Every year from September 15 to October 15, the United States pauses to honor the histories, cultures, and creative achievements of its Hispanic and Latino communities. Here is where the observance came from, how it grew, and how it is celebrated today.

Every community leaves a trace of itself, in stone, in song, in the stories it tells its children, and every trace becomes the heritage that the next generation must choose to keep. On almost any warm weekend in New Jersey, somewhere a street is closed to traffic.

Few subjects in the art world today stir up as much excitement, and as much argument, as artificial intelligence. In a few short years, tools that turn a line of text into a finished image have moved from research labs into the hands of millions, and the questions they raise reach into the heart of what we mean by creativity.

We tend to keep art and medicine in separate drawers. One belongs to the gallery and the concert hall, the other to the clinic and the operating room.

There are lives that shine like beacons. No matter the storm, no matter the darkness, they continue to illuminate the path for others.

Most people leave a museum tired and vaguely guilty. Here is how to leave one full instead.