The Original Miami Beach Antique Show, widely recognized as the most important trade show in the industry, returns to the Miami Beach Convention Center, Jan. 31-Feb. 04, 2013, for it’s 52nd year. The largest antique exhibition in the world, the Miami Beach Show is unparallelled for variety and quality, featuring elegant 17th-19th century furniture, high-quality […]
Stained glass and wood window panel, Iran, 18th-19th century. From Anavian Gallery. For our last post of 2012, we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite antiques and works of art we’ve featured on the-maac.com over the past year. With over 100 galleries and 60+ dealers, we can only skim the surface of […]
1) “Currier & Ives and Other Tales of Winter” at Museum of the City of New York Currier and Ives’ idyllic scenes of winter in New York represent a world gone by. Yet in these iconic images suffused with warm colors and fine details, the past seems very present. The prolific print makers’ work has […]
“I still have to buy my gifts,” is the frazzled refrain often heard just around this time. The balancing act of coordinating holiday travel, planning dinner menus, arranging family visits, and a multitude of other frenzied seasonal obligations leave many people with little time to buy holiday gifts. With Christmas just five days away, you […]
Experts believe they have discovered an original Rubens in a small, provincial museum in the Urals, Russia. The painting “Mary Magdalene in mourning with her sister Martha” was thought to be a good-quality copy but recent restoration has revealed it to be an original by the 17th century Flemish master. It is believed the face […]
“Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art takes a comprehensive look at Andy Warhol’s influence on contemporary art. Approximately forty-five Warhol works are juxtaposed with one hundred works by sixty odd other artists spanning painting, film, sculpture and more. The exhibition runs Sept. 18-Dec. 31, 2012.
This crisp, cool early fall seems a perfect season to take the short trip down the coast to visit the newly opened studio of one of America’s defining landscape artists, Winslow Homer (1836-1910). In 1893, Homer moved into the transformed Carriage House on a plot of family land in Prout’s Neck, a few miles outside […]
Many are the music lovers who have the automated personalized radio station, Pandora, to thank for the discovery of a new favorite song or artist. Now, art lovers have Art.sy. Featuring a growing repository of 20,000 images from major art institutions around the globe and heavily backed by high-profile investors, the public version of the […]