The Armory Present introduced that they’ll as soon as once more accomplice with the US Open Tennis Championships to current sculptures and installations on the grounds on the USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Middle through the occasion.
The partnership is in its third consecutive 12 months and represents a part of the fourth iteration of The Armory Present’s public artworks challenge, Armory Off-Web site.
“We’re thrilled to once more accomplice with the US Open to showcase artworks by artists of underrepresented backgrounds. Each The Armory Present and the US Open are defining elements of New York’s fall calendar, and this partnership comes throughout an thrilling cultural second for New York Metropolis,” Kyla McMillan, director of The Armory Present informed ARTnews by way of electronic mail. “By way of our partnership, we hope to succeed in new and acquainted audiences by offering a possibility to find artists and artworks, even perhaps forming an enduring reference to the honest.”
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Tomokazu Matsuyama’s Runner (2021)
The tasks on view through the US Open embrace the set up Tetl Mirror I (2024) by Claudia Peña Salinas, offered by Embajada, which explores Aztec and Mayan mythology; Eva Robart’s sculpture, Fantasy of Happiness (2022), which makes use of discarded tennis balls caught throughout the chain-link of a reclaimed gate and is offered by the gallery Ruttkowski;68; Taiwanese-Canadian sculptor An Te Liu’s bronze-casted Venus Redux (2018), offered by Blouin Division; and Tomokazu Matsuyama’s Runner (2021), offered by Kavi Gupta.
The works can be on view all through the event, from August 19 to September 8. As a part of US Open Fan Week, entry to Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Middle is free from August 19 via August 25.
An Te Liu’s Venus Redux (2018)
The Armory Off Web site program contains performances throughout New York Metropolis. The artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons’s latest work Procession of Angels for Radical Love and Unity (2024) is comprised of visits to seven traditionally important New York Metropolis communities, from Harlem Artwork Park to Madison Sq. Park, with poetry readings at every website and a workshops and performances on the finish of the route.
Oliver Herring will current 20-minute efficiency that serves as an homage to “queer icons whose artistic forces and visionary careers have been tragically and prematurely interrupted” on the Bowery, and a brand new work by David Salle with grace Occasions Sq. as a part of the Midnight Second program.
This 12 months The Armory Present will rejoice its thirtieth anniversary. Greater than 235 galleries are anticipated to take part within the honest, scheduled to run from September 6–8, with a VIP preview day on September 5, on the Javits Middle in Manhattan.