Here's what sold on the VIP preview day of The Armory Show.
Just over a year ago, thousands of New Yorkers waited in line outside the sprawling Jacob Javits Convention Center to get vaccinated. In a sign of just how much the world has changed since then, at the opening of the Armory Show at the same venue yesterday, the nurses in white coats and camo-clad National Guard members had been exchanged for iPad wielding art fair assistants, interested in checking VIP passes rather than vaccination cards.
iteration was more in line with the vision of what the full fair can and should look like in its new home. Along with art world denizens such as collectors and private museum founders Don and Mera Rubell, celebrities including Paul Rudd, Jared Leto, and Anderson Cooper were spotted among the early attendees.
A whopping 90 more exhibitors attended the fair this year than in 2021. Among the first timers was Zurich-based Larkin Erdmann, who was thrilled to have his eponymous gallery accepted to the event. Erdmann was forthright about the lackluster results he had seen from participating in virtual fairs during lockdown, stressing that there is no substitute for the physical fair in terms of displaying works and interacting with collectors.
Meanwhile “Focus,” curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates and titled “Landscape Undone,” emphasized Latinx artists, and works “that examine the intersectionality of issues surrounding the environment, focusing on personal and political climates as they interact with race, gender, and power.” Among them,
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