Visit these NYC museums to explore horror-themed exhibits that will indulge your love for art, learning – and weirdness. Delve further into magazines and a masterpiece: “It’s Alive! Frankenstein at 200“ is a collaboration between The Morgan Library & Museum and The New York Public Library, commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of Frankenstein, the classic […]
Single or coupled, there’s no better way to spend Valentine’s Day than taking in art – or oddities. Art Tours Since you already love art – why not learn about love through art! New York Historical Society has “The Loved and The Lost Tour: Stories of Romance Through History” which takes you on a tour […]
Have an urge to brush up on your art history knowledge? New York City Museums are helping you do that – even beyond their spectacular exhibits. Met Publications The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers 5 decades of publications to read and download (for free). Such as: “Van Gogh in Arles documents the first major exhibition […]
Sèvres is a type of fine porcelain characterized by elaborate decoration on backgrounds of intense color, made at Sèvres in the suburbs of Paris. The Met has an excellent article about “Sèvres Porcelain in the Nineteenth Century” which explains the factory’s importance. It begins: “The vast and diverse production of the Sèvres factory in the […]
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For Manuscript Monday, we profile two exquisite illuminated religious manuscripts recently added to our online catalog from our gallery Manhattan Rare Book Co. Today, illuminated manuscripts are highly valued as artistic links to our past but we owe them another great debt–if not for religious illuminated manuscripts most of Greek and Roman literature would have […]
The history of Western art is one long homage. From Dali and Wagner to Jeff Koons and well, Jeff Koons, our new series Art Inspired By Art profiles our dealers’ pieces based on other artworks. In this post, we look at this very unusual antique Mappin & Webb silver centerpiece bowl inspired by, of all […]
Since it’s #FantasyFriday, we’ll pose a question: have you ever wondered what Marilyn Monroe’s lips felt like? Salvador Dali’s brooch “Ruby Lips with Teeth Like Pearls” is the closest any of us will come to finding out. Modeled after the lips of the sensuous star, Dali mused “Poets of the ages, of all lands, write […]
Stirrup Cup, sterling silver, hand made gilded interior, Italy possibly Gucci. 5-1/4″ high x 3-1/2″ Diameter. Gallery #49A: Alter Silver Gallery/212.750.1928 Next time you see a foxhunt scene on film, keep an eye out for a cup with an animal’s head and no base. You’ll be looking at a stirrup cup, a glass of liquid […]
The social circles of French artistic contemporaries, Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) and Jean Lurcat (1892-1966) overlapped at the glittering edges–both knew Pablo Picasso, another artist who painted ceramic plates in addition to participating in other innumerable artistic ventures in that heyday of Bohemian creativity in early 20th century Paris. Despite their differences, the spirit of their […]
Japanese Woodblock print of “Two Rabbits and Bush Clover Under Moon”, (“Hagi no Usagi”) by Koson, c. 1931. Akasaka Collection Tomorrow is Easter, the Christian holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Have you ever wondered why a fluffy bunny represent this somber holiday? There is certainly no mention of twitchy-nosed rabbits in the Biblical […]