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Art and Antiques American Furniture
For furniture from the 17th,
Any art-loving visitor to New York could easily spend days 18th, and 19th centuries, try
hopping around the several hundred galleries found Bernard & S. Dean Levy or
throughout the city. Antiques lovers can find an exciting Circa Antiques (now online and
variety of goods, and many bargains, at the innumerable viewable by appointment only).
Alternatively, go to Woodard &
flea markets (see p324–5); or they can browse through Greenstein for a truly wonderful
European and American fine antiques in one of the more selection of Shaker pieces,
exclusive antiques centers. hooked rugs, and quilts.
Collectors of Art Deco or
Art Nouveau furniture should
Art Galleries In the Lower East Side, 47 Canal pay a visit to Alan Moss, which
One of the city’s best-known art is a non-commercial, artist-run is full of furniture and decorative
dealers is the Castelli Gallery, space for very experimental items of all kinds. Macklowe
an important showcase for Pop projects. Other fashionable Gallery on Madison Avenue
Art during the early 1960s and galleries down here include has a massive collec tion of fine
now spotlighting new artists. Frosch & Portmann, Salon Art Nouveau furniture. Just a
Mary Boone Gallery features 94 Bowery (the offshoot of few blocks away, Lillian Nassau
Neo-Expressionist artists such an Upper East Side gallery), specializes in Tiffany lamps
as David Salle and Julian and Sperone Westwater, and many Art Nouveau and
Schnabel. Pace Gallery exhibits housed in a building designed Art Deco pieces.
former and current stars, by Norman Foster. New York has a handful of
especially painter-photographers. In the Nolita, Gavin Brown’s retro shops, including Adelaide,
Postmasters features impressive Enterprise features young, which stocks treasures from the
changing shows of emerging highly experimental mixed- 1930s through to the 1960s.
artists. Marian Goodman media artists, while the
Gallery focuses on the influential White Columns International
European avant-garde. focuses on emerging talent.
In Chelsea, the Matthew Some of the most vibrant Antiques
Marks Gallery and Marianne galleries in the city are found For European pieces, you’ll
Boesky Gallery are worth a visit. in Brooklyn; Front Room is a have plenty of choices;
Paula Cooper often hosts good place to get a sense of try Eileen Lane Antiques
controversial shows in her the Williamsburg scene, while (a major importer of Swedish
beautiful loft space. The WAH Center concentrates on antiques) and Linda Horn
Gagosian Gallery exhibits painting and sculpture. Over in Antiques. La Belle Epoque
paintings by modern masters, Dumbo, Smack Mellon Gallery stocks antique posters.
with great works by Johns and displays multidisciplinary work Oriental dealers include
Lichtenstein. Don’t miss the by lesser-known artists. luxury Doris Leslie Blau and
exceptional shows of twentieth- Flying Cranes Antiques
century greats at the Robert (inside the Manhattan Art
Miller Gallery. Hirschl & Adler American Folk Art and Antiques Center).
Galleries in Midtown is another The American Primitive
option for high-profile exhibi- Gallery sells a variety of folk Auction Houses
tions. Lehmann Maupin Gallery art curiosities, from Ozarks’
is the spot to see up-and- antique wooden dolls to Manhattan’s two most
coming artists working in modern glass art. cele brated auction houses
innovative forms. Gladstone are Christie’s and Sotheby’s,
Gallery is another heavy hitter selling collectibles ranging from
in the art scene, and the Antiques Centers and coins, jewels, and vintage wines
Secondhand Antiques
influential David Zwirner Gallery to fine and decorative arts.
lures crowds with its progressive, In addition to hundreds of Also worth a try are Doyle
big-name exhibi tions. The airy small shops selling every thing New York and Phillips, both
Agora Gallery shows local and from tiger teeth to multimillion- well-respected names for
international works, including dollar paintings, Manhattan is fine art, jewelry, and antiques.
Art Nouveau pieces. home to The Manhattan Art Bear in mind that items for
In SoHo, Artists Space is a & Antiques Center, which sale are previewed several
respected alternative gallery, has over 70 dealers under days before the auctions, so
with frequently changing one roof. The Showplace check the Friday and Sunday
theme-based exhibits, film Antique and Design Center Times beforehand to see what’s
screenings and installations, in Chelsea, featuring four floors coming up. The venerable
while the Drawing Center of antiques, retro furnishings, Swann Galleries auctions
presents shows of contemporary and memorabilia, is also well prints, books, maps, posters,
and historical works on paper. worth a visit. autographs, and photographs.

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