69th Regiment Armory (site of the 1913 Armory Show)

The 69th Regiment Armory at 68 Lexington Avenue hosted the International Exhibition of Modern Art (the 1913 Armory Show), which introduced many Americans to European modernist works by artists such as Duchamp, Matisse, and Picasso. The 1913 show is widely cited as a pivotal moment in the acceptance of modern art in the United States. The armory building itself is an early-20th-century military facility associated with New York's civic and cultural history.