Armory Weekend usually sends New York across the city, from one fair, exhibition, and event to the next. This year, the weather calls for a more contained itinerary. Our weekend edit turns indoors, bringing together five stops across art, independent publishing and music, from the scale of The Armory Show to more intimate encounters with books and sound.

Javits Center · September 26–27

The Armory Show returns to the Javits Center for its 32nd edition, bringing together more than 230 galleries alongside solo presentations, large-scale installations and the fair’s curated sections. The Caribbean and its diasporas come into particular focus this year. Platform: Passages and Thresholds, curated by Jovanna Venegas, gathers monumental works shaped by migration, memory and belonging. Across Focus, practices rooted in the Caribbean broaden this perspective, revealing a region connected by histories that extend far beyond its shores.

The Breuer · September 26–27

Independent 20th Century returns to The Breuer with 57 galleries and more than 130 artists, looking back at a century of art through practices that shaped, and sometimes sat outside, the dominant narratives of their time. Predominantly organized around solo and two-person presentations, the fair favors depth over density, giving individual practices room to unfold. The Breuer makes a fitting setting: a landmark of 20th-century architecture temporarily filled with new readings of the century it helped define.

St. Bartholomew’s Church · September 26–27

MEZAME brings experimental, ambient and electronic music into the soaring interior of St. Bartholomew’s Church, placing exploratory sound within the scale and resonance of its historic architecture. Across the weekend, a rare collaboration between Laraaji and Michael Brook sits alongside Carl Stone, Objekt, Skee Mask, ARAABMUZIK, Purelink, Toxe, Loidis, Terekke and Yu Su. The program stretches from meditative and spatial sound to the rhythms of the club, recasting the church as a space for experimentation and collective listening.

Public Records · September 26, starting 1 PM

Haitian Vinyl Day turns Public Records’ Atrium into an afternoon of listening and discovery, with Patrice Espérant, modrums and Mr. Wildflower tracing Haiti’s rich musical history. Across selections drawn from different periods, the gathering speaks to vinyl as a form of cultural memory: music collected, preserved and passed from one generation to another, with the record becoming both an archive and a living object, keeping histories in circulation.

MoMA PS1 · September 26–27

Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair returns to MoMA PS1 for its 20th anniversary, bringing together more than 300 artists, publishers and independent imprints from around the world. Across the weekend, the fair extends beyond publishing with conversations, readings, performances and music unfolding throughout the museum. This year’s Reading Room is organized in collaboration with the African Art Book Fair, centering publishers, writers and cultural practitioners from Africa and its diasporas. Saturday extends the program onto the Stage with live music, poetry and performance, opening the fair beyond the printed page to sound, exchange and gathering.