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.
Music
July 20, 2026

Immersive Art and Electronic Music Come Together To Celebrate the Summer Solstice at LACMA [Interview]

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) marked the summer solstice (on June 21) with SPIRITS, a free public event featuring electronic music pioneer Richie Hawtin (also known as Plastikman) and acclaimed digital artist john gerrard. The evening combined a large-scale installation of Gerrard’s new solar artwork, SPIRITS, with a live performance by Hawtin, celebrating both the longest day of the year and the artwork’s solar cycle.

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Inspiring
July 15, 2026

People in Finland Use Pink Baskets To Show They Are Open To Finding Love at Supermarkets

Looking for love? You could swipe through dating apps, chat someone up at a bar, or ask friends to play cupid. Or, if you’re in Finland, you can simply carry a pink basket to let everyone know you’re open to meet someone while browsing the aisles. Content creator Roya Fox recently revealed the amusing initiative on Instagram, saying, “I’m in Finland right now and I’ve never seen anything like this.

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Inspiring
July 9, 2026

90-Year-Old Woman Explains Why the Happiest Years of Her Life Were Also the Hardest

Can you pinpoint a time when you were at your happiest? As we move through life’s ups and downs, it’s not always easy to recognize our best moments while we’re living them. Hoping to gain some wisdom from an older perspective, therapist and relationship coach Deborah Krevalin and her daughter, Samantha, asked Krevalin’s 90-year-old mother, Ruth Kenler, “When were you happiest in your life?

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Installation
July 7, 2026

70 Artists Transform Multiple Rooms at a Former LA Hospital Into a Celebration of Human Emotion

Hospitals are often seen as cold, clinical places, but in reality, they’re filled with moments of joy, fear, hope, grief, and love. Hospital of Emotions, a large-scale, site-specific exhibition at the historic St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles, completely reimagines what a hospital can be. Seventy artists and designers were invited to each transform a room in the formal medical campus.

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My Modern Met

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