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Articles - April - 2013 Issue

The 1913 Armory Show Revisited – The New Spirit

- by Susan Halas

Poster announcing the famous 1913 Armory show held in NYC.

Poster announcing the famous 1913 Armory show held in NYC.

Links to Exhibits and Special Events Celebrating the Armory’s 100th Anniversary

DePaul Museum Show, Illinois

newsroom.depaul.edu/NewsReleases/showNews.aspx?NID=2569

NY Historical Society

www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/armory-show-at-100

Montclair Museum, NJ

www.montclairartmuseum.org/exhibitions-details.php?id=31

Art Institute of Chicago has a number of small exhibits and lectures

www.chicagonow.com/show-me-chicago/2013/03/the-art-institute-of-chicago-celebrates-100th-anniversary-of-controversial-armory-show

Chicago also has an online exhibit at

extras.artic.edu/armoryshow

A sampling of what others are saying:

Complete text of “The Armory Show at 100” by James Panero at www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-Armory-Show-at-100-7494

Complete text of “Much Ado about Everything” by Kristen Osborne

www.artandeducation.net/paper/the-1913-armory-show-much-ado-about-everything

Complete text of Saltz Revisits the Armory Show

www.vulture.com/2013/02/saltz-revisits-1913-armory-show.html

The Wikipedia article on the show and its legacy provides a succinct narrative plus many links and images at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armory_Show

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Reach writer Susan Halas at wailukusue@gmail.com

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