MoMA Armory Show Preview & Party

ONLINE TICKET SALES ARE NOW CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT. YOU MAY STILL PURCHASE TICKETS AT PIER 94 UNTIL 8PM TONIGHT. THERE WILL BE A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS ON SALE AT THE DOOR OF THE EVENT. 

The Armory Show 2016 Preview and Party

Benefiting The Museum of Modern Art

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

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The Armory Show After-Party at MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art

11 West Fifty-third Street, New York

VIP Access: 8:00PM–12:30AM

General Admission: 9:00PM–12:30AM

featuring a live performance by Holy Ghost! 

DJ Set by The Range

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The Armory Show Preview at Piers 92 & 94 Twelfth Avenue at Fifty-fifth Street, New York 

Early Access: 12:00PM–8:00PM

MoMA Vernissage Access: 5:00PM–8:00PM

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• After-Party general admission ($150 before March 2 / $175 on March 2 or at the door)
  One ticket for MoMA Vernissage Access to The Armory Show at the Piers on March 2 (5:00–8:00 p.m.)
  One general admission ticket to the MoMA Armory Show Party (9:00 p.m.–12:30 a.m.)
  Access to Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective from (9:00 p.m.-12:30 a.m.)
  
  


• VIP admission ($250 before March 2 / $275 on March 2 or at the door)
  One ticket for MoMA Vernissage Access to The Armory Show at the Piers on March 2 (5:00–8:00 p.m.), and a run-of-show pass to keep coming back 
  One VIP ticket to the MoMA Armory Show Party (8:00 p.m. entry) ; including passed hors d’oeuvres, access to Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective from (8:00 p.m.-12:30 a.m.), and Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934-1954 from (8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.)
  
  


• Patron ticket ($750)
  One ticket for MoMA Early Access at noon to The Armory Show on March 2 (12:00 p.m.), and a run-of-show pass to keep coming back
  One VIP ticket to the MoMA Armory Show Party (8:00 p.m. entry) ; including passed hors d’oeuvres, access to Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective from (8:00 p.m.-12:30 a.m.), and Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934-1954 from (8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.)
  
  


• Supporter ticket ($5,000) 
  One limited-edition piece by The Armory Show's 2016 commissioned artist, Kapwani Kiwanga* 
  Two tickets for MoMA Early Access at noon to The Armory Show on March 2 (12:00 p.m.), and a run-of-show pass to keep coming back. 
  Two VIP tickets to the MoMA Armory Show Party (8:00 p.m. entry) ; including passed hors d’oeuvres, access to Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective from (8:00 p.m.-12:30 a.m.), and Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934-1954 from (8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.)
  
  


• Lead Benefactor ticket ($10,000) 
  One limited-edition piece by The Armory Show's 2016 commissioned artist, Kapwani Kiwanga*
  Ten tickets for MoMA Early Access at noon to The Armory Show on March 2 (12:00 p.m.), and a run-of-show pass to keep coming back.
  Ten VIP tickets to the MoMA Armory Show Party (8:00 p.m. entry) ; including passed hors d’oeuvres, access to Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective from (8:00 p.m.-12:30 a.m.), and Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934-1954 from (8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.)

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Preview and party to benefit The Museum of Modern Art.

The Armory Show is New York’s foremost fair devoted to the most important art of the 20th and 21st centuries. In 2015, the fair will again feature The Armory Show – Modern, a section specializing in modern and secondary market material on Pier 92, while Pier 94 will continue to be a venue to premiere new works by living artists. The opening preview and party for The Armory Show 2015 helps sustain the world-renowned exhibition programming of The Museum of Modern Art.

The 2016 Commissioned Artist is Kapwani Kiwanga, appointed by the Focus curators, Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, and The Armory Show. The Armory Show launched its distinguished Artist Commission in 2002, extending its commitment to supporting artists' development by providing a global stage for their work. In this capacity, Kiwanga will inform the visual identity of the fair by contributing to the design of the official fair Catalogue, realizing an on-site commissioned project and producing a limited edition artwork with proceeds benefitting The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Born 1978 in Hamilton, Ontario and based in Paris, Kiwanga has a versatile practice that often takes shape through video, sound and performance, relying on ephemera and collective history to form the bases of her approach. As a trained anthropologist and social scientist, she occupies the role of a researcher in her projects. Her methodology includes assembling narratives and establishing protocols, to observe culture and its characteristic propensity toward mutation, sometimes intentionally confusing truth and fiction in order to unsettle hegemonic narratives where marginal discourse can flourish. Afrofuturism, the anti-colonial struggle, collective memory, belief systems, vernacular and popular culture are but some of the research areas that inspire her practice.

In her films, installations and performances, which revolve around notions of belief and its relationship to "knowledge," Kiwanga employs documentary modes of representation, various material sources, and testimonies in a quasi-scientific approach. She is interested in different approaches to the role of artist, explored most notably in her Afrogalactica trilogy project (2011 - ongoing), for which she has invented and occupies the character of an anthropologist from the future who explores across vast fields of knowledge relating to Afrofuturism, hybrid genders and African astronomy.

The fair introduced its annual commission in 2002, and four years later began publishing an annual series of editions by its commissioned artists to benefit The Museum of Modern Art.

For further information, please call the Special Events office at (212) 708-9680.

As this is a benefit we regret that tickets are non-refundable.