Posts by Jessica Stewart

Jessica Stewart

Jessica Stewart is a Staff Editor and Digital Media Specialist for My Modern Met, as well as a curator and art historian. Since 2020, she is also one of the co-hosts of the My Modern Met Top Artist Podcast. She earned her MA in Renaissance Studies from University College London and now lives in Rome, Italy. She cultivated expertise in street art which led to the purchase of her photographic archive by the Treccani Italian Encyclopedia in 2014. When she’s not spending time with her three dogs, she also manages the studio of a successful street artist. In 2013, she authored the book "Street Art Stories Roma" and most recently contributed to "Crossroads: A Glimpse Into the Life of Alice Pasquini." You can follow her adventures online at @romephotoblog.
Inspiring
November 7, 2022

Woman Buys the House Her Mother Cleaned for 43 Years

As a little girl, Nichol Naranjo would often accompany her mother, Margaret Gaxiola, as she earned money cleaning houses. But one house was particularly meaningful. Pam Key-Linden lived in a stylish 3,000-square-foot home in the Ridgecrest neighborhood of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Naranjo still remembers sitting under a Thomasville desk in the office and imagining her future businesses while her mother polished and cleaned the furniture.

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Installation
November 3, 2022

Olafur Eliasson’s Massive Qatar Installation Invites People to Ponder Their Place in Nature

Qatar continues to transform its spaces into a public museum with a massive new installation by artist Olafur Eliasson. Situated in the desert outside of Al Zubarah and Ain Mohammed heritage sites in Doha, Shadows travelling on the sea of the day was commissioned 10 years ago and took four years to produce. It features 20 mirrored circle shelters that both provide respite from the Sun and also ask visitors to ponder their place in nature.

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Drawing
November 1, 2022

New Book Celebrates the Evolution of Urban Sketching Around the World

When journalist and illustrator Gabriel Campanario moved to Seattle in 2006, he started doing daily drawings of the city and posted them online. It was then that he discovered a community of sketchers around the world doing similar drawings of their cities. From there, Urban Sketchers was born. First, fifteen years ago, as an online community and then as a series of books that is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

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Renaissance Art
October 30, 2022

Who Was Hieronymus Bosch? Learn More About the Artist Behind ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’

There are some artists whose work is so powerful and so recognizable that their importance in history cannot be understated. Hieronymus Bosch is one of those artists. Known for his unique vision, bizarre characters, and outlandish hellscapes, he was a leading figure in late 15th- and early 16th-century art and has had a lasting influence that's trickled down to other artists for centuries.

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