There’s only one week left to visit our new Tibetan Art pop-up gallery, Dharma Art (Gallery 28) at the Manhattan Art & Antiques Center! Visiting us from Costa Mesa, California, and managed by Yanki P. Ackerman, an Asian Art dealer for nearly 25 years, Dharma Art specializes in museum-quality Asian arts and antiques, primarily from […]
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 […]
“What makes the Japanese people unique in their need for beauty? What can Westerners learn from this ancient culture and history? How can a better understanding of the role beauty plays in the daily life of the Japanese enhance our own lives?” These are the questions acclaimed photographer Gil Garcetti answers in his most recent […]
“The world’s mine oyster/Which I with sword will open.” This famed Shakespeare quote from The Merry Wives Of Windsor is the inspiration behind the exhibition of selected works by award-winning artist Victoria Kovalenchikova currently on view at Intertrus Gallery at the Manhattan Art and Antiques Center until September 7, 2015. Kovalenchikova’s series “The World” explores […]
Next in our video blog series, Dealer Q&A with our world-class dealers, we ask Sanford Suchow, owner of Suchow & Seigel Antiques [Gallery 81/212.888.3489] to tell us about his specialty, Chinese Export Porcelain. Meet the Dealer “My name is Sanford Suchow–S-U-C-H-O-W, and my wife and I own this antique shop. We’ve been in the business […]
We all know of the fantastic birds and beasts that roam the Cartier Menagerie. For a century, they’ve enthralled the stars of the fashionable world, including the Duchess of Windsor. What many don’t know is that it was one woman Jeanne Toussaint (1887-1976) who brought the wild kingdom to Cartier’s repertoire. Muse, lover, and director […]
By the late 19th century, the “Age of the Samurai” was at an end. Ironically, it was members of the samurai class themselves who engineered its downfall–and laid the path for modern Japan. Former samurai were among the leaders of the Meiji Restoration, which abolished the feudal system and the ruling warrior class with it. […]
The jewelry in our new gallery, Hartley Brown, is the kind to make converts out of casual antiquers. Rare, of exceptional quality and storied provenance, it’s hard to pick one favorite among the fine antique and period jewelry in the gallery, but here are 5 of their most striking antique jewels. If you’d like to […]
In our new video blog series, Dealer Q&A, we ask our world-class dealers about their galleries’ specialties. First up: Brian Gaisford of Hemingway African Gallery tells us about the fascinating art of Shona sculpture. “We are the largest and we were the first dealer of Shona sculpture in the United States,” says Brian Gaisford. “Hemingway […]
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For Manuscript Monday, we profile two exquisite illuminated religious manuscripts recently added to our online catalog from our gallery Manhattan Rare Book Co. Today, illuminated manuscripts are highly valued as artistic links to our past but we owe them another great debt–if not for religious illuminated manuscripts most of Greek and Roman literature would have […]