Hotels
December 15, 2025

This Camera-Shaped Cabin Offers a Picture-Perfect Mountain Escape

From a life-sized ’90s-style Polly Pocket house to a bedroom straight out of a Van Gogh painting, Airbnb is full of playful stays that let you sleep inside all kinds of environments. One of the most picture-perfect listings yet is The Lens Lodge, a cabin shaped like a camera in Ellijay, Georgia, where you can actually sleep inside the lens perched on a mountaintop.

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Photography
December 14, 2025

Photographic Retrospective Offers an Evocative, Fantastical Journey Through Mexico in 200+ Images

When a 27-year-old Graciela Iturbide enrolled at the Centrode Estudios Cinematográficos in 1969, she had at first intended to become a film director. It didn’t take long, though, for Iturbide to abandon that path altogether and instead veer toward photography. Within a year, she was working under Mexican modernist Manuel Álvarez Bravo, accompanying him on various photographic journeys across Mexico.

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Dance
December 12, 2025

Misty Copeland Speaks About How Resilience Can Turn Pain Into Beauty

Dancer Misty Copeland made history in 2015, when she became the first African-American woman in the history of the American Ballet Theatre to be promoted to principal dancer. While she is truly a generational talent, her path to success wasn’t an easy one. Now that she has taken her final bow, Copeland is looking back at her career, reflecting on how resilience has been a driving force throughout her life.

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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.