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Kapwani Kiwanga, who was interviewed in the most recent issue of NYAQ, is included in the Armory Focus section this year.

A few booth - filling installations are among the most rewarding experiences this year, while the Armory Focus section, «African Perspectives,» holds several strong presentations by galleries and artists that rarely reach New York.

But The New York Times flagged Young and fellow University of Cape Town graduate Dan Halter as highlights of this year's Armory focus section.

Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze at Mariane Ibrahim Born in Nigeria, raised in the U.K., and now based in New York, Amanze's dreamy drawings, which are part of the Armory Focus section — which this year zeroes in on artists with African roots — are as fluently free - floating as the artist herself.

The exhibition space is divided amongst Contemporary, Modern, Armory Presents, and Armory Focus sections, with the Armory Presents section featuring emerging artists and galleries and the Armory Focus section dedicated to African perspectives.

Not exact matches

ART FAIR Contemporary & founders Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba curate «African Perspectives» in the Focus section of the Armory Show (March 3 - 6).

Already featured this year in the Sharjah Biennial and the Armory Show's «Focus: MENAM» section, Dawood recently completed a residency at ICA London's buzzy fig - 2, opened a new show at the Honolulu Museum of Art, and will make an appearance at MoMA on April 20th with the screening of his 2013 film Piercing Brightness, which brings together UFO - sighting footage with the psychedelic colors of a Kenneth Anger.

Armory Focus is an invitational section on Pier 94 that spotlights the artistic landscape of a different region each year, bringing together influential galleries, artists and art professionals to present unique geographic and cultural perspectives via gallery presentations, special projects, a dedicated symposium and the annual Armory Artist Commission.

Previous editions of The Armory Show's Focus section include: Focus: Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean (2015), curated by Omar Kholeif; Focus: China (2014), curated by Philip Tinari; Focus: USA (2013), curated by Eric Shiner; Focus: Nordic Countries (2012), curated by Jacob Fabricius; Focus: Latin America (2011) and Focus: Berlin (2010).

ART FAIR 2016 Armory Focus: African Perspectives @ The Armory Show, New York, N.Y. (March 3 - 6, 2016): Each year Armory Focus, the invitational section of the New York's marquee art fair, explores a different region of the world.

Kapwani Kiwanga has been named as the commissioned artist of the Focus Section at the Armory Show 20...

The Armory Show's quieter section, focusing largely on 20th - century modernism, stretches out along New York's Pier 92 once again this week, having opened to VIPs on Wednesday, a preview during which Sofia Coppola could be seen browsing the offerings unhampered by too much unwanted attention.

Previous editions of The Armory Show's Focus section have included: Armory Focus: China (2014), curated by Philip Tinari; Armory Focus: USA (2013), curated by Eric Shiner; Armory Focus: Nordic Countries (2012), curated by Jacob Fabricius; Armory Focus: Latin America (2011), and Armory Focus: Berlin (2010).

From the gallery, Kiwanga spoke to Studio International about how anthropology has informed her research - led art practice and her response to being named as the commissioned artist of the Focus Section at the Armory Show 2016.

Uptown at The Armory Show, Vigo Gallery, situated within the Focus: Africa section, devoted its booth to El - Salahi's black - and - white series of works dating from the 1960s to the present (the gallery noted that the series is the artist's favorite).

Armory Arts Week is New York's March art fair stravaganza now in year 14, and kicked off yesterday with a press preview starring Paul Morris and Glenn Lowry smiling (sort of), special VIP access in the noon hour, Pommery champagne being poured under a neon sign (art project) reading SCANDIVANIAN PAIN, and legions of black tee - shirted Staff stamping the paper giveaways in the Nordic focus section.

This section of the fair is dedicated to showcasing international galleries, invited exhibitors as part Armory Focus, and Solo Projects, featuring single artist presentations by a selection of emerging galleries and artists.

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This year's edition introduces Armory Focus, a new section that...

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This year will be the centennial anniversary of the Armory Show and Eric Shiner, the Director of the Andy Warhol Museum, will be at the curatorial helm of the American Focus section that is bound to be terrific.

This year he was also responsible for Cyprus's pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the Armory Show's Focus section.

When visitors arrive at the Armory Show next spring, they will find the Focus section in a far more prominent place: it will be the first section that one encounters at Pier 92, as opposed to the 16 contemporary art booths that were there in the 2017 edition.

Armory Focus is a specially curated section of The Armory Show that highlights the artistic landscape of a chosen geographic region.

In New York, the Armory Show 2016 Focus section was devoted to African Perspectives.

Beyond the purview of the curated focus section, the Armory also included a raft of galleries showing work from the continent among the world's top galleries.

