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 […]
Can you guess the purpose of this mysterious artifact? Today for #WhatIsItWednesday, the blogosphere turns an investigative eye to cryptic objects, past and present, but the exact use of this relic has eluded scholars for centuries. We know that this Early Iron Age Luristan bronze is a finial, an ornament used to mark the […]
Continuing our NEW Vintage & Antique Finds series, we present five arresting examples of traditional African decor recently added to our online catalog. Each piece hails from a distinct African tradition but they share those two essential qualities of stop-in-your-tracks decor–craftsmanship and stature. To shop these items or learn more, contact Hemingway African Gallery. 1. […]
Book lovers, rejoice! The best time of the year for collector-bibliophiles is upon us: The New York Antiquarian Book Fair returns to the Park Avenue Armory today, April 9, through Sunday, April 12. Widely considered the best book fair in the world, the exhibition features over 200 of the top American and international dealers in […]
This weekend is your last chance to shop the multi-million dollar antique silver sale at our gallery, Nathan Horowicz (AAA Silver). This is the first-ever antique and fine silver warehouse sale held by Nathan Horowicz, a renowned antique gallery with a near-century-long history, widely acknowledged as one of the country’s finest antique silver shops. Nathan […]
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 […]
“The mind of the Sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation,” writes the Taoist mystic, Chuang Tzu. In this exquisite Chinese jadeite boulder carving, the mind of the Taoist sage is made tangible through a tranquil landscape. In Taoist tradition, the Sage is a perfect being who […]
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 […]
Antique Russian Silk Ikat Wall Hanging. Silk with cotton lining, Uzbekistan, Russia, 1880. H: 75″ W: 60″. Alexander’s Antiques, Gallery 43/212.935.9386 In the 19th century, in the desert oases along the Silk Road, the eye-catching art of ikat flourished. Likely one of the oldest forms of textile decoration, ikat is common to many cultures around […]