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9/3/2005

The Armory Show 2005

Piers 92 and 94, New York

The International Fair of New Art

The Armory Show, the International Fair of New Art, is the world's leading art fair devoted exclusively to contemporary art. In its seventh annual exhibition, The Armory Show 2005 will present 162 international galleries, including many of the most important contemporary dealers showcasing new art from around the world.

New York is home to more collectors, galleries, critics and artists than any other city in the world. This March, they will be joined by many thousands of their peers from around the globe making New York the true center of the international art world.

The Armory Show is the successor to the highly acclaimed Gramercy International Art Fairs that attracted thousands to their New York, Los Angeles and Miami shows between 1994 and 1998. The Armory Show was first presented in February 1999 at the 69th Regiment Armory, the very site of the now legendary Armory Show of 1913 that introduced modern art to America and for which The Armory Show is named.

With a new layout featuring 35% larger booths and 162 of the world's best contemporary art galleries from 39 cities worldwide, The Armory Show, The International Fair of New Art, anticipates 40,000 visitors from March 10-14 on Piers 90 and 92 in New York City. Art lovers will descend upon New York to add to their collections with the hottest new art and enjoy a week of exclusive private collection tours, symposia on the state of contemporary art, intimate interactions with artists Jockum Nordström and Elizabeth Murray, live broadcasts of WPS1, the world's first art radio station, and the art world s gala of the season, The Opening Night Preview Party, a benefit for the Exhibition Fund of The Museum of Modern Art.

As Mayor Bloomberg wrote in his welcoming letter, Galleries will showcase the very best and most innovative art found throughout the world, and New York City's residents and visitors will have the opportunity to experience the amazing world of contemporary art.

With $43 million in sales in 2004, The Armory Show continues to set the pace for a booming art market. Since The Armory Show exhibits only new art by living artists, it is a rare opportunity to see art that will be shown for the first time and go directly into a private collection. As a vetted fair, more than 550 galleries applied for 2005, a 23% increase from 2004. Twenty-seven galleries make their debut this year, including one from India. Fifty percent of the galleries come from Europe with a significant number from Latin America and Asia, as well. Serving as a catalyst to harness the energy of the art world's center, The Armory Show joins forces with New York's heavyweights to create a week of unprecedented art activities. Twenty private collectors are hosting tours for Armory Show visitors. Eight museums have organized special events, ranging from a reception with production designer Dante Ferretti at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to an elegant brunch at the Museum of Modern Art. Similar to the explosive mix of The Whitney Biennial opening during The Armory Show in 2004, PS1 opens its highly anticipated Greater New York exhibit the weekend of the fair. As part of its commitment to emerging artists, The Armory Show is collaborating with four other art festivals that have been organized to coincide with The Armory Show and benefit from its international appeal: -scopeNew York, Art Rock, The Digital & Video Art Fair and Israeli Art Week in New York.

Highlights of the art on display at the fair will include Don Brown's sculpture Yoko II showcased at Sadie Coles HQ (London). ESPO, aka Steve Powers, will transform Deitch Project's (New York) booth into a bakery and serve free cookies. Peres Projects (Los Angeles) will present new work by assume vivid astro focus and Kaye Donachie, among others. Artist Allison Smith will create an armory in Bellwether's (New York) booth. Julian Opie cars will greet visitors at the entrance to each pier and a camera obscura bus will take brief excursions around the city from the piers. As part of its commitment to promote cutting edge art, for the fourth year The Armory Show commissioned an artist to produce original art for all visual materials. The artist's work gets broad international exposure and past commissions have enhanced the careers of Lisa Ruyter, Baranaby Furnas and Karen Kilimnik. This year, Jockum Nordstrom's signature collages have been displayed multiple times in more than 100 print and online outlets. More than twenty pages of his art transforms The Armory Show 2005 catalogue from a useful reference guide into a collector s item. The Swedish Ambassador will honor Nordström, a Swedish artist, at a reception during the fair. With added resources from its new Presenting Sponsor, Clifford Chance LLP, a global law firm providing services to the world s leading financial services and multinational businesses, The Armory Show continues to expand and improve its services and reach.

