All images Kevin Krautgartner, shared with permission

Nothing puts the enormous power of nature into perspective quite like the energy of our planets oceans. On a reef off of the North Short of Oahu, Hawaii, some of the worlds most famously thrilling and dangerous waves present enticing conditions for surfing in an area known as the Banzai Pipeline. Photographer Kevin Krautgartner celebrates the mesmerizing, barrel-shaped breakers in Pipeline, a series of aerial images highlighting the formidable force of water crashing and whorling along the shore.

Personally, waves always get my attention when Im close to a coastline or the ocean, Krautgartner says. For me, they are especially unique because they are a natural phenomenon that can create a sense of awe and wonder creating a rhythmic pattern that can be both soothing and exhilarating. Going beyond documentation, he focuses on details like structure and form, examining the elemental interactions between light, water, and air. Taken from an aerial perspective and devoid of figures or landmarks for scale, he emphasizes how no two moments are the same: Since nature is in a constant state of change, be it short or long term, each of my works captures a moment that will never happen again.

Krautgartner recently released ...

Show Off Your Music Taste With One of These Ingenious Blueprint Posters

Sometimes, our homes are in need of a refresh. However, rather than switching out your furniture, you can quickly change the aesthetic with some new wall art. At My Modern Met Store, we carry an array of unique posters that will surely make a big impact on your decor. From celebrations of music genres to the history of the sneaker, each of these products is a statement piece that will spark conversation.

Two of our newest additions explore the development of two major music genres. The Hip-Hop Love Blueprint Poster, for instance, encapsulates the fascinating developments of hip-hop music across decades, all within the diagram of a classic turntable. Similarly, fans of alternative and independent music can now show off their love and knowledge with a visual history of the genre, all contained within the circuit board of an early transistor radio. While educational, these posters are also extremely beautiful to look at and are both screen printed with metallic gold ink.

Or, if you prefer a poster that delves into a different interest, we may have that too. Movie buffs will get a kick out of the Film Map Poster, for example. It reimagines a vintage Los Angeles street map with the titles of over 900 famous movies. Likewise, the Sneakerheads Poster captures some of the greatest moments in the history of the modern sneaker.

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It sounds like things are getting ugly in this household

And its getting ugly between the kids.

But did this mom go too far in punishing her son?

Lets see what happened in the story below.

AITA for punishing my son by taking away his phone after he deleted my daughters Minecraft world?

I (41f) am married to my husband (42m) and we have two kids: our son (11m) who we will call Zach, and daughter (9f) who we will call Lizzie (not their real names for privacy reasons).

Lizzie LOVES the video game Minecraft, and has played it nearly every day since we bought it for her on Xbox for her 8th birthday. She is a super artsy kid and loves to create extravagant buildings and structures in Minecraft, and she has shown me her amazing creations many times.

Two days ago, she was playing downstairs and Zach asked if he could play with her. Lizzie didnt let him play even though we have two Xbox controllers, and Zach was very angry for not letting her play. I dont know why Lizzie didnt let him play, I was in the kitchen upstairs.

Yesterday, when my husband and I were still sleeping, Lizzie started screaming and crying downstairs. She always wakes up early to play. Her world with all of her creations is gone, and she told us between sobs that she cant get it back, and she thinks that Zach deleted it last night.

When Zach woke up, I asked him if he deleted Lizzies world, and he started laughing and said that she should have let him play with her. I was livid. Lizzie loves that game so much and her creations were beautiful, and now theyre gone forever, not to mention that she is devastated that the world she has spent over a year on is gone forever.

I took my son...

Everyone knows that Georges Seurats Un dimanche aprs-midi lle de la Grande Jatte, or A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, resides at the Art Institute of Chicago. Or at least everyone whos seen Ferris Buellers Day Off knows it. The Art Institute appears as just one of the implausibly varied attractions of Chicago enjoyed by that films titular hooky-playing high-school senior and his friends even the anxiety-ridden Cameron, drops from a moment out of his troubled life while transfixed by Seurats most famous painting. The closer he looks, the less discernible its genteel Parisian figures become, dissolving into fields of colored dots.

George Seurat spent most of his adult life thinking about color, says gallerist-Youtuber James Payne, studying theories and working out systematically how one color, placed in a series of dots next to those of another, creates a whole different color when it hits the retina of the human eye.

