Harvey swept into Houston on Aug. 25 and stayed for days, causing at least 60 deaths and delivering 50 inches of rain and untold devastation. The numbers are staggering. By current estimates, the damages to Texas, mostly this city, could reach $180 billion. Photo Houston Grand Opera’s artistic and music …

Photo Nato Thompson, the new artistic director of Philadelphia Contemporary. Credit Alyssa Maloof The fledging art institution Philadelphia Contemporary may not yet have a home, but it now has an artistic director: Nato Thompson, currently the artistic director Creative Time. Mr. Thompson, who has been with Creative Time for a …

George Rose | Getty Images A firestorm that began in Napa Valley’s Calistoga destroys more than 1,000 homes and businesses in just the northwestern Coffey Park neighborhood as viewed in this aerial photo taken on October 12, 2017, in Santa Rosa, California. State officials are calling the Tubbs Fire the …

Photo A trading card advertising a product to clean cabinets used a seductive turn of the ankle. The card is on display in an online gallery. Credit Cornell University Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections – Waxman Collection of Food and Culinary Trade Cards Over the years, Nach Waxman, …

The S&P 500 just posted a historic winning streak, but some market participants are predicting that the long-running bull market could be on its last legs. According to Ryan Detrick, senior market strategist at LPL Financial, the S&P 500 has now gone 242 trading sessions without a 3 percent pullback …

Photo Pink’s “Beautiful Trauma” debuted at the top of the Billboard album chart with 408,000 sales in the United States. Credit Elizabeth Weinberg for The New York Times Pink, the no-nonsense singer who for nearly two decades has made a career of being a pop outsider on top of the …

Here was the egotistical fanboy who had “legitimized and mainstreamed” the counterculture in the 1960s and early ’70s. You might buy a copy of Rolling Stone simply to ogle a superstar or to find out if Jerry Garcia was still dating Mountain Girl. But as the magazine began to filter …

Kuni Takahashi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sundar Pichai, senior vice president of Android, Chrome and Apps at Google Inc., gestures as he speaks during the company’s Android One smartphone launch event in New Delhi, India, on Monday, Sept. 15, 2014. Internet search is still a thriving growth market for …

Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images Mexican Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal looks on during a press conference at the conclusion of the fourth round of negotiations for a new North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) at the General Services Administration headquarters in Washington, DC, on October 17, …

A tall, athletic woman in white-framed glasses who lives with her Pekingese-Jack Russell terrier, named August Wilson, Ms. Sherald said she is not allowed to speak about the commission until it is unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery early next year. Nor would Mrs. Obama comment. Continue reading the main …