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cultural institution within the historic Seventh Regiment Armory building located at 643

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. The institution displays unconventional artwork, including performing and visual arts. Park Avenue Armory leased the building for 99 years from

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in 2006.

Arts programs

The Armory's first three years of artistic programming presented work in partnership with other cultural institutions such as

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and the

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before launching its first solo exhibitions with Ernesto Neto's ''anthropodino'' in 2009 and Christian Boltanski’s ''No Man's Land'' in 2010. The Armory then engaged consulting artistic director Kristy Edmunds to develop its first two full artistic seasons for 2011 and 2012. The 2013 season was curated by the incoming artistic director

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. In 2020, The Park Avenue Armory invited 10 New York City cultural institutions to commission 100 women artists to create new work that celebrates the ratification of the 19th Amendment. The program will be known as "100 Years , 100 Women". ''Minerva'' a portrait of

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was commissioned from Elizabeth Colomba. This is the first work by a Black artist in the Armory

Renovation of the Seventh Regiment Armory

The conservancy completed a $200 million renovation of the building. Park Avenue Armory hired the architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron to design the restoration and renovation of the building with executive architects Platt Byard Dovell White.

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's documentary series Working in the Theatre {{Authority control Art museums and galleries in Manhattan Upper East Side