Art News from Around the World

Visual Arts Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:17 In Praise Of… The Louvre Heist? Surely, to everyone outside the republic, a pair of cat burglars cleverly robbing a museum in broad daylight and escaping—Beep! Beep!—on mopeds is very nearly the Frenchest thing that could have happened. – The AtlanticSource: Visual Arts Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:00 How Yayoi Kusama’s Pumpkins Became All The Rage In The Museum World Or rather, not just the museum world: “It’s Kusama’s pumpkin patch; we’re just living in it.” – Washington Post (Yahoo)Source: Visual Arts Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:00 Art Crime Is In The News Again, This Time Thanks To An International Art Forgery Ring “German police say they’ve broken up an international art forgery ring that tried to sell works purportedly by Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Frida Kahlo and others for tens of millions of dollars to unsuspecting collectors.” – NPRSource: Visual Arts Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:45 For The First Time In Two Hundred Years, You Can See The Parthenon Without Scaffolding Of course, “having been originally built in the fifth century BC, and come through most of that span much the worse for wear, it requires intensive and near-constant maintenance.” – OpenCultureSource: Music Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:40 Why Piano Competitions Are So Controversial Those in favour argue that they are essential for discovering new talent and launching international careers. The main arguments against them are that they stifle musicality by focusing on technical perfection, and reward conformity rather than originality. – The SpectatorSource: Ideas Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:02 First Came AI. Now The “De-Skilling” Of Humans Now that chatbots are going the way of Google—moving from the miraculous to the taken-for-granted—the anxiety has shifted, too, from apocalypse to atrophy. Teachers, especially, say they’re beginning to see the rot. The term for it is unlovely but not inapt: de-skilling. – The Atlantic (MSN)Source: Music Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:40 The Hidden Gem Of A Concert Hall In The Library Of Congress Perhaps the most famous commission became one of America’s most iconic pieces of music. Aaron Copland‘s ballet Appalachian Spring, written for dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, received its world premiere at Coolidge Auditorium on Oct. 30, 1944. – NPRSource: People Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:15 Drummer Jack DeJohnette, 83 Able to bring dynamic, highly musical playing to open-minded free jazz, R&B-leaning instrumental grooves and everything in between, DeJohnette is perhaps best known as the drummer in Miles Davis’s fusion period, contributing to albums such as Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson and On the Corner. – The GuardianSource: Words Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:30 The Novelist Anne Enright, On Trying To Clean Out Her Parents’ House “Everything must be seen and experienced before it can be recycled, shredded or, as a last resort, binned. We must honour and mourn. We must absorb the past out of each object, so it can turn into empty rubbish. This alchemy is deeply exhausting.” – The Guardian (UK)Source: Media Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:30 The Existential Angst Of Playing Bruce Springsteen Jeremy Allen White “was at first reluctant to take the role, given that he didn’t play guitar and was not a confident singer. He was convinced, in part, because Springsteen wanted him.” – The New York TimesSource: Dance Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:15 Thinking About Misty Copeland’s Legacy “Her journey shattered long-standing norms in an art form historically dominated by white dancers, challenging stereotypes about body type, ethnicity, and ‘who belongs’ in classical ballet.” – SalonSource: Ideas Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:00 Hollywood Writers Seem To Have Lost Their Way On AI Sure, old Black Mirror episodes about AI (creepily, eerily) presaged our present — but current TV can’t quite figure out what all of the AI “spaces” will do to our future. – The New YorkerSource: Issues Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:45 The Crisis In Belief Is Running Deep In An Age Of AI “It’s the human factor I find the major underdiagnosed problem these days, the spiritual crisis now gripping many journalists and democracy enthusiasts. ‘What is civic engagement in the age of exponential lies?’ Maria Ressa, the dissident journalist and Nobel laureate, asked the audience.” – Matt PearceSource: People Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:30 Alison Williams Is An Adult Now “After Girls, she more or less abandoned romantic heroines, in part to show her range and also because Marnie (and through her, Williams) became a target for online outrage. A little space seemed healthy.” – The New York TimesSource: Issues Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:15 Because Arts Nonprofits Don’t Have Enough To Worry About Turns out GoFundMe created “realistic-looking but unauthorized fundraising pages without permission that included logos and other identifying information from the nonprofits, but suggesting an optional 14% ‘tipping fee’ in addition to the normal nonprofit 2.2% fee plus 30 cents for each credit card transaction.” – Oregon ArtsWatchSource: Media Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:00 Can Hollywood’s Fresh New Love Affair With Microdramas Last? Wow, do streamers have a show (or 450, all produced quickly) for you. “Though vertical dramas are the length of a movie, they are spliced up into small chapters and produced quickly. A 100-page script might be shot in just one week.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)Source: People Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:45 June Lockhart, Beloved TV Mom, Has Died At 100 Lockhart played Timmy’s mom – and Lassie’s human, too, on Lassie; and then she starred in Lost in Space as well. Lockhart started her career onstage at the Metropolitan Opera at age 8 and acted in movies and streaming TV well into her 90s. – The New York TimesSource: Media Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:30 How To Enjoy Horror Movies Without Suffering Through Gore And Jump Scares If you love thinking about how horror reflects societal concerns, but you’d rather not hear the screaming or throw your popcorn all over your fellow cinemaphiles, do we have a deal for you: Horror documentaries. – ReactorSource: Media Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:15 TV Shows Are Trying To Save Korean Royal Court Cuisine, Since UNESCO Wouldn’t “Despite Korean palace cuisine appearing on Bon Appetit, Your Majesty and other TV shows, these dishes don’t grace everyday dining tables. A certain level of secrecy and gatekeeping had surrounded these recipes over the centuries, which has led to the predicament the cuisine faces today.” – SalonSource: Dance Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:00 Taylor Swift’s Choreographer Also Happens To Choreograph Operas For The Met Mandy Moore “has created charming routines for movies including La La Land and Silver Linings Playbook and television shows. … She has made dance numbers for the Grammys, the Emmys, the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards.” Now she’s on Broadway, and at the Met. – The New York TimesSource: