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April 10, 2026

Winners of the 2026 World Press Photo Contest Present an Urgent Visual Record of Global Upheaval

Photojournalists bear an outstanding, if not essential, duty: to document the world with clarity, accuracy, and, perhaps above all else, humanity. That ethos sits at the heart of World Press Photo’s annual competition, which provides an urgent visual record of life across almost every continent through photojournalism. Now, the nonprofit organization has officially announced the winners of its 2026 World Press Photo Contest, meticulously selected from more than 57,000 images submitted across 141 countries.

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April 10, 2026

Inside de Young Museum’s New Indigenous American Art Galleries

The de Young Museum has unveiled its reimagined Arts of Indigenous America galleries, offering a renewed look at one of the most significant collections of its kind in the United States. Part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the institution has collected works from across the Americas since 1895. The updated installation builds on that history while reconsidering how these works are presented. Museums have long struggled with how to exhibit Indigenous art.

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April 9, 2026

Artist Creates His Own Renaissance Sculpture-Inspired Drawings Made of Millions of Dots

Ukrainian artist Rostislaw Tsarenko creates intricate drawings of fantastical characters and surreal scenes, often spending up to 60 hours on a single piece. Using thousands of tiny dots and delicate crosshatching, his painstaking process requires real dedication—but the results are totally worth it. Tsarenko describes his main challenge as “conveying the realism of thoughts and ideas through dots, no matter how surreal they are.” Looking at his work, you understand exactly what he means.

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April 9, 2026

Artist Visualizes the Universal “Inner Landscape“ of the Human Mind

For most artists, painting a human head is a matter of rendering a portrait of someone that captures their facial features and expressions. For Chilean-born, Portugal-based painter Katarina Abovic, it’s a far more introspective experiment; an attempt at translating and showing what goes on inside our brains. “For me, the head is never only a portrait,” Abovic tells My Modern Met.

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