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When cosplayers descend on New York Comic Con, they’re looking to meet their favorite creators and show off their outfits — but they often end up in need of costume triage. Armed with glue guns, zip ties, Popsicle sticks and safety pins, the Paladins of Cosplay come ready to fix …

The intergalactic bounty hunter in the sci-fi video game Metroid was outfitted with a sleek helmet, red and orange armor and a deadly arm cannon. But it’s what was underneath that was emblematic of the late 1980s. If a player defeated the game in less than an hour, the character …

As museums experiment with ways of attracting new visitors beyond a niche audience of art lovers, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has assembled an ambitious exhibition anchored in a subject with wide appeal: sports. Occupying over 13,000 square feet and the museum’s entire seventh floor, “Get in the …

David Garrard Lowe, a writer and architectural historian whose passion for historic preservation — and in particular for the Beaux-Arts mansions, museums and towers of the Gilded Age — helped stem the tide of urban renewal that was leveling large swaths of American cities in the decades after World War …

In the lush, softly lit studio where nearly 60 years ago the Beach Boys recorded “Pet Sounds” and changed pop music forever, the hosts of the “Podcrushed” podcast are preparing to interview their latest guest: Chase Stokes, star of the Netflix teen-treasure-hunting drama “Outer Banks.” Those hosts — Nava Kavelin, …

The annual Harvey Awards hall of fame ceremony is back next Friday at New York Comic Con, and is adding five members to its ranks. The inductees include Arthur Adams, an artist perhaps best known for his X-Men illustrations; the writer and artist Sergio Aragonés, who did extensive work for …