Your Concise Guide to Armory Week 2020 : This Sacred Vessel (pt.2)
by Valentina Di Liscia
Mar 2, 2020
To the delight of art lovers and exceedingly stressed gallery workers and art handlers alike, an unseasonably warm New York City (highs in the mid-50s!) will welcome throngs of local and out-of-town visitors for Armory Week 2020. Amid fears of the havoc coronavirus could wreak in large, crowded spaces, the Armory Show has issued a statement addressing concerns around its spread. (The show will go on as planned, but the fair says it will be closely monitoring updates.)
In happier news, the VOLTA fair will return after a one-year hiatus; Spring/Break will be taking over two whole floors of a new venue; and there are so many great exhibitions opening or already up that I had a mild aneurysm trying to pare this list down.
This Armory Week, let’s commit to falling in love with one or two or ten artists we may not have heard of before. From Chioma Ebinama at the Fortnight Institute to Guo Fengyi at the Drawing Center, the next few days offer opportunities for discoveries at every corner. Below is our full list of Hyperallergic-recommended Armory Week fairs — along with shows, talks, performances, and more.
This sacred Vessel (pt.2)
When: Opening March 6, 6–8pm; exhibition continues through April 26
Where: Arsenal Contemporary Art, 214 Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan
The first iteration of this group exhibition explored the ways in which climate change is influencing the firmly-entrenched tradition of landscape painting. For the second part of the show, opening during Armory Week, the gallery turns to another art historical stalwart: figuration. How are artists responding to the proliferation of images of the human body that saturate our daily feeds? The nine painters on view at Arsenal Contemporary offer their takes.
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