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Cirkers has been the industry’s leading fine art storage company for over a century. Known for its flawless approach toward keeping fine arts safe from damage and theft, Cirkers makes a similar impression on its clients by offering them the safest fine art shipping in New York. The reputed organization ensures to save clients hours of frustration and headache with its safe and on-time fine art shipping services.

John O’Brien is the owner and desert dweller of Trinity: Religious Artwork & Icons. They are a small, family run “Minbiznistry.” Trinity promotes over 850 religious artwork & icons by 8 world renowned artists. They manufacture over 80 product choices for each of the artworks. They offer art that inspires and enlightens.  Artworks that are “Prayer Windows.”  Artworks that help to enhance one’s relationship with God.  They also provide opportunities for financial support to churches, religious organizations, religious orders and charities.

The Nicaragua Mural Project is the first project by the Abel Arts Collective, a nonprofit (501(c)3 status in the works) that partners with artists, developmental organizations and communities to create meaningful and inspirational public art projects. 

Art Basel is the world's premier international art show for contemporary works and a winter meeting place for art collectors and dealers. The warm Miami evening of 12/06/13 brought many celebrities and art collectors to the Weinstein Art Gallery during the annual Basel festival to meet the popular New York artist Marko Stout and view his latest work, including a short art film entitled “Thinner Then Ice”. The list of stars included Kayne West and Kim Kardashian, Elle Macpherson, and singer Marc Anthony. The film’s star Andrina Nowak was also in attendance.

Opening reception was Feb. 1 and over 5,000 people attended the three-hour evening opening. The exhibit runs through March 22 and everyone is welcome to view the non-juried exhibition with many of the pieces for sale. The hours at the Huntington Beach Art Center Gallery are as follows: Tuesday-Thursday from 12-8 p.m., Friday from 12-6 p.m. and Saturday from 12-5 p.m.

It's been reported in the Tampa Bay Business Journal that donations to charitable institutions rose to “15.8% in the State of Florida for the year 2013, totaling $24,079 billion dollars.” This state statistic even outpaced a 13.3% increase in the national giving index as a whole as reported by the “Atlas of Giving.” Margie Manning, Editor for the Tampa Bay Business Journal reports that despite these figures, it is still a difficult climate for groups granting assistance within the state. “The lingering effects of high unemployment continued to hurt churches and organizations that rely on a large number of small gifts from many donors.” This translates to the fact that local and regional schools, churches and non-profit organizations still need to rely on successful fund-raising efforts.

Valerie Garner’s watercolors artwork focus on the beautiful Pacific Northwest in the U.S. where she lives, and she shows them off in an impressive online gallery http://www.art-watercolor.com

It’s a great day in Omaha for home owners because home improvement tasks no longer require hours spent watching DIY how-to tutorials, multiple trips to the local Menards or the soiling of perfectly good garments (and possibly even furniture items). It’s time to leave the dirty work to the experts and that expert is Aspen Sullivan, your local College Works Painter and entrepreneur.

Imagine creating a painting with just your thoughts. A new brain to computer interface (BCI) art project called the Cognichrome promises to do just that. The Cognichrome is an art installation which reads brain waves and transfers them into a real life painting on canvas using a robotic arm and real paint. A user is shown a variety of different images intended to provoke a range of emotions from joy to anger, and sadness to laughter. These emotions are interpreted by a computer which then signals a robotic arm to render the brainwaves as colors and shapes on canvas, creating a painting. Thus, the picture evolves with the user’s actual thoughts. When the user is ready, they are able to take the painting home as a permanent reminder of what they have felt and experienced.

In the spring of 2014, the Riviera Maya's premier music and performing arts school, Explayarte Escuela de Musica, will present Tim Rice and Elton John's AIDA. There will be three presentations in the Foro Abierto at Xcaret in Playa del Carmen, March 19, 20 and 23 and, or the first time, two additional shows have been added to the run to be performed at the Teatro de Cancun on April 4 & 5. A portion of all proceeds from all AIDA performances will go to support the Playa del Carmen Seaside Rotary charitable fund.

Life as we know it on Earth, is over.

Painting pops to mind whenever Art discussion is heard. It is probably the most celebrated and well accepted form of art. However, Art takes many forms, tangible and intangible. It is regarded as a special form of communication with aesthetic considerations. With sound, color and tones as raw materials, art has to deliver a message or emotion.

Al Ndreu is the loving father of three children and he has been married for 15 years. He has been wanting to do this project for a long time and so he is asking the Indiegogo community, to fund to the Bald Brothers and Bald Sisters project. If the Bald Brothers and Bald Sisters  project meets its goal and continues to be successful, donations will be made to wounded soldiers fighting for the country.

Scuplting bronze often requires a higher level of skill sets, and only experienced and dedicated artists can create flawless bronze sculptures with superb finishes. Rapid Art now introduces their Bronze Foundry where they can give shape to sculptures, art pieces and architectural marvels that can exactly match the client’s requirements. With over two decades of experience in creating bronze sculptures, they now assure of creating bronze statues of any size. Moreover, with their superior Bronze Casting abilities, they can create bronze art pieces of any design with a desired degree of variation and complexity.

