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May 11, 2020

The British Museum Puts Nearly 2 Million Artworks Online for Free Public Use

The British Museum has just unveiled a unique, behind-the-scenes opportunity for visitors while the museum is closed due to coronavirus safety regulations—they’ve expanded their online collection to include nearly 4.5 million objects. To add to the overwhelming number of accessible images in their digital collections, the public institution has now permitted nearly two million of these uploads to be downloaded for non-commercial use under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

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Painting
May 10, 2020

Artist Fills Her Sketchbook With Vibrant Floral Gardens That Bloom From Her Brush

Painter Sonal Nathwani creates immersive gardens inside her sketchbooks. Each double-page spread contains a fresh arrangement of flowers, leaves, and stems, which transform the papers into bucolic portals. These romantic illustrations have an incredible energy about them, and they appear to bloom naturally from the artist's brush. Although she currently resides in Vienna, Austria, Nathwani was born to Indian parents in Africa and grew up in England.

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Drawing
May 9, 2020

Powerful “Paper” Illustrations Visualize How Global Warming Has Changed American Lives

At first glance, the work of Estonia-based illustrator Eiko Ojala looks like it’s crafted from paper, but there is more than meets the eye here. Each image is actually created digitally. Ojala’s textured 3D compositions are composed of layers of colorful shapes and trick-of-the-eye shadows and highlights. The striking minimalist style not only looks great, but his work visualizes powerful messages, too. His Climate Changed series is no exception.

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Funny
May 8, 2020

Husband Keeps Hilariously Photobombing Wife’s Zoom Meetings Dressed in Silly Costumes

The coronavirus quarantine has forced many folks to convert their dining rooms into an office. So if you and your significant other are both working from home, congratulations. You now have a new officemate. Couple this with the silliness that comes from being hunkered down at home for months, and you have a potentially hilarious situation on your hands—that's exactly what happened to Cara Fields.

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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.