Curatorial Team Announced for 2024 Armory Show

The Armory Show has named Eugenie Tsai, Robyn Farrell, and Lauren Cornell as the curators of its 2024 iteration—its thirtieth—to be held next September at the Javits Center in New York. Tsai, an independent curator, will organize the Platform section, which features large-scale and site-specific works. Farrell, who is chief curator of the Kitchen in New York, will oversee the Focus section, centering solo and dual-artist presentations. Cornell, chief curator of the Hessel Museum of Art and director of the graduate program at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, will chair the event’s seventh annual Curatorial Leadership Summit, which each year assembles an international panel of curators to discuss timely topics.

The choice of three New York–based curators for the thirtieth-anniversary edition is meant to honor the city’s role as an international arts hub.RelatedITALIAN GOVERNMENT BEGINS SIFTING OUT FOREIGN MUSEUM DIRECTORSBRITISH MUSEUM ANNOUNCES BP-FUNDED REFURBISHMENT Each of the three projects will address the theme of “art-historical reverberations and echoes in the present,” according to a press release. Tsai’s section will explore the intersection of memory, material, and spirit, while Farrell will curate her section around the sense of experimental vitality that led to the fair’s 1994 founding in a few rooms at the Gramercy Hotel in New York, and to that of the namesake International Exhibition of Modern Art in 1913 at the city’s 69th Regiment Armory. The summit led by Cornell will consider the way art history resounds in present-day art, and in the current milieu surrounding it. “I am proud to announce an extraordinary team of curators for our thirtieth-anniversary edition,” said Armory Show director Nicole Berry in a statement.

“The Armory Show 2024 is thrilled to have Eugenie, Robyn, and Lauren bring their impressive talent and unique vision to the fair’s curated sections. We are fortunate to have them collaborate on a theme that both reflects their individual interests and collectively informs our understanding of how the past informs the present. We look forward to seeing which artists they highlight and what conversations, connections, and discoveries they inspire this year.” This will be the second Armory show since the event wasboughtby major art fair company Frieze this past summer..