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3 must-attend NYC art and antique fairs

There’s a fine line between hoarding and collecting, but if you can tell the difference, here are three stellar art and antique fairs to patronize this week.

The New York Ceramics Fair

Believe porcelain has a place in your house outside the bathroom?

At the New York Ceramics Fair: After the By-Pass (Wild Rose) by Paul Scott Ferrin Contemporary

This five-day affair, put on by the good folks at Meg Wendy/MCG Events LLC and Liz Lees/Caskey Lees Inc., is aimed at all those who like their China fine and who consider the kiln the greatest tech advance of all time.

A couple dozen galleries will showcase their fired wares inside the same building the Czech embassy calls home; expect anything from mild-mannered oblong dishes from London to 18-century Dublin Delft slippers, to an Achaemenid bull’s head rhyton from BC times.

The fair is running through Jan. 22-26 at the Bohemian National Hall on 321 East 73rd St. Tickets are $20.

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METRO show

There’s nothing sadder than an art show gone stale, so this year, METRO is shaking things up.

At the METRO Show: Olga, Headless Girl Carnival Banner, circa 1940s.American Primitive Gallery

Curated by 35 fine art dealers, you’ll stumble on nature-, folk- and African-focused groupings, to name just a few.

Artists in the Compelled by the Forces of Nature include Frank Holliday and Kathryn Lynch.

The show is running through Jan. 24-26 at the Metropolitan Pavilion on 125 W. 18th St. Single-day ticket prices are only $15.

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Jean-Luc Baroni exhibit

“Dogs Playing Poker” fans need not apply to this hyper upper-crusty aesthetic affair.

The Baronis specialized in old and modern master paintings, and this year’s show promises to exhibit “long-unseen” and “newly rediscovered works”.

Highlights include a Fra Bartolommeo drawing that hasn’t been seen publicly in two centuries and was long thought destroyed.

The exhibit is running through Jan. 25-Feb. 1 at the Calton Hobbs Gallery on 60 E. 93rd St. Entry is free.

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