Travel
April 18, 2019

My Modern Met’s Art + Culture Guide to New York City

Surround Yourself with History in New York City   Take a ferry to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. You’ll have to travel across open waters in order to visit the grounds of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Through Statue Cruises, you can buy one ticket and visit both islands and take an audio tour.

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Art
April 17, 2019

These Giant Rorschach Paint Blots Are Actually Colored Pencil Drawings

At first glance, the work of Cj Hendry looks like colorful blobs of oil paint. However, they’re actually colored pencil drawings. The talented artist has been drawing lustrous blobs of paint for years, but her latest series—aptly titled Rorschach—adds a psychological layer to her work. The colorful series is based on inkblot tests (also known as the Rorschach test).

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Art
April 16, 2019

6 Contemporary Relief Artists Who Put a Modern Spin on This Ancient Art

Relief art is one of the earliest forms of sculpting, with the first records dating back to the cave art of the Upper Paleolithic, around 25,000 BCE. Over the centuries, it remained a popular art form in many cultures, from Ancient Egyptian wall carvings to the sculpted marble and bronze pictorial style of the Italian Renaissance. Today, many contemporary artists continue to practice the age-old sculptural technique, but often with a modern twist.

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Drawing
April 15, 2019

Artist Turns Shadows from Everyday Objects into a Cast of Playful Characters

Making shadow puppets on a wall is a childhood game we’re all familiar with, but Belgian filmmaker and artist Vincent Bal turns it into an art form. His playful shadow art illustrations are made by combining shadows cast from everyday objects with hand-drawn doodles to create a variety of charming characters. Bal began his ongoing “Shadowology” series in May 2016 when was working on a film script.

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My Modern Met

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