New Yorkers are being treated to an embarrassment of cultural riches this weekend. There are major art fairs popping off all over town, including Spring/Break on Madison Avenue, Independent at the Battery Maritime Building, Art on Paper at Pier 36. There are dozens of gallery openings in Chelsea, Tribeca, and the Lower East Side, as well as a huge new Nick Cave piece in the subway. And the granddaddy of them all, the Armory Show, is making a glitzy-as-ever return to the city after a months-long pandemic delay.
Well, almost as glitzy as ever. Because even though yesterday's preview saw plenty of fabulously-dressed buyers eager to get their hands on outrageously expensive works of art, there was no forgetting that this is, in fact, a COVID-era Armory Show.
For one thing, the venue is new, trading in the narrow aisles of Pier 94 for the wide-open spaces of the Javits Convention Center which, while providing ample room for distancing, is no one's idea of a glamorous setting. And in such a large space, the capacity limits in place this year can't help but create a much more subdued vibe than the usual see-and-be-seen hustle of Armory Shows of old.
Still, roaming through the more than 150 booths here, hosted by galleries whose driving purpose is to sell everything they've got, is a great way to get a feel for what insiders consider to be hottest trends in contemporary art.
The Armory Show will be at Javits Center through the weekend, and pandemic protocols include timed-entry tickets (GA is about $70), low capacity, proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID test, and masks required everywhere except when sipping champagne.
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