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.
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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Social Cause
July 1, 2026

Princess Kate Climbs Britain’s Three Highest Peaks to Raise Money for Cancer Charity

In early 2025, Catherine Elizabeth Mountbatten-Windsor, the Princess of Wales, announced she’s in remission after completing cancer treatment. Since then, she’s made a gradual return to public life and royal duties, and she recently celebrated her recovery by completing the Three Peaks Challenge. The gruelling challenge involves climbing the three highest peaks of Scotland, England, and Wales within 24 hours.

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Travel
June 27, 2026

Mongolian Eco-Lodge Invites 5 Local Creatives to Make Art in the Gobi Desert

Mongolia’s dramatic landscapes and centuries-old nomadic traditions have inspired artists for generations. And now, a new residency program in the heart of the Gobi Desert is giving contemporary creatives the chance to build on that legacy. Launched by Three Camel Lodge in partnership with the Arts Council of Mongolia, The Avdar Artist Residency Program has invited five Mongolian artists to the edge of Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park for a multi-week creative retreat.

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My Modern Met

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