Art

February 25, 2026

Adorable Paintings of Pets With Naughty Habits and Wholesome Hobbies

Artist Alison Friend shows how contagious happiness can be through her quirky oil paintings. Love Bite, a recent portrait from her growing portfolio of extraordinary work, offers her signature style of anthropomorphizing an adorable animal with a unique twist. As she tells My Modern Met, “I paint funny contemporary portraits of animals with modern relatable vices, like snacks, booze, and cigarettes.

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February 23, 2026

SpraySeeMO: A Mural Festival Bringing Sprawling Street Art to Kansas City [Interview]

Kansas City, Missouri, is known as the City of Fountains, but it’s also become a city of murals. You just have to know where to look. Throughout its downtown, particularly in the Crossroads Arts District, large-scale street art graces the sides of buildings, bringing vibrant colors, casts of characters, and graffiti-inspired designs to the urban landscape. Facilitating these pieces is SpraySeeMO (a play on KCMO, the nickname for Kansas City)

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February 14, 2026

Every Year, This Art Fair Celebrates Caribbean Creativity

Whether they be artists, collectors, gallerists, or art lovers, visitors at the FUZE Art Fair always have at least one thing in common: an eagerness to celebrate Caribbean visual culture. Luckily, FUZE encourages just that. Since 2023, the contemporary art fair has held annual editions at Baha Mar, a resort destination in the Caribbean.

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My Modern Met

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