Eva Baron

2 days ago | mymodernmet.com | Eva Baron

Much like a puzzle, an illusion demands patience. But it also rewards that endurance, offering, in return, a complete story from its singular and sometimes baffling parts. Fool Me Twice, a new exhibition staged at Robert Lange Studios (RLS), sets up such an agreement: visitors may initially be perplexed by these visual tricks, but those determined enough will decipher them—and to great satisfaction.

2 days ago | mymodernmet.com | Eva Baron

In Tehran, where Shamsia Hassani was born to Afghan refugees in 1988, restrictive policies denied her access to a formal arts education due to her immigrant status. It wasn’t until Hassani and her family returned to their native Afghanistan in 2005 that she could fully pursue that passion, earning degrees in the visual arts from Kabul University.

3 days ago | mymodernmet.com | Eva Baron

The task of an artist is to transform even the most ordinary material, phenomenon, or object into something laden with significance. For artist Lee Mingwei, this meant revisiting rice, a grain that, though unassuming in shape and size, serves as an integral part of Our Labyrinth.

3 days ago | wetheitalians.com | Eva Baron

BY: Eva BaronAt first glance, nothing appears to be amiss in the Church of Saint George Maggiore in Naples, Italy. Beside the main altar and flanked by a semicircle of white columns is a magnificent, 16th-century painting by Alessio D'Elia, depicting the life of San Severo. It's an unassuming composition until, almost like a window, the canvas swings open to reveal a vibrant fresco on the wall behind it.

4 days ago | mymodernmet.com | Eva Baron

My wife and I sent a wedding invite to Pope Francis for fun when we were engaged and this was the Vatican’s response. byu/Misther__ ininterestingasfuckWhen Reverend Ian Anderson and his now-wife Ash sent Pope Francis an invitation to their wedding in 2023, they weren’t expecting a response. The couple had about 25 extra wedding invites in reserve and decided to “make a list of celebrities to send [them out] to” in jest, as Ian told Newsweek in an interview.