How does a native New Yorker perceive the city? What does it take to keep your inner child? How can art make you happy? Fine Art Shippers took the opportunity to speak with our longtime friend Mitchell Schorr, one of the best-known urban muralists in...
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Artist Talk: Mitchell Schorr on Happiness, Childhood, and Ice Cream Trucks
Expressionism Paintings by the German Artist Franz Marc
Franz Marc was a German artist whose artistic creativity contributed enormously to the development of abstract expressionism and modern art formation. His works had an impact on such masters as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. For the 36 years of his life, Franz Marc...
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How to Keep Sports Memorabilia Safe During a Move
There are various reasons why some people collect sports memorabilia. Most commonly, it could be for personal reasons, as they want to preserve specific memories related to sports history, while others may do it as a means of investment and trading. Whatever your reason for...
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Auctions for the End of 2020-2021. Art Market and COVID-19
Despite a seismic shift in auction house operations, the transitions to an online auction environment, and general global and economic uncertainty, the art market remained fairly resilient in 2021. Though both Christie's and Sotheby's are not required to share sales totals due to their private...
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Pride Month: 5 History Facts You Need to Know
Back in 1999 and 2000, Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the US, declared June a Pride Month. However, the tradition of celebrating the holiday was long before that time. Nowadays, people around the world attend various events to speak up, raise awareness, and share...
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Kinetic Sculpture as an Example of Modern Art
Modern art is an artistic movement from the 1860-1970s. The foremost example of modern art is kinetic sculpture. Born in the 1920s, it peaked in the middle of the 1950s. Eventually, it was ousted by other artistic tendencies such as op-art. However, its repercussions can...
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Fine Art Shippers Offers Art Packing & Installation Services in NYC
New York City is home to the world’s biggest number of art galleries per city. With over 1,000 art galleries, the Big Apple stands as an epicenter of growth of the global art industry. Such an abundance of art institutions requires efficient logistics so that...
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Sailing Ship Painting in Romantic Era
The Romantic era covers the period of the late 18th – 19th centuries. Romanticism appeared as an answer to the era of Enlightenment in social processes and as an opponent to classicism in artistic expression. One of the most frequently occurring subjects in the fine...
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