All photos by Whitewall.

The 2011 Armory Show opened to a packed and eager crowd of art lovers on Thursday.  Exhibitors held nothing back; they put their brightest, strangest and most beautiful works on display.  From colorful and unusual booth design to playful foam-spewing sculptures to downright macabre taxidermy, there was plenty to look at and certainly plenty to covet.

Heads-up penny floor at Untitled Gallery, New York.

Mirror Wall at Sies +Hoke, Dusseldorf

Rug floor at CANADA, New York.

Haroldo Higa, Lucia de la Puente, Lima.

Gavin Turk, Brillo, 2003, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.

Berlinde de Bruyckere, Untitled, 2011, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano.

Bharti Kher, Scratching the Surface, 2010, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich.

Hsin-Chien Huang, Read My Lips, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York.

Roger Hiornes, Untitled, 2008, Museum 52, New York.

Kristof Kintera Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague.

Danel Arsham, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam.

Correction: Read My Lips by Hsin-Chien Huang was incorrectly attributed to the Catherine Edelman Gallery.  It has been corrected to the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery.