Travel
July 27, 2018

10+ Weird and Wonderful Things You’ll Find at City Museum, St. Louis

While there’s many amazing contemporary art museums around the world, St. Louis celebrates creativity at a whole new level. After all, it’s the home of City Museum—a surreal, ever-changing urban playground made from found objects. Housed in a 600,000-square-foot former International Shoe Company factory, the museum was opened in 1997 by sculptor Bob Cassilly.

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Travel
July 27, 2018

Giant Pair of Hands Hold Up a Curving Pedestrian Bridge in Vietnam

A new bridge in Vietnam is causing quite a stir for its unusual design. Located outside of Danang at the Bà Nà Hills mountain resort, the golden bridge is seemingly suspended in the air by a pair of giant hands that lift it toward the heavens. The nearly 500-foot-long bridge opened in June as part of the continuing development of the Thien Thai Garden within the resort.

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Science
July 26, 2018

Zealandia Is the Continent You Never Knew Existed

In school, you were probably taught about seven continents—Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. But did you know that, according to geologists, there's another hidden continent? Zealandia, a term first coined in 1995, is the name of a piece of sunken continental subcrust off the coast of Australia. And now, researchers are saying that it qualifies as its own continent.

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Painting
July 26, 2018

Interview: Alexa Meade Reveals Behind the Scenes of Painting Ariana Grande for Her Music Video

Artist Alexa Meade blurs the line between 2D and 3D art through brilliant body painting. Throughout the years, her practice has perfected a type of delightful illusion that makes this oscillation possible. When you look at Meade’s work in still images, you assume that you’re viewing a conventional painting, but to see her art in person—or in the process of creation—is a whole different story.

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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.