CANVAS Issue 96

The cover for Canvas Issue 96 "A Year Like No Other" shows Mia and Jun, Allston, Massachusetts, a work from Rania Matar’s Across Windows series of photographic portraits. Created during the coronavirus pandemic, it is part of the exhibition Art in Isolation: Creativity in the Time of COVID-19 at Washington DC’s Middle East Institute. This issue contains a review of that show with the work itself serving as a poignant symbol as we look back on 2020 as a year in which so many of us found ourselves confined, restricted and separated from those we love.