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Italian born and Los Angeles based artist Ylenia Mino and her work are the personification of enthusiasm: sunny, colorful and defiantly positive, Mino shares her thoughts with Michele Tufigno for NY-ArtNews about starting out as an artist in northern Italy, her move to...

How many of us have memories of carving pumpkins for Halloween - picking the perfect pumpkin, choosing the favorite design to carve and scooping out the guts while  admiring the parents' efforts with the knife that when little, we were not allowed to try and replicate?...

We’ve all been there. There are those days when you’re longing for relief from the cloudy skies, something exciting to chase away the rainy day blues. We feel you! New York is rife with opportunities to see a splash of color, from its streets to museums to galleries. H...

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Tired of JPGs and digital art galleries? Good news! With the passage of Labor Day, we have something brand new to celebrate as the coronavirus finally begins to wind down-the opening of the art world beyond its digital doors! April s...

The desires of individuals to pour out their hearts, or at least be noticed, extends back far beyond our current social justice movements. Joseph Kyselak (1799-1831) of Vienna is one credited with being a pioneer of tagged street art and modern grafitti, having accompl...

Mario Merz standing in front of one of his installations, courtesy of the net https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-enigmatic-igloos-of-mario-merz/

Artist biography

Mario Merz (1 January 1925 – 9 November 2003) was an Italian conceptual and eclectic artist, considered to b...

Cultural institutions are key elements in shaping a nation’s identity as they reflect the politics of the governments and also are a determining aspect of the quality of life of its inhabitants. Recent events renewed the importance of public knowledge and learning but...

Felipe Alarcón Echenique is a Cuban painter who is an engraver, draftsman, and writer who has been based in Madrid for more than 20 years. Felipe was born in Havana in 1966. He received his diploma in fine art from the Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro in 1986. Felipe...