Performance
Nick Cave Lets Go in a Performance that Is Part Confession, Part Celebration
In “The Let Go” at the Park Avenue Armory, the artist explores jubilation washed with spectacle and an undertow of anguish.
Park Avenue Armory
Art
Culinary Delights and Other Fine Finds at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair
From a book about a cat's ghost to vintage French recipes, there are plenty of unusual — and expensive — finds at this fair.
Art
Louise Nevelson, Kehinde Wiley, and Artists Worth Discovering at the ADAA Art Show
The 30th edition of the Art Dealers Association of America's annual art fair features works by many of the familiar blue-chip names, but there are also some surprises to be found ambling the aisles.
Art
Lynda Benglis, Catherine Opie, and Damaged Art at the ADAA Art Show
The toniest fair of the spring season returns, one week ahead of the Armory Week deluge, for its 30th edition.
Performance
Reaching for Transcendence with Voice and Light
In Rashaad Newsome's "Running," a vocal tradition reaches expressive new heights and plumbs emotional depths.
Art
Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron Turn Surveillance into a Gimmick
Their new installation at the Park Avenue Armory features drones and facial-recognition technology, yet seems to have no politics at all.
Art
Ladies First at the ADAA Art Show
Women artists are ubiquitous at the most august of the week's art fairs, from canonical figures like Lee Krasner and Lee Bontecou to lesser-known figures like Zilia Sánchez and Evelyn Statsinger.
Art
The Chameleonic Cate Blanchett Brings 20th-Century Art Manifestos to Life
In the 13-screen video installation Manifesto, Cate Blanchett plays sharply different characters while reading polemical 20th-century manifestos. Her transformation is astonishing.
Music
Ben Franklin’s Glass Instrument Stirs Back to Life
In 1761, Benjamin Franklin invented an instrument eventually thought by some to drive its players out of their minds: the armonica, which produced the same echoing, high-pitched sounds as singing water glasses. Made of glass bowls nested into one another, with the entire stack skewered with a spindle, the instrument
Art
Mourners from Around the Globe Gather to Share Our Traditions of Grief
As a New York gravedigger once succinctly put it to me: “We all have dead.” No person is isolated from loss.
Art
An Exhaustive and Exhausting Survey of Martin Creed's Madcap Antics
For decades, the Park Avenue Armory was home largely to order and restraint, serving as the headquarters of the 7th Regiment of the New York Militia. It is now bursting with mayhem.
News
A Glittering Restoration of the Park Avenue Armory’s Veterans Room, with a Modern Touch
Back when the Park Avenue Armory served as the headquarters for New York State’s Seventh Regiment of the National Guard, it housed on its ground floor a massive, high-ceilinged room where retired soldiers could lounge with a brandy in one hand, a cigar in the other, and a spittoon by their sides.