Posts by Sage Helene

Sage Helene

Sage Helene is a contributing writer at My Modern Met. She earned her MFA Photography and Related Media from the Rochester Institute of Technology. She has since written for several digital publications, including Float and UP Magazine. In addition to her writing practice, Sage works as an Art Educator across both elementary and secondary levels, where she is committed to fostering artistic curiosity, inclusivity, and confidence in young creators.
History
January 6, 2026

Linguists Are Creating the First-Ever Complete Dictionary of Ancient Celtic Languages

In an age when technology is used to resurrect forgotten worlds from fragments of data, a team of linguists is turning the clock back nearly 2,500 years to do something equally ambitious: piece together the scattered remains of ancient Celtic speech into the first comprehensive dictionary of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland. Led by Dr.

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Ancient Art
January 2, 2026

Ancient Math Is Hidden in 8,000-Year-Old Floral Pottery Patterns

Long before numbers were written down or equations were formalized, human beings were already thinking mathematically; not on tablets or scrolls, but in clay. New research into some of the world’s oldest known floral pottery, conducted by team from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, suggests that what was once seen as a simple decoration may actually be one of the earliest expressions of mathematical thought, quietly embedded in art from more than 8,000 years ago.

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Street Art
December 29, 2025

Banksy’s Latest Mural Shines a Light on Unhoused Children During the Holidays

Embed from Getty Images Just before Christmas, Londoners awoke to Banksy’s latest mural. In this new, powerful piece, two children in winter coats lie on the ground, gazing upward, one reaching their arm out toward a distant star. The artwork stretches across the side of a row of garages in Bayswater, near bustling Queensway and the edges of Kensington Gardens.

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Art
December 8, 2025

Beeple Reimagines Elon Musk and Other Tech Titans as Robot Dogs Pooping Out Their POVs

At Art Basel Miami this year, digital artist Beeple introduced an installation that feels all at once humorous, unsettling, and strangely inevitable. His work, Regular Animals, features a pack of animatronic robot dogs fitted with hyperrealistic silicone masks of figures who loom large over our cultural and technological landscapes: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and even Beeple himself.

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My Modern Met

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