Fine Art Shippers writes: “New York Antique Movers Recommend: The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center” “From contemporary art and décor pieces to antique furniture and religious artifacts, you can find there literally everything and, what is no less important, at the best prices possible. Besides, the Manhattan Art & Antiques Center is very conveniently located […]
Leah Gordon, in Gallery 18, has been a dealer for 25 years and at the MAAC for 19 years. Her gallery features objects of 20th century design including: Sterling silver pottery, fine jewelry, artist jewelry such as Braque, Lichtenstein, Picasso and Art Smith – and also Taxco jewelry of the William Spratling school, Georg Jensen […]
You can tell our dealer Leah Gordon used to teach. In our next Dealer Q&A feature, she schools us in her speciality, artist jewelry. Watch the video below to learn about artist pieces by Dali, Picasso, and Lichtenstein. Visit in person to get a closer look at her fascinating inventory–you can be sure to leave wiser if not richer […]
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 […]
As today is International Museum Day, it seems like a good time to appreciate living in a city so filled with iconic art that you can’t walk several blocks without running into a masterpiece at one of our museums. With 100 galleries, The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center often feels like a museum of its […]
It’s #MuseumWeek on Twitter–7 days, 7 themes that give the public a rare insider look into museums around the world. We’ve been inspired by today’s theme of “Inspiration” to profile Salvador Dali’s famed “Tristan & Isolde” brooch from our gallery Leah Gordon. True, we just profiled Dali’s “Ruby Lips with Teeth Like Pearls” but what […]
Love him or hate him (and there are plenty in both camps), Jeff Koons is undeniably one of the biggest artists in the world–certainly, the most successful living American artist, commanding the highest prices in a record-high art market. Like Warhol and Dali before him, Koons occupies the precarious space between high art, celebrity, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Airplane Figure with Six Places for Cigars, silverplate, America, 1960s. 14″ x 8″ Sooky Goodfriend Gallery. Father’s Day is coming up Sunday, June 15, but it’s hard to deny that men get the short end of the stick when it comes to parental celebrations. Following Mother’s Day both in the calendar year and in its […]