Technology
August 28, 2025

Adobe’s Digital Dress Wows as It Changes Patterns and Colors

If you’re one of those people who doesn’t like to repeat an outfit, thank Adobe. In 2023, the tech giant revealed Project Primrose, a digital dress that ensures you’ll always have something new to wear. Changing colors and shifting patterns, the dress is not only wearable technology, it’s also wearable art. Project Primose made its debut at Adobe MAX 2023, worn by one of the key individuals behind its development, Christine Dierk.

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Creative Products
August 28, 2025

IKEA Releases Clever ‘Meatball Plate’ for the Store’s World-Famous Food

If you’ve ever been to IKEA, you know that nothing beats indulging in a plate of their Swedish meatballs at their café after browsing furniture for hours. Now, aiming to marry their design philosophy with their world-famous dish, IKEA has released a clever Meatball Plate created in collaboration with Stockholm-based designer Gustaf Westman.

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Art
August 27, 2025

See Ai Weiwei’s Largest-Ever U.S. Exhibition in Seattle Before It’s Gone

For four decades, Chinese-born artist-activist Ai Weiwei has created work that questions power, advocates for human rights and freedom of speech, and challenges authoritarianism. His work, which implores us to interrogate history, society, and culture—often with humor and a bit of goading—is so impactful that Weiwei was detained by Chinese authorities in 2011 for 81 days, and he’s been living in exile from China since 2015. The Seattle Art Museum (SAM)

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Acrylic Painting
August 27, 2025

Anthropomorphic Bears and Bunnies Stand in for Humans in Paintings Commenting on Modern Life

Life is nothing without contrasts. Things can be sad, but they can also be funny. Someone can be sincere yet weave sarcasm into their response. Los Angeles-based artist Luke Chueh explores this type of duality—and contradictions—in his solo exhibition titled Making Light of the Darkness, now on view at Harman Projects in New York City.

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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.