The Armory Show

The Armory Show runs September 24-27 at the Javits Center. The curated program this year centers on Caribbean artists, so SWANA presence is gallery-driven. Here is where to find it.

The main story is at Vigo Gallery's booth: two Sudanese artists from entirely different generations sharing the same presentation. Ibrahim El-Salahi, born 1930 in Omdurman, is a founding figure of the Khartoum School, fusing Islamic calligraphy, West African visual traditions, and Western modernism. Tate Modern held his retrospective in 2013 and acquired 31 works from his "Behind the Mask" series earlier this year. He is 96. Alongside him: Dina Nur Satti, born 1987, Brooklyn-based, a ceramic sculptor whose coil-built vessels draw on Nubian pre-colonial traditions and the Kerma civilization. Her work is in the Brooklyn Museum and the Smithsonian.

Also at the fair: Iranian artist Kamyar Bineshtarigh has a monumental "Intifada" painting over nine feet wide at Southern Guild's booth, alongside Moroccan artist Amine El Gotaibi's installation in Corten steel and sheep's wool.