Flying Cranes Antiques Galleries #55, 56 & 58 at The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center, 1050 Second Ave., NYC, will present an exhibition and sale of rare and spectacular 19th century Imari porcelain fish plates in a multitude of different sizes. The exhibit has been introduced to coincide with the holidays, since they are such […]
The city’s oldest museum re-opens its doors Friday, November 11, after a $70 million renovation. Formerly a vault-like institution, the museum now has an inviting glass facade and an entirely new ethos with interactive touchscreen computer stations, motion-sensitive “live paintings,” and a brand new children’s history museum. In addition to the psychedelic Keith Haring ceiling […]
In a five-year buying spree, energy tycoon John R. Eckel Jr. built an enviable collection of Modernist furniture and paintings that has been recently bequeathed to the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In recognition, the Museum of Fine Arts has staged the exhibit “The Spirit of Modernism: The […]
Completed in 1776, the emperor Qianlong had a lavish palace built for his retirement, complete with 27 beautifully decorated buildings and a lush two-acre garden. Here, he meant to devote his life to Buddhist studies and writings. The furnishings, murals and detailed works of the garden are now on traveling display for the world to […]
Scott Defrin, gallery owner of The European Decorative Arts Company, located in Gallery #6 at The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center made an exciting and significant discovery this past April, when he found the long missing pedestal to Hercules and Antaeus, an important ivory sculpture attributed to…
The Akasaka Collection, Gallery #14, is definitely making an imprint on The Center. This gallery, located on the left side of the lobby, displays an enchanting collection of Japanese woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e from the 19th and 20th centuries…
The Bruce Frank Primitive Art Gallery in New York City contains some of the finest antique and tribal art from Oceanic, Southeast Asian African, Papua New Guinea, Southeast Asian and Philippines cultures. The gallery offers appraisal services for individual items and is also interested in buying items. The Bruce Frank Primitive Art Gallery in New […]
An exhibition of the iconic American chronicler of beauty and loneliness, Edward Hopper’s oil sketches and paintings from his years in Maine (1914 and 1929) will be display at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine next summer.
Who would have guessed, those commercial perfume bottles that our grandmothers kept on the vanity and bathroom shelf, would today be regarded as works of art? Once sold in department stores and small perfumeries, these crystal vessels are now displayed in locked cabinets, highly prized and sometimes highly priced!In fact, our own Ken Leach of […]
The Center welcomes Iris Rosenthal, Gallery #34, specializing in antiques from fine estates. You can find anything and everything there from paintings, silver and porcelains, to vintage and antique jewelry and purses. Iris says, ”The inventory is constantly changing. Next week you may find different items than you see here today. We have authentic, quality […]