Countdown to the holidays has begun! In our new 4-week blog series Vintage Holiday Shopping Guide, we feature our top picks from our curated collection of vintage and antique gifts. This week, we present 15 of our favorite Vintage Accessory gifts. See full collection of Vintage Holiday Gifts for more exquisite gifts for people with […]
![A selection of fine and antique jewelry from our new dealer, Bob Saling [Gallery 32/212.921.1649]](https://the-maac.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/bob-saling.jpg)
We’re pleased to welcome new dealer, Bob Saling to the The Manhattan Art and Antiques Center. Saling’s gallery features an exquisite array of antique and estate fine jewelry, including many glittering, attention-commanding pieces that seem tailor-made for holiday fashion. Below are 8 of our favorite pieces of antique holiday jewelry from his gallery. Bob Saling […]
Visit our dealers, Hartley Brown, Lyssy, Rosalie Clauson, and Robin’s Antiques at The Pier Antique Show this weekend, November 14-15. One of the biggest events of the antiques calendar, the bonanza show at Pier 94 features hundreds of top exhibitors in antique jewelry, decorative and fine arts. This year’s new offerings include select exhibitors from the International […]
Stepping inside dealer Jean Pol Ventugol’s gallery The Antique Toy Shop [Gallery 1] is like walking into Santa’s workshop. If you ask Jean Pol about any one of the cool vintage toys lining his display cases, he is guaranteed to have an even cooler story to tell you about it. Watch the video and see […]
The biggest hosting event of the holiday season, Thanksgiving, is around the corner. Dress your dinner table to impress with these 20 showstopping pieces of vintage and antique serveware curated from our dealers’ collections, featuring history’s leading names in glassware, hollowware and flatware design, including Tiffany, Gorham, Buccellati, and Baccarat. I. Limited Edition Baccarat Tsarine […]
A black cat leaps from the hedge, a ghost appears in the window, a vampire greets you at the door. If you’re not spooked, you’ll be charmed to death by this rare Hootin Hollow Haunted House by vintage “Toy King” Marx Toys from The Antique Toy Shop. Brightly colored and bursting with bats, cobwebs, and […]
![First Edition "For Whom the Bell Tolls," Ernest Hemingway in original dust jacket; Charles Scribner’s, 1940. [Manhattan Rare Books: Gallery 90/212.326.8907]/Ernest Hemingway on crutches while recovering in Milan, Italy, September 1918. The Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Source: themorgan.org](https://the-maac.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ernest-hemingway.jpg)
All Hemingway stories are war stories, which is to say, they’re all stories that tussle with life. The Morgan Library & Museum’s Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars (through January 31, 2016) is the first major exhibition of Hemingway’s works from his earliest short stories to his best-known masterpieces. Featured here are our gallery Manhattan Rare Book […]
We all know of the Aztecs and their towering relics. Many are less familiar with the far older cultures of Western Mexico who left no monuments or writing systems but whose shaft tomb culture produced the most dramatic artworks in Mesoamerica. Small in stature but bursting with artistry, Mexican tomb pottery is our one key […]
Artist Joe Burns has lived many lives. Raised by Catholic charities, Burns has been a restaurateur, cab driver, bartender, and flea market junk man. He joined the army at 18; studied painting at the Pratt Institute and poetry with Pearl London in his 30s. Strange lives make for storied art. Currently on view at The […]
A message from our dealer Brian Gaisford, passionate conservationist and owner of Hemingway African Gallery: Dear Cecil Supporters, I am just back from Zimbabwe where I tried to get to the bottom of how Dr. Palmer of Minnesota allegedly killed Cecil the Lion. The media has presented many versions and inaccuracies of this tragedy. We […]