REVIEW: Armory Week 2025 by Vittoria Benzine
5 September 2025 • Vittoria Benzine
In the past two days, I have seen four art fairs, eight gallery shows, walked 34,714 steps, and smoked zero cigarettes. It’s Armory Week
Author: Vittoria Benzine
Vittoria Benzine is a Brooklyn-based art writer and personal essayist covering contemporary art with a focus on storytelling, counterculture, and chaos magic. She is a regular contributor at Maxim, Artnet News, and more. Follow her adventures on Instagram @vittoriabenzine.
Focus Art Fair 2025
18 May 2025 • Vittoria Benzine
Artists, fans, collectors, and Andres Serrano, all queuing for a first look at Focus Art Fair
Frieze New York: Beneath the Party
9 May 2025 • Vittoria Benzine
A friend I’ve known for eight years told me I have “wisdom” in my eyes recently,
Is Kenny Schachter ‘Punching Up’?
25 April 2025 • Vittoria Benzine
When I saw that Kenny’s show got reviewed in Cultured, I thought, “Good for him.” After ~paying~ to read it, I thought, “Oh my god.”
Lesley Bodzy “Levity and Depth”- Review
25 March 2025 • Vittoria Benzine
Last Spring, after grieving her father, Bodzy connected the two series by inflating balloons with foam.
IMPULSE Magazine: art | culture | activism
20 December 2024 • Vittoria Benzine
IMPULSE covers contemporary art with an activist bent geared towards gender and the lives of diasporic people
Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson at SITE Santa Fe.
19 July 2024 • Vittoria Benzine
Last year marked half a century since Robert Smithson’s untimely death. Now, the canon’s revisiting his legacy in a new… Read More
Bruna D’Alessandro’s Steel Breasts
10 July 2024 • Vittoria Benzine
In our chaotic world, the self has become the one source we can cling to—and identity is enjoying a corresponding… Read More
Maureen O’Leary at Dallas Art Fair
5 April 2024 • Vittoria Benzine
The 16th edition of the Dallas Art Fair just opened to characteristically enthusiastic and fashionable crowds, inaugurating Dallas Art Month… Read More
Lesley Bodzy hugs a three year chapter goodbye
30 November 2023 • Vittoria Benzine
Lesley Bodzy’s debut New York solo show “The Soft Embrace” concludes a three-year chapter in the Houston and New York-based sculptor’s practice.
5 LA Gallery Shows to Welcome Winter
28 November 2023 • Vittoria Benzine
Brooklyn-based art writer Vittoria Benzine had never been to Los Angeles in the heart of autumn. She’d also never been to Montana
3 NYC exhibitions — under one disco ball
7 November 2023 • Vittoria Benzine
One exhibition about partying is a statement. Two is a coincidence. Three makes a trend. There’s at least that many… Read More
5 Must-See Shows in Santa Fe, New Mexico
25 October 2023 • Vittoria Benzine
Brooklyn-based art writer Vittoria Benzine made her second trip to Santa Fe last week. The first one went by in a flash. This time she got to pounding pavement. Read on to see what she saw.
5 NYC Gallery Shows to Heal Any Ailment
10 October 2023 • Vittoria Benzine
For what it’s worth, there were never any ‘simpler times.’
Independent 20th Century Made Modern Art Contemporary Again
12 September 2023 • Vittoria Benzine
Independent 20th Century celebrated the fair’s second edition this past Armory Week in New York. This spin-off, invite only event… Read More
5 L.A. Gallery Shows to Close Out This Summer
29 August 2023 • Vittoria Benzine
Numerous gorgeous shows by Suchitra Mattai, Hank Willis Thomas and more closed last week. We still have neighborhoods to see. Still these beauties remain on view
Meet the five artist representing American contemporary art in Copenhagen this summer
15 August 2023 • Vittoria Benzine
“Floating Bodies,” a group exhibition around the body and painting at Copenhagen’s Galerie Mikael Andersen, closes this week.
A diary from the largest Upstate Art Weekend yet
29 July 2023 • Vittoria Benzine
Last Saturday through Monday marked the fourth, largest, most illustrious edition of Upstate Art Weekend throughout New York’s Hudson Valley… Read More
5 Must-See Summer Group Shows in NYC
10 July 2023 • Vittoria Benzine
Brooklyn-based art writer Vittoria Benzine approaches life like a fourth grade science project, with a particular affinity for control variables…. Read More
The latest exhibition at experimental Below Grand trades in art across phrases
5 July 2023 • Vittoria Benzine
If it weren’t for the art-filled storefront marking Below Grand, anyone not immediately in the know would likely miss the experimental, artist-run gallery
Mapping constellations across “Body Full of Stars”
28 June 2023 • Vittoria Benzine
“Body Full of Stars,” curated at Upper East Side art gallery Ceysson & Bénétière by Brooklyn-based artist Kimia Kline Fedowsi, reminds viewers of the truth:
5 NYC gallery shows to see, rain or shine
19 June 2023 • Vittoria Benzine
By the time Benzine concluded on the Upper East Side later that day, the sun was out and shining. Of course, she didn’t miss the rain — because she’d made a point to savor it. Here’s the weekly highlights from her many stops.
5 Gallery Shows Heating Up NYC
12 June 2023 • Vittoria Benzine
Whoever said summer is an art world deadzone needs to see what’s on view in New York right now. Maybe… Read More
5 Artists to explore from Frieze New York
22 May 2023 • Vittoria Benzine
Frieze New York returned for the fair’s third edition at The Shed in Hudson Yards with a robust lineup of 69 local and international exhibitors, both seasoned and new.