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.
Nature
August 2, 2024

Hypnotic Videos of Insects Crawling on Tiny Worlds of Blooming Flowers

Japanese artist Yoshiyuki Katayama highlights the relationship between insects and flowers through exceptional videos. For eight years, he has been adding new work to his ongoing Umwelt series. The work merges a time-lapse video of flowers blooming together with insects crawling on the plants in slow motion. This makes for a dynamic composite as the slow motion and time-lapse create a hypnotic video.

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Sports
July 31, 2024

Gravity-Defying Photo of Surfer Gabriel Medina Might Be the Best Photo of the Olympics

Embed from Getty Images As the 2024 Summer Olympics are underway, all eyes are on Paris, but an incredible photo is drawing attention nearly 10,000 miles away. That's because 48 athletes from the surf competition are actually competing in Tahiti, a French Polynesian island in the South Pacific. Photographer Jerome Brouillet is on hand to photograph the action, and his gravity-defying image of one surfer has made waves around the world.

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Sculpture
July 26, 2024

Artist Raises the (Sand) Bar With Her Creative Beach Sculptures

Many of us spend summers on the beach, creating sand castles with our families as children. But did you know that it could also be a career? For sculptor Janel Hawkins, it's been a fulfilling way to stay creative and spread joy while teaching skills to others. As the founder of Alabama-based Sand Castle University, she teaches willing students on the Gulf Coast everything they need to know to create stunning sand sculptures.

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