Design
August 3, 2018

Victorian-Era Color Theory Manual Reissued for the First Time in 115 Years

Long before people were creating color palettes from beloved films or matching food to their Pantone colors, Emily Noyes Vanderpoel was revolutionizing color theory. The Victorian collector, artist, and scholar published Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color in 1901 as a breakthrough manual for examining color. Her innovative methods were ahead of their time and seem more reminiscent of 21st-century Minimalism than turn-of-the-century Victorianism.

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Painting
August 1, 2018

Beautiful Oil Paintings of Cities at Night Twinkling With “Out-of-Focus” Beads of Light

At first glance, you might think the portfolio of Cape Town-based artist Philip Barlow is filled with stylized night photography. However, a closer look reveals that his work is actually rendered in oil paint. The artist’s incredible series, simply titled Night, comprises a collection of “out-of-focus” city scenes overlaid with flourishes of colorful, confetti-like blurs of neon light. In photography, this effect is called bokeh.

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Installation
July 31, 2018

Giant NASA Space Blanket Might Be Covering This Year’s Burning Man

It’s not just wooden sculptures and bonfires that get scorched at Burning Man. The festival’s 70,000+ attendees also feel the heat of the Black Rock desert’s extreme environment. With temperatures reaching up to 100°F (40°C) during the day, festival goers usually have few places to escape from the sun; however, Russian artist Alex Shtanuk has created a solution to the Nevada heat, with a 107,640-square-foot (10,000-square-meter) “NASA” blanket.

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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.