A brush makes watercolors appear on a white sheet of paper. An everyday object takes shape, drawn with precision by an artists hand. Then two, then three, then four Superimposed, condensed, multiplied, thousands of documentary drawings in successive series come to life on the screen, composing a veritable visual symphony of everyday objects. The accumulation, both fascinating and dizzying, takes us on a trip through time. Thats how the Vimeo channel of Girelle Productions prefaces the animation Grands Canons (aka Big Guns) by French filmmaker Alain Biet. Its a wild ride, a painstaking feat in experimental filmmaking. Enjoy it above.

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If you think this is just another AITA post about wedding drama, think again by the end of this post I had legitimate full-body chills of worry for OPs safety and happiness.

OP is a full-time stay-at-home mom of three kids. Her husband works full time and expects OP to do all of the kids and housework.

Heres the situation. My husband [36] and I [30] have 3 kids [2, 4, 7] . Im a sahm (full time) and I take care of the kids while my husband works (full time).

Recently they were invited to her sisters wedding, and while OP wanted to go, her husband was against it. He said he had to work and, since they had a babysitter rob them, refuses to allow another one in the house.

My sisters wedding was last week. We live hours away which is an issue for my husband. When we first got the invite he told me that he wasnt going, that he will stay for the kids and suggested I do the same.

Since the wedding doesnt allow kids and my husband doesnt want to hire a babysitter after the one we had robbed us.

We had gone back and forth on this. but I insisted on going since thats my only sister and I want to attend what might be a once in a lifetime event for her.

He chuckled at my statement then we stopped talking about it.

OP was determined to go, so she asked a friend to look after their kids and booked a plane ticket.

As the wedding was approaching, He brought it up and told me to miss it and stay with the kids. I suggested that since no babysitters were allowed then, I could get my friend to stay with the kids but he refused. I ignored him, spoke to my friend who agreed to watch the kids and booked a ticket to travel to my sisters town in time.

My husband found out and went...

I want to sleep and dream the life of trees, beings from the muted world

We see ourselves in them. We lean on them for lessons on how to be more human and what resilience means. They are our timekeepers, our spiritual guides, our kin.

I spend a great deal of time in an old-growth forest awned by trees older than me by centuries. Trees beneath which thousands of other humans have walked on feet that are no more, carrying their sorrows and their dreams in hearts that are now soil. Trees that have witnessed world wars and weddings, that have been growing since before we built the bomb and decoded the human genome, before Einstein dreamt up relativity and Nina Simone dreamt up Mississippi Goddam, some of them alive when Bach was alive.

I often wonder what they would say if they could speak. But perhaps they would say nothing at all perhaps they would speak a truth beyond words.

That is what poet Dorianne Laux intimates in her lovely poem The Life of Trees, found in her collection Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems (public library) and read here to the...

While Pierre Allains Soap Opera may draw conceptual inspiration from the corporate-sponsored origins of that titular genre, it is the numb and haunted tone of his work that more closely evokes the

I guess some folks just dont want to be recognized for their accomplishmentseven if that means losing a lot of weight and being healthier overall.

But they must have their reasons, right?

Check out this story and see if you think this person is being an a**hole for how theyre behaving.

AITA for telling people to stop congratulating me for losing weight?

I have recently lost a lot of weight. Ive been fat since childhood. Growing up fat was hard.

Youre the brunt of jokes, mean and snide comments, any little pain you have at the doctors must be because of your weight. Youre not allowed to complain about being too hot in the summer. Your food choices are scrutinised to death: eat a salad, well done!!!! Its so healthy!!!!

Good on your for trying to lose weight!!! Eat a burger? Thats why youre fat. You should try swapping the bun for lettuce. You should swap your fries for a salad. Are you sure you dont want something else? Christ on a bike, it was exhausting.

I got to a point in my 20s where I decided I didnt care anymore. I was fat and that was that. I stopped efforts for intentional weight loss and started moving my body because I enjoyed it and it alleviated my depressive episodes. I also went vegan for lent 3 years ago and never stopped after the 40 days.

