The Royal Shakespeare Company

"Shakespeare enthusiasts, get thee to the Armory...." - Patrick Healy, The New York Times
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Open Studio: Yoshitomo Nara + YNG

"The cutesy yet devilish cartoon characters created by the Japanese neo-Pop artist Yoshitomo Nara will soon be familiar sights on the Upper East Side landscape. " - Carol Vogel, The New York Times
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Christian Boltanski, No Man’s Land

For this week’s issue, Gus Powell photographed the French artist Christian Boltanski installing his piece “No Man’s Land” at the Park Avenue Armory. - Honore Brown, The New Yorker
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"...it’s hard not to see it as a version of that childhood game, and as an embodiment of a similar, albeit more intense, kind of perplexity and heartbreak." - Dorothy Spears, The New York Times
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Stifters Dinge (U.S. Premiere)

"...equal parts musical performance, theatrical presentation, art installation and environmental space." - Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times
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"The Park Avenue Armory has become a favored space for grand avant-garde productions. Next comes 'Stifter's Dinge,' a multimedia exploration (complete with five player pianos) of Romanticism and ecology by the dynamic German composer and arranger Heiner Goebbels." - Goings About Town: On the Horizon, The New Yorker

Events in honor of Merce - Memorial

"The Park Avenue Armory occupies most of a New York City block. Its main hall measures 55,000 square feet, and the curve of its roof soars to 80 feet....full of people—clumped or wandering singly—it resembles as much a grand 19th-century train station as it does a drill hall. Merce Cunningham would surely have enjoyed the dance that eddied and flowed over the vast floor at the Memorial in his honor." - Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice
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“The startling 1881 structure, built to house the Seventh Regiment in Tiffany splendor (those were the days), is now a massive and inventive art and performance space.” - Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times
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"What an extraordinary place!" - Alastair Macaulay, The New York Times
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Les Éphémères

"The acting is of that sublime but unshowy order generally only achieved by true theatrical collectives...exemplary. The musical score by Jean-Jacques Lemêtre is among the finest I’ve yet heard for a theatrical production and is beautifully integrated." - Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
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Ernesto Neto, anthropodino

"Shen Wei imagined "anthropodino" as the dancers’ natural habitat...this was an affair to remember." - Lynda Hammes, The Economist
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"Shen Wei Dance Arts (whom you might remember from the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony) performed last night inside Ernesto Neto’s giant, interactive, multisensory Park Avenue Armory installation, anthropodino. If you weren’t lucky enough to be there...watch this video." - Jonah Green, New York Magazine
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"Equal parts exhibit, amusement and play space, the Park Avenue Armory’s first-ever commissioned art installation, Ernesto Neto’s anthropodino, completely reimagines the cavernous drill hall." - Patrisha Holly Zabrycki, Time Out New York Kids
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"A spectacular installation of gauzy Lycra fabric, dangling pods, dinosaurish wooden bones and cavernous interiors. Occupying much of the Park Avenue Armory's 55,000 square foot, 80-foot high Wade Thompson Drill Hall, Mr. Neto's ethereal construction glows like a magical destination in a children's movie." - Ken Johnson, The New York Times
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"...curvaceous, diaphanous, voluptuous, lissome...fleshy, glandular, uvular, uterine...inside the armory's vast drill hall, one of the largest unobstructed spaces in the city, the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto has been hard at work...building a sprawling version of one of his signature biomorphic sculptures that requires all of those words and a few more to describe adequately." - Randy Kennedy, The New York Times
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"Imagine monumental, amorphous shapes of gossamer-thin fabric sacks that resemble teardrops... now picture them hanging from a bizarre weblike environment. That's what will emerge when the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto takes over the cavernous drill shed at Park Avenue Armory." - Carol Vogel, The New York Times
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Die Soldaten

"It is good. It is very, very good." , Financial Times
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"Over the years some daring directors and conductors have walked into the Armory and become immediately enthralled with its potential..." - Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times
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“Something radically different… in the vast Drill Hall of the Park Avenue Armory.” - George Loomis, The New York Sun
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“An amazing, alarming spectacle that is nearly as formidable as the infernal devices suggested in the score… Subtle, no; awesome yes.” - Alex Ross, The New Yorker
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“A miraculous realization of an opera once deemed unperformable.” - Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times
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"This momentous presentation made a strong case for Zimmermann's opera as a landmark 20th-century achievement." - Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times
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"Best use of an unexpected space. The Drill Hall in the Park Avenue Armory revealed itself as a venue of choice for large-scale, avant-garde extravaganzas..." , New York Magazine
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"One of The Top Ten Best Performances of 2008." - Alex Ross, The New Yorker
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Stravinsky’s Sacred Masterpieces

"A fantastic place to play..." - Daniel J. Wakin, The New York Times
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“Close your eyes, imagine yourself in some gigantic high-ceilinged cathedral ….a different way [to hear music] with its own rewards. …I liked the Armory a lot.” - Bernard Holland, The New York Times
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“Impresarios, directors and conductors are salivating at the possibilities…the vast Drill Hall, with its arching steel trusses and vast floor, is one the largest ‘indoor spaces in the city, the kind of industrial-style chamber that other cities have available to mount unconventional productions.” - Daniel J. Wakin, The New York Times
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Whitney Biennial

"At a time when performance and interactive art are so prominent, the Park Avenue Armory gives curators a variety of spaces in which to explore many art forms." - Carol Vogel, The New York Times
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“The Armory itself, exposing its wood-paneled rooms and military décor to live performance art, may have been this biennial’s best surprise.” - Kim Levin, Artnews

"Marina Rosenfeld: Screw Hannah Montana-Real Teen Music Hits the Park Avenue Armory at the Biennial." - Shakthi Jothianandan, Time Out New York
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“...at a time when performance and interactive art are so prominent, the Park Avenue Armory gives curators a variety of spaces in which to explore many art forms.” - Carol Vogel, The New York Times
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“This year’s Whitney Biennial is upstaged by a thrilling new venue... the Armory is one of the most impressive and fascinating buildings I have visited...” - Adrian Searle, The Guardian
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High Resolution

"The Park Avenue Armory has been undergoing a striking makeover seen by a dedicated conservancy." - Karen Rosenberg, The New York Times
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Aaron Young, Greeting Card

"...a trip to the Armory is worthwhile…the scale of Mr. Young’s effort is stunning." - Roberta Smith, The New York Times
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