SPRING/BREAK Art Show is an internationally recognized exhibition platform using underused historic New York City spaces to activate and challenge the traditional cultural landscape of the art market, typically but not exclusively during Armory Arts Week. The sixth annual fair will be held from February 28th – March 6th, 2017.

By first inhabiting St. Patrick’s Old School, and then the former James A. Fairley Post Office, the initiative offers independent curators free space within New York City landmarks. In exchange for no-cost exhibition space, visionaries both established and unknown are charged with activating these non-traditional areas under a unifying theme and pushed to extend the boundries of typical market week practices, low overhead and shifting curatorial themes their assets to this end.

All artworks in the show are displayed and available for purchase online, giving artists unknown, emerging, mid-career, and beyond a virtual compliment to their tactile exhibition.

Low-cost exhibition space and low-cost entry for art patrons, public, and practioners alike aims to widen the arts audience in New York and broaden the dialog of what constitutes value and economy in a 21st Century city.

In 2017 over one hundred curators will premiere new artworks created by over 800 artists, all selected around this year’s central art theme, BLACK MIRROR.

The Armory Show

The Armory Show is New York’s premier art fair and a definitive cultural destination for discovering and collecting the world’s most important 20th and 21st century artworks. Staged on Piers 92 & 94, one of the city’s industrial gems, the fair features presentations by leading international galleries, innovative artist commissions and dynamic public programs. Since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show has served as a nexus for the international art world, inspiring dialogue, discovery and patronage in the visual arts.

 

Volta NY

VOLTA NY is the invitational fair of solo artist projects and is the American incarnation of the original Basel VOLTA show, which was founded in 2005 by three art dealers as a fair “by galleries, for galleries”.

Since its debut in New York in 2008, Artistic Director Amanda Coulson re-conceived the format as a rigorously curated, boutique event — along the lines of a sequence of intense studio visits versus a traditional trade show environment. Since then VOLTA NY showcases relevant contemporary art positions from emerging international artists, from cutting-edge trendsetters to next year’s rising stars. Coupled with its approachable solo-booth format, the VOLTA team has created a fair that is both accessible to younger art-lovers and beloved by seasoned collectors alike. By spotlighting artists through primarily solo projects, VOLTA NY refocuses the art fair experience back to its most fundamental point: the artists and their works. A beacon for creative discovery during Armory Arts Week, VOLTA NY is likewise aligned with some of the best and boldest local cuisine and design collaborators in the city.

In 2017, VOLTA NY will celebrate its decade edition as a solo-focused international contemporary art fair.

Tickets
General Admission: $25
Students: $20

Patrick Stewart

Chelsea 26th Street Robert Miller Gallery, Artist Patti Smith, http://www.robertmillergallery.com/

Chelsea 26th Street, Alexander Gray Associates, Artist Regina Silvers

http://www.alexandergray.com/exhibitions/2016-02-18_regina-silveira/

Chelsea 26th Street, James Cohan Gallery

http://www.jamescohan.com/exhibitions/

Chelsea 26th Street, Pavel Zoubok Gallery

Ivan Chermayeff: Collages & Sculptures

Chelsea 26th Street, Robert Mann Gallery

http://www.robertmann.com/16-lavigne-press

Chelsea 26th Street, Onishi Gallery, Asia Art Week

http://onishigallery.com/

Chelsea 26th Street, Claire Oliver Gallery

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Chelsea 27th Street, Stundaram Tagore Gallery

http://www.sundaramtagore.com/

Chelsea 28th Street, Joshua Liner Gallery

http://joshualinergallery.com/exhibitions/kagan_lights_out_february_11_2015/selectedworks/all/

 

 

Erica Stewart

23rd Street

STUART MCALPINE MILLER

Gallery: http://www.hoerle-guggenheim.com/exhibitions/stuart-mcalpine-miller#4

Ancient Art

http://hixenbaugh.net/gallery/gallery.cfm

24th Street

Galerie Richard

William Bradley

Mike Weiss Gallery

Group Show: Everyday Objects

Unix Gallery

Ellen de Meijer    http://www.unixgallery.com/exhibitions/ellen-de-meijer2

25th Street

532 Gallery

The weight of words by Jose Angel Vinchench

 

 

By: Erica Stewart

Edward Judson founded the church and with funding from Rockefeller it was built. Stanford White was the architect. It was completed in 1893. In the 1920’s the church’s basement was used as a health center. During the great depression, the pastor let the homeless sleep on the pews. Beginning in the 1950s, the church supports a radical arts ministry, first led by associate pastor Bernard Scott and subsequently by associate pastor Al Carmines. The church made space available to artists for art exhibitions, rehearsals, and performances. The church also assured that this space was to be a place where these artists could have the freedom to experiment in their work without fear of censorship.

March 7
Movement Research at the Judson Church
AmeriSHOWZ, Amanda Hunt, Elena Rose Light, Ana Miranda

Elena’s work: http://elenaroselight.com/projects/

Mondays at 8pm
doors open at 7:45pm

NO RESERVATIONS and ADMISSION IS FREE
seating is limited, so arrive early

Location: Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South

The Museum of the Moving Image describes themselves as “the country’s only museum dedicated to the art, history, technique, and technology of the moving image in all its forms”.

