Last month The Armory Show set up its tent at Pier 94 on the west side of Manhattan for a fun, eclectic, unpretentious mix of artwork. One highlight (pictured at left) was Mierle Laderman Ukeles' reflective garbage truck slash "Social Mirror." She was an artist-in-residence for the New York City sanitation department in the 1980s. More looking-glass images here.Glenn Kaino created an oversized chess board with metal hands as pieces. Its official title? "Learn to win or you will take losing for granted." His dealer? The Project. Doug Aitken (repped by Victoria Miro) used simple letter-shaped lightboxes to communicate his message: Disappear. Aitken is fresh off his Sleepwalkers project that appeared on walls of the MoMA. The exterior walls. For a slide show from The New York Times with their picks from The Armory Show go here. Get a critical wrap-up here.
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I really love the mirrored garbage truck. That most definitely falls in the "conceptual art" category.
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