Dyson Wants to Create a Hair Dryer Revolution
By ELIZABETH PATON
James Dyson, the Steve Jobs of household products, wants to do for beauty and grooming what his company did for vacuum cleaners. Will consumers buy it?
The artist Duke Riley and some of his winged charges, atop the Baylander, a decommissioned Vietnam-era aircraft carrier.
This mass performance piece — an avian-powered show at the Brooklyn Navy Yard — is the artist’s valentine to the vanishing world of rooftop pigeon fanciers.
James Dyson, the Steve Jobs of household products, wants to do for beauty and grooming what his company did for vacuum cleaners. Will consumers buy it?
In her Manhattan apartment, the media mogul practices what she preaches: A good night’s sleep.
Anton’s Dumplings and Babushka Cafe fill their specialties with care and tradition.
In the latest title from ROADS Publishing in Dublin, creative agencies and design studios open their doors to their inspired (and inspiring) interiors.
The magazine celebrates its annual list of its 100 Most Influential People.
Mr. Trump won Pennsylvania, Maryland and three other states on Tuesday, decreasing the odds of a contested Republican convention. Mrs. Clinton won Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland and Delaware.
Thirty years later, there are signs of commercial clear-cutting in supposedly off-limits forests around the site of the nuclear disaster in Ukraine.
Amid the talk of a wall, a binational crew at a park in Texas blurs borders as its members work to eradicate giant cane that constricts the river.
The singer’s company is expanding offerings in lodging, alcohol, licensing and media, and the appeal extends well beyond Parrot Heads.
The artist both embraced and hated technology as he tried to upend the music industry — realizing that making music wasn’t his only responsibility.
The prolific songwriter and performer’s decades of music transcended and remade funk, rock and R&B with hits like “Purple Rain” and “1999.”
The high heel was the through-line of the musician’s wardrobe for four decades, the base upon which he layered all fashion and character changes.
Amy Haimerl and Karl Kaebnick have gone into debt for a house valued at $100,000 less than they’ve spent. But they love it.
Leah Singer is drawn to the “Post No Bills” notices that are ubiquitous in New York City.
A visit to the home of Terrence Mann, a star of the Broadway musical “Tuck Everlasting,” and his dancer/actress wife, Charlotte d’Amboise.
A spacious aerie on the 64th floor of 432 Park, the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere, is the sale of the week.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center is presenting a weeklong series, “An Early Clue to the New Direction,” focusing on old movies with gay themes.
The women’s wear designer recently spent a jam-packed four days in the Japanese capital.
Pete Voelker’s recent work has taken him all over the country, documenting small, intimate moments amid rallies and the campaign trail.
Befitting a workhorse who carried out 341 engagements last year, Elizabeth kicked off celebrations on Wednesday in a dutiful display.
Louise Dahl-Wolfe, who worked for Harper’s Bazaar for many years, is the subject of a new book, out this month.
The photographer Paulette Tavormina’s carefully composed still lifes recall paintings from the Dutch Golden Age.
With celebrities in tow, the fashion house hosts its 11th annual dinner for the downtown film festival.
The suburb of New Canaan, a lower Fairfield County town about 45 miles from Midtown Manhattan, tends to draw young families for its schools and empty-nesters downsizing into luxury condos.
Mr. Trump’s win reclaimed control of the Republican race; Mrs. Clinton fought off another challenge from Bernie Sanders.
New York Times journalists accompanied an aid mission to a devastated area without water, power or the means to contact the outside world.
The New Yorker received the prizes for criticism and feature writing; The New York Times won for international reporting and photography.
Three-quarters of the billion dogs on the planet are not pets. A new book argues that they are more than strays and may tell us much about the nature of dogs.
More than 2,500 people were injured, the government said, in an earthquake that devastated a large swath of the Ecuadorean coast.
After close relations for more than 70 years, has President Obama ‘unfriended’ Saudi Arabia over issues such as Iran, Syria and oil? It’s complicated.
The photographer John Chiara uses a throwback to the camera obscura, with modern light filters and the chemical reversal of colors.
For the last 20 years, Edward Mapplethorpe, inheritor of his brother’s camera, has been taking unexpectedly edgy — yes — baby photos.
Building a congregation for his prosperity gospel, one chaotic rally at a time.
Maj. Gen. M. Moein Faqir is the top military man in Helmand Province, more than half of which has been overrun by the Taliban in the past year.
On Calle Ocho, in the heart of Miami’s Little Havana, Cuban art, music and cuisine take center stage, especially on the last Friday of every month.
Lindsay Morris, a photographer, got the idea for a project when some familiar faces rushed into her Long Island home as members of a volunteer ambulance corps.
Our reporter and photographer visited a Navy cruiser in the South China Sea, where rising tensions are expected to be a focus of talks between President Obama and China’s president this week.
Ron Peteroy says there is a lizard for everyone out there. He should know. He has about a thousand of them.
The American Fabiano Caruana’s failure to win a Moscow tournament was a blow to those hoping to turn the World Chess Championship in New York into a huge spectator event.
A new generation of chefs from Japan run some of the most acclaimed French restaurants in Paris — a city that isn’t known for embracing outsiders.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture, opening in Washington in September, had some delicate decisions to make about slavery, Bill Cosby and President Obama.
Desert camping with a daughter leads to moments of profundity — and some loud-as-you-want shouting.
The 14 sisters of the Franciscan Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary make up one of only three predominantly black orders in the country.
