Park Avenue Armory
Even before you actually see anything, Paul McCarthy’s giant-sized show at the Park Avenue Armory, “WS,” greets you with an ominous cacophany of sound: grunts, sighs, and chilling laughter echo from the entrance. Walking in, the...
NEW YORK — The AIPAD Photography Show, long-known most as a yearly congregation for all the greatest hits in vintage photos, has in recent years been attracting more and more contemporary photo work, both from smaller galleries and on the walls of major...
In this week's Eye on Art, we take you to the AIPAD Photography Show New York at the Park Avenue Armory. ARTINFO's Matthew Drutt went looking for hidden gems and found them in works by Minor White at the Howard Greenberg Gallery, Aaron...
When Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) composed “Oktophonie,” the father of electronic music was unable to perform it before his death due to the spacial limitations of a traditional hall — the piece requires a flexible space where eight speakers can be...
Sitting with other audience members in a circle on the floor of the Park Avenue Armory’s Drill Hall, bathed in a pale shifting glow from lights high above, with the electronic intonations of Karlheinz Stockhausen echoing around the space, it was hard to think...
Our most-talked-about stories in Visual Art, Design & Architecture, Fashion & Style, and Performing Arts, December 17 - 21, 2012:As 2012 draws to a close, the editors at ARTINFO have been taking a look back at the most important stories,...
Visual artist Ann Hamilton’s large-scale installation at the Park Avenue Armory, “The Event of a Thread,” brings together readings, sound, cloth, and even pigeons into a field of swings. ARTINFO sent several cameras into...
NEW YORK — Veteran fair organizer Sanford L. Smith is back at the Park Avenue Armory this year in a new iteration of his annual November art-and-design fair. This time around, following the problematic one-time New York foray of the ...
Given a lineup of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, Charles Ives, and Mozart, it is not hard to pick the odd man out. And indeed, at this past weekend’s New York Philharmonic performances at the Park Avenue Armory, the excerpted scene from “Don Giovanni”...
The inspirations for Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller’s sound installation "The Murder of Crows" were eclectic, to say the least: dreams of disembodied legs wearing socks and tennis shoes; bombastic Russian choirs; the quiet hum in Tate Modern’s Turbine...
