Art News from Around the World

Visual Arts Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:02 Scientists May Have Discovered A New Way To Spot Counterfeit Van Goghs “By analyzing the surfaces of eight Vincent van Gogh paintings, surface metrology indeed confirmed the veracity of one long-contested but recently confirmed Van Gogh specimen — and correctly flagged another that’s been debunked.” – ArtnetSource: Visual Arts Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:15 Why Pace Gallery Imploded According to several people familiar with the call, Glimcher spent much of the meeting explaining why Pace had reached this point. The gallery had grown too large. Costs had risen too high. The model no longer worked. – ARTnewsSource: Visual Arts Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:44 Survey: Nearly Half Of Mid-Career Women Are Considering Leaving The Arts While the inaugural survey revealed gaps in leadership roles and pay for women, this edition offers a more detailed picture of the structural pressures determining who is—and, crucially, who isn’t—able to build a sustainable long-term career in the arts. – ArtnetSource: Visual Arts Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:15 A New Penn Station We Won’t Dread Walking Into? PTT’s plan features a design by PAU and HOK that references the original beaux-arts station – unceremoniously demolished in the 1960s – and retains Madison Square Garden (MSG) on the site. – DezeenSource: Media Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:31 Are U.S. Public Radio And TV About To Undergo A Wave Of Mergers? “It’s clear that” — with the cuts in federal funding for public broadcasting likely being permanent — “there’s vulnerability in being a small, independent public media broadcaster, financial or otherwise, which makes merging with a larger organization appealing.” – Editor and PublisherSource: Issues Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:05 International African-American Museum Institutes Rolling Furloughs For All Employees Just under three years after opening, the museum on Charleston’s waterfront is facing financial troubles severe enough that all staffers, including senior executives, are taking mandatory 20-day unpaid furloughs on a staggered schedule from July through December. The IAAM will remain open throughout this period. – WCIV (Charleston)Source: Music Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:32 Pittsburgh Symphony Extends Manfred Honeck’s Music Director Contract To 2032 “The renewal will give Honeck a 25-year tenure with the orchestra, making him the longest-serving music director in the Pittsburgh Symphony’s 131-year history. Honeck, who began his tenure in the 2008/09 season, has overseen a period of significant artistic growth and international visibility for the orchestra.” – Moto PerpetuoSource: People Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:06 David Hockney, 88 “Over a seven-decade career, Hockney explored and reimagined classical portraiture, landscape painting and pop art, working in painting, collage, photography and digital drawing. … One of the most popular and critically lauded British artists of his” — and perhaps any — “generation, his works sold for record prices at auction.” – APSource: Music Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:34 Boston Symphony CEO: Yes, We Handled The Nelsons Thing Poorly. No, We’re Not Changing Our Minds. Chad Smith: “I can see that it was an abrupt announcement externally. It didn’t represent abrupt decision-making, though. It was a very considered conversation that has been going on for some time. … Our intention was to have a joint statement, but that wasn’t agreed to.” – The New York TimesSource: Music Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00 Pianist Igor Levit Launches His Own Record Label The imprint, which will operate within Sony Music, Levit’s longtime label, is called No Silence, and will feature artists other than Levit himself. Among the first three releases, available in October, will be a complete 16-hour performance of Satie’s Vexations. – GramophoneSource: The World Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:01 Creativity is Dead in the 21st Century? Really? Good Morning, A piece in the Yale Review asks whether the 21st century has been a creative blank space — two decades of remixing without inventing (Yale Review). The piece is a review of a book that asserts the notion. But perhaps the invention is happening; it’s just not where we used to look. A […]Source: The World Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:33 Northwest Choirs – Executive Director Northwest Choirs seeks a dynamic Executive Director to guide a leading youth choral organization into its next stage of growth, visibility, and sustainability.Source: Dance Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:03 The Stanford Class Where Students Are Taught To Dance Badly “’Welcome to bad dancing,’ says Alex Ketley, a choreographer and former member of the San Francisco Ballet who teaches Dance 123: Hot Mess & Deliberate Failure as Practice. Ketley, an advanced lecturer in the department of theater and performance studies and a former Guggenheim Fellow, says it’s his most popular course.” – Stanford MagazineSource: Music Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:31 AMC Postpones Interactive Movie Theatre Concert Series The chain is partnering with live entertainment company Arena One to bring new technology to theaters. This tech would allow artists on a remote stage to see, hear and respond to the theater audience, in effect turning your local cinema into a stadium, the companies said. – Los Angeles TimesSource: Issues Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:44 Demand For Workers With Creative Skills Is Growing Nearly 50% of employers are looking to expand their workforce in the next three to five years. Video games, music, design and fashion were particularly expecting to grow over that time. – The ConversationSource: Ideas Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:31 Has The 21st Century Been A Creative Blank Space? The years from 2000 to 2025 as a period of creative emptiness and stagnation so intractable that it will be remembered (or, rather, is being remembered, through the anticipation of remembrance) as voided time, a dark age. – Yale ReviewSource: Issues Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:04 San Diego Mayor’s Budget Eliminates Arts Funding. This New Plan Restores Over 90% Of It. The plan from City Council members and the Prebys Foundation will have the nonprofit provide $3 million in one-time replacement money, while the city shifts $6 million of hotel occupancy tax money from renovation of the Convention Center to fund arts and culture. – KPBS (San Diego)Source: Music Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:44 Wigmore Hall And Apple Music Launch New Digital Platform For Artists Under a new artist-first model, Wigmore Hall will pay the full production costs for every release and will take no share of the recording income, passing on 100% of royalties received directly to the performing artists. – GramophoneSource: Media Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:34 EU Investigating Paramount/Warner Financing The European Commission is investigating the $111 billion Paramount-WBD deal under the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation, looking at the approximately $24 billion being fronted for the takeover by the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi. – VarietySource: Media Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:15 After Strikes And Fiery Rhetoric Last Time, Why Were Hollywood Contracts So Easy This Year? The top factor, perhaps, was the ongoing fallout from Hollywood’s contraction. It’s no small thing that, since 2022, studios have tightened their belts and downsized their slates, reducing the job opportunities available for average industry workers. – The Hollywood ReporterSource: