The Arts in a Changed World
How COVID has affected culture
When will performing arts return? Local groups describe their hopes for summer and beyond
What we’ve lost, what we’ve learned
By the numbers: A year in ‘fiscal freefall’ for Massachusetts arts and culture
Once, Boston was ‘a special place’ where musicians thrived
Lockdown inspired some TV trends that we could be seeing for a long time
A year when how you watched mattered as much as what you watched
When art provided an out from pandemic life
ARTS HEADLINES
WELLNESS
Artist creates a space for healing on Zoom: ‘You’re stepping into resilience just by showing up’
Open to anybody feeling overwhelmed, Chelvanaya Gabriel's Creative Dialogue Series focuses on recovery through nonverbal expression.
TELEVISION
GLAAD Media Awards honor TV shows, movies, and more
The annual event honors representations of the LGBTQ community in the media.
HOMEFRONT
HomeFront: Fun now for stir-crazy families, music later for picnicking at Tanglewood
The Globe's picks for the best ways to spend your weekend.
Whale secrets, superheroes, sitcoms, and a ’Sesame Street’ salute: 10 family-friendly TV picks for spring
Here's a look at some new shows premiering in the weeks ahead that ought to appeal to kids and their parents.
10 ways for youngsters to find a little bliss (finally)
Check out these cool camps, classes, and special events in the Boston area.
A.Z. MADONNA
With a new series, BSO’s Lucia Lin insists: ‘Classical music is not Eurocentric’
The violinist's "In Tandem" videos evolved from a pandemic project into something much more.
The Globe staff’s favorite kids movies
What was your favorite movie when you were a kid? Here are some of ours.
MURRAY WHYTE
How children’s books carry on the struggle for civil rights
A show at the Eric Carle Museum features more than 40 illustrations, capturing events from the 1960s to the present.
MORE ARTS HEADLINES
Why Boston Children’s Museum is taking longer to reopen
Now slated to reopen next month, it's using the time to rethink how it operates.
Hunter Biden discusses new memoir, laughs off Trump criticism on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’
President Biden’s son appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” to discuss his new book,“Beautiful Things,” in a conversation that included moments of seriousness, sympathy, and occasional hilarity.
What’s happening in the arts world
This week's picks from Globe critics.
THEATER
‘Hype Man’ returns, this time online, and it’s even more compelling
In Idris Goodwin’s searing drama, fissures open up in a hip-hop trio after a police shooting of an unarmed Black youth.
MURRAY WHYTE
MFA’s Netherlandish art center raises difficult questions. And it hasn’t even opened yet
A four-day symposium digs into connections between the trans-Atlantic slave trade and museum's vast trove of 17th-century Dutch art.
Reagle Music Theatre founder Robert J. Eagle to retire after 52 years
The Waltham theater's namesake reflects on a half-century of memories.
MATTHEW GILBERT
Shamelessly devoted to the Gallaghers, right to the end
Certainly “Shameless,” which is ending on Sunday, has been uneven across the 11 seasons of its existence, but I've watched every minute of it.
BOOKS
Taking on the Sacklers in ‘Empire of Pain’
Patrick Radden Keefe has written a true tragedy in multiple acts.