What if the most important pieces of New York City are not the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, or Times Square, but the pizza shop on your block, the old neighborhood bar, the corner store where someone knew your name, or the theater you passed every day? That is the New York City that artist Lily Annabelle is capturing, one storefront at a time.

There is something quietly magnetic about the work of Margarita Howis. Her paintings feel elegant and cinematic at first glance, but underneath the beauty is emotional tension.