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- EIN 13-4086800
- (212) 616-3930
- 643 Park Avenue 3rd Floor New York NY 10065-6122 USA
- www.armoryonpark.org
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Causes: Arts & Culture, Historical Organizations, Performing Arts, Visual Arts
Mission: Part american palace, part industrial shed, park avenue armory supports 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, 55,000 square foot drill hall and its period rooms by gilded age designers, the armory enables artists to create, students to explore, and wide audiences to experience epic, adventurous work that cannot be done elsewhere in new york. The armory has been lauded as "a playground for artists of outsize imaginations" (wall street journal) with the new york times declaring "few cultural institutions have been as adept at pushing the cultural fomo button, triggering that 'fear of missing out' that new yorkers hate"park avenue armory. Has arrived as the most important new cultural institution in new york city. " as with non-traditional programming, arts education has found a special niche at the armory, using its unique assets - a magical ruine