Join us as we celebrate the start of the holiday season with timeless works of art, antiques, and delicious treats. Indulge in a sampling of sweet edibles and refreshments as you browse our 100+ galleries on Thursday Dec. 6th from 5-8PM and shop late until 8PM. If you can’t make it to our Opening Night […]
For decades, The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center has been one of New York City’s best-kept secrets. Hidden in plain sight in bustling Midtown, the three-story Center is a veritable treasure trove of all things beautiful, strange and rare. Now, the city’s most stylish TV program, A Taste of New York, takes an exclusive look […]
Gallery 17, purveyor of luxury handbags and purses, hosts a Holiday Sale of Contemporary & Vintage Handbags on December 6 – 23, 2012, featuring pieces by Chanel, Judith Leiber, Hermes and more. It’s just the place to find the perfect gift for a fashionable lady in your life–or better yet, to buy yourself a well-deserved […]
Experts believe they have discovered an original Rubens in a small, provincial museum in the Urals, Russia. The painting “Mary Magdalene in mourning with her sister Martha” was thought to be a good-quality copy but recent restoration has revealed it to be an original by the 17th century Flemish master. It is believed the face […]
“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.
In honor of Pablo Picasso’s birthday today, Oct. 25, we examine the open secret of one of his most celebrated paintings, which also happens to be one of our personal favorites. Picasso was only 22 in 1904 when he is believed to have painted this revealing portrait of a woman ironing, her skeletal frame bent […]
Gallery 17, purveyor of luxury handbags and purses at the Manhattan Art & Antiques Center, is hosting an exhibition and sale October 19 – November 1. Gallery 17 is located on the ground floor of the Manhattan Art & Antiques Center, 1050 2nd Avenue #86. Open daily from 10:30AM-6PM, Sun noon-6PM. See more pieces and […]
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 […]
Many are the music lovers who have the automated personalized radio station, Pandora, to thank for the discovery of a new favorite song or artist. Now, art lovers have Art.sy. Featuring a growing repository of 20,000 images from major art institutions around the globe and heavily backed by high-profile investors, the public version of the […]