Armory Art Week Preview
As the summer lull of August fades against the snappy cool evenings ahead, the New York art world welcomes what has become known as Armory Art Week. Headed by the mammoth Armory Show at the Javitz Center, an array of satellite fairs adds to the buzz from Chelsea to the Battery and beyond.
September 5-7: The Armory Show | Javits Center
A cornerstone of New York’s cultural landscape since 1994, The Armory Show opens New York’s fall art season by bringing the world’s leading international contemporary and modern art galleries to the Javits Center each year. The fair emphasizes thoughtful programming, elevated presentations, curatorial excellence, meaningful institutional partnerships, and engaging public art activations.
In 2023, The Armory Show was acquired by Frieze, one of the world’s leading organizations for modern and contemporary art. Above: Photo: Vincent Tullo/The Armory Show
The Galleries section at The Armory Show 2025 features 200+ leading international galleries presenting outstanding 20th and 21st-century artworks across various media. This year’s Focus section will highlight artists and galleries of the American South—a vital region to the American art landscape, and home to some of the country’s most celebrated artists—investigating the region as a nexus for diverse populations and a pillar in contemporary American art.
This year's Focus is curated by Jessica Bell Brown, Executive Director of the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. A new feature this year is the design-focused Function section, showcasing sculptural assemblages and installation works by Nikita Gale, Cauleen Smith, Ryan Johnson, and Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers.
The Armory’s programming will also extend beyond the boundaries of Hudson Yards in a focused series of multi-borough partnership presentations. At the Queens Museum, a collaboration with Gagosian will produce a monumental banner reproduction of Honor Titus’s tennis painting “Louis Malle Practice” (2025) on the institution’s facade. Times Square Arts and the Whitney Museum of American Art will host nightly viewings of media artist Marina Zurkow’s multi-channel animation “The River is a Circle (Times Square Edition)” across 95 synchronized electronic billboard displays throughout the city.
429 Eleventh Avenue, NY, NY Info
Following is a list of satellite fairs fairs opening in conjunction with the Armory Show. Click here for more info
September 2–7 | Salon Zürcher, Zürcher Gallery
Returning for its 33rd edition as an intimate and quieter satellite fair of the Armory Show, 100 Women of Spirit + brings together 11 women artists at its Bleeker Street home. Deriving its name from the French phrase femme d’esprit,referring to intellectual and witty women, this year’s fair features psychedelic paintings by Amy Cheng, welded steel constellations by Dutch-born artist Marieken Couchius, and oil self-portraits by trauma-informed psychotherapist Trissy Callan.
33 Bleecker Street, New York, NY Info
Clio Art Fair
September 4–7 & 18–21 | Clio Art Fair
511 West 25th Street, New York, NY Info
Open Invitational New York: An Art Fair For Artists With Disabilities
September 4–7 | Open Invitational New York for Arists With Disabilities
356 Broadway, Ground Floor, New York, NY Info
September 4-7 | Art on Paper, Pier 36
299 South St, New York, New York Info
September 4-7 | Independent 20th Century, Casa Cipriani
10 South Street, The Battery, New York, NY Info
September 5-7: U-Haul Art Fair, Around the Chelsea Art District
New this year, U=Haul, a mobile art fair that bills itself as 3 Days of Peace & Art., was founded by James Sundquist, with curator Jack Chase, located inside the ever-familiar moving van. It will feature 10 exhibitors, comprising galleries and independent curators, who will all be stationed in U-Haul trucks in New York’s West Chelsea neighborhood—between 11th and 18th Streets.
“Bearing witness to the wave of retiring old-guard dealers, we believe there is no better time for the U-Haul Gallery. To us, the traditional white cube has run its course. There is an appetite for new and energetic forms of presentation, especially in the white cube capital of the world,” Chase said.
Watch U-Haul’s Instagrtam page for info/locations
September 11–14 | New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1
This year’s fair returns to PS1 with over 250 local and international artists’ book publishers, alongside a full weekend of programs and performances.
2-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens Info