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This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week.From furniture inspired by a dancing Muppet bird named Betsy to proposals for coping with a dystopian future, families of...

If you passed through the unlocked gate and rambling garden into Ruth Asawa’s Noe Valley home between 1966 and 2000, the 5-foot-tall Japanese American artist would likely have persuaded you to lie...

A Human Ranking SystemIntelligence testing would not arise until the 20th century, and the abbreviation “I.Q.” in 1922, but an early metric of intelligence was established by Francis Galton in his 1869...

This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week.Salone del Mobile, the international furniture fair in Milan, opens on Tuesday with the comfort of a steady heartbeat.The six-day...

You’re saying they’re not representative. This is my life. I am engaged all the time. I’m not complaining about it because I hate people that complain about it, but I don’t walk...

If the bottom-feeding salesmen of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” sound as if they’re powered by cocaine and cold coffee, the college women of Natalie Margolin’s “All Nighter” lean toward Adderall and...

This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week.Known for palettes that are as flamboyant as his characters, the Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar uses color as an actor...

Betty Boop has arrived on Broadway, nearly a century after she first boop-oop-a-dooped her way onto the big screen. “Boop! The Musical,” like the “Barbie” and “Elf” films that preceded it, imagines...

His order claimed that the Smithsonian, in particular, had “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology” and that it promotes “narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful...

A coalition of 21 state attorneys general filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the federal agency charged with supporting the nation’s libraries.The lawsuit, brought by the...