Art

April 4, 2026

Artist Creates Multi-Layered Paintings Steeped With Personal Memories That Build on Each Other

Shaped by her personal history, Japanese artist Nana Funo creates paintings that capture her memories and experiences in their layers. Each complex work is built with overlapping motifs in acrylic paint, evoking the depth of woven tapestries, where each textile tells a story. Funo starts with an initial base image, which she then covers with layers of paint depicting recurring motifs like figures, animals, flora, and fauna.

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March 29, 2026

Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz’s Groundbreaking Art Collection to Land on the West Coast

For cultural icons Alicia Keys and Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean, collecting art is about more than just taste or style. Above all, it’s about the artists themselves, or, in Keys’s words, about the “giants on whose shoulders we stand.” This philosophy has guided the couple and their relationship with artists for years, allowing them to amass some of the world’s most innovative pieces by Black American and diasporic artists.

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March 26, 2026

Fiber Artist Creates Delicately Woven “Windows” With Cut-Up Silk Paintings

In many ways, weaving came naturally to Élise Peroi. Ever since she was young, the French artist has been exposed to the artform, thanks in no small part to her mother, who was a seamstress and sewing teacher. “I spent a lot of time surrounded by fabric,” Peroi tells My Modern Met. “I loved the texture and the potential of what this flexible material could become.

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My Modern Met

Celebrating creativity and promoting a positive culture by spotlighting the best sides of humanity—from the lighthearted and fun to the thought-provoking and enlightening.