Lights off. Music on. Shirts off. UV body paint on.
Ah, Valentine’s Day.
While most New York couples spent their Valentine’s evening dressed up in romantic restaurants, my boyfriend and I spent ours dressed down and glowing neon in a dark art studio lit by black lights in Long Island City.
Opened in 2009 by Danny Setiawan, the master painter, and Katya Dorozhkina, the business developer, DenArt is the first retail body-painting studio in New York. It offers private body painting sessions and caters to events and parties, all in the name of empowering people through art and the human body as a new medium. You can even get the finished product captured in a photo shoot. And trust me, you will want to remember this.
“Body painting makes art relevant to our generation,” Setiawan tells Mashable. He says that body art and tattoos are the new medium for young people, since traditional art is sometimes considered too intimidating and “snobbish.” Read more...
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