Ive subsequently lost a lot of weight. I have weighed myself in about 5 years, but Ive lost a lot of weight. Went from size 18/20 to 10/12. Im ambivalent about the weight loss, angry about the treatment of it.

People are nicer to me. Like theyll greet me where they didnt before. I walk into a store and the s...

Carrie Mae Weems on March 10 was named the winner of the 2023 Hasselblad Award, becoming the first Black woman in history to win the prize, which includes 2 million Swedish kronor (US $189,000). The

Brendan Fraser Wins Best Actor Oscar for a Role He Calls a Creative Lifeline

 

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Barlow found international acclaim in the early 2010s after retiring from a successful teaching career and went on to represent Britain at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Her site-specific sculptures evoke the destructed landscapes of London in the immediate aftermath of World War II, when Barlow was a child, suggesting death, gore, and violations of the human body. Just as Barlow forced the viewer to make sense of her sculptures subject matter, the artist also created optical illusions with weight and structure. She combined heavy materials such as cement and metal with low-cost commodities including styrofoam and pl...</p>

Five years ago, artists Adam Pendleton, Rashid Johnson, Julie Mehretu, and Ellen Gallagher purchased Nina Simones childhood home in Tryon, North Carolina, for $95,000. After several failed restoration attempts over the years, many worried the house would be demolished before the artists stepped in to safeguard Simones legacy. Along with with the National Trusts African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, Pace Gallery, and Sothebys, the artists have now partnered to host...

LOS ANGELES Dancers stand on a slanted plywood board, pulling on heavy ropes. They wear simple brown pants, functional shoes, and plain t-shirts. They lean back, arms fully extended, dangling almost parallel to the ground. Then they push themselves upright. Sometimes they stand and rest, body tilted. Though its only 10 minutes, and the performers look weightless, they exert an enormous amount of strength. Its like a military exercise

Simone Fortis self-titled solo exhibition at MOCA presents some of her nine Dance Constructions, made possible with volunteer artists and cultural workers. Four times a day, on Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, they defy gravity with the board, idly swing from ropes suspended from the ceiling, and crawl over each other in a group huddle. The show also features videos, drawings, ephemera, and holograms.

Forti is a choreographer, but despite this terminology, used throughout her career and the exhibition, I wouldnt categorize the works at MOCA purely as dance. Though she also has extensive modern dance performances in her oeuvre,...

Caitlin Murray on March 10 was named the next executive director of the Chinati Foundation, the Marfa, Texas, museum founded by renowned Minimal artist Donald Judd. She succeeds Jenny Moore, who led

In Marcel Pardo Arizas four portraits, in Dismantling Monoliths at SF Camerawork, hung at different heights, the people photographed embrace tenderly and stand side by side. None of them looks at the viewer. 

Ariza wanted it that way. We think of portraiture as showing the whole body, they said, but thats not necessary. 

What Im claiming with my work is that even just allowing people to see gestures of yourself can give you a glimpse of who that person is while still not revealing their face, they told Hyperallergic. Theres this idea of the agency of concealment, and how much you decide to show and for whom.

The photos are part of a series, After Touch, that Ariza made in the summer of 2021, after vaccinations had become available and people were gathering again. 

Last night, India made global history when the smash-hit song Naatu Naatu from the Telegu-language (AKA Tollywood) film RRR (2022) became the first Indian song to win an Oscar for Best Original Song at the 95th Annual Academy Awards. But some who celebrated the monumental victory also lamented the apparent absence of South Asian dancers onstage, let alone South Indian performers as well as the films repeated misidentification as a Bollywood production.

These omissions are particularly glaring in the context in which Naatu Naatu appears in the film. In RRR, directed by S. S. Rajamouli, the number follows a scene in which an English man hurls racist insults at one of the leads, Komaram Bheem (played by NT Rama Rao Jr), for being one of the only Indian men present at a colonial-era British nobility party. The English man asks Bheem what these brown buggers know about art and dance while demonstrating classic Western ballroom styles. Bheem is rescued by the other lead, A Rama Raju (played by Ram Charan), who asks the English man if he knows Naatu before the pair jumps str...

