Armory Live

Detail of Rosa Barba, Uncertain Theme - and Therefore Abstract, 2021. Presented by Vistamare. Photo by Vincent Tullo.

Armory Live is a multi-day public symposium taking place at the fair that features influential members of the international art community and other thought leaders.

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Curatorial Leadership Summit 2022 | Resisting Labels: A Conversation with artist Daniel Joseph Martinez

Friday, September 9, 2022

Featuring artist Daniel Joseph Martinez—Moderated by Mari Carmen Ramírez, Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and Director of International Center for the Arts of the Americas at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Gilbert Vicario, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Phoenix Art Museum. 

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Perspectives of America: The Evolution of the US Pavilion

Saturday, September 10, 2022

Featuring Carlos Basualdo, Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Deputy Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator at Madison Square Park Conservancy; and Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the ICA/Boston—moderated by Darsie Alexander, Susan and Elihu Rose Chief Curator at the Jewish Museum.

Video ARMORY LIVE THEATER AT THE JAVITS CENTER

In Conversation: Monumental Change

Saturday, September 10, 2022

Featuring artists Iván Argote, Reynier Leyva Novo, and Ebony G. Patterson; with Susanna V. Temkin, Curator at El Museo del Barrio—moderated by Tobias Ostrander, Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator, Latin American Art at Tate.In partnership with Maestro Dobel Tequila.

Video ARMORY LIVE THEATER AT THE JAVITS CENTER

Art in the Age of the Metaverse

Saturday, September 10, 2022

Featuring Jeanne Anderson, Co-Founder & CEO of Danvas; Caroline Taylor, Founder & CEO of Appraisal Bureau; Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile, Founder of RF.C Collection and Co-Founder of Aorist—moderated by Andrew Goldstein, Editor-in-Chief of Artnet News. In partnership with Talking Galleries.

Video ARMORY LIVE THEATER AT THE JAVITS CENTER

Unruly Territories: Language, Body, Feminisms

Sunday, September 11, 2022

Featuring artists Priscilla Monge and Naomi Rincón Gallardo; with Miguel A. López, Writer and Independent Curator—moderated by Carla Acevedo-Yates, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago.

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Art and Autonomy: Figuration, Representation, and Choice

Sunday, September 11, 2022

Featuring Cecilia Alemani, Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art and Artistic Director of the 59th International Art Exhibition (2022) at the Venice Biennale; Anne Pasternak, Shelby White and Leon Levy Director of the Brooklyn Museum; and Alyssa Nitchun, Executive Director at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art—moderated by Farah Nayeri, Writer for the New York Timesand author of Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age.

Video ARMORY LIVE THEATER AT THE JAVITS CENTER

Tech and Tradition: A Watershed Moment for Collecting

Sunday, September 11, 2022

Featuring Michael Darling, Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer, Museum Exchange; Max Kendrick, Co-Founder and CEO of Fairchain; Karen Levy, Art and Tech Entrepreneur, Co-owner DSLcollection and Co-founder AIKA; and Magnus Resch, Book Author, Entrepreneur, and Professor—moderated by Alexander Forbes, Senior Director, Head of Collector Services & Private Sales at Artsy.

Video Armory Live at Soho House

Finding Community through Queer Figurative Painting

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

The panel 'Finding Community through Queer Figurative Painting' features artists Doron Langberg, David Antonio Cruz, and Nash Glynn; moderated by Evan Moffitt, writer and founder of the upcoming Precious Cargo podcast. Focusing on artists and their communities, the talk examines how painterly representations of queer bodies challenge the dominant epistemologies that have been amplified by institutions and the market. Armory Live 2022 is presented in partnership with Soho House.

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Distilling the Art Market in Unprecedented Times

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Featuring Allan Schwartzman (Schwartzman&), Lucy Mitchell-Innes (Mitchell-Innes & Nash), and Allegra LaViola (Sargent's Daughters); moderated by Benjamin Sutton, Americas Editor at The Art Newspaper.

As the art market continues to fluctuate due to shifting global politics and increasingly unpredictable financial markets, this conversation presents a clear picture of today’s art economy as we approach The Armory Show in September. The talk reflects the fair’s vast presentation of galleries and their selected artists at every point on the spectrum from emerging to blue-chip, uncovering the most vital and promising themes in today’s contemporary art market.

Video Virtual Curatorial Leadership Summit

What’s in the X?: Making Sense of the Latin American / Latinx Art Debate

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

The program convenes Arlene Dávila, Professor and Founding Director of The Latinx Project at New York University; Gerardo Mosquera, Independent Curator & Critic; Roberto Tejada, Hugh Roy, and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor, University of Houston; and Gilbert Vicario, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Phoenix Art Museum in discussion with and moderated by Mari Carmen Ramírez.

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INTERSECTIONAL FORMS: CURATING ACROSS SHIFTING CULTURAL LANDSCAPES

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Carla Acevedo-Yates, Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, and Tobias Ostrander, Adjunct Curator, Latin American Art at Tate, London, share their visions for The Armory Show's 2022 curated sections. Moderated by Max Duron, Senior Editor of ARTnews.

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