Pop culture loved Stephen Hawking, and Stephen Hawking loved pop culture back. In fact, entertainment fed most of the world’s knowledge of the acclaimed physicist, whose brain and brilliance remained unmarred as Lou Gehrig’s disease ravaged his body. He died at 76 on Wednesday morning in his native..

NBC is planning the launch of a streaming online video channel that would offer 24-hour news to viewers without cable or satellite. NBC News Chairman Andy Lack and his division’s digital chief, Nick Ascheim, acknowledged Wednesday at a news lunch at the network’s headquarters that the channel is...

Sweet, funny and disarming, “Love, Simon” features not one but two daringly public declarations of love. I won’t say too much about either, except that in both cases the stakes are high and the consequences potentially disastrous. The first one involves a boy trying to woo his dream girl at a high....

CNN morning co-anchor Chris Cuomo is moving to prime time. The cable network announced Wednesday that Cuomo will take over the 9 p.m. Eastern hour starting in the spring. Anderson Cooper’s program, “AC360,” which usually airs from 8 to 10 p.m. Eastern, will be cut back to an hour. The new show...

The unexpected firing of Helen Molesworth, the Museum of Contemporary Art’s highly respected chief curator, didn’t just shock the art world. It raised the question of a full-blown institutional identity crisis. For almost 40 years, a MOCA point of pride has been that it was founded by artists. ...

Frank Gehry has been selected to design a campus extension for the Colburn School, including an 1,100-seat concert hall that will further expand the Grand Avenue arts corridor in downtown Los Angeles. The project, to be announced Wednesday by Colburn President and CEO Sel Kardan, also includes...

The Oscar-winning Swedish actress Alicia Vikander has a talent for liberating her characters from states of confinement, emotionally if not physically. Those who noticed her before her big Hollywood breakthrough might recall the vividness of her performance as an uncomfortably corseted Danish queen...