Emergetrends also hit up the Armory Show while on Manhattan's West Side for a whirlwind art tour.

Spread over Piers 90 and 92 on the Hudson River, The Armory Show gathers some of the biggest and most renowned galleries around the globe and the massive spaces were literally bursting with cutting edge contemporary art and the (mostly) wildly rich people that buy it up. Everyone from LA's David Kordansky Gallery to New York's Jeffrey Deitch Gallery to OTA Fine Arts of Tokyo and hundreds of others hung work from a range of talents, from EMERGE artist Sean Dack to film director Wim Wenders.

Eschewing the hands-on, low-key quality of the Scope Art Fair, the Armory Show blended the rarified atmosphere of a large group exhibition with the energy and eclecticism of a flea market, albeit one full of enormously expensive sculptures, paintings, photograhs, drawings, and assembledges of all description.

Perhaps most interesting though, was the way in which the Armory's program opened up the art world to students (half price tickets) and to art lovers in general by providing attendees with a cafe, several areas selling art magazines and books ranging from copies of Beautiful Losers to $500 editions of Gerhard Richter monographs sheathed in brushed aluminum.

Dazzled by all that was there to see, it was only on leaving that I even noticed the massive two story tall mural by Os Gemeos reproduced along Pier 90's southern interior wall.

Check out some snapshots of the Armory Show HERE

Check out a really quick movie I shot of an animated LED thingie at the Armory Show HERE (recommended: turn down the volume before playing. The ambient racket is quite grating)

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