Jumeirah Essex House has confirmed it will return as the VIP Hotel Sponsor of The Armory Show.

The decision marks the fifth year of the landmark hotel’s partnership with the internationally acclaimed art fair, which has served as a cornerstone of the property’s prominent Art Program since its inception in 2006.

Pictured: Safra, by Bruno Cals, will be on show at Jumeirah’s The Gallery at South Gate

The Art Program is part of Jumeirah’s global Culturally Connected platform which supports creative communities worldwide.

Jumeirah Essex House will serve as the official hotel for guests of The Armory Show including VIPs, artists, collectors, art dealers, and curators as well as a wide range of cultural tourists who travel to New York expressly to attend The Armory Show and enjoy the city’s Arts Armory Week.

Jumeirah Essex House

Located in the heart of New York’s cultural centre and at the base of Central Park, Jumeirah Essex House has long been collaborating with art institutions and businesses as part of its ongoing commitment to supporting the diversity of innovative expression and to promoting outstanding artists.

In celebration of The Armory Show - which takes place in New York from March 8th-11th - and the international art contingent it draws, Jumeirah Essex House will debut a special exhibition of contemporary Brazilian photography, in association with 1500 Gallery, the first gallery in the world with an explicit focus on Brazilian artists.

On view through the spring, and open to the public inside the hotel’s Gallery at South Gate, the exhibit will feature contemporary and vintage works by some of the region’s most exciting and promising emergent photographers such as Claudio Edinger, Antonio Augusto Fontes and Bruno Cals.

The installation will include a range of thematic approaches and styles that reveal the richness and diversity of this group of photographers, while showcasing the majesty and magic of their common subject – Brazil.

Jumeirah Essex House is considered North America’s Leading Business Hotel by the World Travel Awards.