María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Procession of Angels for Radical Love and Unity, 2024
Presented by Madison Square Park Conservancy in partnership with Harlem Art Park

This September, artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons will create Procession of Angels for Radical Love and Unity. Organized by Madison Square Park Conservancy in partnership with Harlem Art Park, this convening traces the steps of the past in order to build a promising future. Planned for the mornings of September 7 and September 20, the route visits seven sites historically significant to New York City communities, from Harlem Art Park to Madison Square Park.

Each stop along the walk will be activated by poetry readings, culminating with an artmaking workshop and music performances. This collaborative project brings together a multigenerational initiative of people throughout New York City to envision how communities can gather as a collective force with a common purpose in turbulent times.

The procession is free and open to all. Join us to walk 2.5 miles on City sidewalks with the artist, poets, musicians, and neighbors.

Oliver Herring, Herring as Nureyev as Nijinsky as Faun, 2021 - ongoing
Hosted by BANK (Shanghai)

In correlation with BANK’s Armory presentation of Oliver Herring’s seminal work from the nineties at the fair, the artist will present an off-site performance of a recent project. While these two bodies of work are formally disparate and made three decades apart they both pay homage to queer icons whose creative forces and visionary careers were tragically and prematurely interrupted.

Herring’s knit work, A Flower of Ethyl Eichelberger (1991-2001), is a prolonged meditation on mortality and the passage of time as a means to process the AIDS crisis, gender identity and sexuality orientation. Herring’s Untitled (2021-ongoing) takes inspiration from Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1912 early Modernist ballet L’Aprés Midi d’un Faune, and uses the choreographer’s exploration of flatness as an entry point to explore limitations of the body, space, mind and sex.

The 20-minute performance unfolds as a distinct piece of choreography with a sound poem based on Nijinsky’s letters from 1919.

The performance will be followed by moderated discussions with various cultural figures.

Body Freedom for Every(Body)
Presented by Project for Empty Space

Created by Project for Empty Space, Body Freedom for Every(Body) is a cross-country mobile exhibition inside of a 27-foot Truck. This project celebrates body autonomy, with specific emphasis on intersecting themes of Reproductive Justice, Queer Liberation, and Trans Joy. We're bringing nearly 200 artists’ works on the road throughout the course of the tour to build community coast-to-coast. The multi-part endeavor (a traveling exhibition, an accessible database, and an oral history archive) addresses the importance of agency, autonomy, and choice when it comes to healthcare and individual identity. This is a community building endeavor, and reminder to each of us that no matter what happens, we will stand together in our power.

Exhibition Walk Throughs with Curators Jasmine Wahi and Rebecca Pauline Jampol are rotating in 15- 20 minute intervals. The truck can comfortably fit 8-10 people inside at a time. These tours will be offered at each stop in New York City. These tours are exclusively available through Project for Empty Space’s partnership with The Armory Show.

David Salle, A Well-Leafed Tree Remixed, 2023
Presented in partnership with Times Square Arts, Lehmann Maupin (New York, Seoul, London, Hong Kong), and Gladstone Gallery (New York, Los Angeles, Brussels, Rome, and Seoul).

A new work by David Salle presented in partnership with Times Square Arts as part of the Midnight Moment program with support from Lehmann Maupin and Gladstone Gallery.

From September 1-30, 2024 | Nightly 11:57pm - 12am. No RSVP required.

The Armory Show partners for the third time with the USTA to present four large-scale sculptures at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center during the US Open, August 26–September 8, 2024. The partnership is grounded in the USTA and The Armory Show's shared vision for creativity, inspiration, and equity.

An Te Liu, Venus Redux, 2018
Blouin Division (Montreal)

Venus Redux embodies conceptions of strength and beauty. Its posture and forms are a re-mix of the Lely Venus held in the British Museum, which was in turn modeled after a famed crouching Venus from the Hellenistic period. Here, the enduring power and poise of the original is presented anew, in a visceral amalgam of force and grace.

Tomakazu Matsuyama, Runner, 2021
Kavi Gupta (Chicago)

This sculpture, titled Runner, debuted in The Best Part About Us, Tomokazu Matsuyama’s 2022 solo exhibition at Kavi Gupta gallery in Chicago. The form is highly abstracted, offering not so much a narrative expression of a runner, but rather a poetic incarnation of certain ideas about the function and cultural meaning of running as part of human culture. Viewed from certain angles, the sculpture reveals aspects of a human form, such as a head, arms, and feet that don a pair of athletic shoes. Other aspects of the form are intended to convey movement and action. Matsuyama’s sculptural practice is informed by his process of questioning how his imagery might be experienced by viewers in three-dimensional space. He contemplates the total optical experience of his paintings and the logical relationships of the formal elements within them, creating mirrored forms and patterns that serve as an optical metaphor for his vision of cultural exchange and influence. The effect event extends beyond the piece, as its surfaces will take on the colors of its environment.

Eva Robarts, Fantasy of Happiness, 2022
Ruttkowski;68 (Cologne, Düsseldorf, New York, Paris)

New York-based mixed media artist Eva Robarts (b. 1982) includes found materials into a conceptual framework in a web of memory, history and cultural forces. The discarded tennis balls are caught within the chain-link fence of a reclaimed gate that evokes a certain nostalgia in palette and ghost of past activity.

Claudia Peña Salinas, Tetl Mirror I, 2024
EMBAJADA (San Juan)

Claudia Peña Salinas’ practice combines sculpture, images, installation, and video to draw connection between the indigenous and the modern. Her ongoing body of work explores Aztec and Mayan mythology to construct poetic narratives. Salinas’s multimedia practice is based on her travels throughout Mexico researching sites related to Mesoamerican deities and collecting rocks from neighboring rivers and found objects that are incorporated into her sculpture. The resulting series, which includes Tetl Mirror I, 2024 ("Tetl" meaning rock in the Aztec language, Nahuatl), unites ancestral beliefs with modern and minimalist lines.