What’s on TV TIANANMEN: THE PEOPLE VERSUS THE PARTY (2019) 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). Earlier this month thousands of Hong Kong residents began marching against a bill that would allow extraditions to the mainland. The timing of the demonstrations makes them ever more potent: This month marks the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, when Chinese troops unleashed their firepower on a throng of protesters in Beijing who were calling for democracy in the Communist country. This new documentary revisits the seven weeks that led up…

Public library cardholders in New York City will no longer have access to tens of thousands of movies through Kanopy as of July 1, when the New York, Brooklyn and Queens public libraries end their partnerships with the streaming service because of the cost, the libraries said Monday. The San Francisco-based platform, which notified library cardholders by email on Monday, offers well-known feature films, like “Lady Bird” and “Moonlight,” as well as classic movies, documentaries and foreign-language films not always available on other services. In a statement, the New York…

Joyce Pensato, a painter who took the Abstract out of Abstract Expressionism and added a little Pop, making large-scale black-and-white paintings that transformed popular cartoon characters into ambiguous, emotionally complex and sometimes scary creatures, died on June 13 in Manhattan. She was 78. Petzel Gallery, which has represented her since 2007, said the cause was pancreatic cancer. Ms. Pensato was a late bloomer: Her art did not mature until after she turned 50, in the early 1990s. Success in the form of a fully committed New York gallery arrived even…

The two young women see themselves in Rue, the stumbling, manipulative teenage drug addict that Zendaya plays in “Euphoria,” the new HBO show. They see themselves in Rue when she coughs and flushes the toilet so her mom won’t hear her rummaging through the medicine cabinet for Xanax. They see themselves when Rue cops clean urine from a high school friend to pass a drug test. They see themselves when Rue convinces a new friend that getting high first thing in the morning is a good idea; when she threatens…

After making four Marvel movies, including the record-setting “Avengers: Endgame,” the directors Joe and Anthony Russo couldn’t be better served by the current model of the movie industry. Still, when I talked to them for my project on the future of movies, I was struck by how much they are bracing for imminent change. “Studios are in a cocoon right now, and they’re going to come out as butterflies on the other side” as streaming platforms, Joe Russo told me. “And those may be as valuable or more valuable than…

December 2018 Chatter about a firing “I think he put out a tweet last night specifically saying he now realizes he does not have the authority to fire.” — Mick Mulvaney, who had recently been named the acting White House chief of staff, on ABC That fourth rate increase fueled Mr. Trump’s ire and the president privately talked about firing Mr. Powell, telling advisers that the Fed chair would “turn me into Hoover,” a reference to the Great Depression-era president. Spring 2019 Envisioning a ‘rocket ship’ “China will be pumping…

Despite remaining laudably committed to its namesake’s hobby of terrorizing little girls, “Annabelle Comes Home,” the latest in the demon-doll saga that began in 2013, is no more than a shameless franchise-stuffer. Burdened neither by fresh ideas nor common sense, Gary Dauberman’s lethargic screenplay (he also directed, an inauspicious debut) takes so long to get moving that Annabelle herself should demand a do-over. After warning us that the possessed doll is “a beacon for other spirits,” the demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) lock her in…

Robert Therrien, whose lifelong fascination with household objects like tables and chairs and pots and pans led him to recreate them as colossal sculptures, died on June 17 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 71. The cause was cancer, said Dean Anes, the liaison to Mr. Therrien from the Gagosian Gallery, which represented him. It was in the 1970s and ’80s that Mr. Therrien began drawing and sculpting generic things familiar to him from childhood: snowmen, keyholes, a coffin, a bird, a chapel, a hat on a stand….

Madonna has a new album. Madonna has a big tour. Madonna’s album goes to No. 1. That pattern — the result of bundling album sales and concert tickets — repeated yet again this week on the Billboard chart. Madonna’s album, “Madame X” (Interscope), is her ninth No. 1 on the Billboard 200, giving her more chart-topping LPs than any female artist except Barbra Streisand, who has 11. “Madame X” opened with the equivalent of 95,000 sales in the United States, according to Nielsen. A bundle deal offered free copies of it…

MY PARENTS An Introduction THIS DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU By Aleksandar Hemon Depending on how you read this two-part book by Aleksandar Hemon, you’ll either be going from a concrete account to disarray, or watching the threads of memory come together into a single story. The second work of nonfiction from the Sarajevo-born novelist, the book is split into two halves — “My Parents: An Introduction” and “This Does Not Belong to You” — that proceed inward from the front and back covers, necessitating a flip upside down midway…