1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (215+ words) Emma Taggart is a Staff Writer and Video Editor at My Modern Met. She earned a BA in Fashion and Textile Design at the University of Ulster in Belfast. Originally from Northern Ireland, she lived in Berlin for many years,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (648+ words) Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met and Manager of My Modern Met Store. She is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art where she earned her BFA in Illustration and MFA in Illustration Practice....

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (173+ words) A central focus of the exhibition is Haring’s work as a global exchange. From the New York–Tokyo Sister Cities project (1985) to the Paris Métro artwork at Alma–Marceau station (1984) and the five-panel DV8 mural in San Francisco (1986), each work embodies…...

2+ mon, 15+ hour ago   (125+ words) Olitski emerged as one of the leading figures of postwar American abstraction during a period when artists pushed painting beyond traditional mark-making. His spray paintings challenged viewers to experience color as something physical rather than descriptive, transforming the canvas into…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (396+ words) British artist Lucy Sparrow has built entire shops out of felt for more than a decade. Now, she brings her largest project yet to The Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas, with The Beginning of Convenience, her first U.S. museum exhibition. The immersive…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (425+ words) This Saturday, America will celebrate its 250th birthday on the Fourth of July. The country’s Independence Day is a time to celebrate in community and honor quintessentially American principles of freedom, liberty, and justice for all. Freedom in all its forms…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (178+ words) Linnea Pejcha is a Contributing Writer at My Modern Met. She is a Brooklyn-based writer who earned her BA in Sociology and Creative Writing from Brandeis University. She recently earned her MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in Fiction…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (571+ words) Linnea Pejcha is a Contributing Writer at My Modern Met. She is a Brooklyn-based writer who earned her BA in Sociology and Creative Writing from Brandeis University. She recently earned her MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in Fiction…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (171+ words) The two collections were originally part of a large folio made by da Vinci between the mid-1470s and his death in 1519. They were separated centuries ago by Italian sculptor and collector Pompeo Leoni, who reorganized da Vinci’s notebooks after acquiring them....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (183+ words) Martin Creed, “Half the Air in a Given Space” “Through the ephemeral monumentality of air, the featured voices create spaces that loosen us from the ordinary and hold us, if only for a moment, in a state of wonder. Bringing…...