The North End is a place full of history and — nowadays — restaurants, but upon closer examination it is also a neighborhood full of art and culture. Anyone who has ever glanced up to take in the bronze statues or plaques that adorn one of the country's finest Little Italies will have encountered the skillful hand of Richard Aliberti, an artist that has been in and out of the neighborhood for the past three decades, but who has left a lasting impression on it.

"I wasn't expecting to make a living off of art," he explains as he thinks back to the early 1990s, when he moved his gallery from Chinatown to the North End. "The first gallery I opened was in 1988, and it was in Chinatown. It was in a very big space and I was experimenting with industrial forms ... rough stuff."

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Fonte: Bostoniano