January 23, 2026 – February 1, 2026

The Winter Show

The Winter Show holds a singular place in the New York cultural calendar: refined, serious, and quietly glamorous, the kind of fair that doesn’t chase trends because it helped define them decades ago. Held each January inside the monumental Park Avenue Armory, it brings together museum-quality antiques, fine art, and design in an atmosphere that feels closer to a private viewing than a convention. Founded in the 1950s, the fair pairs connoisseurship with purpose, benefiting East Side House Settlement and reminding visitors that taste and philanthropy can coexist gracefully.

Visual Arts

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Previews

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Regional & Emerging

Contemporary & Modern

2–4 Hours

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New York City

The fair is decidedly object-driven, with an emphasis on historical depth, craftsmanship, and scholarship. American furniture, European decorative arts, Old Masters, modern design, and exceptional jewelry are presented with restraint. Unlike faster-paced contemporary fairs, The Winter Show rewards slow looking and informed conversations

For ArtAtlas travelers, The Winter Show is not just a fair but a seasonal ritual. Timed perfectly between holiday excess and spring optimism, it draws collectors, decorators, museum professionals, and trustees who value continuity over noise. The surrounding Upper East Side provides the ideal setting: walkable, elegant, and calibrated for long lunches and unhurried returns to the fair. Come expecting fewer theatrics, more substance, and the comforting sense that some things in the art world are still built to last.

City Guides

The Upper East Side is all about discipline and good manners. The fair sits exactly where it should, and everything nearby follows suit.

Stay and eat uptown at The Carlyle, The Mark Hotel, or The Lowell. For meals, Café Boulud and Sant Ambroeus deliver exactly what they promise: consistency, discretion, and excellent bread.

When the symmetry gets a little too perfect, go downtown. SoHo or Tribeca offer a welcome asymmetry: louder tables, looser schedules, sharper edges. Balthazar or The Odeon reset the system, just enough chaos to remind you that you’re still in New York.