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‘Driving While Black’ steers conversation for new Boston Public Library series

Each online author talk will tackle a different aspect of race and US history.

Happily, we haven’t seen the last of ‘Tuca & Bertie’

The cult favorite has been scooped up by Adult Swim, which is a natural fit for its particular blend of wit and whimsy.

Editors’ Picks

At the Gardner, Adam Pendleton puts the art world’s sins in black and white

His pocket-size "Elements of Me" exposes the exclusions of 20th-century Surrealism and Abstraction.

Video games. Outdoor shows. These music groups are thinking outside the Zoom box

One company staged an opera entirely within the video game "Animal Crossing."

Has the enchantment of live performance survived the pandemic?

As Bang on a Can made a bold return to live music-making in surreal conditions, a critic asks how much can still carry across the footlights.

CRITIC’S PICK: TY BURR

Parenting is a team effort in ‘Babysplitters’

In scary ‘Rental,’ who needs a haunted house when you can have a haunted Airbnb?

Looking for some actual flicks on Netflix

CRITIC’S PICK: MATTHEW GILBERT

‘Between the World and Me’ coming to HBO

Want to rent the Brattle or the Coolidge?

Both venues are offering this on-premises option, but it costs far more than a movie ticket. 1:28 p.m.

What’s happening (digitally) in the arts world

This week's picks from Globe critics. 6:17 p.m.

Too good to be true?

In 2012, a professor at Harvard Divinity School announced a potentially earth-shaking discovery. A hitherto unknown papyrus fragment suggested that Jesus might have been married. 6:00 p.m.

Aimee Bender gives objects lives all their own

In “The Butterfly Lampshade,” objects behave in ways that blur the line between reality and imagination. 5:37 p.m.

Local bestsellers for the week ending Aug. 2

Bestsellers based on reporting from the independent booksellers of the New England Independent Booksellers Association and IndieBound. 5:35 p.m.

Virtual author readings for Aug. 9-15

A weekly calendar of literary events. 5:34 p.m.

Drawing angels and inspiration; issues of race and political history discussed at the BPL

Literary news and notes from around the region. 5:33 p.m.

‘Immigration Nation’ offers an alarming close-up view of ICE officers at work

The filmmakers embedded with immigration enforcement agents for 2½ years to produce the Netflix docu-series. 4:03 p.m.

60 enslaved people once toiled for a rich landowner in Medford. Kyera Singleton wants you to know who they were

Backstage memories of Janis Joplin’s final concert, 50 years ago at Harvard Stadium

Did Martha Washington really name a cat after Alexander Hamilton?

The real people behind the ‘Spotlight’ characters

MORE ARTS HEADLINES

To 1995 and beyond via the movies

"Toy Story" wasn’t the only thing that made it a memorable movie year. 2:00 p.m.

Rediscovering ‘Alias’ with producer-director-actor Ken Olin

The former "Thirtysomething" star, who now produces "This is Us," revisits the J.J. Abrams series that's finding new fans after a spring release on Amazon. 1:56 p.m.

At the Gardner, a goddess of the underworld rises

After sinking for more than a century, the Gardner's ancient Persephone statue stands tall once more. 1:00 p.m.

Decision to put ‘Mulan’ on Disney+ rather than in theaters is an indicator of things to come

The wall between movies in theaters and movies on demand continues to crumble, under assault from COVID-19 and the desperation of major Hollywood studios with increasingly clogged pipes. 12:00 p.m.

Sarah Stewart Johnson looks toward Mars

The “The Sirens of Mars” author explores our endless fascination with the red planet and interweaves that story with her own evolution as a planetary scientist. 12:00 p.m.

A body is found, and a family reacts, in ‘The Boy in the Field’

In her latest novel, Margot Livesey spins a luminous tale of what happens to a family after three teenage siblings discover a young man unconscious in a field. Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang, waiting for an after-school ride from their father, decide to start walking down the Oxford country roads towards home. 12:00 p.m.