2025 Season
Jamie xx: In Waves
January 9–12, 2025
Forward-thinking beatmaker and producer Jamie xx returns to the Armory to kick off the North American tour supporting his long-awaited new release, In Waves, replicating the emotional crescendos and thrilling volatility of an almost mystical night out while encapsulating fun, joy, and introspection all at once in a way that can best be experienced on the dance floor.
Wish Tree
February 14–17, 2025
Experience the largest installation in North America to date of groundbreaking and influential artist and activist Yoko Ono's ongoing work Wish Tree, where a grove of 92 trees will be installed in honor of her 92nd birthday that invites visitors to contribute personal wishes, creating a large scale, yet intimate activation of her social practice work.
Doom
March 3–12, 2025
Radical art world superstar Anne Imhof takes hold of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall with her largest performative work to date, a large-scale, durational performance piece that fuses performers, sound, and scenography in an exploration of the balance between apathy, activism, and resistance in response to our present moment.
Diane Arbus: Constellation
June 5–August 17, 2025
This unconventional constellation of more than 450 prints by influential and revolutionary photographer Diane Arbus—many of them still unpublished—is the most comprehensive assemblage of her work to date, capturing the breadth of life in postwar America and offering new perspectives on her subjects.
Monkey Off My Back or The Cat's Meow
September 9–20, 2025
Drawing on historical and pop culture references, this hybrid work by choreographer, dancer, and Guggenheim Fellow Trajal Harrell channels dance, theater, fashion, history, and music through the architecture of a Mondrian-esque colored catwalk that extends the length of the Drill Hall to embody expressiveness, freedom, and joy.
11,000 Strings
September 30–October 6, 2025
Surrounding audiences with 50 micro-tuned pianos playing simultaneously alongside chamber ensemble Klangforum Wien, maverick composer Georg Friedrich Haas's spatial masterpiece unleashes a cascade of sound that transcends traditional tonality while focusing on the human dimension in music experimentalism and creating a new way of listening.
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
December 2–14, 2025
This cult book of fables and myths that radically reimagines the history of the world through a queer lens is given a thrilling new life as a cabaret-like spectacle that draws on theater, dance, storytelling, and song in a colorful, eclectic, and profound adaptation directed and written by Ted Huffman with music by Philip Venables that serves as a political manifesto for survival while giving voice to the marginalized and oppressed everywhere.
2025 Making Space at the Armory Series
February 15–December 4, 2025
Curated by professor and Guggenheim fellow Tavia Nyong'o, this series of happenings make space for new points of view and unique perspectives including symposiums and panel discussions that explore the legacies of multidisciplinary artist and activist Yoko Ono and Vogue editor and creative icon André Leon Talley, a night of chamber music composed by Brent Michael Davids that chronicles the enduring presence of the Lenape and additional Indigenous peoples, and a collective conversation with Black theater makers that manifests the influence and importance of Black theaters across the country.
2025 Recital Series
February 22–December 18, 2025
Performed in the restored Board of Officers Room, this thoughtfully curated series of classical and contemporary chamber music includes the recital debuts of Konstantin Krimmel and Pene Pati, lauded vocalists Erin Morley and Sasha Cooke, pianist and MacArthur 'Genius' Fellow Jeremy Denk, and two-time Grammy Award winner Attacca Quartet.
2025 Artists Studio
March 22–November 21, 2025
Jazz pianist, composer, and MacArthur fellow Jason Moran curates this series of imaginative performances from today's most creative voices who defy categorization and freely explore artistic forms, including curator and composer Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Swedish experimental vocalist Sofia Jernberg with special guests, solo performer and band drummer Guillermo E. Brown, and Norwegian artist and musician Sandra Mujinga.