Following the 2008 edition of The Armory Show, for which Mary Heilmann and John Waters created the visual identity, British artist Ewan Gibbs (b.1973) has been commissioned to take up the task for the 2009 edition of the fair.
A former student at Goldsmiths, Gibbs – who is currently working on a solo show at SFMOMA and Timothy Taylor in London (for September 2008) – will present a series of drawings that celebrate New York. This work will embody the advertising and marketing material of The Armory Show, which a few months ago announced the introduction of a Modern Art section dedicated to dealers specializing in the modern and secondary markets.

One of the most famous works of art from twentieth-century history has greatly moved art lovers. Pablo Picasso’s painting the “Guernica” is sick and its conditions are serious although stable: this was the diagnosis given by experts at the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid, who in these days have been carrying out a last check-up on Picasso’s work. An analysis that will allow to understand more thoroughly its damage, its genes, the hidden curiosities about its life.

Title: Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Location: NEW YORK - MoMA
Description: Van Gogh\’s nocturnal and twilight paintings and drawings
Start Date: 2008-09-21
End Date: 2009-01-05

Title: Here Is Every: Four Decades of Contemporary Art
Location: NEW YORK - MoMA
Description: The fifth in a series of installations focusing on MoMA\’s contemporary holdings, Here Is Every: Four Decades of Contemporary Art maps a chronological path through the art of the recent past.
Start Date: 2008-09-10
End Date: 2009-03-30

Title: Projects 88: Lucy McKenzie
Location: NEW YORK - MoMA
Description: Combining painting, printmaking, and drawing with public events such as concerts, poetry readings, and performances
Start Date: 2008-09-10
End Date: 2008-12-01

Title: New Photography 2008: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky
Location: NEW YORK - MoMA
Description: New Photography is the annual fall showcase of significant recent work in photography. This year\’s exhibition features the work of Josephine Meckseper (German, b. 1964) and Mikhael Subotzky (South African, b. 1981).
Start Date: 2008-09-10
End Date: 2009-09-09

Title: Looking at Music
Location: NEW YORK - MoMA
Description: In the 1960s, the decade that saw astronauts land on the moon, artists were likewise seeking to expand boundaries of time and space and to have new experiences. Musicians led the way in developing new working methods, and music was at the forefront of interdisciplinary experimentation during the early days of media art.
Start Date: 2008-08-13
End Date: 2009-01-05

Title: Kirchner and the Berlin Street
Location: NEW YORK - MoMA
Description: This exhibition seeks to bring together German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner\’s renowned Street Scenes series, created between 1913 and 1915.
Start Date: 2008-08-03
End Date: 2008-11-10

Title: Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Rum: The Art of Appropriation
Location: NEW YORK - MoMA
Description: When Pablo Picasso collaged pieces of newspaper into his 1914 work Pipe, Glass, Bottle of Rum, he brought the outside world into the frame, initiating a dialogue with popular culture that has extended for generations.
Start Date: 2008-07-30
End Date: 2008-11-10

Title: Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities
Location: NEW YORK - MoMA
Description: Wunderkammern, or cabinets of curiosities, arose in mid-sixteenth-century Europe as repositories for all manner of wondrous and exotic objects.
Start Date: 2008-07-30
End Date: 2008-11-10