This year's new layout and tighter gallery selection offers visitors a more accessible experience and peaceful water views to balance the sheer enormity of work by 2,000 artists. Restaurants have been designed in newly renovated spaces at the end of each pier, opening up space to show more art than ever before.

The Armory Show was started by four New York art dealers as The Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair in 1994 and takes its name from the rich history of the 1913 Armory Show, which introduced European Modernism to America.

In addition to its Presenting Sponsor, Clifford Chance LLP, The Armory Show is proudly supported by media sponsors The International Herald Tribune, artnet, artkrush, Flavorpill, ArtNexus, illy (VIP Collectors Lounges), Club Monaco (staff outfitters), Kmart (public lounges), Atelier 4 (shipping/logistics), Quintessentially (concierge services) and Mandarin Oriental New York, the official hotel of The Armory Show 2005.

2005 SELECTION COMMITTEE
Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Maureen Paley, Interim Art, London
Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Jeffrey Poe, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Lisa Spellman, 303 Gallery, New York
David Zwirner, New York

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THE ARCO FORUM AT THE ARMORY SHOW

Intersections Challenges and Opportunities: Transatlantic Views on the Private and Public Sectors in Contemporary Art

March 7-10 2005

NEW YORK - The ARCO Forum at The Armory Show is addressed to professionals and to lovers of contemporary art and contemporary cultural studies in general. For the second collaboration between two of the largest arts organizations in the world, The Forum will debate the interdependence between the private and public sector, analysing different viewpoints on such critical issues as work production and presentation, art collecting, educational influences and objective judgment, and the different cultural economies. All sessions are free admission, open to the public and will be held at the Instituto Cervantes, 211-215 East 49th Street in New York City.

Monday, March 7, 10:30am-12:30pm The Invention of the Center Keynote speaker: Simon Njami, Art critic and curator, Paris, France Panelists: Sune Nordgren, Director, The National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway and David A. Ross, President, Artist Pension Trust, New York City.

Tuesday, March 8, 10:30am-12:30pm On Cultural Exception Keynote speaker: José Jiménez, Director, Instituto Cervantes, Paris; Professor of Aesthetics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid-UAM, Paris, France Panelists: Nelson Brissac, Curator, Arte Cidade, São Paolo, Brazil and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Curator of Contemporary Art, Museé d Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France Wednesday,

March 9, 10:30am-12:30pm. To Have and to Hold Keynote speaker: Robert Storr, Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, New York University, New York City Panelists: Eileen Cohen, Collector, New York City, and Nancy Spector, Contemporary Art Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City Thursday,

March 10, 10:30am-12:30 pm Art Boom, Collecting Decisions for the Future Keynote speaker: Peter Doroshenko, Independent Curator, Ghent, Belgium Panelists: Jérôme Sans, Co-Director, Palais de Tokyo; Co-curator, Lyon Biennial, Paris.

The Armory Show, The International Fair of New Art, has forged a transatlantic alliance with Europe’s largest contemporary art fair, ARCO (250,000 visitors). The collaboration will focus on an educational outreach program. ARCO debuted four of its highly acclaimed forums at The Armory Show 2004. These forums bring together an international group of art collectors, curators, museums directors, as well as the general public for discussions on themes relevant to the collecting and curating of contemporary art.

David A. Ross. Former director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Renowned scholar, trustee, champion of contemporary art, and leader of pioneering cultural organizations, he has organized more than 100 exhibitions of 20th century art, including Documenta, the Venice Biennial, and The Carnegie International.

Jérôme Sans. Since 2000, he has been co-director of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Adjunct Curator at the Institute of Visual Arts in Milwaukee, 1996-2003, and currently Associate Curator at the Magasin 3 in Stockholm. He has curated and co-curated the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennial; the Taipei Biennial, Taiwan 2000; Tutto Normale, Villa Medicis, 2002; Live, Palais de Tokyo, 2004. As an author and art critic, he has produced books with Daniel Buren, Hedi Slimane, and Araki, and is a contributing editor to several art publications.

Nancy Spector. Art critic and Contemporary Art Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City. Author of renowned art publications, among others, Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Collection, Guggenheim Museum Collection: A to Z and acclaimed texts on Matthew Barney, GraziaToderi,HiroshiSigimoto.

