In conjunction with VOLTA NY, The Armory Show hosts Open Forum, a thought-provoking series of conversations and panels featuring top collectors, curators and museum directors. The 2012 edition will be organized by curator Amanda Parmer.
The 2011 edition of Open Forum, curated by Stamatina Gregory, featured: In Conversation with luminaries as New Museum Director of Special Projects and Curator at Large Richard Flood and the 2011 Armory Show commissioned artist Gabriel Kuri; Artist Theaster Gates, Assistant Curator, Studio Museum of Harlem Naomi Beckwith and Chief Curator of Contemporary Art, LACMA Franklin Sirmans; Colección Jumex Curator Victor Zamudio-Taylor and Artist Ivan Navarro. Topics included: How Have International Initiatives Affected Contemporary Middle Eastern Art? with Ahmed Alsoudani, Afruz Amighi and Ahmed Mater and Founder of Art Middle East Nazy Nazhand and Biennials As Barometers of Social Transformation? Dublin Contemporary 2011: Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance.
The 2012 Open Forum schedule will be available in the coming weeks.