Posts by Eva Baron

Eva Baron

Eva Baron is a Queens–based Contributing Writer at My Modern Met. Eva graduated with a degree in Art History and English from Swarthmore College, and has previously worked in book publishing and at galleries. She has since transitioned to a career as a full-time writer, having written content for Elle Decor, Publishers Weekly, Louis Vuitton, Maison Margiela, and more. Beyond writing, Eva enjoys beading jewelry, replaying old video games, and doing the daily crossword.
Painting
August 18, 2025

Simple Pastel Paintings Celebrate Everyday Life With Quiet Tenderness

For those living between multiple countries, “home” is a very nebulous concept. This is the case, at least, for Danym Kwon. After more than a decade in California, the Korean-American artist returned to her native Seoul in 2022, only to realize how much the Bay Area had shaped her sense of place and belonging. In her latest solo exhibition, Kwon mines those feelings through quiet, meditative paintings that encapsulate “home.

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Art
August 15, 2025

Quiet Meditative Scenes Bursting With Creative Color and Refreshing Texture

Even for the most skilled artist, it can be difficult to replicate hand-drawn details on a digital scale. There’s a tenderness to traditional art, where every layer, brushstroke, and line betrays hints of the person that produced them. Perhaps that’s why Bao Pham eventually moved away from digital art and gravitated back toward traditional media, whether it be acrylic, gouache, watercolor, or colored pencil.

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Oil Painting
August 13, 2025

Oil Paintings Explore the Childhood Experience of Going Back to School

After a long, balmy summer, it’s now almost time to go back to school. Soon, children will trickle into classrooms; dig into homework assignments; bolt across the schoolyard during recess; snap their pictures for the yearbook; and much, much more until next summer. These are all things that are well-known to us, whether they spark trepidation, excitement, nostalgia, or a mix of all three.

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Astrophotography
August 12, 2025

NASA Releases Closest-Ever Photos of the Sun Shot With the Parker Solar Probe

Since its original launch in 2018, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has completed several orbits around the sun, gradually moving closer and closer with each trip. In 2021, it became the first spacecraft to fly through the corona (the sun’s upper atmosphere), facing what NASA calls “brutal heat and radiation” for the sake of invaluable interstellar insights. But it was only late last year that the probe achieved one of its greatest feats to date.

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