LOS ANGELES When artists Louise Bonnet and Adam Silverman pitched the idea last year of an exhibition of their work at the Hollyhock House, Frank Lloyd Wrights first LA commission, they didnt get their hopes up. We thought they would just say no, but wed give it a shot, Silverman said. The LA-based couple had been looking for a place to show their work Bonnet is a painter and Silverman a ceramicist outside of a traditional white cube. We were interested in something domestic, says Bonnet. The only place we had ever seen our work together was in our house. To their surprise, Hollyhock Houses curator Abbey Chamberlain Brach agreed, and last month, their two-person show Entanglements opened, the first such exhibition of contemporary art in the building since it became a house-museum a half century ago.

Completed in 1921, the Hollyhock House was commissioned by Aline Barnsdall, an experimental theater producer, committed feminist, and heiress to an oil fortune who envisioned it as part of a 36-acre arts complex perched on a hilltop on the border of East Hollywood and Los Feliz. Her relationship with Wright, the architect she hired for the job, was antagonistic and combative, and he was ultimately fired from the project, replaced by his assistant Rudolph Schindler, who would go on to become a seminal figure of Southern California Modernist architecture. Barnsdall only lived in the house for a brief perio...

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Jamie Lee Curtis Wins Her First Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once

 

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Two girls around 10 face off in a room, sitting cross-legged on a wilted rug. One is raven haired and scrappy, the other strawberry blond with a ballerina neck. Its unclear if they will fight or kiss; either feels reasonable. I want to tell you that youre beautiful and smart, says the bolder one. Thats all.

An Oscar-nominated doc about Ukrainian orphans might seem the last method by which to boost ones dopamine, but Simon Lereng Wilmonts latest feature might just prove otherwise. Set in Lysychansk, an eastern town 20 kilometers from the frontline, as the prologue emphasizes, A House Made of Splinters depicts the bracing reality of children whose parents have succumbed to alcoholism, made to live in a temporary home for the nine months before parental rights are forfeited. We come to know Eva, whose mother wont answer the phone for weeks; Sasha, whose first swig of beer is at the age of eight; and Kolya, who Sharpies Joker on his forearm and refuses to wash it off. Amid their harrowing family circumstances, the orphanage becomes a space of community and play for toddlers to teens a refuge, however tenuous, from a larger epidemic o...

MIAMI  On the fifth evening of the Miami Film Festival, the shutters are locked and the marquee is blank at Tower Theater, a historic art-house cinema in Little Havana dating back to 1926. This time last year, three films were shown here on a single night during the festival: Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea (2021), a thriller about two Spanish lifeguards helping migrants cross the Mediterranean sea on one screen; Camila Saldr Esta Noche (2021), a queer, Spanish-language coming-of-age film about a high school girl on the other; and afterward, The Power of the Dog (2021), a Western drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kristen Dunst, received the festivals Art of Light Award for cinematography. 

Now, the Tower sits empty, collecting dust and cobwebs ever since the City of Miami abruptly terminated its contract with Miami-Dade College, which had been managing the 97-year-old art deco property since 2002.

Its a huge blow to Miamis film culture, said Rene Rodriguez, manager of the University of Miamis Cosford Cinema and former Miami Herald film critic. Art Basel, Ne...

Michelle Yeoh Makes History With Her Oscar Win for Best Actress

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Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh ended her incredible awards season by taking home the Best Actress Oscar at the 95th Academy Awards. Her victory makes her the first Asian woman to win the category and only the second woman of color to pick up the award. Yeoh won for her starring role in Everything Everywhere All at Once, which took home seven awardsincluding Best Pictureat last night's ceremony.

Yeoh rose to fame in the early 1990s after starring in several Hong Kong action films. She then made the leap to Hollywood, where she was best known for her roles in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies and Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Her career has had an incredible resurgence thanks to her role as Evelyn Wang in EEAAO and she's been picking up awards all year.

As always, Yeoh made an emotional and memorable acceptance speech. First, she dedicated her Oscar to all the little boys and girls who look like me, and reminded the world that her victory was a beacon of hope and possibilities. She also acknowledged that her win was a victory for women, particularly women of a certain age who are often overlooked by Hollywood: Ladies, don't let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime.

Yeoh then gave a heartfelt thanks to her mother, who was watching the ceremony in Malaysia and also gave a nod to her film family in Hong Kong for giving her a chance early in her career.

