Fairs & Sales

The Art Dealers Association of America’s fair returns to the Park Avenue Armory under a new name. The ADAA Fair succeeds The Art Show, which the association founded in 1989 and held at the Armory for more than three decades; the 2025 edition did not take place. The 2026 fair moves from The Art Show’s recent late-October slot into mid-November, inside Art Week NYC, and the two announced a cross-promotion.

All exhibitors are ADAA members, which is what has always set the fair apart: about 200 member galleries in nearly 40 U.S. cities, and booths that tend toward focused presentations of historical and contemporary work rather than a general inventory. The association’s July release put the 2026 exhibitor count at 63. The Preview Gala benefits the Whitney Museum of American Art’s education and artistic programs.

Tickets. Sold through ARTSVP, the fair’s exclusive ticketing partner, online or at the door. All sales are final. Children under 12 are admitted free with a paying adult. The general admission price is not shown on the fair’s visitor page. Price TBA VIP registration is by request on the same page.

Getting there. The 6 train to 68th Street–Hunter College, or the F and Q to Lexington Avenue–63rd Street; the M101, M102 and M103 buses on Lexington and Third; Citi Bike docks at 67th Street and Park Avenue. A step-free, sidewalk-level entrance is at 103 East 66th Street; ring the bell, or call security in advance at 212 616 3950, extension 1. Wheelchairs can be reserved at 212 777 5218.

At the fair. Personal, non-commercial photography is allowed without flash or tripods. Large bags and coats go to the coat check. There is a café during public hours.

The Armory’s other November fair comes first. Salon Art + Design, for collectible design and art, runs November 4 to 8, 2026, at the Park Avenue Armory. It closes three days before Art Week NYC opens, so a visitor arriving early can see both fairs in the same building. Its previews are by invitation; public hours are on the fair’s site.

The marquee sales follow Art Week, as they do each November. Viewings are free and open to the public, which makes the salerooms some of the best temporary exhibitions in the city in the days before each sale.

What is on offer, from the houses’ own pages: Christie’s 20th Century sale includes works from the collections of Clive Davis and Herbert Lust and a group titled Heroes & Lovers that brings Old Masters into the evening sale; Sotheby’s Modern Evening Auction includes works from The Armand Hammer Collection; Phillips leads with Amedeo Modigliani’s Tête, estimated at $28 million to $35 million.

New York’s two other fair seasons are not part of this week. The Armory Show, at the Javits Center (not the Park Avenue Armory), took place in September. Frieze New York, TEFAF New York, Independent and NADA New York hold the city’s spring season in May, the week often called “New York Art Week.” See Which Art Week?