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A Guide to the Arts, from Here to the Holidays

Is this the year that movies die? Hardly

Even with many major releases postponed because of the pandemic, enticing titles are arriving this fall on screens large and small.

Museums

How New York’s downtown scene set the stage for Jean-Michel Basquiat

Writer and curator Greg Tate reflects on that porous moment in music and art history.

Television

11 TV shows to check out before the end of the year

New series include another HBO rich-people crime drama, a Stephen King pandemic nightmare, and a star-studded adaptation of “Between the World and Me."

Music

17 reasons for pop music fans to celebrate the fall

There’s plenty to please music fans through the end of 2020, from new album releases, reissues, livestreamed shows, books, and documentaries.

Theater

Igor Golyak’s bold innovations in virtual theater open doors for Arlekin

The tiny Needham troupe has managed to reach a wider audience — including Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jessica Hecht — during shutdown.

Classical

10 reasons to keep falling for classical music

Online programming means a world of possibilities for Boston concertgoers.

Classical

Skylark Vocal Ensemble spreads its wings into digital programming

The group quickly shelved its 2020-21 season in favor of an online subscription service.

Dance

9 dance performances to revive your spirits

The season's dance highlights include a few more outdoor shows, livestreaming from studios, and a televised Nutcracker.

Museums

New England’s top 10 museum stops for fall

Season highlights include Claude Monet, Winslow Homer, and a tribute to fashion's revolutionary women.

Critics picks

Online and outdoors, 10 picks for theater lovers

20 movies to be excited about this season

10 cool events for kids at libraries, zoos, and science museums

Boston Children’s Museum has a few tricks in store for a happy COVID-era Halloween

It’s the world’s biggest photography contest

The Wiki Loves Monuments competition rewards superlative shots of cultural and historic sites.

Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert to provide comic relief on election night

Noah will host “Votegasm 2020: What Could Go Wrong (Again)” on Comedy Central, Colbert "Election Night 2020: Democracy’s Last Stand: Building Back America Great Again Better 2020” on Showtime.

Portrait of a young climate activist in ‘I Am Greta’

A new documentary takes us behind the scenes and inside the passions of Greta Thunberg.

Editors’ Picks

Peabody Essex show leads to ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ discovery of a missing painting

A work from Jacob Lawrence's "Struggle: From the History of the American People" series has been found, thanks to an alert museumgoer.

Do Norman Rockwell paintings carry an urgent message for 21st-century America?

In 2020, the artist's "Four Freedoms" series feels anything but quaint.

Borat’s back, and a lot has changed in 14 years — but not him

Not everything works in the belated sequel to the 2006 prank-comedy hit featuring Sacha Baron Cohen’s idiot Kazakh journalist, but the parts that do still say horribly funny things about America.

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ARTS HEADLINES

The more-muted Trump onstage in Nashville isn’t the one TV viewers are going to remember

It would take a much better debate performance than the one the president delivered to erase the images already stored in our collective memory. 9:08 a.m.

BOOKS

If few of us know enough about China, it is not for lack of books

A shelf-full stand ready to assist. We take a closer look at four of them. 6:02 p.m.

BOOKS

A writer infiltrates the world of white nationalism in ‘Culture Warlords’

Researching her book left Talia Lavin more than troubled; it rendered her “incandescent with the kind of rage that doesn’t just last an evening.” 5:51 p.m.

BOOKS

Working on union blues in ‘The Cold Millions’

In Jess Walter’s latest novel Steinbeck has replaced Kafka as the author's muse. 5:49 p.m.

BOOKS

Harold McGee discusses poetry, cookbooks, and delicious scents

Famed for his definitive book, “On Food and Cooking,” McGee takes on all things olfactory in his newest, “Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells.” 5:48 p.m.