Posts by Sage Helene

Sage Helene

Sage Helene is a contributing writer at My Modern Met. She earned her MFA in Photography and Related Media and an MST in Art Education 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.
Architecture
May 25, 2026

Photographer Compiles Thousands of Photos to Meticulously Document Europe’s Churches

For more than two decades, German photographer Markus Brunetti has pursued a project that feels equally archaeological and photographic. Through his ongoing FACADES series, the artist documents Europe’s cathedrals, basilicas, monasteries, synagogues, and cloisters with astonishing clarity and scale. Brunetti creates architectural studies that reveal the structural ornamentation and craftsmanship embedded within centuries-old facades. Brunetti flattens perspective and removes the optical distortion that usually accompanies towering cathedrals.

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Style
May 20, 2026

Swatch Unveils Colorful ‘Royal Pop’ Pocket Watches and Crowds Cause a Frenzy To Get Them

Swiss watchmaking has always balanced tradition with reinvention. The new collaboration between Swatch and Audemars Piguet pushes that tension even further. Called Royal Pop, the eight-piece collection transforms the iconic Royal Oak into a colorful line of wearable pocket watches inspired by 1980s street style. Swatch and Audemars Piguet designed the collection by blending the Royal Oak (one of the most famous luxury sports watches) with Swatch’s playful POP watches from the ’80s.

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Art
May 18, 2026

Major Exhibition Surveys 60 Years of Chicano Art Across the United States

At The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside, California, a new exhibition reframes Chicano art not as a parallel narrative to American art history, but as one of its defining forces. We the People: Chicano Art in the U.S.A. gathers 126 works by 61 artists in a sweeping presentation that explores migration, labor, cultural memory, identity, and everyday life through generations of Chicano artistic practice.

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Photo Contest
May 13, 2026

Haunting and Hopeful Images Win the 2026 Environmental Photography Award

The winners of the 2026 Environmental Photography Award reveal a planet caught between fragility and resilience. Organized annually by the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, the competition celebrates photographers using their cameras to spotlight the urgent environmental issues shaping the world today. Selected from roughly 10,000 submissions, this year’s winning images span five categories—Changemakers, Forests, Humanity vs Nature, Ocean, and Polar Regions.

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