"The catalogue is absolutely first-rate"—Karen Wilkin, The New Criterion
"Gorgeously illustrated"—The New York Times, Sunday Book Review
"It conveys a good idea of how and why an exhibition that happened a century ago is still worth thinking about"—Ken Johnson, The New York Times Holiday Gift Guide 2013
“Will offer nuance to the standard shock-and-awe Armory story”—Holland Cotter, The New York Times
“While the Armory Show may now be only a vague historical event, by the end of 2013 we should all have given it a thorough reconsideration”—James Panero, The New Criterion
“Giving a wide cultural and social picture of New York in that era” The Art Newspaper
Authors
Marilyn Satin Kushner is Curator and Head, Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections at the New-York Historical Society; Kimberly Orcutt is the Curator of American Art at the New-York Historical Society; Casey Nelson Blake is Professor of History and American Studies at Columbia University.
Contributors
William C. Agee, Professor of Art History, Hunter College, City University of New York; Judith A. Barter, Field-McCormick Chair and Curator of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago; Avis Berman, Writer and independent art historian; Daniel H. Borus, Professor of History, University of Rochester, New York; Leon Botstein, President, Bard College; Music Director, American Symphony Orchestra; Conductor Laureate, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra; and Editor, The Musical Quarterly; Sarah Burns, Professor Emerita, Department of History of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington; Barbara Haskell, Curator of Early Twentieth Century Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Susan Hegeman, Associate Professor of English, University of Florida, Gainesville; Susan G. Larkin, Independent art historian and curator; Doïna Lemny, Assistant Curator of Modern Collections, National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Laurette E. McCarthy, Independent scholar and curator; Anne McCauley, Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art, Princeton University, New Jersey; Virginia M. Mecklenburg, Senior Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; Charles Musser, Professor of Film Studies and American Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut;Francis M. Naumann, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, LLC, New York; Roberta J. M. Olson, Curator of Drawings, New-York Historical Society; Didier Ottinger, Deputy Director, National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Max Page, Professor of Architecture and History, University of Massachusetts in Amherst; Aimée Brown Price, Independent art historian and curator; Gail Stavitsky, Chief Curator, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; Michael R. Taylor, Director, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Martha Tedeschi, Deputy Director for Art and Research, The Art Institute of Chicago; Carol Troyen, Curator Emerita of American Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.