Art

August 15, 2025

Quiet Meditative Scenes Bursting With Creative Color and Refreshing Texture

Even for the most skilled artist, it can be difficult to replicate hand-drawn details on a digital scale. There’s a tenderness to traditional art, where every layer, brushstroke, and line betrays hints of the person that produced them. Perhaps that’s why Bao Pham eventually moved away from digital art and gravitated back toward traditional media, whether it be acrylic, gouache, watercolor, or colored pencil.

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August 13, 2025

20-Foot-Tall Remix ‘The Thinker’ Surrounded by Trash Pushes UN Leaders To Ratify Plastic Treaty [Interview]

Artist Benjamin Von Wong is known for his incredible installations dealing with environmental issues like e-waste and the overabundance of single-use plastic. While these issues are certainly critical to the long-term survival of our planet, his latest installation touches on something that has the potential to wreak havoc on our health: microplastics.

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August 12, 2025

Artist Looks Inward To Create Mind-Bending Paintings That Explore Mental Health [Interview]

For Maite Autrique, painting is more than a creative effort—it’s something that saved her life. The Mexican artist defines work as “raw, emotional, and deeply personal.” But just because something is rooted in personal experience, doesn’t mean it’s bound to stay in the realm of realistic or figurative art. Instead, Autrique takes an oneiric route, meditating on feelings and events she has faced through mind-bending compositions that evoke a form of contemporary surrealism.

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August 6, 2025

Artist Faces Her Fear of the Ocean by Painting Powerful Crashing Waves

The ocean covers about 71% of Earth’s surface, making it one of the most expansive features of our planet. Standing before it, it’s easy to feel small, but this vastness also creates a sense of connection to something much larger than ourselves. Auckland-based artist Andreea Berindei captures this idea in her incredible acrylic paintings of crashing waves.

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My Modern Met

Celebrating creativity and promoting a positive culture by spotlighting the best sides of humanity—from the lighthearted and fun to the thought-provoking and enlightening.