Bringing Anne Frank’s Secret Annex to New York, and the World

Bringing Anne Frank’s Secret Annex to New York, and the World

The children seem like typical kindergartners: Some beam at the camera; some glance coyly aside; others appear lost in reverie. One slim, dark-haired girl in a pale dress looks precociously serious. She is Anne Frank, and this classroom photograph, taken at a Montessori school in Amsterdam in 1935, appears twice …

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8 Art Shows to See Before They Close in January

8 Art Shows to See Before They Close in January

‘Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment’ Through Jan. 19 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. This year is the 150th birthday of Impressionism, a movement so popular and so familiar that it can seem like some preordained crowd pleaser — all those sunsets and tutus, ready for their blotchy …

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