2025 Season
Discover our 2025 Season, which features bold and transformative experiences including North American and world premieres from leading artistic voices that subvert and expand expectations of what contemporary music, visual art, and performance can be.
Still To Come This Season
December 2–14
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
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.
In Our Historic Period Rooms
Making Space at the Armory
Artist Talk: Philip Venables & Ted Huffman
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions creators Philip Venables and Ted Huffman are joined in conversation with comedian, musician, and writer Morgan Bassichis and original book illustrator Ned Asta.
Recital Series
Attacca Quartet
Versatile ensemble Attacca Quartet brings audiences a program of classic quartets by Bartók and Mendelssohn, quartet-arranged interpretations of signal works for other instrumentation, and the North American premiere of “Daisy” by David Lang.
Previously This Season
January 9–12
Jamie xx: In Waves
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.
February 14–17
Wish Tree
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.
February 14–17
Wish Tree
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.
March 3–12
DOOM: House of Hope
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.
June 5–August 17
Diane Arbus: Constellation
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.
June 5–August 17
Diane Arbus: Constellation
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.
September 9–20
Monkey Off My Back or The Cat's Meow
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.
September 30–October 6
11,000 Strings
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.
September 30–October 6
11,000 Strings
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.
Recital Series
The Recital Series has been lauded for becoming a “locus for important chamber music concert” (The New Yorker). Performed in the restored Board of Officers Room, these mesmerizing musical moments utilize the pristine acoustics and intimate scale intended by many composers while invoking the Salon culture of the Gilded Age. This season includes highly anticipated recital debuts, thoughtfully curated programs of lieder, art song, and contemporary works by some of today’s most exciting musical interpreters, and thrilling performances that explore signal works and take the art form in bold new directions.
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Recital Series
Konstantin Krimmel & Ammiel Bushakevitz
Baritone Konstantin Krimmel makes his North American recital debut with pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz in a program of lieder inspired by their recent album Mythos, featuring works by Schubert, Loewe, and Vaughan Williams.
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Recital Series
Erin Morley & Gerald Martin Moore
One of today’s most sought-after lyric coloratura sopranos, Erin Morley comes to the Board of Officers Room with an artfully curated program of works from her recent album Rose in Bloom.
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Recital Series
Pene Pati & Ronny Michael Greenberg
The first Samoan tenor to perform on Europe’s top opera stages, Pene Pati showcases his caressing colors and amber high notes in his North American solo recital debut, a program of varied works with pianist Ronny Michael Greenberg.
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Recital Series
Jeremy Denk
One of America's foremost pianists, Jeremy Denk gives a marathon performance of Bach’s Six Partitas—large musical canvases that follow the basic form of the Baroque dance suite and beautifully showcase virtuosic playing in every way.
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Recital Series
Sasha Cooke & Myra Huang
Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke presents an updated take on her ongoing exploration of Love Letters, a program of works by Debussy, Alma and Gustav Mahler, and New York premieres of works by Scott Ordway and Jasmine Barnes.
Artists Studio
Curated by jazz pianist, composer, and MacArthur Fellow Jason Moran, this series showcases a diverse mix of some of today’s most creative voices who have a distinct relationship to sound and the voice. All of these imaginative innovators defy categorization and blend artistic forms, and their performances allow them to freely explore their artistic sensibilities and exciting new directions in their creative practice. Realized in the Veterans Room—a monument to the American Aesthetic Movement designed by Louis C. Tiffany & Co., Associated Artists—these interventions expressly mirror the innovative spirit of the exceptional young artists present at the room’s inception.
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Artists Studio
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
Veteran sound artist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe gives the world premiere of "The Unbearable Comedy of Caterwaul in 4 Parts" for synth, voice, and bowed and struck instruments, a window into an aleatoric method for electroacoustic music.
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Artists Studio
Sofia Jernberg
Swedish experimental singer, improviser, and composer Sofia Jernberg is joined by guest musicians for a unique performance of some of her own pre-existing and new compositions that embrace her creative practice of communion and collaboration.
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Artists Studio
Guillermo E. Brown
Drummer, composer, and creator Guillermo E. Brown shares an insightful overview of the past, present, and future of his work, including some of his Creative Capital projects and original compositions played on his new audio-visual musical instrument.
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Artists Studio
Sandra Mujinga
Norwegian artist and musician Sandra Mujinga comes to the Veterans Room to broaden and expand her practice in the performative spectrum by creating an otherworldly sonic environment that plays off of the spatial architecture of the room.
Making Space at the Armory
Held in our historic period rooms and spaces, this insightful series of cutting-edge conversations, performances, and installations provide a unique forum for bridging art and culture. These happenings—curated by professor and Guggenheim fellow Tavia Nyong’o—make space for new points of view and unique perspectives from a diverse array of artists, scholars, cultural leaders, and social trailblazers.
Inspired by civil rights legend Grace Lee Boggs’s famous question—“What Time is it on the Clock of the World?”—this season invites audiences to become activeparticipants in the conversations and connections that weave art into the texture of civic life in our current moment.
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Making Space at the Armory
A Dream You Dream Together
This convening assembles a host of scholars, artists, writers, and activists for a series of panels and performances that explore and highlight Yoko Ono’s message and highlight her influence and impact on the art world and the world at-large.
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Making Space at the Armory
Yoko Ono Tribute Concerts
In concurrence with Yoko Ono's Wish Tree and A Dream You Dream Together – A Symposium Celebrating Yoko Ono, Making Space at the Armory presents two intimate tribute concerts in one of the Armory historic period rooms inspired by Ono’s works and legacy.
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Making Space at the Armory
Lenapehoking
This evocative evening of chamber music and storytelling considers the myth of Manhattan’s purchase while celebrating the enduring presence of Lenape and other Indigenous nations, featuring a world premiere by Brent Michael Davids.
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Making Space at the Armory
Black Theater Advance
This dynamic salon tackles the issues facing Black theaters and theater makers in reimagining the future of American theater as a space for bold artistic expression and social change, in collaboration with National Black Theatre.
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Making Space at the Armory
Caftan
Inspired by legendary fashionista André Leon Talley, his iconic caftans, and his role in the world of fashion, this vibrant, multifaceted program explores fashion’s role in self-expression, freedom, and diasporic encounter.
Malkin Lecture Series
Launched in 2007, the Malkin Lecture Series presents scholars and experts on topics relating to Park Avenue Armory and its pivotal role in the civic, cultural, and aesthetic evolution of New York City in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This season’s lectures shine a light on figures from the late 19th century, and how their actions continue to influence the way we view rule breakers, Civil War monuments, and landscape architecture today.
Malkin Lecture Series
New York's Scoundrels, Scalawags, and Scrappers
Social and architectural historian John Tauranac profiles the New Yorkers who gamed the system to survive and thrive in the tough times for the working class of the 1890s.
Malkin Lecture Series
Politics and Memory
Author and professor Akela Reason illuminates the complex intersection of art, politics, and memory within New York City's Civil War monuments while highlighting the ever-changing ways different constituencies have engaged with them.
Malkin Lecture Series
Finding Frederick Law Olmsted in Cotton's Kingdom
Landscape architect Sara Zewde examines the Central Park designer's research journey through Southern States in search of his radical idea that public parks could redress society’s ills at the height of slavery in America and the implications today.