Posts by Regina Sienra

Regina Sienra

Regina Sienra is a Staff Writer at My Modern Met. She is a Mexico City-based journalist, translator, and digital media professional with over a decade of experience creating bilingual content in English and Spanish. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications with a specialization in Journalism from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her work spans both hard and soft news, with a focus on arts, culture, and entertainment. She has a particular interest in highlighting emerging and independent musicians, a passion that earned her recognition as CBC Radio 3’s Fan of the Year in 2014. Sienra brings a broad pop culture perspective to her writing, with interests that include music, film, and cultural trends across media. When she isn't writing, she is watching films, attending concerts, and building out her growing vinyl collection.
Furniture
April 16, 2026

Sculptural Lamp Made With Layers of Opal Glass Inspired by a Rare Iridescent Sky

One spring afternoon, French-born, Vietnam-based designer Thomas Bình-Minh Vincent of BằNG looked up and noticed something special. The sky seemed to have an iridescent quality to it. While there was a scientific explanation for it, Vincent reveled in the dreamlike scene. There, he found inspiration for Dreamy Lớp, the latest iteration of BằNG’s Lớp sculptural lighting collection. His award-winning Lớp—which means “layers” in Vietnamese—had already made waves for its alluringly retro-futuristic design.

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Entertainment
April 14, 2026

Nicole Kidman Announces She’s Pursuing a New Career After Her Mother’s Death

Nicole Kidman has one of the most storied careers in Hollywood in recent decades. Having won an Oscar for The Hours (2002), she has landed four more Academy Award nominations and worked with renowned filmmakers, including Stanley Kubrick, Sofia Coppola, Baz Luhrmann, and Aaron Sorkin. As she continues to produce and star in exciting upcoming projects, Kidman has announced that she is pursuing a new career path: becoming a death doula.

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Architecture
April 13, 2026

Artist Works With Indigenous Communities To Build a “Water Sanctuary” on Salt Flats in Argentina

According to the World Economic Forum, extracting a ton of lithium—to manufacture rechargeable lithium-ion batteries for smartphones, laptops, and electric vehicles—requires around 2.2 million liters (almost 600,000 gallons) of water. While this amount would put any region of the world under environmental stress, it is particularly felt around the arid region of Salinas Grandes, a salt flat in northern Argentina that sits on one of the world’s largest lithium reserves.

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Acrylic Painting
April 9, 2026

Artist Visualizes the Universal “Inner Landscape“ of the Human Mind

For most artists, painting a human head is a matter of rendering a portrait of someone that captures their facial features and expressions. For Chilean-born, Portugal-based painter Katarina Abovic, it’s a far more introspective experiment; an attempt at translating and showing what goes on inside our brains. “For me, the head is never only a portrait,” Abovic tells My Modern Met.

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My Modern Met

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