Posts by Eva Baron

Eva Baron

Eva Baron is a Contributing Writer at My Modern Met. Currently based in Queens, Eva graduated with a degree in Art History and English from Swarthmore College. She subsequently worked at art galleries and book publishers, including Phaidon, one of the world's oldest publishers of the creative arts. She has since transitioned into a career as a full-time writer, with a special focus on artist, gallery, and exhibition profiles. She has written content for Elle Decor, Publishers Weekly, Louis Vuitton, Maison Margiela, and more. Beyond writing, Eva enjoys beading jewelry, replaying old video games, going on marathon walks across New York, and doing the daily crossword.
Installation
April 27, 2025

Iridescent Installation Catches the Shifting Light of the Californian Desert

In Korean culture, bottaris have long served as traditional sacks, their fabric-encased bodies perfect for gathering and storing belongings. Though maybe unassuming at first, these bundles are a prominent theme throughout Kimsooja’s creative practice, whose work revolves around cultural symbolism, light, movement, and interconnectedness. The Korean artist’s newest installation is, as she says, a “bottari of light,” specially created for this year’s Desert X exhibition in California’s Coachella Valley.

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Inspiring
April 22, 2025

Loving Family Fosters and Adopts Children With Complex Medical Conditions

Over in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Caleb and Ruchala Bone always knew they wanted a big family. How that family would ultimately look, however, changed after their first son, Griffin, was born with a heart condition in 2022. At only 3 months old, Griffin needed open heart surgery at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, where the couple learned how children with complex medical issues often end up in the foster care system.

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Architecture
April 21, 2025

World’s Most Unusual and Innovative Churches: From a Chapel on a Volcano to a Cathedral Lined With Bones

When asked to imagine a church, you may envision a modest, wooden building with a central steeple, or perhaps an elegant, Gothic-inspired structure similar to the Notre-Dame. What you probably wouldn’t think of, however, are the churches featured in a recent video by Great Big Story. From a chapel carved into a cliff face to a cathedral overflowing with bones, these unusual churches challenge our expectations of what a place of worship should look like.

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Sculpture
April 18, 2025

Quantum Physicist Turned Artist Creates Innovative “Disappearing” Sculptures

Sculptor Julian Voss-Andreae hasn’t always been a practicing artist. Before moving to the United States in 2001, to pursue a BFA in sculpture, he was a quantum physicist—first at the Freie University Berlin and the University of Edinburgh, and later at the University of Vienna. While there, he and his team conducted a seminal experiment now commonly featured in many physics textbooks, demonstrating the quantum behavior for “buckyball” particles.

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My Modern Met

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