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Bela Borsodi’s Luminous Images of Children and Their Drawings

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…

A Succession Battle Over America’s Largest Ren Faire

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,”…

New Play Plumbs the Personal and Political Civil War

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…

Keep Willem de Kooning Weird

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.…

Lying to My Dad

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How Members of the Chinese Diaspora Found Their Voices

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…

Jane Schoenbrun Finds Horror Close to Home

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Three years ago, Emma Stone and her husband, Dave McCary, got word of a micro-budget horror movie called “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair.” The film, which became a festival…