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Keep Willem de Kooning Weird

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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.…

Lying to My Dad

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How Members of the Chinese Diaspora Found Their Voices

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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…

Jane Schoenbrun Finds Horror Close to Home

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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…

Charli XCX Toys with Stardom on “BRAT”

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Halfway through Charli XCX’s new album, “BRAT,” the British pop star delivers a lyric that is “pop” in neither form nor content. She is rapping, more or less, her voice slightly…

Annie Baker Shifts Her Focus to the Big Screen

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A mother sits in the front seat of a car, her tanned and freckled face glowing; her daughter, owlish and opaque behind her glasses, stares at her mother’s cheek, transfixed, as…