NYC Art Week: Armory Show, Museum Reviews, Union Talks, and Public Art

Key facts

• Arthur Jafa's retrospective I Am Tony is on view at the New Museum in New York, occupying two levels and featuring his largest exhibition to date.
• Taryn Simon's Father Country I Do Love You is exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, reviewed by Aruna D'Souza.
• Teresa Margolles's En el lugar de los hechos (At the Scene) is on view at MoMA PS1, reviewed by Alex Santana.
• The Museum of the City of New York inaugurated a permanent exhibition on 250 years of activism at the Puffin Foundation Center.
• The Morgan Library & Museum's tarot exhibition has only five days left.
• Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum of American Art set an October 5 strike deadline; Brooklyn Museum and American Folk Art Museum staff are voting on tentative agreements.
• The Armory Show was described as quiet and downcast, with dealers reporting serene sales despite wars and inflation.
• The New York Art Book Fair held its 20th anniversary edition at MoMA PS1.
• Art in Odd Places festival unfolded across 14th Street during the nor'easter.
• Leon Black plans to convert a Manhattan property into a foundation to display his estimated $5 billion art collection.
• Liu Wei returns to New York for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Genesis Facade Commission.
• Christie's launched a new pop culture division for music memorabilia, instruments, and film props.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the first major Felix Gonzalez-Torres exhibition in New York in over 30 years.
• El Museo del Barrio apologized for renting space for a 9/11 conspiracy conference.
• 40 life-sized buffalo puppets migrated through NYC for Return of the Buffalo: Tatanka Owe Akupi.