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México Now Festival: Art, Music, & Culture of Mexico in NYC
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- Published on Tuesday, 23 September 2025 16:43
- Written by Brad Balfour
Celebrating Mexican art and culture, the México Now Festival (MXNOW), returns to NYC for it’s 21st installment this November 5 to 8. MXNOW showcases literary conversations, artist talks, concerts, film premieres, and multidisciplinary experiences that highlight the diversity of Mexico’s creative voices. Events will be both online and in person at venues such as The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, Joe’s Pub, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and NYU’s Espacio de Culturas. Many of these events are free with registrations, some concerts require purchasing tickets, check site for details.
On Saturday, November 8, the documentary Con Alma will be screened at Espacio de Culturas/NYU. This moving documentary follows acclaimed musicians Magos Herrera and Paola Prestini, who created a global musical collaboration, Con Alma, during the Covid-19 pandemic. Featuring over 30 artists, Con Alma grew into an album and live performances, which would include a landmark concert at the United Nations on gender equality. A Q&A with artists will follow the screening.
Author Jazmina Barrera and the award-winning translator of Elena Garro’s work, Megan McDowell meet on stage to discuss Barrera’s forthcoming book, The Queen of Swords. In dialogue, Barrera and McDowell will discuss the creative process behind the book, the art and challenges of translation, and how language shapes our understanding of lives lived between fact and mystery.
Solidarity in Song: Music, Mutual Aid, and the Making of a Movement features Doris Anahí Muñoz—founder of Solidarity for Sanctuary, artist manager turned singer-songwriter, and subject of the Sundance-premiered documentary Mija—shares her inspiring journey of transforming music into a vehicle for social change.
Singing Stones: Celebrating the Ancient Americas at The Met showcases the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing’s newly reimagined Ancient Americas galleries with an illustrious lineup of U.S. and Mexican performers.
To learn more, go to: https://mexiconowfestival.org/
México Now Festival
November 5 - 8, 2025
Various venues in NYC
The Armory Show 2025 Arrives at Javits Center
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- Published on Thursday, 28 August 2025 00:55
- Written by Brad Balfour
Credit Jonah Rosenberg for The Armory Show
One of New York’s great art shows, The Armory Show, returns to the Javits Center September 5th to the 7th. The Armory Show brings together over 230 galleries from more than 35 counties, along with the Armory Live symposiums.
Galleries participating in The Armory Show for the first time are Kendra Jayne Patrick, Skarstedt, Megan Mulrooney, ILY2, Superposition Gallery, Martha’s, Saatchi Yates, Everard Read, Wolfgang Gallery, Sheet Cake Gallery, Seven Sisters, JO-HS, and Timothy Hawkinson Gallery. Over 20 galleries are returning after a hiatus, including White Cube, Marianne Boesky, James Fuentes, Anton Kern Gallery, Andrew Kreps, Uffner & Liu, Lindsey Ingram, Instituto de Visión, Public Gallery, TAFETA, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Esther Schipper, and The Pit.
If you want help navigating all these galleries the Armory Show also has special guided tours.
The Armory Show's Gramercy International Prize is awarded each year to a pioneering young gallery in New York that embodies the spirit of the fair's founders, who aimed to support the avant-garde, with this year's Prize going to Silke Lindner.
To learn more, go to: https://www.thearmoryshow.com/
The Armory Show
September 5- 7, 2025
Javits Center
429 11th Avenue
New York, NY 10001
Frieze New York 2025 Present New & Exciting Art Experiences at The Shed
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- Published on Thursday, 24 April 2025 17:30
- Written by Brad Balfour
©Citra Sasmita. Photo: Jo Underhill / Barbican
One of New York’s major art fairs, Frieze New York, returns for its 13th edition at The Shed on May 7 to 11. Frieze New York combines sound, performance, and visual art to create a unique experience and features newly commissioned works by internationally acclaimed artists around The Shed and the surrounding High Line area.
Frieze New York displays special presentations from an assortment of galleries. Pace Gallery will show a dual presentation of paintings by Adam Pendleton in dialogue with sculptures by Lynda Benglis. mor charpentier presents a solo show of French painter Malo Chapuy, featuring a selection of paintings centered on ecology. HALES’ debut at Frieze New York will see Sunil Gupta’s Exiles series, recently exhibited at MoMA and the Barbican, shown alongside a new large-scale painting by Anthony Cudahy and works by Tessa Boffin and Chitra Ganesh. The Focus portion of Frieze New York highlights young and emerging galleries such as Champ Lacombe, G Gallery, King’s Leap, and more.
Christine Messineo said: “Frieze New York offers an engaging and dynamic experience of New York as a vibrant hub of the international art world. Steps away from Chelsea’s galleries, the fair brings together extraordinary work exploring perspectives that shape contemporary art. Frieze week features performances, talks, and events not only at the Shed but also throughout the city.”
To learn more, go to: https://www.frieze.com/fairs/frieze-new-york
Frieze New York
May 7 - 11, 2025
The Shed
545 W 30th Street
New York, NY 10001
AIPAD's Photography Show 2025 Comes to Park Ave Armory
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- Published on Monday, 21 April 2025 14:25
- Written by Brad Balfour
Organized by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), The Photography Show is one of New York’s top photo events, with over 67 top international photography dealers, and 20 photobook dealers. Running April 23 - 27th at the Park Avenue Armory (643 Park Avenue). The Photography Show features contemporary and vintage works from a multitude of galleries. Exhibitors include Bruce Silverstein Gallery, Daniel/Oliver Gallery, Gitterman Gallery, Jackson Fine Art, and many more.
The 2025 AIPAD Talks Live Program is a series of panels and lectures on museum acquisitions, a conversation with Michael Stipe, Japanese women photographers, and more.
To learn more, go to: https://www.aipad.com/show/
The Photography Show 2025, Presented by AIPAD
April 23 - 27, 2025
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065
