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The cruise is being organized by Michael Day~Media Incentives & Creative Travel Planners, which, for three decades, has created extraordinary travel experiencesFine Art Connoisseur. Their excellence for creative event planning and meticulous attention to detail has earned them a reputation as one of the world’s finest incentive operators for media properties such as Fine Art Connoisseur.

Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine


Fine Art Connoisseur, your host on this trip, is a magazine focused primarily on American, European, and International representational artworks from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century, as well as living artists following academic disciplines. It has become known for its fresh articles by the world's leading art experts, exquisite image reproductions, and features on the care of art collections, as well as its Hidden Collections (TM) feature, which features private collections rarely seen by the public. The magazine is edited by professional curator and former museum director Peter Trippi.

About Peter Trippi


Peter Trippi is the Editor of Fine Art Connoisseur Magazines. Peter is a respected museum curator and director. He was the director of New York's Dahesh Museum known for it's 18th and 19th Century art collection.

Peter is considered to be the world's the leading expert on JW Waterhouse and author of the Phaidon book "JW Waterhouse." Trippi is curator of the exhibition JW Waterhouse: Garden of Enchantment, which recently traveled to Amsterdam, London, and Montreal.

About B. Eric Rhoads



Eric Rhoads is the Chairman and CEO of Streamline Publishing, Inc. and is the founder and Publisher of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine. Rhoads is also a collector of Russian and American artworks. Because of his portrait project to keep portraiture from life alive Rhoads commissions a portrait sitting by the world's leading portrait painters to create a portrait for each column he writes in Fine Art Connoisseur, which makes him one of the most painted me in history.

In 1989, Eric Rhoads founded Streamline Publishing, Inc., which publishes Fine Art Connoisseur (launched in July 2004 ). Based in Palm Beach, Florida, the company publishes books, magazines, audio and videotapes, and produces websites and conferences. Rhoads, sole shareholder of the corporation, writes a column in each issue of Fine Art Connoisseur where he is known for his outspoken and frank commentary.

Rhoads, who was a finalist for the Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year Award has been featured in Entrepreneur magazine, USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and over 400 newspapers and magazines. He has been featured on CBS TOMORROW Show, CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood, and was the featured subject of the NBC sitcom NEWSRADIO.
In 1997 Rhoads published his first book Blast From The Past: A 75 Year Photo History of Radio. Rhoads is also published in the Columbia University Media Studies Journal. He is a former owner of multiple radio broadcasting stations.

Rhoads is a frequent speaker on the subjects of fine art, marketing and radio broadcasting. He is also a frequently invited judge for art shows.  

Rhoads and his wife, Laurie, are the proud parents of triplets. In his spare time, Rhoads collects fine art, and fine-tunes his skills as a photographer and as an artist.