Armory Week 2017 Showcases Boutique Fairs, Textural Trends, and Label Controversies
Armory Week 2017 took place in New York from February 27 to March 6, encompassing several art fairs. At Zurcher Gallery, Salon Zürcher presented six galleries from cities including Paris, Brussels, Oslo, Provincetown, and Hangzhou. Jefferson Pinder's video piece, Afro-Cosmonaut/Alien (White Noise), was featured at Moving Image New York, held at The Tunnel. The Spring/Break Art Show at 4 Times Square showcased independent curators like Eric Sutphin and Megan Liu Kincheloe, concluding on March 6. Meanwhile, The Armory Show at Piers 92 & 94 emphasized a variety of textural works, and Various Small Fires exhibited Mernet Larsen's sketches. Ruth Hardinger's pieces were on display at VOLTA NY, while The Art Show at Park Avenue Armory centered on Betty Tompkins. NADA New York at Skylight Clarkson North contributed half of its ticket sales to the ACLU.
Key facts
- Armory Week 2017 ran from February 27 to March 6 in New York
- Salon Zürcher featured six international galleries including Inna Art Space from Hangzhou
- Jefferson Pinder's video Afro-Cosmonaut/Alien (White Noise) was shown at Moving Image New York
- Spring/Break Art Show was curated room-by-room, including by artcritical writers
- The Armory Show emphasized textural works by artists like Bosco Sodi and Jayson Musson
- Mernet Larsen's sketches at Various Small Fires explored unconventional perspective systems
- Independent Art Fair was criticized for lacking artwork labels
- NADA New York donated half of ticket sales to the ACLU
Entities
Artists
- Jefferson Pinder
- Rosemarie Beck
- Angela Dufresne
- Sophia Flood
- Sascha Ingber
- Kelly McCafferty
- Sarah Tortora
- Megan Liu Kincheloe
- Jayson Musson
- Florine Stettheimer
- Thomas Trosch
- Bosco Sodi
- Michelle Grabner
- Miguel Barcelo
- Vik Muniz
- Mernet Larsen
- Ruth Hardinger
- Betty Tompkins
- Beverly Buchanan
- Magali Reus
- Ervin Løffler
- Landon Metz
- Brenda Goodman
- Chris Dorland
- Aneta Bartos
- Zbigniew Bartos
- Eric Sutphin
- David Cohen
- Roman Kalinovski
Institutions
- Zurcher Gallery
- Inna Art Space
- Curator's Office
- Spring/Break Art Show
- artcritical
- The Armory Show
- Fleisher-Ollman
- Jeffrey Deitch
- Galeria Hilario Galguera
- Blain Southern
- Paul Kasmin
- James Cohan Gallery
- Thaddeus Ropac
- Edwin Houk
- Various Small Fires
- VOLTA NY
- David&Scheweitzer Contemporary
- The Art Show
- Art Dealer's Association of America
- PPOW
- Independent Art Fair
- Andrew Edlin
- Approach
- VI, VII
- NADA
- New Art Dealers Association
- ACLU
- Super Dakota
- Salon Zürcher
- Moving Image New York
Locations
- New York
- United States
- Zurich
- Switzerland
- 33 Bleecker Street
- Paris
- France
- Brussels
- Belgium
- Oslo
- Norway
- Provincetown
- Massachusetts
- Hangzhou
- China
- The Tunnel
- 269 11th Avenue
- Bathesda
- Maryland
- 4 Times Square
- Times Square
- Piers 92 & 94
- Hudson River
- Los Angeles
- California
- Tampa
- Florida
- Pier 90
- 12th Avenue
- 50th Street
- 56 Bogart Street
- Park Avenue Armory
- 643 Park Avenue
- 66th Street
- Spring Studios
- 50 Varick Street
- Basel
- Skylight Clarkson North
- 572 Washington Street
- Miami
- West Soho
- Mexico City
- Mexico