Art News from Around the World

Visual Arts Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:06 Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum To Open Its First Satellite And no, it’s not in Abu Dhabi. It will be in the south of the Netherlands, in the high-tech hub of Eindhoven. The new museum, planned to cover more than 3,500 square meters (37,673 square feet) near the city’s central railway station, is scheduled to open in six to eight years. – APSource: Visual Arts Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:01 “The Sistine Chapel Of The New Deal” In Danger Of Demolition By Trump Administration The Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C. contains perhaps the most important New Deal-era murals in the city — works by Philip Guston and Seymour Vogel as well as Ben Shahn’s monumental The Meaning of Social Security. The Trump administration is currently soliciting bids for the building’s demolition. – The New RepublicSource: The World Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:54 Director of Marketing and Communications – Broadway in Hollywood & the Hollywood Pantages Theatre via TOC Arts Partners Broadway in Hollywood and the Hollywood Pantages Theatre seek an energetic, driven, and forward-thinking Director of Marketing and Communications.Source: The World Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:45 Good Morning Today’s highlights: The big news is Disney’s embrace of AI: in a major move with enormous implications for content creation, Disney Will License Its Characters To OpenAI’s Video Platform And Invest $1 Billion In the Company (The Wall Street Journal (MSN)). This comes as the traditional film business faces its own potential extinction event, analyzing […]Source: People Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:02 Judi Dench On The State Of Her Memory And Her Eyesight The 91-year-old acting legend, who has age-related macular degeneration, stopped performing because she can’t see her way around a set or read a script anymore. And she says, “I can’t remember what I’m doing tomorrow, I swear to you,” but can still remember quite a lot of Shakespeare. – The GuardianSource: Music Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:32 Can Literary Fiction Help Save Classical Music? Since 2020, well over a dozen novels have taken classical music as their setting. Of course, novels about classical music are nothing new. But what is notable about this recent surge in classical music fiction is that many of these texts center on a scathing critique of the industry itself. – Public BooksSource: Issues Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:04 Why Does It Seem Like Every Major Cultural Institution In Melbourne Is Named After The Same Person? Well, because that person, Ian Potter, was extraordinarily generous, as his widow and his foundation continue to be. But when your sister gets angry because she was waiting for you at one Ian Potter Museum while you waited for her at another, you realize there must be a better way. – ABC (Australia)Source: Dance Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:44 “Nutcracker” From Behind The Stage Pittsburgh’s production has evolved its own traditions and superstitions. During some performances, performers pass a Heinz ketchup packet while onstage, like a hot potato. Whoever has it at the end loses. Another tradition: Dancers owe a dollar for every mistake. – Pittsburgh Post-GazetteSource: Ideas Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:31 Americans’ Obsession With Renovation And Makeovers — And The White House The White House has explained the East Wing’s demolition as “renovation,” and the necessary prelude to a multimillion-dollar ballroom. This is the architectural equivalent of a celebrity-style makeover: a redo to admire as a luxury commodity, an old building rejuvenated, history erased. – The New York TimesSource: Media Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:15 Have Stripped Public Media Of Funding, Now Republicans Want To Cancel NPR, PBS Station Licenses The CPB is set to shut down after Congress approved President Trump’s request to rescind its funding. The Center for American Rights said the CPB shutdown should be used as an opportunity to reassign spectrum used by NPR and PBS stations to other entities. – Ars TechnicaSource: Words Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:01 Poetry And Politics In The U.S., Then And Now Verse was used as a political tool going back all the way to the Revolutionary War. Walt Whitman considered poetry to democracy, which “waits the coming of its bards … in the twilight of dawn.” And the connection of poetry to politics continues today with Joy Harjo and Amanda Gorman. – JSTOR DailySource: Music Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:31 Mark Swed: LA’s Best Classical Music Of 2025 Classical music’s survival instincts proved reliable. New leaders of L.A.’s arts institutions are bringing vitality to the region, empowering musicians and giving fans hope and optimism. – Los Angeles TimesSource: People Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:15 Baritone Jubilant Sykes, Stabbed and Killed After the Santa Monica Police Department responded to a call about an assault at a house around 9:20 p.m., officers found Sykes, 71, with critical injuries consistent with a stabbing, the authorities said in a news release. He was pronounced dead at the scene. – The New York TimesSource: Dance Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:03 How Do You Keep “Nutcracker” Costumes Looking Fresh For 30 Years? The National Ballet of Canada’s costumes, designed by Broadway mainstay Santo Loquasto, have absorbed a lot of wear, tear, and sweat over three decades. Here wardrobe chief Stacy Dimitropoulos, resident cutter Chris Read, and several company dancers talk about costume care and maintenance. – Toronto LifeSource: Ideas Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:44 The People Who Are Using AI To Do Their Thinking For this set of compulsive users, AI has become a primary interface through which they interact with the world. The emails they write, the life decisions they make, and the questions that consume their mind all filter through AI first. “It’s like a real addiction.” – The AtlanticSource: Media Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:35 How Warner Bros. Sale To Netflix Could Change Movies In Hollywood, concern about whether Warner Bros. will remain a theatre-centered business is haunted by historical echoes of earlier seismic shifts in the movie business. It seems existential, perhaps portending the end of mainstream moviegoing. – The New YorkerSource: Issues Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:15 The Trumped Up Kennedy Honors Every detail of the ceremony appeared to have been plucked from Trump’s mood board, an indelible blend of revanchist impulses and eighties camp. – The New YorkerSource: Media Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:05 Disney Will License Its Characters To OpenAI’s Video Platform And Invest $1 Billion In Company “The three-year licensing deal will let users generate videos using Sora, OpenAI’s short-form AI video platform, of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar characters. … ChatGPT will also be able to generate images of Disney’s multibrand licensed characters.” – The Wall Street Journal (MSN)Source: Theatre Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:32 Broadway Attendance From New York’s Suburbs Is Lowest In 30 Years “According to data released … on Wednesday, less than 13% of admissions in (2024-25) came from the surrounding New York suburbs, which was the lowest percentage on Broadway in 30 years. The demographic, which once made up 20% of the audience, has been trending down over the past few years.” – The Hollywood ReporterSource: Music Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:34 Nathalie Stutzmann, Atlanta Symphony Music Director, Takes On A Second Position Next September, the French contralto-turned-conductor will begin a four-year term as music and artistic director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo in Monaco. She succeeds Kazuki Yamada, music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the UK. – Moto PerpetuoSource: