I used to work at The Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston, full of Ancient treasures. Walking through it was like a dream for your senses, and it made you want to immediately go home and adorn your apartment with beautiful things. Coats of armor, enormous hand woven textiles, completely one of a kind hand carved and painted furniture, jewels from the 1500s that still sparkled like new, paintings of chubby cherubs and religious figures adorned almost every inch of this place. Walking up and down the aisles of the Young Collectors Night at the Winter Antiques show gave me serious deja vu.

Ai Weiwei’s Sunflower Seeds show at Mary Boone Gallery in Chelsea is earning a lot of big buzz. It’s famed artist and activist Ai Weiwei. It’s super posh Chelsea gallery Mary Boone. It’s large numbers: 130 million handcrafted porcelain sunflower seeds, (three to four million on view in New York) created by 1,600 artisans from Jingdezhen, China, a 20 to 30 step installation process that took one whole day.