The International Exhibition of Modern Art, famously known as the Armory Show, opened at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City. Organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, it was the first large-scale exhibition of modern art in the United States, featuring over 1,300 works by European and American artists. The show introduced the American public to radical movements such as Fauvism, Cubism, and Futurism, with Marcel Duchamp's 'Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2' becoming a focal point of public controversy and media satire.
It fundamentally altered the trajectory of American art by legitimizing modernism and shifting the center of the art world from Paris to New York.
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