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In 2019, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) tapped Ernesto Neto to produce a monumental, site-specific piece for one of its galleries. About a year later, the museum unveiled the commission, which would become one of the Brazilian artist’s largest crochet works to date. Now, after much anticipation and weeks of reconstruction, SunForceOceanLife has returned to MFAH’s Cullinan Hall following its original debut.

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Photography
April 16, 2026

Surreal Photos Distort Everyday Life Into Bizarre Scenes of Absurdity

Photographer Brooke DiDonato constructs a controlled visual universe that unsettles the logic of everyday life. Her upcoming monograph, titled Take a Picture, It Will Last Longer, gathers over a decade of photographs, each one carefully engineered to disrupt spatial, bodily, and psychological coherence. DiDonato builds her work from the familiar. Suburban interiors and quiet streets form the foundation of her images. She draws directly from her upbringing, where routine and conformity shaped daily life.

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Paper Art
April 15, 2026

Artist Manually Creates “Double-Exposure” Portraits by Drawing on Hand-Cut Paper

Toronto-based Korean-Canadian artist Christine Kim explores fragility and memory through delicate paper-cut portraits. Each hauntingly beautiful work blends pencil drawing and nature-inspired cut paper, creating fragmented images that capture fleeting moments. Kim began her Cut Paper Portrait series as a way to move beyond purely traditional drawing into a more material-led practice. “This series began 10 years ago as an experiment in merging two mediums,” Kim tells My Modern Met.

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April 15, 2026

100-Year-Old Photos Capture Havasupai Tribe’s Everlasting Connection to Their Home in the Grand Canyon

The photographs produced by George Wharton James in the early 20th century position the Havasupai Tribe within a landscape that is both specific and expansive. Figures appear alongside Havasu Creek, within cultivated terrain, or framed by the Grand Canyon walls that embed them within the landscape. This connection is not incidental.

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