Arts
Fabian Pérez’s Style: The Heartbeat of Neo‑Emotionalism
October 14, 2025
By: Luna Dela Rosa Neo-Emotionalism, the art movement created by Fabian Perez, is often described as pulsing with the immediacy of human experience. The artist and his style blend classical technique with a contemporary edge, capturing moments that are both deeply personal and universally felt. Perez’s distinctive style could be
Building Community Through Art: A Conversation with Curator Xitong (Molly) Zhang
October 13, 2025
By: Izzy Grace At the 2025 TJCCNY Industry Mixer in New York City, the spotlight turned to the arts when Xitong (Molly) Zhang, co-founder of the Dawn Eleven Contemporary Art Foundation (DeCA), took to the stage for a fireside chat on Art & Design. With an audience of young professionals,
Translating Feeling: The Physical and Virtual Worlds of Tianxu Zhou
October 8, 2025
By: Yasser Abdelshafy In the space between code and emotion, creative technologist and multidisciplinary designer Tianxu Zhou crafts experiences that transform abstract feelings into sensory realities. Her work, which spans XR, AI-driven enterprise software, and interactive installations, consistently seeks to build bridges—between people and places, the digital and the physical,
David Drebin’s Hidden Stars Captures the Magic of Being Seen
August 29, 2025
By: Matt Emma This September, Washington Square Park will host a performance unlike anything else in New York. For four Saturdays, artist David Drebin will present Hidden Stars, a public work that transforms an ordinary city square into a space of recognition, reflection, and possibility. Drebin is known internationally for
Southampton Arts Center Honors Christine Mack at SummerFest Annual Benefit, Raises Significant Funds for Institution’s Programming
August 29, 2025
By: Sierra Deonne On Saturday, August 23, Southampton Arts Center (SAC) hosted its annual SummerFest, drawing nearly 500 guests to celebrate SAC and its 2025 Champion of the Arts Award honoree, Christine Mack, recognized for her contributions to the arts and for founding the Mack Art Foundation and Greenpoint Studios,
Crossing the Boundaries of Architecture and Art: The Creative Journey of Hengmo Hu
August 27, 2025
In the rapidly evolving landscape of cities and societies, architecture is often understood as a product of functionality and efficiency—it responds to population growth, land scarcity, and technological progress. Yet, the works of architect and artist Hengmo Hu offer a perspective that space is not merely a container; it can
Indian Photographer Surya Nikhil Saripalli’s Candid Shot Featured on Cover of Spanish Wedding Magazine
August 19, 2025
By: Chelsea Robinson When Surya Nikhil Saripalli picked up his camera at his cousin’s wedding, he didn’t expect the resulting frame to travel far beyond the family album. But a single click—intimate, unposed, and brimming with cultural richness—has now found its way to the international stage, gracing the cover of
Exploring the Journey of Julia Navarro and the Impact of Art on Society
August 14, 2025
By: Aurora Whitman The Artistic Path: Embracing Challenges and Empowering Voices Julia Navarro’s artistic path reflects her resilience and courage. Leaving behind the comforts of Spain, she embarked on a journey that has taken her from local stages to the vibrant theatre scene of New York City. This transition was
Marianne Galasso’s Mission to Elevate Italian Artists on a Global Stage
August 8, 2025
By: Immy Tariq For Marianne Galasso, heritage isn’t just about where you come from. It’s about what you carry forward — and who you lift with you. Born into a tight‑knit Italian community, she grew up surrounded by craft: hands in dough, eyes on detail, lives built on lineage. That
Ruonan Shen: Temporary Stages
August 7, 2025
Ruonan Shen (born 2001, China; lives and works in London) is a visual artist working across photography and installation. She is currently studying Interior and Spatial Design at the University of the Arts London. Her design training sharpens her spatial awareness and sensitivity to light, so every shoot becomes a dismantlable “temporary stage.”
