Arts - The Boston Globe

A sweep for ’Schitt’s Creek,’ ‘Watchmen,’ ‘Succession’ tops Emmy Awards

“Schitt’s Creek,” the little Canadian show about a fish-out-of-water family, made history at Sunday’s Emmy Awards with a comedy awards sweep, something even TV greats including “Frasier” and “Modern Family” failed to achieve.

A ‘Schitt’s’ sweep, but the Emmys left Jimmy Kimmel up a creek

The host of the virtual Emmys performed his monologue and some poorly written stage bits in an empty, laughter-free arena.

Emmy Awards pre-show host Giuliana Rancic tests positive for COVID-19, misses red carpet

E! host Giuliana Rancic had to miss the Emmy Awards virtual pre-show after she tested positive for the coronavirus.

Editors’ Picks

‘The Way I See It’ shows how Obama White House photographer Pete Souza saw it

The documentary focuses on Souza's time documenting the Obama presidency.

For five decades, this Massachusetts maker quietly turned detritus into ‘fully realized art’

Stephanie Cole specializes in intricate statues and shrines, originally created just for herself.

Big screen vs. small screen

The big screen is great, but some good things happen when the pictures are small.

CRITIC’S PICK: TY BURR

The Academy weighs in on inclusion and diversity

It’s objects of affection, not art objects, put on display in ‘The Broken Hearts Gallery’

‘SNL’ to return — live — in time for election stretch run

Disney+ reimagines ‘Doogie Howser’ as a teen girl in Hawaii

Judging by potential, Showtime’s ‘Your Honor’ will be worth a look

The 10-episode drama, adapted from an Israeli series, is about a judge in New Orleans who helps his son after the son kills someone in a hit and run. 2:14 p.m.

‘Forrest Gump’ author Winston Groom dies at 77

Winston Groom, whose novel “Forrest Gump” was made into a six-Oscar winning 1994 movie that became a soaring pop cultural phenomenon, has died at age 77. 10:02 p.m.

Who’ll win at the Emmys, who should, and who got left behind

Globe TV critic Matthew Gilbert offers his best guesses and biggest complaints. 7:00 p.m.

What’s happening (digitally) in the arts world

This week's picks from Globe critics. 6:53 p.m.

On the rights of women 25 years after the Beijing Declaration on Women

Looking inside "The Right to Be Elected," "Launching While Female," "She Proclaims," "No Stopping Us Now," and more. 6:23 p.m.

Claudia Rankine on race, reading, and conversation

Given the mass demonstrations over police violence against Black people plus a president bent on widening the country’s deep racial divide, the author’s new book, “Just Us: An American Conversation,” could not be timelier. 6:21 p.m.

BOOKS

‘Conditional Citizens’ looks at what it means to belong here

Laila Lalami’s new book is an argument for active, equal United States citizenship. Drawing on her considerable talents and abundant intelligence, Lalami attempts to account for the ways that powerful American forces use class status, religion, border policing, national origin, non-whiteness, and gender to diminish and deactivate full citizenship. 6:19 p.m.