Cityscape Photography
August 10, 2026

Deserted Diners and Muted Pastel Scenes Captured on the Roadsides of the American West

For photographer Helene Havard, travel is a way of exploring how places shape us. Through her signature pastel color palette, she has turned very real and active locations into dreamy, Wes Anderson-like sites where time doesn’t seem to pass. Having captured the cheerful Santa Cruz Boardwalk and Santa Monica Pier, Havard has set her sights on a diametrically opposite subject.

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Photography
August 8, 2026

Photographer’s Lifelong Love of Flowers Blossoms in Exhibition Documenting Art and Horticulture

For Edward Steichen, the garden was never separate from art. The celebrated photographer, painter, and plant breeder spent much of his life cultivating flowers with the same intensity and curiosity that he brought to the camera. Now, Edward Steichen and the Garden at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, brings this lesser-known dimension of his practice into focus.

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Woodworking
August 7, 2026

Mexican Artist Carves a Fully Playable Wooden Foosball Table Decorated With Mayan and Aztec Motifs

Around the world, foosball tables have quite a homogenous look—a green surface that evokes a soccer field, a wooden frame with metallic handles, and two teams sporting different colors to tell them apart. Some builders take a few creative liberties, such as giving players specific uniforms, often as a nod to the local leagues.

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Hotels
August 7, 2026

Bowl-Shaped Roof Embraces Rainfall To Win 2026 Hotel Design Competition

Melbourne-based architect Steven Chu was awarded the Grand Prize in the 2026 NOT A HOTEL International Design Competition this past spring. The founder of Artefact Architects submitted a design proposal titled Sound of Rain, which was selected from over 1,000 entries from 112 countries worldwide. The project is set to be built by the boutique hotel brand on Yakushima, a forested island off the southern coast of Kyushu, Japan.

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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.