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The DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, Illinois presented For and Against Modern Art: The Armory Show +100, from April 4 to June 16, 2013. [28] The International Print Center in New York held an exhibition, "1913 Armory Show Revisited: the Artists and their Prints," of prints from the show or by artists whose work in other media was included. [12]
The Armory Show 2021 The Armory Show 2021. The Armory Show is an international art fair in New York City, known as New York's Art Fair.Established in 1994 as the Gramercy International Art Fair by dealers Colin De Land, Pat Hearn, Lisa Spellman, Matthew Marks and Paul Morris, the annual fair is now held every fall for four days and attracts crowds of 65,000.
Smithsonian, Archives of American Art, Walt Kuhn scrapbook of press clippings documenting the Armory Show, vol. 2, 1913. Armory Show catalogue (illustrated) from pages 159 through 236; Catalogue of international exhibition of modern art Association of American Painters and Sculptors. Published 1913 by the Association in New York
The Armory Show refers to the International Exhibition of Modern Art that was organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors and opened in New York City's 69th Regiment Armory, on Lexington Avenue between 25th and 26th Streets, on February 17, 1913, and ran to March 15.
As early as 1886, the 69th Regiment had sought permission to erect a new armory. The site between 25th and 26th Street was not decided upon until 1899; the building began construction in 1904 and formally opened on October 13, 1906. The Armory was the site of the 1913 Armory Show, in which modern art was first publicly presented in the United ...
The painting was subsequently shown, and ridiculed, at the 1913 Armory Show in New York City. Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 was reproduced by Guillaume Apollinaire in his 1913 book, Les Peintres Cubistes, Méditations Esthétiques. It is now in the Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. [2]
In March 1999, the New York state government issued a request for proposals for the Park Avenue Armory. [1] At the time, the building needed $50 million in repairs, which the state could not afford. [1] State officials began soliciting bids from the armory in mid-2000, following months of consultations with community leaders. [2]
In 1994, the Gramercy International Art Fair, now called the Armory Show, made its debut in the rooms and hallways of New York's Gramercy Park Hotel. [4] At the time, the Fair was an alternative to the more polished and established fairs like Art Basel and Art Chicago.