Northern Liberties may be a Philadelphia neighborhood, or a suburb of Brooklyn. It may be hard to tell when the Brooklyn Flea opens up shop next month. The popular market's website shows Mark Wahlberg sporting vintage Philadelphia Eagles gear announcing the June 2 opener. Brooklyn Flea Philly will include mainstay vendors, and undoubtedly some from … Continue reading Brooklyn Flea Expanding to Philly
It was one of two paintings Beth Feeback bought from a Goodwill store in North Carolina with the intention to paint over them. She spent $20. What would have been a pet portrait will likely become a chunk of extra cash when the painting is offered at auction in September. Valued at between $15,000 and … Continue reading Ilya Bolotowsky Painting Bought for $10 at Goodwill
The city of homes has so many beauty to offer that to attend every house tour seems a formidable task. But here is the schedule of house tours in different neighborhood for this spring and early summer season. Brooklyn Heights House Tour When: 1PM - 5PM Saturday, May 9 Where: Starting Point: St.Ann's School Lobby, … Continue reading House Tour Season
Fountain New York, the alternative art exhibition known for presenting cutting-edge and independent art galleries, sets up shop at Pier 66 for its latest installment during the Armory this March 5 - 8. Fountain is a guerrilla-style art event, dubbed by many as the "Anti Art Fair" for its brash, off-the-wall offerings of non-traditional art … Continue reading Fountain: The Armory Alternative
Perhaps there is no other place than New York that vintage postcards hold the wonderful collectible values. For a city which has been rebuilding itself so many times, postcards provide an extravagant visual experience of "Then and Now" in indefinite scale. Not only that one can find the great rendering of the vanished buildings such as Penn Station, the Wardorf-Astoria Hotel, the Vanderbilt mansions, but also some less known architecture or statues in other boroughs including Brooklyn and Queens. [Read more...]
From museum planet website, I learned that Arthur D. Pickering was the architect and Henry Augustus Lukeman designed the statue with Daniel Chester French as his associate. The veil on the face of the angle of the dead looks almost semi-transparent. But she does not look frightful. With her head tilted toward the solider and her wings gently curved over, the sentimental statue conveys protection and sympathy. [Read More...]
MacMonnies was a Brooklynite and Brooklyn offered him the best spot for show his talent. Although the memorial arch itself is very Parisian, Quadriga, the group statues of the arch by macMonnies, is definitely American. The Spirit of the Army and The Spirit of the Navy flanked on each side both have compact compositions as if its narrates the all aspects of the civil war . Soldiers and officials are depicted in different layers and depths. Yet above all these turbulence, the Lady Columbia, an allegorical figure of the United States, leads the victory with winged angles playing trumpet upon her arrival. [...]
The October issue of The Magazine Antiques has an article on the atmospheric landscape painter George Harvey. Not usually attracted to the watercolor medium, I was drawn in by a scene of Flatbush from Greenwood cemetary in Brookly and a view of the Pennsylvania Canal at Holidaysburg. The works appear exceptional, and certainly are worthy … Continue reading George Harvey in Brooklyn
Rarely has home ever been treated as merely a functional place. Form may follow function in design, yet once we are moved in, it's the "form" that takes over and gives the place personality. From the beginning we've been personalizing our spaces whether they be a studio apartment ot a bedroom to an office cubicle. … Continue reading Interior Infatuation
On my first visit to the antiques strip along Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn, I noticed almost all stores have their websites, except probably Horseman, which is stuffed with mid-century items scattered over five floors. In the "Incurable Collector Antiques" store, a Columbia University student majoring in journalism was interviewing the owner when I was there. … Continue reading Antiques go online (Continued)
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