Park Avenue Armory

Park Avenue Armory Conservancy
Park Avenue Armory
Address 643 Park Avenue
New York
NY 10065
Coordinates 40°46′1.9895″N 73°57′55.5037″W / 40.767219306°N 73.965417694°W / 40.767219306; -73.965417694Coordinates: 40°46′1.9895″N 73°57′55.5037″W / 40.767219306°N 73.965417694°W / 40.767219306; -73.965417694
Operator Pierre Audi (Artistic Director)
Construction
Architect Platt Byard Dovell White
and Herzog & de Meuron
Website
www.armoryonpark.org

The Park Avenue Armory Conservancy, generally known as Park Avenue Armory, is a non-profit cultural institution within the historic Seventh Regiment Armory building located at 643 Park Avenue on New York City's Upper East Side. Since taking over the building in December 2006, Park Avenue Armory’s mission has been to revitalize the landmark building as a center for unconventional works in the performing and visual arts, while simultaneously maintaining and restoring the historic aspects of the building. Part palace, part industrial shed, Park Avenue Armory fills a critical void in the cultural ecology of New York by enabling artists to create—and audiences to experience—unconventional work that cannot be mounted in traditional performance halls and museums. With its soaring 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall—reminiscent of 19th-century European train stations—and array of exuberant period rooms, the Armory offers a new platform for creativity across all art forms.

Park Avenue Armory leased the building for 99 years from New York State in 2006.[1]

Arts programs

The Armory's first three years of artistic programming presented work in partnership with other cultural institutions such as Lincoln Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art before launching its first solo exhibitions with Ernesto Neto's anthropodino in 2009 and Christian Boltanski’s No Man's Land in 2010. The Armory then engaged consulting artistic director Kristy Edmunds to develop its first two full artistic seasons for 2011 and 2012. The 2013 season was curated by the incoming artistic director Alex Poots.[2][3]

Renovation of the Seventh Regiment Armory

The conservancy is currently in the midst of a 200 million dollar renovation of the building.[4] Park Avenue Armory hired the architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron to design the restoration and renovation of the building with executive architects Platt Byard Dovell White.[4] Two historic rooms were restored in 2011 with sixteen more and the historic halls remaining.

References

  1. ↑ Lombino, David (November 16, 2006). "Culture group gains control of Park Ave. Armory as neighbors feud". The New York Sun. Ronald Weintraub. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  2. ↑ Wakin, Daniel J. (December 22, 2012). "The Armory's ambitions expand to match its hall". The New York Times. Retrieved July 25, 2012.
  3. ↑ Sulcas, Roslyn (August 14, 2013). "An outsize vision, forever filling voids". The New York Times. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  4. 1 2 Stephens, Suzanne (February 2012). "Park Avenue Armory". Architectural Record. BNP Media. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
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