Academy
April 29, 2025

Give the Gift of Creativity This Mother’s Day With My Modern Met Academy Online Art Courses

How do you find the perfect gift for someone who’s given you everything? With Mother’s Day just around the corner, the question feels more meaningful than ever. This year, instead of flowers or chocolates, why not give the gift of creativity? An online art class offers a unique and memorable way to celebrate a mother’s passion, spark new inspiration, and create lasting memories.

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Street Photography
April 28, 2025

“Hyperlong Exposure” Photos Poetically Weave the Past and Present Together

Compared to other artistic media, photography is far more capable of time travel. Its ability to capture our past with such astonishing immediacy is unique, serving as more representational portraits of historic lifestyles. This is why Garry Pycroft is drawn to the medium, and also why he feels compelled to reinvent it. Since 2020, the British digital artist has amassed a remarkable collection of old postcards dating back to the early 1900s.

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Photography
April 28, 2025

Can You Guess Which Year a Photo Is From? This Daily Photo Challenge Puts You to the Test

If you consider yourself a proud history buff, you might want to test your knowledge in a fun new game called Which Year Daily Challenge. Each day, you’ll be shown five photos taken between 1850 and 2025, and your task is to guess the year each one was captured. The closer your guess is to the correct year, the more points you’ll earn.

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Installation
April 27, 2025

Iridescent Installation Catches the Shifting Light of the Californian Desert

In Korean culture, bottaris have long served as traditional sacks, their fabric-encased bodies perfect for gathering and storing belongings. Though maybe unassuming at first, these bundles are a prominent theme throughout Kimsooja’s creative practice, whose work revolves around cultural symbolism, light, movement, and interconnectedness. The Korean artist’s newest installation is, as she says, a “bottari of light,” specially created for this year’s Desert X exhibition in California’s Coachella Valley.

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My Modern Met

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