Art News from Around the World

Visual Arts Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:44 American Pavillion At The Venice Biennale Is $1M Short. Art Transport Now A Problem Despite months of controversy, the United States managed to get Alma Allen‘s enormous sculptures to Venice for this year’s Biennale. Getting them home, however, is proving more difficult. – ARTnewsSource: Visual Arts Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:31 House Republicans Demand Details Of Smithsonian Museum Curation “The Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency is concerned that the Smithsonian Institution (Smithsonian) does not properly review proposed exhibits in its museums,” says a letter to outgoing Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch III, penned by subcommittee chairman Tim Burchett of Tennessee along with Georgia’s Brian Jack. – ARTnewsSource: Visual Arts Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:44 Inside The Books Of The Mega-Galleries Even for the biggest blue-chip galleries, selling art is a tough business. – ArtnetSource: Issues Sun, 01 Nov 2026 15:30 As AI Infiltrates Scholarly Writing, The Value Of A Journal Article Is Collapsing “Unfortunately, the scholars submitting papers aren’t the only ones using AI. So are many of their peer reviewers. One recent peer review that my journal received—from a senior scholar—read like an unedited cut-and-paste job from an LLM.” – The AtlanticSource: Issues Sun, 01 Nov 2026 15:00 Dems Cite Internal Pressure To Cover Decline Under Trump In Lawsuit Over Kennedy Center “‘Defendants are shuttering the Kennedy Center to hide the ongoing mismanagement of this once vibrant institution and to placate its current chairman,’ they wrote in the filing.” – The New York TimesSource: The World Sun, 01 Nov 2026 14:30 How Is It That All Books Have Suddenly Become ‘Gothic’? It’s not just Spooky Season. “The Gothic label, once applied primarily to horror and dark romance, has been used to describe space operas, literary works and fantastical hybrids of all kinds.” – The New York TimesSource: Ideas Sun, 01 Nov 2026 14:00 Why We Like To Be Scared “Because of horror’s position as a sandbox for misfortune, consumers tend to reward horror films that reflect their generation’s anxieties.” – TimeSource: Music Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:30 Behind The Scenes With Alisa Weilerstein’s Cello “It is a tragic situation, after all, for a piece of wood to have to plead with us for decency, love, and justice. It was the cello’s purest act of superheroism, to play Bach’s solo suites to a civilization sunk into depravity.” – Paris ReviewSource: Words Sun, 01 Nov 2026 13:00 The Queen Of Fairy Smut, With A New Book And Loads Of Merch, Rises Again “Maas hysteria gripped the Bell House in the hours before the book dropped. Fans traded conspiracy theories about future plot twists, got temporary tattoos and face paint, drank themed cocktails, posed for photos behind a giant cauldron and bought branded candles, bag charms and other memorabilia.” – The New York TimesSource: Words Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:30 This Is How Users Are Dealing With AO3 Going Down It’s … intense. “Fans are compiling Google Docs of links to downloaded stories, touting them as ‘survival guides’ for the ‘AO3 apocalypse’ and organizing them by fictional character pairings, or ships.” – WiredSource: The World Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00 The Internet’s Most Wide-Open Site For Fan Fiction Goes Down After A Security Breach Archive of Our Own, or AO3 as it’s known to many of its millions of users, may be down for up to a month. “A surge in traffic to archived versions of the site [is] now ‘putting a heavy load on the Wayback Machine.'” – The New York TimesSource: The World Sat, 31 Oct 2026 23:01 MoMA, Pompidou and M+ Now Share Collection This Week’s Highlights: MoMA, the Centre Pompidou and Hong Kong’s M+ will treat their holdings as one collection curated across three continents, starting with M+ works on long-term loan in MoMA’s galleries in late 2027 (ARTnews). The Bayeux Tapestry, on view in England for the first time since the 11th century, drew first-hour ticket spending […]Source: Blogs Sat, 31 Oct 2026 16:11 Emanuel Maxwell shares strategies that drive EDI work Emanuel Maxwell, Chief People Officer of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, shares his philosophy and strategies that drive their EDI work.Source: Theatre Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:50 What It’s Like To Be A Professional Scare Actor During Halloween Season Lyndon Laveaux is one of around 400 scare actors working at the Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor in Long Beach. He plays the Captain, the undead master of ceremonies. “I just love it,” he says. “It’s like an adult summer camp and I appreciate the fans, I appreciate this community.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)Source: Words Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:31 Horror Books And Bookstores Are Proliferating Horror book sales are up 39 percent this year over last, according to Circana BookScan. The market is growing: 5.1 million books were sold in 2025, up from 3.2 million in 2021. – The New York TimesSource: Music Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:03 Despite Taliban’s Prohibition, Masters Hope To Keep Traditional Afghan Music Alive “For many, music is in their blood. It has flowed through their families for generations, and the thought of never playing again is unbearable. Every so often, some pull out their instruments and play in secret. A knock at the door could mean danger. Still, they play.” – APSource: Music Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:15 The Shockingly Fantastic Imagery Of The Met’s New “Lincoln” Opera At a moment when film or TV versions of novels often end up, at best, as decent airplane watches, opera, as the excellent Lincoln in the Bardo illustrates, has the potential to create something bolder and more bizarre. – The AtlanticSource: Issues Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:12 The Kennedy Center’s Perplexing Choice Of Architect For $257M Renovations The firm — which employs just 50 people, including eight architects, according to an industry database — generally does work that is a fraction of the scale and expense of the job. One if its most ambitious projects, according to its online portfolio, was a high school renovation completed in 2016 that cost about $40 […]Source: Words Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:04 Meet The People Who Choose The Poems In New York Subway Cars Anyone who has taken the subway has likely come across Poetry in Motion, which pairs poems with artwork. … Tina Vaz, the head of the MTA’s Arts & Design team, and Matt Brogan, the executive director of the Poetry Society of America, are the big decision makers behind the Poetry in Motion program. – Literary […]Source: Music Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:31 $6.5M Donation To Phoenix Symphony In Jeopardy A new $6.5 million donation to the financially troubled Phoenix Symphony is in legal jeopardy after the orchestra announced last week it would suspend its season. – Arizona RepublicSource: