Art

March 26, 2026

Fiber Artist Creates Delicately Woven “Windows” With Cut-Up Silk Paintings

In many ways, weaving came naturally to Élise Peroi. Ever since she was young, the French artist has been exposed to the artform, thanks in no small part to her mother, who was a seamstress and sewing teacher. “I spent a lot of time surrounded by fabric,” Peroi tells My Modern Met. “I loved the texture and the potential of what this flexible material could become.

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March 24, 2026

Monochrome Painting of Frida Kahlo Captures Her Soulful Essence in Blue

Few artists have understood the power of color quite like Frida Kahlo did. The late Mexican painter made bright hues part of her visual language, which she used to acknowledge both her heritage and her health struggles. Artist RAH Azul’s approach to color is different, but equally alluring. The painter works in shades of blue to create ornate portraits of Mexican icons and pop culture legends.

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March 23, 2026

This Exhibition Proves Just How Much Art, Technology, and the Human Body Intersect

On December 28, 1895, the public was introduced to two of the world’s most groundbreaking innovations: films and X-ray technology. That both inventions debuted on the same day seems to suggest some sort of shared history, one that radically altered the ways in which we understand and depict the human body. This is exactly what the Queens-based Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI)

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