Barbara Tannenbaum

In a world smitten with flat digital surfaces, puppetry is ancient entertainment in 3D. One sign of the craft’s ongoing appeal was the delight on display in northern France at a biennial world puppetry festival, attracting around 100,000 attendees. “People mistakenly assume puppetry is only for children. That is a prejudice,” says Philippe Choulet, a Strasbourg-based philosopher and art historian.

2019 November 04 Monday Welcome to your Daily. Today’s offerings include a conversation between three writers in our Washington bureau about the impeachment inquiry, a window into the protests in Lebanon, why a Kentucky election has national portent, lessons from France’s summer heat wave, and how a puppet festival has animated children and adults alike. But first, let’s turn to a story about my country of origin.

By disrupting the apartment he grew up in with portraits, family photography and cutouts from fashion magazines, this artist unleashes the repression he feels as a closeted gay man in his parents’ home. In Temporarily Censored Home, I covertly situated photographs in my teenage home in Beijing to queer the normativity of my parents’ heterosexual space.