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Alexandra (2022). All images Valerie Hammond, shared with permission

Nature is replete with layering, as seen in the soft tissues of a flowers petal, the cellular makeup of human skin, or the paper-thin walls of insect nests. Although delicate themselves, these layers offer protection from the more fragile insides and are subsequently prone to change, often through natural decay and exposure to the elements. Valerie Hammond (previously) is drawn to these fleeting moments of life and their inevitable transformation, which she explores through an artistic practice centered around preservation and its limits.

Now based in the Hudson Valley after decades in the East Village, Hammond has spent nearly twenty years considering how quickly an existence can emerge and perish, a theme that emerged during the AIDS crisis in the U.S. Her practice is largely focused on the corporeal and the inherent ephemerality of the human body, which she merges with botanicals in her ongoing series of encaustic drawings.

Using her own limbs and those of her children, friends, and family, Hammond traces outstretched hands and layers the translucent renderings with fresh flowers, pencil markings, wax, and other materials. She portrays the similarities between the vascular and skeletal systems and the structure of ferns and other botanicals, and many works are scaled to the actual size of the human body, preserving the dimensions of a childs wrist or womans fingers as they were in a particular moment. As the series evolves and grows, the pieces offer insight into how we experience nature and the many ways we might allow it to change us, and the various skins and outer shells that we shed in order to transition to new, and possibly m...

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, presents an exhibition featuring more than 100 artworks by 12 Native American artists. Reclaiming Home: Contemporary Seminole Art is on display from March 18 through September 4 in the Ulla R. and Arthur F. Searing Wing and features artwork by the Seminole, Miccosukee, and mixed-heritage artists from Florida along with notable work by artists of Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole descent from Oklahoma, California, and beyond. The exhibition intends to expand the conceptual framework of Native American art made in Florida today and provide a fuller understanding of the complexities of issues within the art of the Seminole diaspora.

The members of the Seminole and Miccosukee Tribes of Florida are represented by visual artists who wo...

The Denver Art Museums Her Brush: Japanese Women Artists from the Fong-Johnstone Collection aims at a nuanced approach to questions of artistic voice, gender, and agency through more than 100 works of painting, calligraphy, and ceramics from 1600s to 1900s Japan. Many of the artworks will be on view for the first time to the public.

Her Brush traces the pathways women artists forged for themselves in their pursuit of art exploring the universal human drive of artistic expression as self-realization while navigating cultural barriers during times marked by strict gender roles and societal regulations.

The exhibition showcases works by renowned artis...

Ke Huy Quan Inspires People to Keep Your Dreams Alive With His Oscar Win for Best Supporting Actor

After a very successful award season, actor Ke Huy Quan has won the biggest trophy of them allthe Oscar. His work in the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once earned him the coveted Academy Award for Best Actor. On top of being recognized for his role as Waymond Wang, Quan has also won the hearts of the public for his moving acceptance speeches at award ceremonies, and his words on the Oscar's stage was no exception.

The moment was deeply emotional even before Quan took the stage, as presenter Ariana DeBose's voice broke when she opened the envelope and read the actor's name aloud. He received the award from DeBose and actor Troy Kotsur, who won the same award last year. My mom is 84 years old, and shes at home watching, Quan began his speech as he openly cried. Mom, I just won an Oscar!

The actor went on to explain what it had taken him and his family to get there. My journey started on a boat. I spent a year in a refugee camp and somehow I ended up here on Hollywood's biggest stage. Born in Vietnam, Quan and his family fled the Vietnam War when he was just 8 years old. He spent time in a refugee camp in Hong Kong with his father and five of his siblings, before being reunited with his mom and the rest of his family and immigrating to the U.S. in 1979. They say stories like this only happen in the movies. I cannot believe it's happening to me, Quan continued. Thisthisis the American dream!

He thanked his mom for the sacrifices she made to get him there, and his wife, Echo, who supported him throughout all these years. I owe everything to the love of my life, my wife Echo, who month after month, year after year for 20 years told me that one day, my time will come, he said.

Quan made his debut on the silver screen at age 12 alongside Harrison Ford in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. In 1985, he co-starred in the adventure-comedy film The Goonies as Richard Data Wang. After that, he couldn't land a job in an equally successful production, eventually moving to behind-the-scenes work and almost giving up on acting altogether.