From November 7 to to April 10, the exhibit Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact will be on display. Moving Image describes this exhibition as such:

The reimagining and recycling of Hollywood iconography in contemporary art, and the way that movies live on in our personal and cultural memories, are explored in the exhibition Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact. Organized by independent curator and scholar Robert M. Rubin, the exhibition includes 120 works by 40 artists that dissect, appropriate, and redefine some of the past century’s most iconic films through photography, drawing, sculpture, print, and video.

Behind the Scenes, an ongoing exhibit, is a one-of-a-kind experience that is described as being “creative and technical process of producing, promoting, and presenting films, television shows, and digital entertainment”. The exhibit includes artifacts, computer-based interactive experiences, audio-visual material, and commissioned artworks.

At some point in 2016, the museum will be opening a permanent Jim Henson exhibit. Jim Henson is the mastermind behind many famous puppets, such as: Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Elmo, Count von Count, Gobo Fraggle, the Swedish Chef, and Statler and Waldorf. The exhibit will host over fifty of his puppets.
Henson also designed and created the puppets on famous movies such as The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.
The opening date of this exhibit has yet to be announced.

The Dia Art Foundation introduces and presents artists who have the potential to change the way we think about art and the world. Dia has two galleries – one in Beacon, and one in Chelsea.
At a separate site, Walter De Maria’s Earth Room is available for viewing. This installation has been on long-term view since 1980.

Robert Ryman, Dia: Chelsea

The New York Earth Room, Walter de Maria

The Armory Show is an annual art fair held in New York, NY. Every year, they showcase nearly 200 galleries from around the world. The Armory Show provides access to high quality modern and contemporary art with a commitment to the emersion of voices in the visual arts.

 

The Whitney Museum of American Art – known informally as the “Whitney” – is an art museum located in Manhattan. It was founded in 1931 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), a wealthy and prominent American socialite and art patron after whom the museum is named.

The Whitney focuses on 20th- and 21st-century American art. The museum displays paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, installation art, video, and photography, which serve as a remarkable resource for understanding art history and the creative process of artists in the United States from 1900 to today.

 

Most Famous Paintings

Edward Hopper, A Woman in the Sun, 1961

Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning, Oil on canvas, 1930

Exhibitions

LAURA POITRAS: ASTRO NOISE
FEB 5–MAY 1, 2016

Laura Poitras: Astro Noise is the first solo museum exhibition by artist, filmmaker, and journalist Laura Poitras. This immersive installation of new work builds on topics important to Poitras, including mass surveillance, the war on terror, the U.S. drone program, Guantánamo Bay Prison, occupation, and torture.

For the exhibition, Poitras is creating an interrelated series of installations in the Whitney’s eighth-floor Hurst Family Galleries. The exhibition expands on her project to document post–9/11 America, engaging visitors in formats outside her non-fiction filmmaking.

Laura Poitras (b. 1964), ANARCHIST: Power Spectrum Display of Doppler Tracks from a Satellite (Intercepted May 27, 2009), 2016.

THE WHITNEY’S COLLECTION
SEPT 28, 2015–APR 4, 2016

The more than two hundred works on display on the seventh and sixth floors represent a selection of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s collection. Organized in a rough chronological sequence beginning on the seventh floor, the presentation is divided into eleven thematic “chapters.” Each chapter takes its name not from a movement or style but from the title of a work that evokes the section’s animating impulse.

Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Woman and Bicycle, 1952-53. Oil, enamel, and charcoal on linen

 

MoMA PS1 is one of the largest art institutions in the United States dedicated solely to contemporary art. It is located in the Long Island City neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New York City. In addition to its exhibitions, the institution also organizes the International and National Projects series, the Warm Up summer music series, and the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program with the Museum of Modern Art.

MoMA PS1 presents over 50 exhibitions each year, including artists’ retrospectives, site-specific installations, historical surveys, arts from across the United States and the world, and a full schedule of music and performance programming.

 

MoMA PS1 was founded in 1971 by Alanna Heiss as the Institute for Art and Urban Resources Inc., an organization devoted to organizing exhibitions in underutilized and abandoned spaces across New York City. In 1976, it opened the first major exhibition in its permanent location in Long Island City, Queens, with the seminal Rooms exhibition. An invitation for artists to transform the building’s unique spaces, Rooms established the MoMA PS1 tradition of transforming the building’s spaces into site-specific art that continues today with long-term installations by James Turrell, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Lawrence Weiner, and others.

Mushroom Tower

 

For the next twenty years, the building was used as studio, performance, and exhibition spaces, in support of artists from around the world. After a building-wide renovation, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1) reopened in 1997, confirming its position as the leading contemporary art center in New York.

Greater New York (On view October 11, 2015–March 7, 2016)

MoMA PS1 presents the fourth iteration of its landmark exhibition series, begun as a collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art in 2000. Recurring every five years, the exhibition has traditionally showcased the work of emerging artists living and working in the New York metropolitan area.

Considering the “greater” aspect of its title in terms of both geography and time, Greater New York begins roughly with the moment when MoMA PS1 was founded in 1976 as an alternative venue that took advantage of disused real estate, reaching back to artists who engaged the margins of the city.