June 21 2011 June 23 201111 As the art-market calendar draws lazily toward its summer hiatus, auction houses lay out their few remaining wares.
Cukurcuma has long be known for its antiques, but over the last few years, wares that appeal to distinctively hipster sensibilities have joined the Ottoman relics and old imperial plunder.
Whole families linger on the sidewalks, selling a few sparse wares -- an embroidered pouch, a used tire, a flavored ice, or something fried -- and letting the morning roll untroubled into afternoon beneath the relentless July sun.
Outside, a few vendors sold wares that acknowledged the membership dispute.
And if they want fans to see their wares, few have the opportunity to put it in a museum of their own, as Yogi Berra did.
Coincidentally, Mr. Infante has his own booth with, yes, a few more Amphora wares, in the "Modernism" show at the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue (through Sunday), as does Jason Jacques, a young dealer with a new gallery at 40 West 25th Street in Chelsea.
Medical software has few standards, and wares are as fragmented, dissimilar and incompatible as the dozens of vendors competing to sell them.
Few of their wares are carried in American stores, unlike the more familiar designer names — the global powerhouses like Armani, Dior and Gucci; the avant-garde fashion favorites like McQueen, Givenchy and Alexandre Vauthier; the New York big guns like Calvin Klein, Donna Karan and Michael Kors; and the stalwarts of evening glamour like Marchesa, Vera Wang, Badgley Mischka and Naeem Khan.
Auto dealers have a few ways of offering discounts on their wares.
In the meantime, the caravan is showing its wares a few blocks to the north.
