Recreating Leondardo DaVinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper" probably didn't need to happen, just like a remake of cult classic Buffy the Vampire Slayer doesn't need to happen (are you listening, Hollywood?)—but here we are. Currently the Park Avenue Armory is housing a massive reinterpretation of the work of art, and you can experience it there for 15 bucks until January 6th. Last week we took a look at some of the photos of the installation, created by British filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and now the NY Times is reporting back from the space itself, warning potential ticket buyers that it's "a dud." more ›

Tomorrow artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway will unveil his multimedia installation, based on the Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper, at Park Avenue Armory. We're told the epic piece features a "precise clone of the original masterpiece set within a full-scale replica of the church in Milan which houses the painting" transforming it "into an evocative multimedia collage of light, sound, and theatrical illusion." Greenaway's installation will only be around until January 6th, and you can buy tickets here. more ›

This Columbus Day weekend, the Park Avenue Armory is hosting an indoor Carnival! Yesterday our photographer Katie Sokoler dropped by to check out the 55,000-square-foot space's transformation into a fun house—here are some photos of what it'll look like, including the 50-foot Ferris wheel centerpiece. Not pictured: the stilt-walkers, jugglers, contortionists and magicians! There will also be traditional carnival fare, like cotton candy, candied and caramel apples, a variety of foods-on-a-stick (including rock candy, chicken 'lips,' thunder pickles, and chocolate covered cheesecake). more ›

French artist Christian Boltanski has taken over the Park Avenue Armory with his piece titled "No Man's Land." The installation opens today, and runs through June 13th—its centerpiece is a 25-foot-high pile of clothing, and a 5-story crane. In their two-page review, the NY Times describes what to expect upon entering the hall: "Every few minutes, in an act meant to resonate with the arbitrariness of death and survival, the crane’s giant claw will pluck a random assortment of shirts, pants and dresses from the mound then release them to flap back down haphazardly." more ›

The Royal Shakespeare Company will spend several hundred thousand dollars donated by Ohio State University to construct a full-size replica of their new theater in Stratford-upon-Avon, ship it in pieces to NYC, and assemble it in the Park Avenue Armory's massive Drill Hall, which has 55,000 square feet of uncolumned space. In an unprecedented plan announced today, the company will use the replica to stage five plays in repertory in July and August 2011 as part of the Lincoln Center Festival. (The five plays are Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet and The Winter’s Tale.) more ›

The Park Avenue Armory's first commissioned installation features hundreds of yards of Lycra tulle forming a huge 120 foot by 180 foot canopy, with "aromatic fabric stalactites" and labyrinths of passageways and rooms. It is anthropodino by Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, who first saw the armory's vast 55,000 square foot space "after a boozy dinner and he walked to the middle of its old pine floor — once used for tennis, with green paint and baselines still visible — and lay down, spread-eagle," according to the NY Times. more ›

Will 2008 be the year frustrated artists stop whining about the Whitney Biennial for being too cliquey, too scattershot, too short on women, minorities, and criminally overlooked artists like the ones doing all the griping? Hardly, but this year’s themeless Biennial, which opened last night, goes a long way toward appeasing the disgruntled hipster artist crowd with a big, rowdy slate of installations and events at the Park Avenue Armory through March 26th. more ›