Celebrating its tenth anniversary, New York's Armory Show ushers in four much-anticipated days of ever-multiplying gallery showcases and events, as well as partner and satellite fairs. With 160 exhibitors from 21 countries ready to show new work by 2,000 living artists at Pier 94, the Armory is poised to break last year's record of 52,000 visitors and $85 million in sales.

ACME., an Armory regular from LA, displays Katie Grinnan's hot-orange assemblage of fragmented cheerleaders, while London's Simon Lee Gallery touts Toby Ziegler's haphazardly painted, angular cardboard sculpture The Liberals. New to the mix, Reykjavík's i8 spotlights Icelandic artists, including conceptualist Hreinn Friðfinnsson and Katrin Sigurdardottir, who constructs large, discrete spaces enclosing delicate, glowing centers. Meanwhile, Guido van der Werve's video Nummer acht, Everything is going to be allright is on view courtesy of Amsterdam's Galerie Juliètte Jongma, another Armory freshman.

Flanked by a gaggle of spin-off events and fairs, the Armory partners for the first time with the New York incarnation of Basel's VOLTA fair. Like the Armory, VOLTA was recently purchased by Merchandise Mart, which organizes fairs and showrooms in Chicago. The inaugural VOLTA NY presents solo projects by 53 artists chosen by 52 galleries. Exhibited by Madrid's Travesia Cuatro, Mexican architect-cum-artist Jose Dávila installs his ephemeral sculptures that gibe art-market consumption. From Dublin, Green on Red offers Niamh O'Malley, an Irish artist who animates static space by projecting video onto painted canvas. LA's Kontainer Gallery hangs figurative paintings of post-Communist subjects by Serban Savu, a member of a new group of Romanian artists based in Cluj. VOLTA NY also includes three independent projects: new paintings from Florian Merkel, artist-designed t-shirts by Imperfect Articles, and DRIFT, a Russian video exhibition that includes work by AES+F and Petra Lindholm.

Miami's annual PULSE Contemporary Art Fair returns north for its third New York edition, with 80 galleries settling in a new location at Pier 40. New York's Envoy Gallery spotlights Kanishka Raja's paintings, which are dominated by Islamic latticework, and Galeria Antonio de Barnola of Barcelona promotes stark landscapes by Chilean photographer Magdalena Correa. For its seventh showing, Scope New York houses 49 galleries in a tent at Lincoln Center. Scope also features a number of projects, including The Green Zone: Under the Banyan Tree, which was constructed from landfill finds by duo Guerra de la Paz, and Carissa Carman's A.T.T. vegetable-oil taxi, which requires riders to barter rather than pay. Meanwhile, in Chelsea, the fourth annual DiVA lures passersby into shipping-container screening rooms with free admission, and rounds out its program with more screenings and discussions at White Box.

For those with extra energy (and cash) to burn, the third LA Art in New York fair imports the West Coast for the Eastern Seaboard's consumption, while Design Miami collaborates with 11 New York galleries to offer modern and contemporary design objects. Elsewhere on the hotel-fair circuit, Art Fair Now and Red Dot Fair eschew curation in favor of sales, while Bridge Art Fair focuses on Asian art and screens videos on green living. Finally, for an edgier affair, explore the Swiss Institute's Dark Fair, with performances, a fashion show, and artists' projects — not to mention glow-in-the-dark basketball — in the absence of any natural or electric light.

-Anna S. Altman