Everything old is new again at winter antiques shows
It’s Winter Antiques Week, with antiques shows all over town. The American Antiques Show celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, running January 20-23 at the Metropolitan Pavilion. A benefit for the American Folk Art Museum, the show features more than forty exhibitors offering up Federal furniture, flags, outsider and primitive art, American Indian basketry and jewelry, portrait miniatures, needlework, Tiffany glass and lamps, toys and banks, vintage photography, and other “unusual and whimsical objects” in addition to book signings and talks. Entrance is $20 and includes a catalog and 2-for-1 admission to the American Folk Art Museum. The fifty-seventh annual Winter Antiques Show, a benefit for East Side House Settlement, will take place at the Park Ave. Armory January 21-30, featuring seventy-five exhibitors selling and displaying twentieth-century fine and decorative arts, American ceramics and glass, Aesthetic Movement and Arts & Crafts furniture and decorative arts, antiquities and pre-Columbian art, Asian works, American and European folk art, arms and armor, clocks, carpets and rugs, jewelry, miniatures, textiles, and English furniture as well as books, manuscripts, autographs, and illuminated manuscripts, paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sculptures, and other specialties. Admission is $20 and includes a catalog. Stella Show Mgmt. has two shows for Antiques Week, beginning with Antiques at the Armory, January 21-23 at the 69th Regiment Armory, consisting of one hundred exhibits focusing on folk art, garden and architectural artifacts, period furniture, and more. Admission is $15, and there is free shuttle service to Americana & Antiques @ the Pier, which runs January 22-23 at Pier 12, featuring more than two hundred dealers selling furniture, folk art, glass, prints, porcelains, quilts, silver, antiquarian books, and much more. Admission is $15, but $20 will get you into both shows.