Robert Storr. Artist, critic, curator and Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Senior Curator of Painting & Sculpture at the MoMA since 2002. International projects include a Bruce Nauman exhibition for the São Paulo Biennale (1999). He has also taken part in the 2000 Sydney Biennial, and SITE Santa Fe (2004). In 2007, he will be the director of the Venice Biennale. Regular contributor to Art Press, Artforum,ArtinAmerica,FriezeandParkett.

Octavio Zaya. Born in the Canary Islands, he is an editor, art critic and curator based in New York. He was editor of the art magazine Balcon published in Madrid, and is currently editor of Atlantica, a bilingual art and culture publication of the Museo Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno. He was co-curator of the Guadalajara Biennial 2003, Mexico and Documenta XI, Kassel. He is currently advisor for the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León MUSAC.a

France and Octavio Zaya, Critic and independent curator, New York City

Featured speakers:
Nelson Brissac. A philosopher working on questions concerning art and urbanism. He is the organizer and curator of Arte/Cidade (www.artecidade.org.br), a project of urban interventions in São Paulo, Brazil, since 1994. He has published "Arte/Cidade - Intervenções Urbanas", Editora SENAC, São Paulo, 2002.

Eileen Cohen. Well-known contemporary art collector based in New York City.

Peter Doroshenko. Currently adjunct professor at the Glassell School of Art, Houston. Has held curatorial positions at the Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; and the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse. He has organized many one-person exhibitions and contributed to several books and exhibition catalogues including Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting and Playing Amongst the Ruins.

José Jiménez. A Spaniard, has a doctorate in Philosophy and has held a chair in Aesthetics since 1983 at Madrid's Autónoma University. He was Director of the university's Institute of Aesthetics and Art Theory, edited the magazine Creación, and was a member of the Editorial Board of Revista de Occidente (1998-2001). Since 1986, in collaboration with Prof. Rafael Argullol, he has co-edited the Metrópolis collection for Tecnos. His extensive bibliography includes many essays for exhibition catalogues and books on contemporary art, and he is a contributing editor to the Spanish daily El Mundo and its weekly cultural supplement.

Simon Njami. Art critic and independent curator. Co-founder and editor-in-chief of Revue Noire (Contemporary African Art, Photography, Literature). Member of the Advisory Board of the Association Française d'Action Artistique [AFAA], Ministère des Affaires Ètrangères. Visual Arts Consultant for the Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie. Visiting Professor at the University of California - San Diego, for African arts, photography, and cinema. He has lectured at universities in the USA, Europe and Africa. Since 1990 he has regularly contributed essays on African art in catalogues and publications.

Sune Nordgren. Founding Director of International Artists Studio Program, Stockholm; of BALTIC, Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead; and of The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo. A member of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art and the International Association of Art Critics. Exhibitions include Susana Solano; Alberto Giacometti; and Andres Serrano for Malmö Konsthall, and Jaume Plensa for BALTIC.

Hans Ulrich Obrist. Curator at le Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. He has been a frequent curator for the museum in progress, Vienna and lecturer at Facolta delle Arti, IUAV in Venice. In 2003 he co-curated Utopia Station at the 2003 Venice Biennial (with Molly Nesbit and Rirkrit Tiravanija). The first volume of his ongoing interview project was recently published by Pitti Imagine/Charta.

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CATALOGUE
The official catalogue of The Armory Show 2005 will feature a detailed profile of each exhibiting gallery and original artwork by Jockum Nordström commissioned exclusively for The Armory Show.
Price: $20; available at the show.
DATES AND TIMES
Thursday, March 10, 2005, Professional (Press) Preview
Thursday, March 10, 2005, Opening Night Preview Party

TICKETS
Admission tickets are available at the door during show hours. Advance purchase is not required; reservations are not accepted.

Admission $20
Students $10
Groups (10 or more) $10
(Cash, MasterCard, Visa, American Express accepted.)

Friday March 11, 2005, Noon To 8pm
Saturday March 12, 2005, Noon To 8pm
Sunday March 13, 2005, Noon To 8pm
Monday March 14, 2005, Noon To 5pm

Piers 90 & 92
Twelfth Avenue at 50th & 52nd Streets
New York City

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