11 Oct 13 – 23 Feb 14, New-York Historical Society, New York, USA
It is one of the most notorious cultural events of the 20th century, marking the dawn of America’s love affair with Modernism. And yet, as the Armory Show reaches its centenary, the full picture of that event has rarely been painted. Over the century since Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912, and Matisse’s flattened figures caused a critical and public uproar, countless legends have developed about the events at the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue, New York, in February 1913. One prevailing myth is the idea that the...
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