The public preview for Supper at Sea is between 3 and 5 p.m. on Friday, March 14 at Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum, 41 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. A $10 donation is requested.

All of the ship’s multimillion-dollar 1,600-piece art collection, curated over two years by Regent art director Sarah Hall Smith, is displayed in this incidental way—you discover it as you go ...

I know you’re going to make fun of me, so let’s just get this over with. I bought art on a cruise ship. OK, laugh. While gallery owners and art appraisers will mock you for this, you could do ...

I bought art on a cruise ship. Okay, laugh. ... They also know that when vacationers are out to sea with all their cares on a distant shore, they are primed to splurge.

Whether on land or sea, the uninitiated can quickly get into deep water buying art. Back home, I called fine art appraiser Susan Filebark, of Vero Beach, Florida.