Marisa Charpentier

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Marisa Charpentier |Menachem Wecker |Hannah McGivern |Ben Luke

When Sigmund Freud wrote his essay “The Uncanny” a century ago, he brought the strange psychological phenomenon into the mainstream. The word is often used to describe the uneasiness one feels when encountering something familiar yet foreign—like a doll that looks a little too human or a painting that feels hauntingly real. But a new exhibition at Washington, DC's National Museum of Women in the Arts asks visitors to consider another meaning.

Dec 20, 2024 | theartnewspaper.com | Marisa Charpentier

To the casual viewer, the books on display in the second-floor gallery of the Grolier Club in Midtown Manhattan look like an impressive collection of rare tomes—not unusual fare for the bibliophilic society. There is a worn Ernest Hemingway, a collection of Sappho poems, and an eerie-looking Sylvia Plath cover. Some bear author names that perhaps sound only vaguely familiar: Harriet Vane, Samuel Pickwick, Orlando. Visitors roam the gallery, eyeing the delicate volumes enclosed in glass cases.

Oct 23, 2024 | texashighways.com | Marisa Charpentier |Sarah Thurmond

The first time Charles Graves tried on a Santa suit, a magical feeling came over him. “I felt it flowing through me,” he says. “A tingle throughout my entire body.”With or without the red hat and coat, the 54-year-old New Braunfels resident looks the part. A mane of white hair flows from his head, and he sports a fluffy beard of the same color year-round. A pair of tiny round spectacles frames his eyes, which crinkle when he smiles.

Sep 27, 2024 | texashighways.com | Marisa Charpentier |Danielle Lopez

How to Texas is a recurring column offering step-by-step instructions on how to be Texan. We’ll guide you through the cultural traditions, customs, eccentricities, lifestyles, and activities you’ll find on your travels that make the state uniquely Texan. Cowboy boots are the official footwear of Texas. Just ask the state Legislature, which declared them so in 2007. From the ranch to the honky tonk to a wedding, Texans wear the iconic boots for any occasion.

Sep 26, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Marisa Charpentier

Robert Caro, author of “The Power Broker,” in his New York office in 2007. (Dima Gavrysh/Bloomberg/Getty Images)By Marisa CharpentierSeptember 26, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. EDTOn a cloudy evening earlier this month, visitors roamed the halls of the New-York Historical Society in Manhattan, perusing the museum’s latest exhibit, “Robert Caro’s The Power Broker at 50.” With their noses pressed against glass cases to examine marked-up manuscripts and yellowed steno pads, they whispered facts to one another.