NEW YORK—The Armory Show has been New York’s most prominent gathering on the international contemporary art circuit for nine years running. This year’s edition, from March 5 through 8 on Pier 94, has taken over the adjacent Pier 92 for Armory Modern, a new section that brings together 64 international galleries showing 20th-century art as well as photography. One participant is New York’s Tibor de Nagy, which features work by the Pop artist Larry Rivers, and others.

Continuing the fair’s tradition of showing the best new material by living artists, the New York dealer Paul Kasmin is devoting his booth to paintings by Kenny Scharf, priced from $60,000 to $200,000, while fellow Manhattan gallery Canada is handing its space over to the abstractionist Matt Connors.

Armory week wouldn’t be complete without its satellites, of which Volta, Pulse and Scope are the most notable. In a nod to the uncertain times, the second edition of Volta is offering smaller spaces at lower prices. As a result, there are 15 more galleries this year, 160 in all. Downriver, at Pier 40, Pulse makes its third appearance with more than 100 dealers.

Finally, eight-year-old Scope is back with 45 exhibitors and has expanded its pavilion at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park to create a venue for a noncommercial-film program.

"Artillery of Art" originally appeared in the March 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's March 2009 Table of Contents.