Park Avenue Armory

The Park Avenue Armory Conservancy, generally known as Park Avenue Armory, is a nonprofit cultural institution within the historic Seventh Regiment Armory building located at 643 Park Avenue on New York City's Upper East Side. The institution displays unconventional artwork, including performing and visual arts.

Park Avenue Armory Conservancy
Park Avenue Armory
Address643 Park Avenue
New York
NY 10065
Coordinates40°46′1.9895″N 73°57′55.5037″W
OperatorPierre Audi (Artistic Director)
Construction
ArchitectPlatt Byard Dovell White
and Herzog & de Meuron
Website
www.armoryonpark.org

Park Avenue Armory leased the building for 99 years from New York State in 2006.[1]

Arts programs

The Armory's first three years of artistic programming presented work in partnership with other cultural institutions such as Lincoln Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art before launching its first solo exhibitions with Ernesto Neto's anthropodino in 2009 and Christian Boltanski’s No Man's Land in 2010. The Armory then engaged consulting artistic director Kristy Edmunds to develop its first two full artistic seasons for 2011 and 2012. The 2013 season was curated by the incoming artistic director Alex Poots.[2][3]

In 2020, The Park Avenue Armory invited 10 New York City cultural institutions to commission 100 women artists to create new work that celebrates the ratification of the 19th Amendment. The program will be known as "100 Years | 100 Women".[4]

Renovation of the Seventh Regiment Armory

The conservancy is currently doing a 200 million dollar renovation of the building.[5] Park Avenue Armory hired the architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron to design the restoration and renovation of the building with executive architects Platt Byard Dovell White.[5] Two historic rooms were restored in 2011 with sixteen more and the historic halls remaining.

References
  1. Lombino, David (November 16, 2006). "Culture group gains control of Park Ave. Armory as neighbors feud". The New York Sun. Ronald Weintraub. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  2. Wakin, Daniel J. (December 22, 2012). "The Armory's ambitions expand to match its hall". The New York Times. Retrieved July 25, 2012.
  3. Sulcas, Roslyn (August 14, 2013). "An outsize vision, forever filling voids". The New York Times. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  4. "100 Women Artists Will Create Works for the Park Avenue Armory to Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage in the US". artnet News. January 16, 2020. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
  5. Stephens, Suzanne (February 2012). "Park Avenue Armory". Architectural Record. BNP Media. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
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