I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There's merit online, of course, but social media gets super freaky. Imagine if three generations from...

People look to 'Dear White People' as an encyclopedia of our culture. But it's also art, and there are characters with different perspectives.

A lot of what I do around Houston is to find ways to lift people through literacy. It's become part of our family culture. Everyone in our family has found some way and capacity to serve. You don't...

Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts - it's a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour.

Hip-hop is like underground. I don't know if hip-hop exists anymore. I don't know if it does.

My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.

Whenever someone asks me to name a dream hero or pair, I always end up getting Bollywood names in my mind.

So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live...

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

To be an Instagram model, you absolutely cannot just post pictures of yourself in a bikini for the sake of people seeing you in a bikini - even if that is exactly what you are doing. No, you need to...

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.

I once found myself in Paris, Texas, possibly the most curious juxtaposition of place names in America.

When we belong to a community and learn things that are no way related to our society, we live as unwanted entities in that society.

There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about.

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

I love Jay-Z.

Two people who really inspire me are my parents, Wanda and Anthony, just because they really made sure to keep up Hispanic culture in my family.

Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.

Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and...

In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu,...

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of...

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.