Stepping inside dealer Jean Pol Ventugol’s gallery The Antique Toy Shop [Gallery 1] is like walking into Santa’s workshop. If you ask Jean Pol about any one of the cool vintage toys lining his display cases, he is guaranteed to have an even cooler story to tell you about it. Watch the video and see […]
The biggest hosting event of the holiday season, Thanksgiving, is around the corner. Dress your dinner table to impress with these 20 showstopping pieces of vintage and antique serveware curated from our dealers’ collections, featuring history’s leading names in glassware, hollowware and flatware design, including Tiffany, Gorham, Buccellati, and Baccarat. I. Limited Edition Baccarat Tsarine […]
A black cat leaps from the hedge, a ghost appears in the window, a vampire greets you at the door. If you’re not spooked, you’ll be charmed to death by this rare Hootin Hollow Haunted House by vintage “Toy King” Marx Toys from The Antique Toy Shop. Brightly colored and bursting with bats, cobwebs, and […]
![First Edition "For Whom the Bell Tolls," Ernest Hemingway in original dust jacket; Charles Scribner’s, 1940. [Manhattan Rare Books: Gallery 90/212.326.8907]/Ernest Hemingway on crutches while recovering in Milan, Italy, September 1918. The Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Source: themorgan.org](https://the-maac.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ernest-hemingway.jpg)
All Hemingway stories are war stories, which is to say, they’re all stories that tussle with life. The Morgan Library & Museum’s Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars (through January 31, 2016) is the first major exhibition of Hemingway’s works from his earliest short stories to his best-known masterpieces. Featured here are our gallery Manhattan Rare Book […]
We all know of the Aztecs and their towering relics. Many are less familiar with the far older cultures of Western Mexico who left no monuments or writing systems but whose shaft tomb culture produced the most dramatic artworks in Mesoamerica. Small in stature but bursting with artistry, Mexican tomb pottery is our one key […]
Artist Joe Burns has lived many lives. Raised by Catholic charities, Burns has been a restaurateur, cab driver, bartender, and flea market junk man. He joined the army at 18; studied painting at the Pratt Institute and poetry with Pearl London in his 30s. Strange lives make for storied art. Currently on view at The […]
A message from our dealer Brian Gaisford, passionate conservationist and owner of Hemingway African Gallery: Dear Cecil Supporters, I am just back from Zimbabwe where I tried to get to the bottom of how Dr. Palmer of Minnesota allegedly killed Cecil the Lion. The media has presented many versions and inaccuracies of this tragedy. We […]
There’s only one week left to visit our new Tibetan Art pop-up gallery, Dharma Art (Gallery 28) at the Manhattan Art & Antiques Center! Visiting us from Costa Mesa, California, and managed by Yanki P. Ackerman, an Asian Art dealer for nearly 25 years, Dharma Art specializes in museum-quality Asian arts and antiques, primarily from […]
Perhaps the most highly anticipated exhibition of the year, Picasso Sculpture opened yesterday at the Museum of Modern Art to breathless critical acclaim. There’s a good reason for the hype–Picasso guarded his sculpture so closely that it wasn’t until 1966 at the age of 85 that he agreed to a major sculpture exhibition. There has […]
“What makes the Japanese people unique in their need for beauty? What can Westerners learn from this ancient culture and history? How can a better understanding of the role beauty plays in the daily life of the Japanese enhance our own lives?” These are the questions acclaimed photographer Gil Garcetti answers in his most recent […]