Subcurrents: What Lies Beneath — A Group Show Featuring Young Artists’ Practices in Shanghai
August 4, 2025
Subcurrents originally refer to the underground streams that quietly and continuously shape the terrain and structure of the land. In this exhibition, the natural motif is transformed into a threefold metaphor: it represents the emotional undercurrents running beneath contemporary society, the hidden force moving within social structures, and the seepage
“Color Breathes, Emotion Grows” — The Abstract Visual Language of Jiajing Wang
July 31, 2025
Jiajing Wang is a freelance artist, a member of the MT Women Artists Empowerment (Baihui) Program, the AAlPA Abstract Artists Alliance, the AAIPA Abstract Artists Alliance, and the International Contemporary Art Committee. She graduated from Dongbei University of Finance and Economics. She worked as an IT engineer at a US-funded
Lighting the Way: How Architect Sangji Han Is Using Design to Restore Dignity Through Sanitation and Light
July 30, 2025
New York, NY — Architect and urban innovator Sangji Han continues to gain recognition for her contributions to socially-driven design. Her latest project, Lighting Bathroom, was recently selected and published by What Design Can Do (WDCD) as part of the 2025 Make it Circular Challenge and was also featured on
Yichu Li: Afterimages of the Ancestor and the Poetics of Digital Memory
July 30, 2025
By: Elena Hart Memory as Method: The Poetics of My Grandfather In the work of London-based multidisciplinary artist Yichu Li, whose practice merges image-making, moving image art, and sound-based performance to interrogate identity, power, and memory, memory does not simply sit still. It refracts, pulses, and evolves—stretched across time, gesture,
Abstract Energy Meets Ethereal Form in Between Movement and Stillness At AP Space
July 25, 2025
By: Marissa Ross At AP SPACE in Chelsea, Between Movement and Stillness creates a compelling dialogue between two artists who masterfully explore abstraction in vastly different ways: Serena Bocchino, whose work moves with the rhythm of jazz, and Yoo Choong Mok, whose glass sculptures hold the stillness of memory. On
Bringing Stone to Life: Sculptor Yasser Makhoul’s Spiritual and Classical Mastery
August 14, 2025
By: Jeremy Murphy With the eyes of an artist and the hands of a storyteller, Yasser Makhoul has been sculpting more than just stone—he’s been chiseling moments of history and human strength into enduring form. A Lebanese-born artist with a gift rooted in childhood adversity and shaped by deep spirituality,
How to Make Your Landscape Renderings Stand Out: Insights and Innovations by Yuan Tian
May 17, 2025
By: Yuan Tian Yuan Tian is an award-winning landscape designer known for integrating ecological systems, cultural narratives, and climate resilience into her work. With experience ranging from waterfront resilience projects in New York with MNLA to her current role at RIOS in Los Angeles, Yuan applies a thoughtful, forward-looking approach
Metacuration and Contemporary Narratives — Bring Back the Figurative!
May 17, 2025
From April 4 to 7, 2025, Bring Back the Figurative! made its debut as a group exhibition at 104 Charlton Street in New York. This small-scale yet intellectually and experimentally ambitious exhibition takes the “return of the figurative” as its central proposition, assembling a group of young, New York–based interdisciplinary
Kim Jongku’s ‘The Divine Comedy’ Is a Material Meditation on Time and Transformation at AP Space
July 8, 2025
By: Marissa Ross Korean artist Kim Jongku invites viewers into an exhibition at AP Space that is less a collection of artworks and more an emotional landscape. The Divine Comedy, running until May 10th, borrows its name from Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century poem, but this is not a literal reinterpretation. Instead,
A Beautiful Refusal: A Critical Conversation with Yang Yumeng on Process, Waste, Unfinished Art
August 14, 2025
By: Elena Hart In an art world that often prioritizes digital precision and the pursuit of a “perfect” finish, textile artist Yang Yumeng, based in London and focusing on woven art, suggests that her work may never be fully completed. With her ongoing installation Untitled (2024–), created entirely from reconfigured
A Design Dialogue Between East and West: Cheng Chen’s Eastern Narrative at NYCxDESIGN
April 23, 2025
By: Elena Mart NYCxDESIGN: The Annual Gathering of the Global Creative Community Every May, New York Design Week (NYCxDESIGN) transforms the city that never sleeps into a potential melting pot of inspiration for designers, architects, and artists worldwide. As one of the prominent design events in North America, NYCxDESIGN often
Partly Cloudy: Navigating In-Between States and the Poetics of Ambiguity
April 22, 2025
Exhibition Dates: April 5 – 7, 2025 Venue: M P Birla Millennium Art Gallery M P Birla Millennium Art Gallery, in collaboration with Y Manifesto and executive curator Yuran Lin, is pleased to present Partly Cloudy, a thought-provoking group exhibition that explores meteorological phenomena as potential metaphors for transitional states
1969 Gallery Presents Radu Oreian: That Magic Light From May 6 – June 21, 2025
April 21, 2025
By: Mason Agatha Romanian artist Radu Oreian will return to 1969 Gallery to present That Magic Light. He last exhibited at the gallery in 2022 with his solo show, A Sea of Green and Blue. Oreian’s works are in the collections of the Taubmann Museum of Art (Roanoke, VA), La
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