Arts

As one of the only Indian girls in her tiny Canadian mountain town, Natasha Singh stood out — and she was unafraid of being different. At 13, she shaved her head. By...

The flier announcing a new exhibition in Queens, “Home-O-Stasis,” doesn’t give an address. Instead, it has instructions: When you reach the Queens Public Library in Flushing, “go up to Kissena Boulevard till...

A group of students and the authors of a children’s book about a penguin family with two fathers sued a Florida school district and the state’s board of education on Tuesday, saying...

Paxton Whitehead, a comic actor who earned a Tony nomination for his role in a revival of “Camelot” and played the starchiest of stuffed shirts in films like the Rodney Dangerfield comedy...

James Cameron, the Academy Award-winning movie director behind “Titanic,” knows about the risks of deep ocean exploration. A seasoned underwater explorer himself, in 2012 he prepared to plummet nearly seven miles to...

“I think it’s interesting to surround ‘Café Müller’ with these pieces about nudity, sexuality and desire, because the café is full of desires,” Charmatz said. For that bill, he will use outside...

Now I know what it is like to be herded by a bassoon.It happened Sunday evening on Governors Island at the start of “duel c,” a movement piece by Andros Zins-Browne. Along...

Online, many have seen the moment that the actress Sasha Calle, 27, knew her life had been utterly altered: The director of “The Flash,” Andy Muschietti, announced the casting of Calle as...

Brobdingnag is somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. On the map included in Volume II of his 1726 satire “Gulliver’s Travels,” Jonathan Swift depicts it as an enormous peninsula somewhere north of California....

Seth Meyers had no idea what to expect when he got a job in 1997 performing at a fledgling comedy club in Amsterdam called Boom Chicago. He was in his early 20s,...