Natalie Meade

As governments and aid groups struggle to help the islands recover from the hurricane, residents have used Twitter and Facebook to coördinate rescues and raise money.

The elaborate nail stylings made popular by Black women have been both derided and appropriated; in a new documentary, they’re honored as art.

Opening its borders to American tourists puts the country’s population at risk.

The satire takes aim not only at New Yorkers’ special relationship to the housing market but also at influencer culture: the now familiar mode of using social media to commodify the intimate details of one’s life for clout or ad dollars. We never learn how many followers the Artist has, but with her stylish self-possession and effortless way of packaging her experience—“I really couldn’t imagine going anywhere else, you know? I needed to be here, you know, with, like, people like me,” she tells…

If you attend their pop-up film series “Shouting at the Screen,” prepare to take a drink every time a pimp suit appears onscreen.

In Juliana Kasumu’s documentary about a New Orleans hairdresser, the “big chop” is far more meaningful than the average trip to the salon.

Bioh, who is forty, wore a hunter-green sweater dress and an easy smile. She grew up in Washington Heights, the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants who had high aspirations for their children. “Doctor, lawyer, or schoolteacher, engineer, honorable mention maybe to government official,” she said. “Those are the big professions that were drilled as markers of American success.” Instead, Bioh took dance classes at a local community center, hoping to make it on the sketch show “In Living Color.” “I thou…

Ayite, who is in her late thirties, wore a faux-leather shirt and matching pants with rose chrome Nikes. “In sixth grade, I was chosen to play Scrooge in ‘A Christmas Carol,’ and I had to put together my own top hat,” she said. “That’s technically my first costume design.” “X,” which is directed by Robert O’Hara, is her Met début. It utilizes around three hundred and fifty costumes, some of which she pointed out in the wardrobe area; she described others in a phone call later. Ayite was born and…

A Memphis tradition, the diving style known as slicing requires creativity, athleticism, and a lot of swagger.

A master quilter holds a lesson for the director Lileana Blain-Cruz and five actors before the opening of the play at Lincoln Center.