This gallery-based event in Manhattan Upper East side started 13 years ago, timed to coincide with the major January/February auctions of Old Master paintings and drawings in the Big Apple.
Initially centred entirely around works on paper, it has since broadened out to include paintings and sculpture spanning the 14th-21st centuries. Like all events on the ‘gallery trail’ format, the participants are a mix of resident dealers and those from overseas who rent space in the area. This year’s MDNY, from January 26-February 2, has 30 participants, one third of them out of towners including seven from the UK.
Twelve of this year’s exhibitors are doing MDNY for the first time. They include the Paris dealership Galerie Kugel, Thomas Deprez Fine Art from Belgium, Jeroen Jurjens from Amsterdam and Ambrose Naumann Fine Art from New York.