We spoke to the curator of the Armory Show's «Focus: China» section about new directions being explored by the country's artists.

Gabriel Beveridge, installation at Parisian Laundry, Montreal, booth in the Focus section of The Armory Show, New York (photograph by Nancy Nesvet).

Saudi artist and educator Rashed Al Shashai will participate in The Armory Show's Focus: «MENAM» section curated by Omar Kholeif this March.

Shattering preconceived notions about what contemporary African art may look like or be concerned with, The Armory Show 2016 will present eight special projects curated by Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, who are also the curators for the 2016 Focus Section of The Armory Show: African Perspectives.

This year, The Armory Show will host five exhibition sectors between Piers 92 and 94: the first will focus on modern artworks; the second on contemporary spaces and practitioners; the third is entitled Focus: China; the fourth is a section for solo artist projects (similar to the Statements sector of the Art Basel franchise, The Armory's version is called Armory Presents); and the fifth will be devoted to non-profit organizatfocus on modern artworks; the second on contemporary spaces and practitioners; the third is entitled Focus: China; the fourth is a section for solo artist projects (similar to the Statements sector of the Art Basel franchise, The Armory's version is called Armory Presents); and the fifth will be devoted to non-profit organizatFocus: China; the fourth is a section for solo artist projects (similar to the Statements sector of the Art Basel franchise, The Armory's version is called Armory Presents); and the fifth will be devoted to non-profit organizations.

Pier 94 is the larger exhibition hall, the Contemporary section featuring mainstay galleries Lisson Gallery, Sean Kelly, Victoria Miro, Kukje Gallery / Tina Kim Gallery, David Zwirner, Sprüth Magers, Gallery Hyundai, and Kaikai Kiki, among many others — including 19 invited Nordic galleries in the «Armory Focus» — while the Modern sector on Pier 92 is home to Marlborough Gallery, O'Hara Gallery, Inc., Pace Prints, Peter Findlay, and many more.

Artwork by Francisco Vidal on view at London gallery Tiwani Contemporary's booth in the Armory Focus: African Perspective section.

He also curated the 2015 Cyprus Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale and the 2015 Armory Show Focus section, where he presented work by artists from the Middle East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean, showcasing his deep knowledge of the Global South.

As in years past, the Armory Show's most interesting and unknown quantity is its Focus section.

Kiwanga's ability to parse the subjective tendencies of culture — the Rashomon - effect that history can have — drew the attention of the curators for The Armory Show's Focus section, Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, who selected her as the fair's 2016 commissioned artist.

Ibrahim's gallery, which works with artists from across the African Diaspora, and which was recently featured as part of the Armory's Focus section, is based in Seattle.

We talked with Omar Kholeif, curator of this year's Armory Focus: MENAM, a section dedicated to the Middle East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean inside The 2015 Armory Show art fair in New York City.

The 2015 Armory Show features Armory Focus: Middle East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean (Focus: MENAM), a section curated by Omar Kholeif (curator at the Whitechapel Gallery in London) that examines contemporary cultural and artistic practices from these regions, by hosting gallery presentations, not - for - profit institutions, and site - specific projects.

On Pier 94 alone there were 141 galleries, with 105 included in the main section, 15 exhibition in «Armory Focus: Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean (MENAM),» curated by Omar Kholeif, and 21 galleries with the solo booth section titled «Armory Presents.»

The first part of the tour will begin at The Armory Show's «Focus» section, and continue on afterward in an attempt to «connect artists, bridge communities and inspire renewed collaboration across borders,» according to The Armory Show's press release.

The Armory Show and Edge of Arabia are teaming up for this year's sixth edition of Armory Focus, a specially curated section devoted to a highlighted region of the world.

Recent exhibitions include ShanghART, Beijing, China, The Armory Show, Focus Section, New York, Galerie Krinzinger, Wien, Austria, the Biennale of Lyon, Lyon, France, The Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, TAOPU Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai and the Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing among many others.

The Interview Issue coincided with the Armory Show in New York during which the editors curated «Focus: African Perspectives» section of the fair.

This year's edition introduces Armory Focus, a new section that features an important art community every year.

The Armory Show today announced the participating artists in the 2018 Focus section, curated by Gabriel Ritter, Curator and Head of Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia).

NEW YORK — Gavlak Gallery is exhibiting works by Simone Leigh in the Focus USA section of the Armory Show.

At the Armory Show New York in 2014 Zhang Ding had a solo in the Focus Section.

The Armory Focus: African Perspectives, an invitational section curated by Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, presented selections from African galleries as well as the work of established and emerging contemporary artists from Africa and the African Diaspora.

Based on the «critical success» of last year's Focus programming, Armory Show organizers said they are doubling the amount of space devoted to the section in 2018.