MID DEC.
MID DEC.
CASKEY LEES ANNOUNCES SCHEDULE FOR WINTER AND SPRING SHOWS
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TOPANGA, CALIF. â The 2008 winter and spring New York City show schedule for Caskey-Lees is now finalized with venue and date questions resolved for the producersâ three major East Coast events.
Plans for the New York Ceramics Fairâs 9th annual presentation, launching Winter Antiques Week with a January 15 preview, have remained constant. The fair, at the National Academy Museum, 5th Avenue at 89th Street, will feature 35 galleries specializing in antique and contemporary, glass, porcelains and pottery, nearly half of which are from abroad.
The New York Ceramics Fairâs consistent cohort of exhibitors will be joined this year by Murano glass specialists Gardner & Barr, New York City. The fair opens Tuesday, January 15, with a 5 to 9 pm preview ($75 per person) and will be open to the public Wednesday through Saturday, January 16â19, from 11 am to 7 pm, and Sunday, January 20, from noon to 5 pm. General admission is $15 per person for the run of the show. The fair will again include an extensive lecture series and significant loan exhibit.
Arts of Pacific Asia New York at the 69th Regiment Armory, Lexington Avenue at 26th Street, will launch spring Asia Week, with an opening preview Thursday, March 20, and run through Monday, March 24. Arts of Pacific Asia has been reduced to 72 exhibitors to accommodate the larger booths required by the group of exhibitors. In its 17th presentation, the show is scheduled to coincide with the spring auctions of Asian material at Sothebyâs (March 18â20) and Christies (March 19â21) and permit major collectors sufficient time to travel to Hong Kong for a major Sothebyâs Asian auction schedule for early April.
For the first time, Arts of Pacific Asia New York will open a week prior to the scheduled dates for the International Asian Art Fair at the Park Avenue Armory. A number of new major exhibitors have joined Arts of Pacific Asia New York, including Knapton Rasti Asian Art, London, S. Marchant & Son, London, and Imperial Oriental Art, New York City.
Arts of Pacific Asia, New York opens Thursday evening, March 20 with a 6 to 10 pm preview ($100 per person) and will be open to the public March 21â22, 11 am to 7:30 pm; March 23, 11 am to 7 pm; and March 24, 11 am to 5 pm. General admission is $20 per person for the run of the show including the show catalog.
For information, 310-455-2886 or www.caskeylees.com.