Armory Show
Americannoun
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When Pelton exhibited her work at the 1913 Armory Show in New York, she was invited by one of its organizers, Mabel Dodge, to visit her Taos, N.M., ranch in 1918.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2023
“It feels more like a family block party than it does the Armory Show or Art Basel,” she added.
From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2022
Then, in 1913, it traveled to New York, Chicago and Boston, where it was included in the even more scandalous International Exhibition of Modern Art, or Armory Show.
From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2022
Most famously, Marcel Duchamp reprised his “Nude Descending a Staircase,” the Cubist-influenced portrait of a body in motion that scandalized New York at the 1913 Armory Show.
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2022
When it appeared in 1913 at the Armory Show in New York, it was a sensation, famously mocked for resembling “an explosion in a shingle factory.”
From Washington Post
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