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Credit Jonah Rosenberg for The Armory Show
One of New York’s great art shows, The Armory Show, returns to the Javits Center September 5th to the 7th. The Armory Show brings together over 230 galleries from more than 35 counties, along with the Armory Live symposiums.
Galleries participating in The Armory Show for the first time are Kendra Jayne Patrick, Skarstedt, Megan Mulrooney, ILY2, Superposition Gallery, Martha’s, Saatchi Yates, Everard Read, Wolfgang Gallery, Sheet Cake Gallery, Seven Sisters, JO-HS, and Timothy Hawkinson Gallery. Over 20 galleries are returning after a hiatus, including White Cube, Marianne Boesky, James Fuentes, Anton Kern Gallery, Andrew Kreps, Uffner & Liu, Lindsey Ingram, Instituto de Visión, Public Gallery, TAFETA, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Esther Schipper, and The Pit.
If you want help navigating all these galleries the Armory Show also has special guided tours.
The Armory Show's Gramercy International Prize is awarded each year to a pioneering young gallery in New York that embodies the spirit of the fair's founders, who aimed to support the avant-garde, with this year's Prize going to Silke Lindner.
To learn more, go to: https://www.thearmoryshow.com/
The Armory Show
September 5- 7, 2025
Javits Center
429 11th Avenue
New York, NY 10001
©Citra Sasmita. Photo: Jo Underhill / Barbican
One of New York’s major art fairs, Frieze New York, returns for its 13th edition at The Shed on May 7 to 11. Frieze New York combines sound, performance, and visual art to create a unique experience and features newly commissioned works by internationally acclaimed artists around The Shed and the surrounding High Line area.
Frieze New York displays special presentations from an assortment of galleries. Pace Gallery will show a dual presentation of paintings by Adam Pendleton in dialogue with sculptures by Lynda Benglis. mor charpentier presents a solo show of French painter Malo Chapuy, featuring a selection of paintings centered on ecology. HALES’ debut at Frieze New York will see Sunil Gupta’s Exiles series, recently exhibited at MoMA and the Barbican, shown alongside a new large-scale painting by Anthony Cudahy and works by Tessa Boffin and Chitra Ganesh. The Focus portion of Frieze New York highlights young and emerging galleries such as Champ Lacombe, G Gallery, King’s Leap, and more.
Christine Messineo said: “Frieze New York offers an engaging and dynamic experience of New York as a vibrant hub of the international art world. Steps away from Chelsea’s galleries, the fair brings together extraordinary work exploring perspectives that shape contemporary art. Frieze week features performances, talks, and events not only at the Shed but also throughout the city.”
To learn more, go to: https://www.frieze.com/fairs/frieze-new-york
Frieze New York
May 7 - 11, 2025
The Shed
545 W 30th Street
New York, NY 10001
Organized by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), The Photography Show is one of New York’s top photo events, with over 67 top international photography dealers, and 20 photobook dealers. Running April 23 - 27th at the Park Avenue Armory (643 Park Avenue). The Photography Show features contemporary and vintage works from a multitude of galleries. Exhibitors include Bruce Silverstein Gallery, Daniel/Oliver Gallery, Gitterman Gallery, Jackson Fine Art, and many more.
The 2025 AIPAD Talks Live Program is a series of panels and lectures on museum acquisitions, a conversation with Michael Stipe, Japanese women photographers, and more.
To learn more, go to: https://www.aipad.com/show/
The Photography Show 2025, Presented by AIPAD
April 23 - 27, 2025
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065
From April 3rd to the 6th, the Park Avenue Armory (643 Park Avenue, New York, NY) will become a treasure trove of rare books, maps, photographs, ephemera, and much more. The 65th Annual ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is more than a mouthful, it’s also where galleries and dealers from around the world converge to showcase rare works of paper. Whether you’re interested in art, design, popular culture, science, medicine, literature, history, gastronomy, fashion, music, or philosophy, the International Antiquarian Book Fair has a little something for everybody. Take home a vintage print of Josephine Baker, or an early 20th century cookbook, some maps, and 19th century pin up photos.
Along with exhibitors the Fair includes NYIABF Presents, a series of talks on the rare book industry and amplifies novel ideas about literature, print, and material culture.
To learn more, go to: https://www.nyantiquarianbookfair.com/
New York International Antiquarian Book Fair
April 3 - 6, 2025
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue
New York, NY