UGallery hits growth milestones as art sales move online (exclusive)

Online art gallery UGallery announced today that it now has over 500 artists in its community and 6,000 original pieces of art in its marketplace- "the biggest numbers today for an all-original art focused startup."

When marketing goes horribly, horribly wrong

We receive a lot of odd, unsolicited mail at the VentureBeat offices. But this piece of art that arrived in the mail this week might take the cake.

Crowdcases says its ‘crowd of designers’ can change the world (exclusive)

New York-based Crowdcases wants to bring together a community of designers to raise money for nonprofit organizations.

See.me’s community is 500K artists, $1.5M strong

Artists from around the world come together on See.me to create and share portfolios, find opportunities, and gain exposure.

See The Art of Journey with the game’s artwork, score, and augmented reality

The Art of Journey will provide owners with tons of unseen art, the full musical score, and augmented reality from the acclaimed PSN title

Introducing the art app that will serve you a dose of culture a day

For most people, art, like espresso, is best served in small doses. DailyArt, a free app for iOs and Android, is your daily dose of classic paintings, best enjoyed during your morning commute.

Visit the new Plants vs. Zombies store for everything you’ll need for the apocalypse…today

PopCap Games and Treehouse Brand Stores have launched a new retail site dedicated to the hit game Plants vs. Zombies.

Model Christy Turlington joins Silicon Valley heavyweights to launch new art business (photo gallery)

Minted founder and chief executive Mariam Naficy knows how to fill a room.

Some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful executives showed up, together with supermodel Christy Turlington, for the launch of Minted‘s new art prints business, in Naficy’s San Francisco …

Social collage app Mixel now lets you create art in private

After launching in November as a gorgeous app for making social collages, the iPad app Mixel received an update today that will let you create private image threads, instead of having every Mixel creation public.

With increased privacy, users will …

Art can pay: Minted raises $5.5M to expand graphic design and stationery business

Minted, a marketplace for community-sourced paper products like custom stationery and wedding invitations, has raised a big pile of the green kind of paper you can spend.

For anyone whose parents told them to stop doodling Celtic knots or obsessively …

With beautiful social collages, Mixel for iPad reminds you that art can be fun

After five years of helping the New York Times step into the digital age, former NYT design director Khoi Vinh is tackling an unlikely project: collages.

Vinh’s new app is Mixel, a free social collage-making app for the iPad. Think …