Armory Show

American  

noun

1. an international art show held in a New York City armory in 1913: considered a landmark in the public and critical acceptance of modern art.

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Example Sentences

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

The Armory Show, the first major American art fair since the pandemic, has become even more American as travel restrictions and complications knocked 55 mostly European exhibitors into the fair’s new online-only component.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2021

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