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"\u2019Tis the season in New York for art collectors, with a plethora of art fairs poised to descend upon the city: Volta, the Art Dealers Association of America, Scope, and the Independent Art Fair, just to name a few. The main event, however, continues to be the Armory Show, now in its 16th year of bringing modern and contemporary art to the city.\n\nPinterestFacebookUnder Heaven 20121020, Xu Zhen, 2012. Photo courtesy of MadeIn Company\n\nThe multidisciplinary Shanghai-based artist Xu Zhen is this year\u2019s Armory Artist, the singular figure commissioned to build the fair\u2019s visual identity. Known for the provocative, politically poignant nature of his films, photography, installations, and thickly laden, vibrantly colored oil paintings often compared to frosted cakes, he\u2019s not only gracing the show\u2019s posters with his artwork but also setting up Action of Consciousness, a kinetic installation of symbolic sculptures continuously thrown in the air, as the centerpiece to the fair\u2019s Focus: China section.\n\nPinterestFacebookProud Italy (detail), Li Shurui, 2013. Photo courtesy of Li Shurui and Aike-Dellarco\n\nIn this area the Armory Show spotlights 16 Chinese galleries selected by Beijing Ullens Center for Contemporary Art director Philip Tinari, among them Tang Contemporary Art, Aye Gallery, and Space Station of Beijing; Gallery EXIT and 10 Chancery Lane Gallery of Hong Kong; and Aike-Dellarco and MadeIn Company of Shanghai.\n\nPinterestFacebookZ\u00E4h und zahm, Franz West, 2011. Photo courtesy of Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp\n\nAnd as always, the fair will also offer a wide range of favorites: The contemporary section will feature works from the likes of Franz West, being shown by Antwerp\u2019s Tim Van Laere Gallery, and Tracey Emin, represented by Manhattan-based Lehmann Maupin.\n\nPinterestFacebookBuste au Corsage \u00E0 Carreaux, Pablo Picasso, 1958. Photo courtesy of John Szoke Gallery\n\nIn the modern area we can look forward to coveted classics such as an Andy Warhol &amp;quot;Flowers&amp;quot; print (from London&amp;#39;s Sims Reed Gallery), Picasso lithographs and screen prints (from New York\u2019s John Szoke Gallery), and a 1971 Alexander Calder gouache (from Crane Kalman of London).\n\nMarch 6\u20139, Piers 92 and 94, New York; thearmoryshow.com, 212-645-0655\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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