Avatar generator 'Create My Picture' now lets users create and post their funny cartoon designs direct to your Facebook timeline. Users of the classic app can effortlessly share their designs with friends.

Pretty In Paint Parties is happy to welcome a new addition to their team. Robin Nervegna, an accomplished artist from Bethel, NY, has joined the team to help them bring fun and innovative paint parties to the Pennington area. Living in the town of the iconic 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair and the Bethel Woods Performing Arts Center, Nervegna has always been surrounded by art. She studied Fine Art and Illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Nervegna believes in the fulfilling experience of creating art and memories with loved ones. Come join Nervegna and the rest of Pretty in Paint Parties for a fun opportunity to work on art with friends.

Marko Stout premiered his art film, “Thinner Then Ice”at the Miami Art Basel on 12/06/13. The film successfully opened to a sold out gallery audience of art collectors, dealers, celebrities, film and art enthusiasts. The warm evening brought many A listers to show; includingElle Macpherson, Marc Anthony,Kayne West and Kim Kardashian- and the film’s startAndrinaNowak .Art Basel is the world's premier international art show for modern and contemporary works winter meeting place for the art world populaces.

Marko Stout premiered his art film, “Thinner Then Ice” at the Miami Art Basel on 12/06/13. The film successfully opened to a sold out gallery audience of art collectors, dealers, celebrities, film and art enthusiasts. Art Basel is the world's premier international art show for modern and contemporary works winter meeting place for the art world populaces.

Expert and Hedge Fund of Funds manager Jeffrey Arsenault, a member of the Stepping Stones Museum for Children’s Board of Directors, invites the public to attend the launch of two new major exhibits on Friday, February 14, as part of the museum’s Healthy Children, Healthy Communities initiative aimed at promoting healthy living for children, families, and communities.

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) has acquired several short films and giclee prints by the New York artist Marko Stout for their 21st Century Western artist collection. Moscow Museum of Modern Art is the first state museum in Russia that concentrates its activities exclusively on the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Since its inauguration, the Museum has expanded its strategies and achieved a high level of public acknowledgement. Today the Museum is an energetic institution that plays an important part on the Moscow art scene.

StoryBox, a super unique and creative project, is a campaign that has been published on KickStarter that is essentially a monthly subscription service to inspire the artist that lies within everyone. As the name suggests, StoryBox is a box full of five-eight items to inspire the subscriber and encourage him/her to create a story around those few things in any artistic form. To keep the mind and heart contented, it is important to challenge one’s self to indulge in something creative from time to time. StoryBox does exactly that to help one get a break from their full-time jobs, and is also, a great source to help artists push themselves further creatively. The box will be mailed to the subscriber every month and all he/she has to do is get inspired and create a piece of art that needs to be uploaded in the form of a photo or video on the StoryBox website.

The purpose of art is to wash the dust of daily life off people’s souls. Unfortunately, the situation arises when the art itself faces more than just dust, but damages that are caused by mishandling or poor climatic conditions. These damages not only affect the quality of the art, but they also diminish its value. Thus arises the need to have a reliable service specialized in handling and storing fine art like paintings, sketches, sculptures, etc.

Wall art done right has the capability of transforming a place; good art does not only make a living space more inviting and colorful but also reflects the personality and lifestyle of the people living there. Decorative Art (D-ART) is a company which specializes in handmade oil painting, knife painting, Giclee prints, reproduction, photo to art, custom creations and offers other services such as framing, lamination, Plexiglas and more thus providing people the opportunity to not only view great art in the online fine art gallery but Decorative Art is also helping customers adorn their walls with great paintings and prints through the online store.

The Cognichrome (www.Cognichrome.com), being developed by Gene Ekster with a degree in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science from U.C. Berkeley, is a robotic art installation that utilizes a user’s brainwaves and thoughts to create an actual painting on canvas. The Cognichrome uses an electroencephalogram (EEG) worn by the user which detects brainwaves which are then interpreted with machine learning algorithms and communicated to a robotic painter. The Cognichrome interprets actual emotions in real time as the user interacts with the installation. The user’s emotions are stimulated through various sensory interactions with the machine. These emotions create the painting which the user can then take home with them.

Is the world ready for a black ballerina? When the word ballerina is heard, it invokes the image of beautiful and radiant white woman dancing in the most graceful manner. Our mind never imagines black women as ballerinas, they are more likely to be thought of as hip-hop dancers, but not ballerinas. However, breaking through these shackles of racial discrimination, there have been five ballerinas in the world that have carved a niche for themselves and made a noticeable mark on the ballerina stage. Taking inspiration from these brave and beautiful black ladies, award-winning fiction writer Marian L. Thomas has come up with her most awaited novel, “Blue Butterfly”- a heart-touching story about a black girl (Precious Blue Johnson) that fights all odds in order to become a ballerina in a time when most people can only imagine white women in the famous leotard and tutu. "Blue Butterfly" will be released in a digital and print edition on April 4, 2014. It will be available for purchase through online retailers and bookstores nationwide.