Krystal Lara is one of very few Latinas in her class at Stuyvesant High School, and in the pool. She’s backstroking her way toward the Olympics.
The developer of Urby Staten Island, a rental complex in Stapleton, hope to prove that the North Shore of the “forgotten borough” can have broad appeal.
The Upper West Side apartment of the best-selling children’s book author Chris Grabenstein is filled with whimsy.
A trek through Bolivia’s dramatic Cordillera de los Frailes reveals the fantastical culture and art of the indigenous Jalq’a people.
Gordon Parks’s “Segregation Story” images first ran in Life magazine 60 years ago; they are equally powerful today.
The arrival of bookmobiles in Nashville and other cities indicates that independent bookstores are making a comeback after years of decline.
The famous Lautner house, recently bequeathed to the museum, was the backdrop for a party on Wednesday night.
Imposing columns, statues of gods and three stories in Astoria, Queens.
Stars of the latest superhero blockbuster attend a Gotham-themed party and premiere at Radio City Music Hall.
Ibrahim el-Bakraoui attacked the airport and his brother Khalid attacked the subway, Belgian officials said, as an inquiry drew links to the 2015 Paris attacks.
Tender Buttons, on the Upper East Side, sells modern and collectible versions and is popular with celebrities in search of the very small treasures.
The village of Ossining, N.Y., on the Hudson, is rich in pre-Revolutionary War history, and is also the site of the Sing Sing Correctional Facility.
Doug Dubois’s first midcareer survey — subjects include teenagers on an Irish council estate and Dubois’s mother — is on view starting this week.
Kathryn Bentley of Dream Collective brings T into her midcentury home in Montecito Heights.
Going against speculation, Michelle Obama chose a dress by an Indian-American designer whose pieces she has worn often.
Playing in small venues and to people who may never have seen professional actors, this pared-down production has visited almost 200 countries.
Photographs of the pope’s first trip to the United States, as Catholics and non-Catholics alike will navigate crowds in three cities to catch a glimpse of the “people’s pope.”
Behind the scenes of Serena Williams’s historic Grand Slam bid — and ultimate collapse.
For 733 migrants crammed aboard two tiny boats somewhere between Libya and Italy, a leaky hull was neither the beginning nor the end of their troubles.
Pope Francis, the fourth pontiff to visit St. Patrick’s Cathedral, will find it brighter, cleaner and in better repair than it has been for decades.
The New Orleans of 2015 has been altered, and not just by nature. In some ways, it is booming as never before. In others, it is returning to pre-Katrina realities of poverty and violence, but with a new sense of dislocation for many, too.
A photographer parts the curtains on one of the world’s least-known places and brings back pictures of a country that is defined for many by mystery and war.
When Nepal was hit with a powerful earthquake the tremor shattered lives, landmarks and the very landscape of the country. The scope of the disaster in photographs.
The average American consumes more than 300 gallons of California water each week by eating food that was produced there.
Finding unexpected beauty in the hands of shoe shiners.
The Rosetta spacecraft is following Comet 67P/C-G as it makes its closest approach to the sun.
The best present ideas, selected by Times experts, to make shopping easy this season.
The men and women of one Ebola clinic in rural Liberia reflect on life inside the gates.
For nine days, waves of pro-democracy protests engulfed Hong Kong, swelling at times to tens of thousands of people and raising tensions with Beijing.
The Brown sisters have been photographed every year since 1975. The latest image in the series is published here for the first time.
Few collegians work as hard as the U.S. Military Academy’s 786 female cadets.
A journey through the state, featuring Jimmy Carter, Civil War re-enactors and newborn Cabbage Patch Kids.
A panoramic view of the progress at the new World Trade Center site exactly 13 years after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Scenes of sorrow and violence in a Missouri town after an unarmed black teenager was shot by a police officer.
The damage to Gaza’s infrastructure from the current conflict is already more severe than the destruction caused by either of the last two Gaza wars.
The Times asked firefighters to submit their first fire experiences on City Room. Read a selection of those stories.
The daily tally of rocket attacks, airstrikes and deaths in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The reporter Damien Cave and the photographer Todd Heisler traveled up Interstate 35, from Laredo, Tex., to Duluth, Minn., chronicling how the middle of America is being changed by immigration.
World War I destroyed kings, kaisers, czars and sultans; it demolished empires; it introduced chemical weapons; it brought millions of women into the work force.
Despite a period of rising incomes, a tide of economic discontent helped make Narendra Modi the prime minister-elect.
Highlights from a map of N.B.A. fandom based on Facebook “likes.”
A 32,000-ton arch that will end up costing $1.5 billion is being built in Chernobyl, Ukraine, to all but eliminate the risk of further contamination at the site of the 1986 nuclear reactor explosion.
Fairgoers share memories of family outings and moments of inspiration at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and then vanished without a trace.
Runners, spectators and volunteers who were at the finish line of the Boston Marathon when the bombs exploded reflect on how their lives have been affected. Here are their stories of transformation.
Nelson Mandela’s death spurred an international outpouring of praise, remembrance and celebration.
What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer the questions to see your personal dialect map.
Typhoon Haiyan, which cut a destructive path across the Philippines, is believed by some climatologists to be the strongest storm to ever make landfall.
Voters elected Bill de Blasio, but New York has always been a city of unofficial mayors.
Listen to New York Times editors, critics and reporters discuss the day’s news and features.