Art
February 10, 2012

New Light and Sound Show at Chicago’s Millennium Park

Tonight, if you're in Chicago, make sure you head down to Millennium Park at 6pm to watch “The Bean” and the surrounding AT&T plaza transform into a digital canvas of light and geometrical form! Chicago-based artistic ensemble Luftwerk has created the first-ever site-specific video and sound installation for the area with dramatic images and colors set to music composed by Owen Clayton Condon from Chicago Third Coast Percussion. It's called Luminous Field.

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Portrait Photography
February 7, 2012

Decades of Time Split Into One Portrait

The aging process is not often welcomed with open arms. As we get older, we tend to ignore certain birthdays, cover the gray in our hair, and buy skin creams to eliminate wrinkles. Photographer Bobby Neel Adams confronts these natural concepts of aging, circumstance, and visual transformations of the human body in many of his projects. Specifically, AgeMaps demands a certain attention to the passage of time.

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Art
February 4, 2012

Gorgeous New Mural at Facebook

If you didn't know the name David Choe, you probably do now. A few days ago, The New York Times reported that the San Jose, California-based graffiti artist was paid in stock for creating artwork at Facebook, meaning that when Facebook stock trades publicly later this year, he stands to make an astounding $200 million.

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Art
February 2, 2012

Creating Remarkable Poetry Through Subtraction

TIME magazine recently revealed its 30 Must-See Tumblr Blogs which includes the highly creative, user-generated Newspaper Blackout. This blog is the brainchild of Austin-based artist and writer Austin Kleon. The main objective of the Tumblr is to display poetry through the omission of words in already printed text. Essentially, it is poetry by way of censorship, executed with the aid of a black sharpie.

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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.