The Armory Show is New York City’s big fall contemporary art fair. It anchors the Armory Week cluster of contemporary art fairs which launches New York’s fall art season.
31st Armory Show 2025
Javits Center
The 31st Armory Show 2025 brings over 235 international modern and contemporary art galleries from over 35 countries, including Argentine, Brazilian, Colombian, French, French Canadian, Indigenous, Italian, Mexican, Nigerian, Peruvian, South African, and Spanish galleries, plus a focus on the American South; to Javits Center in Hudson Yards, Manhattan; from Thursday-Sunday, September 4-7, 2025. From $42. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇫🇷 🇨🇦 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇿🇦 🇪🇸
The Show is organized into curated sections:
- Focus presents artists who work outside the mainstream with a focus on historical narratives. 2025 focuses on the American South.
- Function is a new section for 2025 that leans into design.
- Galleries is the fair’s core. It exhibits solo- or dual- artist presentations.
- Not-For-Profit presents museums, not-for-profit galleries and art foundations.
- Platform shows large-scale and site-specific installations with art-historical references.
- Presents is emerging galleries under 10 years old, showing recent work.
- Solo offers single-artist presentations.
Consider taking one of the add-on fair tours. It really expands your experience of the show.
30th Armory Show 2024
Hudson Yards
The 30th Armory Show 2024 brings over 235 international modern and contemporary art galleries from over 30 countries; to Javits Center in Hudson Yards, Manhattan; from Friday-Sunday, September 6-8, 2024. From $45.
Consider taking one of the add-on fair tours. It really expands your experience of the show.
The Show is organized into curated sections:
- Focus presents artists who work outside the mainstream with a focus on historical narratives. 2024 curator is Robyn Farrell.
- Galleries is the fair’s core section. It exhibits solo- or dual- artist presentations.
- Not-For-Profit presents museums, not-for-profit galleries and art foundations.
- Platform shows large-scale and site-specific installations with art-historical references. 2024 curator is Eugenie Tsai.
- Presents is emerging galleries under 10 years old, showing recent work.
- Solo galleries offer single-artist presentations.
This edition brings Latin, African, Indigenous, and Asian galleries from: Argentina, Bahamas, Brazil, China, Colombia, Cuba, France, French Canada, India, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, and United States. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇨🇦 🇮🇳 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇸🇬 🇿🇦 🇪🇸
Armory Show
The Armory Show is New York City’s big fall contemporary art fair. It launches NYC’s fall art season with Armory Week, a cluster of contemporary art fairs. It’s a fantastic date.
The Show’s name is a reference to the 1913 Armory Show which introduced modern art to Americans. Held at the 69th Regiment Armory, the 1913 Armory Show scandalized the American art world with its Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism. It was the first time most Americans saw work by now legendary artists such as: Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Marcel Duchamp. We now look back on the Show with admiration, but at the time most Americans had never seen anything like it. Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase” is now considered one of the Modern Art classics, but back then it caused a stir by bringing motion into the static picture plane. There were complaints that the work in the show was vulgar and wasn’t art.
The modern Armory Show was founded in 1994. It was recently acquired by Frieze, the London art magazine and art fair producer. The company also produces the Frieze art fair the anchor of New York’s Frieze Week cluster of spring contemporary art fairs.
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