Art

April 13, 2026

Artist Preserves Memories by Weaving Old Family Photos Onto Vintage Potholder Looms [Interview]

In Pam Connolly’s mind, childhood isn’t simply a state of being. It’s also a landscape full of creative possibilities, teeming with memories that demand interpretation. For more than 30 years, Connolly has done exactly that, returning to her childhood over and over again to mine her experiences for artistic meaning. What she finds herself revisiting most often, though, is the furniture store her parents owned.

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April 10, 2026

Inside de Young Museum’s New Indigenous American Art Galleries

The de Young Museum has unveiled its reimagined Arts of Indigenous America galleries, offering a renewed look at one of the most significant collections of its kind in the United States. Part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the institution has collected works from across the Americas since 1895. The updated installation builds on that history while reconsidering how these works are presented. Museums have long struggled with how to exhibit Indigenous art.

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April 9, 2026

Artist Creates His Own Renaissance Sculpture-Inspired Drawings Made of Millions of Dots

Ukrainian artist Rostislaw Tsarenko creates intricate drawings of fantastical characters and surreal scenes, often spending up to 60 hours on a single piece. Using thousands of tiny dots and delicate crosshatching, his painstaking process requires real dedication—but the results are totally worth it. Tsarenko describes his main challenge as “conveying the realism of thoughts and ideas through dots, no matter how surreal they are.” Looking at his work, you understand exactly what he means.

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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

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.