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How designers are rediscovering the decorative potential of eggshells.

The nonfiction and novels we can't stop thinking about.

This week's episodes hinge on events that are so shocking -- and happen so fast -- the main characters aren't sure how to interpret them.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, about an attempt to free a Paris-like city from a disturbing ritual, has challenging turn-based combat and an emotionally powerful narrative.

Brandon Woody refined his songs in shows around his hometown Baltimore and channeled the city's lessons on his debut album, "For the Love of It All."

"I started exploring it as a kind of landscape," the Lebanese-born designer Jessy Slim said of the ravaged surfaces of her legume creations.

The president was firmly told that Canada won't join the United States, though he says it would be a "wonderful marriage." "People were, like, 'How would he know?'" Jimmy Fallon said.

Paul Klee's "Angelus Novus," which inspired Walter Benjamin, Laurie Anderson and Wim Wenders, will go on show to commemorate the 80th anniversary of World War II's end.

Known for their outsized and revolutionary art projects, the couple's work is seen again in Florida, New York and Germany.

At 87, the abstract artist Robert Mangold will exhibit 19 recent paintings and works, including one of his largest in decades.