Art News from Around the World

Visual Arts Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:41 Online Sales Are Changing The Market For Native American Art An estimated one-third of Navajo Nation members make and sell art for a living, and in Zuni Pueblo, as many as 85 percent of households include a working artist. Yet for more than a century, Native artists have been subject to a marketplace that undervalues their work and rips off their designs. – Mother JonesSource: Visual Arts Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:21 Smithsonian Museums Have Now Shut Down The Smithsonian manages 21 museums around Washington, DC, and in New York, as well as the National Zoo and 14 research facilities. It had previously said it could rely on remaining funds from past fiscal years to remain open, originally for “at least” five days past the 1 October shutdown. – The Art NewspaperSource: Visual Arts Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:45 It Was A Nice Dream, To Turn Office Blocks Into Apartments In Australia, that dream — borne of the pandemic — appears to have died. – The Guardian (UK)Source: The World Tue, 14 Oct 2025 05:02 Texas Ballet Theater seeks Director of Development Via Sweibel Arts Texas Ballet Theater seeks a strategic, relationship-driven Director of Development to lead fundraising and donor engagement as the company launches a $40 million capital campaign.Source: Music Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:31 How AI Could Change The Way We Listen To Music As AI becomes more embedded in music creation, the challenge is balancing its legitimate creative use with the ethical and economic pressures it introduces. Disclosure is essential not just for accountability, but to give listeners transparent and user-friendly choices in the artists they support. – The ConversationSource: Ideas Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:02 How To Understand What We Used To Call The Idiot Savant In the past (autism became a diagnostic category only in 1943), the ‘idiot savant’ was a paradox, who confounded categorisation because there was no unified way of comprehending how such exceptional musical and numerical skills might co-exist alongside their polar opposite: profound disability. – AeonSource: People Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:02 What Happened to Kevin Costner? The Oscar-winning director and actor with the most iconic American screen presence since Gary Cooper is now brawling with his castmates, getting sued by his crewmembers and, in recent months, giving paid keynote speeches at bakery and veterinarian conventions. – The Hollywood ReporterSource: Media Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:41 My Letter To AI Tilly On The Meaning Of Being An Actress Tilly, you never had to be 14, so I’ll tell you what Google can’t. It feels like your soul gets a broken glass enema. You go from curious about this marvelous world to drowning in un-marvelous you. Who am I? How should I be? Am I alone? Your human brain answers “no one,” “invisible” and […]Source: Words Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:20 Zadie Smith Ponders The Point Of Essay-Writing My entire future rested on a few essays written in the school hall under a three-hour time constraint? Really? In the nineties, this was what we called “the meritocracy.” – The New YorkerSource: Words Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:01 Libraries Scramble To Replace Industry’s Biggest Book Distributor Given the complicated nature of library wholesaling and its existing position in the market, Ingram is well positioned to pick up a sizable chunk of B&T’s business.  – Publishers WeeklySource: Music Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:40 Scientist Used Sensors To Discover How Pianists’ Touch Changes Timbre A team led by Dr. Shinichi Furuya at the NeuroPiano Institute and Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. has provided the first scientific evidence showing how pianists’ touch on the keys can actually change a piano’s timbre—the tonal character of its sound. – SciTech DailySource: Ideas Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:20 Will AI Create A Permanent Underclass? The idea of a permanent underclass has recently been embraced in part as an online joke and in part out of a sincere fear about how A.I. automation will upend the labor market and create a new norm of inequality. – The New YorkerSource: Media Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:00 Warner Bros Discovery Rejects Paramount’s First Offer, But The Talks Are Far From Over Chat, is this less than ideal? “The merger would lead to the elimination of one of the original Hollywood film studios, and could see the consolidation of CNN with Paramount-owned CBS News.” – Los Angeles TimesSource: Words Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:30 What’s Next For The Book Industry? The CEO of Simon & Schuster has some thoughts about what will be going on a decade from now: “I fearlessly predict that the average book will be shorter.” – Boston Globe (Archive Today)Source: Ideas Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:00 Every Portlandian Pays An Arts Tax, And Now There Are Tools To See Where It’s Going The thing is, “music classes require ukuleles, recorders, and sheet music for every student. Visual arts classes require painting supplies –– easels, paper, paint brushes, paint. Dance classes require mirrors and bars.” How’s the $35 arts tax doing? – Oregon ArtsWatchSource: Media Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:45 Gamergate’s Ghosts Keep Haunting Gaming, But The Script Is So Boring “This issue of right-wing men attacking minority creatives and characters in video games has been going on for well over a decade at this point, and is unlikely to fade away any time soon.” Could gaming execs make a damn plan? – SlateSource: Ideas Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:30 Actually, English Majors Are Thriving At least, at the University of Minnesota: “Students come to our courses not only for practical career training but to fulfill their love of reading, passion for writing, and hunger to reflect on essential questions about who we are as individuals and communities.” – Minneapolis Star-TribuneSource: Ideas Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:15 Eliza, The Best Of Wives, Was A Better Citizen After Hamilton Died Eliza was worth a lot more than her quick summing up in two minutes at the end of a 165-minute musical. “Eliza’s widowed years [were] a kind of breakout,” actually, and the U.S. (and Washington, D.C.) would have looked quite different without her.  – The AtlanticSource: Media Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:00 No Surprise, But Oscar Winning Director Chloe Zhao Says Hollywood Isn’t Great At Nuance Zhao, at the London premiere of her new Hamnet, said, “In Hollywood, in the film industry, we are not very good at preserving the language of ambiguity. If logos and mystery are in harmony, we would be living in a much better world.” – VarietySource: Media Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:30 A Small Box Office Weekend, But A Big Secret Screening “It’s been over a decade since the New York Film Festival has deployed a ‘Secret Screening’ of a major Oscars contender — not since Martin Scorsese brought an unfinished Hugo to the festival in 2011, followed by Steven Spielberg premiering Lincoln to, appropriately, the Lincoln Center audience in 2012.” – VultureSource: