This Week's Major Events: Art Fairs In Los Angeles, Miami Beach Show Opens, Winter Antiques Show Continues Plus More

JANUARY 26-FEBRUARY 1

NEW YORK

The Winter Antiques Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY, Through January 31, 2016

The Winter Antiques Show marks its 62nd year as the most prestigious art, antiques, and design fair in America, featuring the “best of the best” from Antiquity through the present. Held at the historic Park Avenue Armory in New York City, the Show provides new and established collectors, curators, dealers, and design professionals with opportunities to view and purchase exceptional pieces showcased by 73 exhibitors. One-third of the Show’s exhibitors are specialists in Americana, with the rest featuring English, European, and Asian fine and decorative arts. Every object exhibited at the Winter Antiques Show is vetted for authenticity, date, and condition by a committee of 160 experts from the United States and Europe. The strict vetting regulations and the vettors’ expertise ensure that buyers can purchase with confidence. Click here to continue reading.

NY NOW, Javits Center, New York, NY
January 30-February 3, 2016
At NY NOW, the Market for Home + Lifestyle, you will have access to new, design-focused resources from around the world. A wholesale trade show, the market is produced twice annually by Emerald Expositions in NYC’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Shop an extensive range of innovative products with NY NOW's 400+ product categories from 2,500+ suppliers across our comprehensive collections – HOME, LIFESTYLE and HANDMADE – as well as NEW exhibitors. Visit the HOME Collection and discover innovative designs and wholesale home décor. Click here to continue reading.

CALIFORNIA

 Little Dreams in Glass and Metal: Enameling in America, 1920 to the Present, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
January 24-May 8, 2016
Organized by the Los Angeles-based Enamel Arts Foundation, Little Dreams in Glass and Metal is the first nationally traveling exhibition in more than fifty years to survey the dynamic field of enameling. The exhibition includes approximately 120 significant works from the foundation’s collection—from wearable jewelry to large enamel-on-steel wall panels—and explores the history of enameling in this country from 1920 to the present. Taking its title from a phrase the artist Karl Drerup used to describe the extraordinary properties of enameling — “I appreciate knowing when someone derives joy from the long hours I spend in making these little dreams out of glass and metal” — the exhibition includes 121 works from the Enamel Arts Foundation’s collection of modern and contemporary enamels. Up to the 1960s, enamels were collected and exhibited by major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Click here to continue reading.

LA Art Show, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
January 27-31, 2016
The LA Art Show, the 200,000 square foot art fair that welcomed more than 50,000 art enthusiasts to the Los Angeles Convention Center this past year, will launch its newly curated art show experience at the upcoming 2016 event. Looking back on the 20 year history of the LA Art Show, one can’t help noticing how it has evolved, changing locations and growing in diversity to reflect the trajectory of the burgeoning Los Angeles art scene. For the 2016 show, we want to offer visitors and collectors a new hosted art experience. Click here to continue reading.

Los Angeles Fine Art Show, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
January 27-31, 2016
The Los Angeles Fine Art Show will feature a rich blend of premier Historic and Contemporary Art. Unique in the art fair world, dealers from around the globe will converge at the Los Angeles Convention Center to share their exceptional variety of fine and decorative art spanning all styles and centuries with serious collectors, interior designers, and museum curators. Twenty years ago, the Los Angeles Fine Art Show was created as a regional show, reflecting the city’s evolving nature.  The Los Angeles Fine Art Show continues that tradition offering an extraordinary range of genres from 18th Century European Paintings to Contemporary Realism, from California Plein Air to American Regionalism. Click here to continue reading.

The Nature of Water: Our Most Precious Resource, Irvine Museum, Irvine, CA
January 30-June 16, 2016
The Nature of Water is an exhibition that serves a dual purpose; it presents a selection of superb California landscape paintings and it makes the museum visitor aware of one of California’s historically scarce and precious resources, water. With this exhibition, we feature art that documents the perpetual natural cycle of water in our atmosphere. Water exists in nature in three physical states, liquid (water), solid (ice) and gas (water vapor). The Water Cycle describes how a fixed quantity of water has remained the same for hundreds of millions of years. The amount of water on Earth is constantly refreshed by being cycled, through the ocean, sky and land, over and over again. Click here to continue reading.

University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s New Building Opens, Berkeley, CA
January 31, 2016
The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will open its new building to the public on Sunday, January 31, 2016. Located at the intersection of Oxford and Center Streets, directly across from the UC Berkeley campus, the new building designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro will provide improved spaces for exhibitions, film screenings, and public access to BAMPFA collections. The new BAMPFA’s inaugural exhibition,Architecture of Life, will explore the ways that architecture—as concept, metaphor, and practice—illuminates aspects of life experience. Click here to continue reading.

ARIZONA

Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
On view through March 27, 2016
Twenty-six rare drawings from the renowned collection of the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy, comprise one of the most important Michelangelo exhibitions in America in nearly three decades. The Casa Buonarroti, once owned by the artist, is the world’s largest repository for Michelangelo’s drawings, architectural studies, and memoirs. The images in Sacred and Profane are memorable figurative studies and architectural drawings by the hand of Michelangelo. Included is one of Michelangelo’s most admired and complete drawings, the large Madonna and Child. Additional images include preparatory drawings for later paintings. Click here to continue reading.

NORTH CAROLINA

Wolf Kahn: Early Pastels, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
On view through March 5, 2016
Wolf Kahn was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1927 and emigrated to the U.S. as a child. After attending classes at the New School for Social Research he studied with Hans Hofmann at his School of fine art in New York City. In 1951 Kahn received his B.A. from the University of Chicago. An internationally acclaimed artist, Kahn has been honored with numerous awards, including both Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Design, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and has served on the New York Arts Commission. Click here to continue reading.

ARKANSAS

 Samuel F.B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of Invention, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
On view through April 18, 2016
Known today primarily for his role in the development of the electromagnetic telegraph and Morse code, Samuel F. B. Morse began his career as a painter. One of his most important works is Gallery of the Louvre, now in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art. In 1829, Morse embarked upon a three-year period of study in Paris. This culminated in the monumental Gallery of the Louvre, in which the artist chose masterpieces from the Louvre’s collection and depicted them as if they had been exhibited together in one of the museum’s grandest spaces. Gallery of the Louvre is a painting of visual and technical complexity, bringing together Morse’s artistic and scientific pursuits and revealing an adoration of the old masters as well as the artist’s Calvinist worldview and conservative cultural politics. Click here to continue reading.

VIRGINIA

Seascapes by William Trost Richards, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
On view through May 1, 2016
From his paint box and palette to preparatory sketches, from quick works in ink to deftly executed works of color, Seascapes by William Trost Richards provides an insightful look at an American master. As a young painter, Richards came of age during the heyday of Hudson River School artists such as Thomas Cole and Asher Durand. Though he never lost his passion for the romanticized style of this earlier generation, over time Richards’ landscapes evolved to include more scientific detail and a sense of immediacy. Click here to continue reading.

FLORIDA

Beauty's Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits in America, Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL
January 26-April 17, 2016
Beauty's Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits in America explores the critical and popular resurgence of portraiture in the United States during the period bounded by the close of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I. As great fortunes were amassed in America, so too came the drive to document the wealthy with great portraiture. A brilliant generation of American and European artists rose to meet that demand. This exhibition features fifty eight portraits selected from New-York Historical Society's outstanding holdings. The sitters — ranging from famous society beauties to powerful titans of business and industry — left lasting legacies that have contributed to the cultural and economic growth of the Nation. Click here to continue reading.

The Original Miami Beach Antique Show, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, FL
January 28-February 1, 2016
The Original Miami Beach Antique Show exhibits the finest antiques, art and jewelry collections in the coastal resort city of Miami Beach. The internationally renowned show is annually held at the Miami Beach Convention Center and features nearly 1,000 established dealers from across the globe. Best known as the world’s largest indoor antique show, we offer a vast selection of exceptional antiques year after year. Items range from a variety of historical time periods including the Renaissance, Georgian, Art Nouveau, Edwardian, Art Deco, and more. On the show floor, attendees can explore a variety of antique treasures such as fine art, American and European silver, antique jewelry, fancy colored diamonds, clocks and timepieces, Asian antiquities, rugs, porcelain, objects of virtue, and much more. Click here to continue reading.