Motivated by his wife, he decided to try it one last...

Not everyone is a professional chef or even wants to be but most of us would like to be able to cook a quick and easy meal thats actually enjoyable to eat.

If youre more keen on using a microwave than an oven or stove, dont worry. These chefs have some great and easily applicable tips that will delight your palate despite your best (worst) efforts.

First, your leftovers dont have to be ho-hum.

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Stunning Earth Murals Showcase the Beauty of Nature While Respecting Its Fragility

Finland-based artist David Popa takes an unusual approach to his street art. While he was raised in New York City with a father who was a graffiti writer, Popa doesn't use spray paint to create his murals. In fact, he doesn't even use walls, trains, or other typical surfaces. Instead, he is drawn to nature and blends his evocative art into the landscape by creating earth murals.

At the outset, deciding how to create artwork that wouldn't harm the environment took some careful planning. And to get inspired, Popa had to turn to the past. I asked myself at the inception of creating work in nature what did the cave painters use? Cave painters would go to great lengths to find earth pigments as well as use chalks and charcoal to make their work, the artist tells My Modern Met. My materials are the same, by using earth pigmentsalso known as ocres or iron oxideas well as charcoal and chalk.

Popa mixes natural pigments, charcoal, and chalk with water and has a wide array of tones to execute his work. Incredibly, he is able to achieve incredible detail and depth even using these limited materials. And while the final pieces are ephemeral, he photographs each mural as a way to provide lasting documentation of the piece.

From portraits painted on ice as it breaks apart to faces appearing where glaciers once were, it's clear that Popa is meticulous in selecting the locations for his artwork. I am looking for locations that are stunning from above and appear to be latent with buried lifewaiting to be uncovered. Working near the water, on fractured ice floes and generally in locations where nature can interact with the piece in unexpected ways is the goal.

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15-Year-Old Photographer Makes Toy Cars Look Like Life-Size Autos

Finding the right subject is a struggle for many photographers. That's why some get creative with what is available to them. 15-year-old photographer Anthony Ryan Schmidt uses his ever-growing collection of vintage miniature cars and his iPhone to capture images that use forced perspective and fool the eye into thinking these tiny cars are the real thing.

Schmidt's interest in automobiles can be traced back to when he was just a toddler. Most people on the autism spectrum have a special interest, and for Schmidt, it has always been cars, Ramona Schmidt, his mother, tells My Modern Met. He just loves everything about them and immerses himself into everything about them. This passion quickly grew, and by age 6, Anthony was photographing the models in his collection. Since then, his skills have only improved, resulting in pictures of vintage cars in parking lots, gas stations, and more.

In behind-the-scenes images, we see how Schmidt composes his illusionistic shots. The different cars are laid out in a miniature setting that is set against a real lifesize background. After the picture is snapped, these different elements seamlessly meld into a cohesive image that makes us see the model cars as real ones.

Schmidt began sharing his work online and gained a supportive following. His fans helped him fund his first coffee table book, Small Cars, Big Inspiration. He has since collected more photographs that are featured in his second book, Shifting Perspectives. You can purchase prints, calendars, and books of his work via his online store and keep up to date with his latest projects by following the artist on Instagram.

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Paris Iconic Notre Dame Cathedral Is Reopening to the Public in 2024

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Five years after a devastating fire ripped through Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, the iconic Gothic church is set to reopen. In late 2024, visitors will once again be able to enjoy this monument after an $865 million reconstruction project.

After initial delays due to COVID-19, the project is now quickly moving forward. Over the course of this year, the cathedral's spire will reclaim its place in the city's skyline, symbolizing the rebirth of the church. It's a welcome sign of progress after two years spent stabilizing the structure and securing enough artisans to work on this large undertaking.

While there was hope that Notre Dame would be open in time for the 2024 Summer Olympics (which Paris is hosting), it will take a bit longer for visitors to be able to walk through its doors. The opening is set for December 2024, which was President Emmanuel Macron's initial goal right after the fire.

My job is to be ready to open this cathedral in 2024. And we will do it, shared Gen. Jean-Louis Georgelin, the army general in charge of the project. We are fighting every day for that and we are on a good path.

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