Installation
May 10, 2014

Billowing Ruffles of Colorful Paper Sculptures Float Overhead

Delicate organic sculptures dance overhead in these captivating works by Netherland-based artist Peter Gentenaar. In many of his installations, the artist suspends his magnificent, large-scale paper pieces from the ceiling to create a surreal environment filled with abstract bursts of colorful clouds. The shapes and flowing gestures are reminiscent of organisms or cloth that is submerged in water.

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Design
May 6, 2014

My Modern Met's Top 10 Tips: How to Take the Best Instagram Photos

This post is in partnership with Cadillac. The first ever ELR: where electricity meets luxury. Check it out here. With 200 million active users who collectively share 60 million photos a day, Instagram isn't just a must-have photo application; it's a gigantic social network. Launched only a few years ago, in October 2010, it has quickly become the place most of us visit to share our daily lives.

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Art
May 4, 2014

Elegant Sculptures Formed From Deconstructed Instruments

Sculptor Koji Takei deconstructs everyday objects and reassembles them in new and exciting ways. As a fan of classical music, the Los Angeles-based artist focuses his subject matter on guitars, fragmenting their original parts and occasionally adding vases and trumpets to the mix. Now, a chair doesn't look like a chair anymore. We see every part of it at once, and it tricks our perception of what's three-dimensional and what's flattened.

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