A few years ago, photographer Rania Matar spending time in Ohio, in the dead of winter. The Lebanese-born artist had been awarded a residency at Kenyon College for the 2017–18 academic year. Born in ...

This week, Jared Bowen virtually visits The Mount, which is celebrating the centennial of Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Age of Innocence.” Plus, a look at Rania Matar’s new ...

Rania Matar worked as an architect for many years, but while pregnant with her fourth child, she began taking photography classes in order to get better pictures of her children. It turned out to be a ...

Two weeks into being stuck at home, photographer Rania Matar stood at her kitchen sink in Brookline and watched her neighbor reading in the yard. They’d been waving at each other from their kitchens.

On a white gallery wall hangs a large photograph of a young boy. He's dressed in heavy black boots and thick, dark pants; with both hands on his hips and his right leg slightly bent, he stares ...

Female beauty is on display in “SHE,” a touring exhibition at the Middlebury College Museum of Art. But in Rania Matar‘s large-scale color photographs, beauty is not just skin-deep. The subjects are ...

In 1995, Maya Angelou wrote, "The span of my hips, the stride of my step, the curl of my lips. I'm a woman, phenomenally." It is in that vein that photographer Rania Matar enters the homes of her ...

As the world divided itself into tiny, isolated “bubbles” during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, artist Rania Matar made an unexpected connection. “I was staring across my yard at my ...

When Rania Matar was a teenager in Lebanon, her country was ensnarled in a long and bloody civil war. But her bedroom betrayed little of what was going on outside — in typical teenage fashion, she ...

Reem, Doha Lebanon: “I'm from Ivory Coast, I'm Lebanese, and I study in London. I study womenswear, I don't know why I'm always ashamed to write it or say it. I love art, it's the most important thing ...