Park Avenue Armory

Part palace, part industrial shed, Park Avenue Armory fills a critical void in the cultural ecology of New York, supporting unconventional works in the performing and visual arts that cannot be fully realized in a traditional proscenium theater, concert hall, or white wall gallery. With its soaring column-free 55,000 square foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall and its array of exuberant period rooms, the Armory enables artists to create, students to explore, and wide audiences to experience epic, adventurous, relevant work that cannot be done elsewhere in New York. Such was its impact in its first years that The New York Times declared, Park Avenue Armory...has arrived as the most important new cultural institution in New York City. More recently, The New York Times has noted that: few cultural institutions have been as adept at pushing the cultural FOMO button, triggering that fear of missing out; that New Yorkers hate... Alongside unconventional programming, a creativity-based Arts Educa...