Flying Cranes Antiques Ltd. has specialized in Asian art works created by master artists of the Meiji Period, metalwork, Cloisonne, Satsuma, Imari ware, Studio Wares, Ikebana basketry, Japanese samurai swords, fittings and other exceptional Japanese works of art for over 30 years. You can see some of their pieces here.
The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center is a proud sponsor of The Spring Show NYC 2013 at the Park Avenue Armory. Presented by one of the oldest antiques and fine arts organizations in America, The Art & Antiques Dealers of America League, the Spring Show features the best in decorative arts from the most prestigious […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
It is a good season for firsts in the museum world. In addition to Picasso Black and White which is the first exhibit to focus on Picasso’s penchant for monochrome (opening today, Oct. 5, 2012, at the Guggenheim), the Frick Collection announces an exhibition of Renaissance master Piero della Francesca, the first to be on […]
Today in Geneva, the Mona Lisa Foundation unveils a younger Mona Lisa whose smile is distinctly happier and less enigmatic than the one the world knows so well. The Swiss consortium that owns the work theorizes the Isleworth Mona Lisa, above, is Leonardo da Vinci’s first attempt at the most famous portrait painted while the […]
“I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down – the clouds were stained red, as if with blood. I felt as though the whole of nature was screaming – it seemed as though I could hear a scream. […]