Posts by Emma Taggart

Emma Taggart

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, where she fostered a career in the arts, dabbling in everything from illustration and animation to music and ceramics. She now calls Edinburgh home, where she continues to work as a writer, illustrator, and ceramicist. Her ceramics, often combined with hand-painted animation frames, capture playful scenes that celebrate freedom and movement, and blend her passion for art with storytelling. Her illustrations have been featured in The Berliner Magazine as well as other print magazines and a poetry book.
Art
September 4, 2026

Artist Dawn Ng Melts Blocks of Ice and Vibrant Pigment To Capture the Passage of Time

Born and raised in Singapore where there’s no real change in temperature or daylight between the seasons, artist Dawn Ng aims to make the passage of time more visible. She uses melting ice, pigments, photography, and film to explore gradual transformation and the impermanence of life. Ng’s striking Into Air series, created between 2017 and 2023, features large sculptural blocks of ice layered with sand and colorful pigments.

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Architecture
September 1, 2026

Thousands of Volunteers Pull a 400-Ton Castle in Japan Back to Its Original Site

How many people does it take to move a castle? Turns out, it’s around 4,000. Hirosaki Castle in Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan, is on the move again after it was relocated from its original position to protect it from earthquakes 11 years ago. Over the last weekend of August, groups of around 80 members of the public took turns helping to manually shift the 400-ton (800,000-pound)

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Interview
August 30, 2026

Expressive Paintings Explore What It Feels Like to Leave Your Comfort Zone [Interview]

New York-based multidisciplinary artist Yoorim Ko (aka Korchive) visualizes her inner world with expressive color and fluid forms. Her layered work—spanning painting, installation, and mixed media—explores emotion, memory, and the subconscious experience, translating deeply personal experiences into vivid abstract forms. Ko describes her practice as “examining the tension between surface and inscape, the visible self and an inner essence that resists capture.

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