1+ mon, 3+ 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....

2+ mon, 1+ day 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, 6+ 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, 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…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (327+ words) Visitors to the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco are welcomed by a monumental, 6-foot-tall bronze cast of The Thinker, one of French artist Auguste Rodin’s most iconic works. Positioned in the museum’s Court of Honor, the sculpture is…...

5+ mon, 6+ day ago   (366+ words) Since it began collecting African art in the early 20th century, the Brooklyn Museum has accumulated more than 4,500 pieces from across the continent. All told, the collection stands as one of the largest and most comprehensive in the United States, but…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (540+ words) Eva Baron is a Queens–based Contributing Writer at My Modern Met. Eva graduated with a degree in Art History and English from Swarthmore College, and has previously worked in book publishing and at galleries. She has since transitioned to…...