Photo Contest
October 28, 2019

These Are the Best Photos of Education Around the World in 2019

Photographers from around the world celebrated education and learning by submitting their best images to the #Education2019 Photo Contest. Run by Agora, a free-to-use photo app, the contest has narrowed the field to its top 50 finalists, as voted on by the Agora community. Nearly 20,000 photographs were submitted to the contest, making for stiff competition. Collectively, the photos demonstrate that learning has no boundaries.

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Painting
October 26, 2019

Major Metropolises Reimagined as Surreal Cities That Are Topsy Turvy and Turned Sideways

Artist Cinta Vidal turns buildings on their sides in a series of surreal architecture paintings. In her reimagined worlds, major metropolises are topsy-turvy as residences and skyscrapers are arranged in compositions akin to M.C. Escher paintings. It’s not just the structures that are sideways and upside down, but the people, too. Yet they carry on with life as normal, acting as if nothing is strange about it.

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Resources
October 24, 2019

Step-by-Step Doodle Tutorials Make Complex Subjects Easy to Draw

When you’re unfamiliar with drawing, sketching a simple doodle can seem impossible. But with the helpful tutorials of Doodle Me This, you'll be putting pen to paper in no time. Created by a woman named Jenny, her charming drawings feature an array of subjects that are simplified into three or four easy-to-follow steps. By the end of her doodle tutorials, you'll understand how to sketch cartoonish versions of guitars, foxes, rocketships, cacti, and much more.

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Installation
October 23, 2019

These Larger-Than-Life Sculptures Are Like Mystical Goddesses of Music Festivals

South African multidisciplinary artist Daniel Popper is known for his colossal figurative sculptures and spectacular public art installations at art and music events around the world. From a gigantic female goddess at Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas to a 12-meter-tall (39-foot-tall) forest god at Boom Festival in Portugal, his larger-than-life works bring magic and fantasy to each place they inhabit. One of Popper’s most recent sculptures, Modem Swamp, is an epic, 8-meter-tall (26-foot-tall)

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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.