Included among the 50 participating galleries will be the Aboutaam brothers, Ali and Hicham Aboutaam, the proprietors of Phoenix Ancient Art, located at 47 East 66th Street, right off of Madison Avenue. Galleries will have speakers and special talks open to the public, and tours of the galleries will be leaving every hour from 11am until 4pm.
There will also be an organized, family-friendly scavenger hunt, winners receiving discounted tickets to the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Hicham Aboutaam and Ali Aboutaam hope to see you at this special event which benefits New York’s children while providing a great activity for the whole family.

Head of Goddess

Ali Aboutaam, proprietor of Phoenix Ancient Art in Geneva contributed a marvelous Hellenistic head of the Greek Goddess Aphrodite to AN art exhibit sponsored by the French watchmaker Audemars Piguet. The marble bust, dating back to the 4th or beginning of the 3rd century B.C.E. IS part of the exhibit “Art and Watch making, Le Temps au Féminin,” which is part of the “Association pour l’Art en Vieille Ville – AVV” in Geneva. The exhibit runs from May 1st to May 9th, 2009.

There are many cultures that are represented in the displays and works of art that the Phoenix Ancient Art galleries display and offer for sale. These works stem from the fundamental cultures that gave birth to our world and Western civilization. These include the ancient civilizations of the Near east and the Far East, Mesopotamia, Central Europe, the Balkans, the Roman Empire and Egypt among others.

Ali Aboutaam and Hicham Aboutaam have taken the business started by their father and made it into an internationally renowned art dealership. Phoenix Ancient Art is worth a visit if you are in Geneva or New York.

Phoenix Ancient Art is considered to be one of the world’s leading galleries and dealers in rare and exquisite art works and antiquities.
Where do Phoenix Ancient Art Gallery’s works of art originate? (The Aboutaam brothers travel the world to secure the best items for their galleries.)

In general, and in short, from the cultures that comprise the essence of Western Civilization, These ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Near East, Central and Northern Europe, the Greek World and the Roman Empire, the Balkans, Eurasia, Southwest Asia, the Steppes, Byzantium and Christian, Islam, and European Dark Ages.

There are two galleries where you can get lost in history, or chat to Ali Aboutaam:

• Phoenix Ancient Art – The Geneva gallery, at 6 rue Verdaine, in the Old Town.
• Phoenix Ancient Art – The New York gallery, at 47E. 66th Street.