Portrait Photography
December 5, 2025

After 50 Years of Civil War, Photographer Captures the Untold Stories of Young Lebanese Women

A few years ago, Rania Matar returned to Lebanon, the country in which she was born but had fled nearly four decades earlier amid the civil war. She weaved through abandoned buildings alongside a young Lebanese woman, whom she intended to photograph for an upcoming project. Suddenly, the pair noticed something: graffiti scrawled across a crumbling wall, plaintively asking لوين روح؟ (Where do I go?).

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Art
December 4, 2025

Palestinian Artists Create Daily Sand Sculptures on Gaza Beach To Bring Joy to Their Community

Despite enduring more than two years of unimaginable hardship, the people of Gaza continue to show remarkable resilience. Creativity and community remain powerful sources of strength, with many Palestinian artists continuing to tell their stories through drawings, paintings, and now sand sculptures. With limited resources, Yazid Abu Jarad and his team adopted the beach as their canvas, deciding to carve out letters in the sand using whatever tools they can find.

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Books
December 4, 2025

Best of 2025: Top 10 Creative Coffee Table Books To Gift or To Treasure for Yourself

Because they come in all shapes and sizes—literally—and cover such a broad spectrum of topics, coffee table books have become one of the most suitable gifts for the design-minded among us. This shouldn’t necessarily come as a surprise: these tomes enchant with their large-scale images; they effortlessly elevate an interior with their packaging; and, above all, they reveal the enduring appeal of visual art, photography, and design across history.

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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.