Fairy tales connect with us. We see ourselves in fairytales. We long to be as kind as Cinderella, as patient as Belle and sometimes as grumpy as Grumpy. We get attached to the characters because we ...

Disney's best movies are often based on beloved fairy tales, and while it has made a lot, there are many more that still ...

By Kyra Miles Once upon a time, babies and toddlers gathered at the George Latimer Central Library in St. Paul for story time ...

In fairy tales, magic often has humorous, complicated or unforeseen consequences. Heroes and heroines are done and undone by the gap between a spell’s intent and its effects: Characters are ...

This new fairy tale has its roots in the 1790s, with Mary Wollstonecraft's call to restructure society, to make men more like women and women more like men. For 150 years, ...

Gender-Swapped Fairy Tales: How one book’s role reversals reveal the misogyny of our favourite stories. The compendium has flipped the genders of our childhood princes and princesses, a simple ...

Link’s affinity for fairy tales is partly thematic—her work is full of such magical motifs as talking animals and bizarre quests—but also stylistic. She does not explain herself.

Fairy Tales is at QAGOMA, Brisbane, until April 28, 2024. Read more: How the poetically-charged art of Tacita Dean gives its audience a moment for stillness and time. Visual art; ...