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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One spring day in 1992, Eric Nies, a twenty-year-old model from New Jersey, walked into a swanky SoHo loft that he shared with six other young people. In the kitchen, he…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Nothing describes children’s drawing in general better than the term realism,” Georges-Henri Luquet wrote in his classic study, “Le Dessin Enfantin” (“Children’s Drawings”), from 1927. Fourteen years earlier, Luquet—who also wrote…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There are few filmmakers more curious about the emotional lives of the elderly than the wunderkind documentarian Lance Oppenheim. In 2020, Oppenheim, then twenty-four years old, released “Some Kind of Heaven,”…

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Tom Klingenstein’s Our American Queen runs June 11–29. In the summer of 1862, Katherine (Kate) Chase, 22, was the toast of Washington. “The Belle of the North,” she hosted parties that brought together the leading Republican politicians and the Union’s…

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Though the Second World War continued in Europe through May, 1945, Rome was liberated from Nazi occupation in June, 1944, and most of Italy was liberated by the end of that…

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story ​​There was a time not too long ago when “Willem de Kooning and Italy,” at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, in Venice, would have had fans back in the U.S. gnashing their teeth.…

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On October 13, 2022, more than two years into China’s totalizing COVID lockdowns, a man wearing a yellow helmet stood on the Sitong Bridge, an expressway overpass in downtown Beijing, and…