Hyperallergic for a Conversation About Art and Revolution at PULSE
It's Armory Art Week in New York, and we we always look forward to finding ways to contribute a new critical perspective that will educate and illuminate an aspect of art.
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Black Lives Matter Demonstrators Stage Die-In at the Armory Show
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
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
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
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
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.