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The author and illustrator of "I Want My Hat Back" understands how children see.

The comedian and director David Wain talks about the State, making his first film in eight years, and the challenges of creating original comedy in Hollywood's bleak landscape.

In 2009, every big hit sounded like a version of "I Gotta Feeling," by the Black Eyed Peas.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding promised a kind of narrative closure for Swifties: after the pop star spent years singing about imagined weddings, her life was finally catching up with her art.

In "Night Shift," his first New York show in eight years, the photographer brings his travelling bacchanal home to the city's streets.

And who can blame them?

We asked a range of luminaries who their favorite American is. The answers included scientists, playwrights, pop stars, bureaucrats--and one cartoon character.

What to do this week, in New York City and beyond.

Our staffers on good books for America's big birthday.

How the human countenance became something to study, edit, optimize, and scan.