Art News from Around the World

Visual Arts Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:44 Plan For An Ambitious New Design Museum In The Bay Area The Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity, the nonprofit established by the family of design and art pioneers Ray and Charles Eames, is set to file a master plan with the city of Novato that will transform the 85.5-acre site into a global design museum, attracting some 200,000 visitors a year. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)Source: Visual Arts Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:30 Bass Museum Of Art In Miami Beach Reveals Design For Its Planned Expansion “California architecture studio Johnston Marklee has unveiled designs to expand the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, including elevated galleries and courtyard spaces.” – DezeenSource: Visual Arts Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:05 Check Out The Newest Memorial On The National Mall In DC The Desert Shield and Desert Storm Memorial, honoring servicemembers who died during the 1990-91 war to end Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait, consists of two dune-shaped walls made of sand-colored granite, one with a 125-foot bas-relief by sculptor Emily Bedard and the other with inscriptions. – Smithsonian MagazineSource: The World Thu, 29 Oct 2026 01:13 Macmillan Introduced Its AI with a party, Then Killed It Good Morning, In January 2024 Macmillan welcomed an AI assistant called NOA with balloons; staff say it was “terrible,” and it was retired in October 2025. Bestselling authors tell Wired they are at “war” with their publishers over AI, and one could not get a single Big Five house to promise none would touch their […]Source: Media Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:02 How Scientists Rank The Scariest Horror Movies Of All Time “Since 2020, the (Science of Scare Project) has evaluated horror movies’ physiological effects on viewers by monitoring their heart rate and heart rate variability … as they watch a curated selection of English-language horror films considered among the most frightening.” And the winner is … ? – HuffPostSource: Ideas Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:31 The V&A’s Argument Against AI Slop Why are humans so driven to make things? In our age of A.I. slop, the V. & A.’s devotion to physical objects is a tonic. And if two new buildings seem like overkill, think of all those data centers. – The New YorkerSource: Words Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:04 One Of Italy’s Largest Daily Papers Expands Into The US, In English La Stampa, a nationally- and regionally-focused outlet headquartered in Turin, is opening La Stampa USA as an online publication aimed at an Italian-American readership. The newsroom currently has five employees in New York and two in Washington DC and plans to hire contributors around the country. – Press Gazette (UK)Source: Ideas Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:43 How To Defeat The Style Choices Your Algorithms Point You To Rather than cycling through distinct eras sequentially as Laver predicted, social media feeds flatten time entirely. Decades of vintage subcultures and instant micro-aesthetics are collapsed into the same endless scroll, allowing a 1990s minimalist silhouette to coexist alongside a week-old “whimsymaxxing” viral trend. – The ConversationSource: Words Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:34 How Politeness Has Shaped Our Language Requests that were once directly stated as imperatives were now couched with indirectness as merely suggestions or questions: “Shut the window,” became “Could you please shut the window?” And, in addition to saying “thanks,” responding with an acknowledgment of that thanks, such as “you’re welcome,” became routine. – TimeSource: Words Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:15 The Perils Of Voice-Acting Steamy Romance Books The 45-year-old actor blames his upbringing for mispronunciations, like calling a “library” a “liberry.” Fans seized on the gaffe. “I was like, you know what? Touché,” Palmini said. “Even though you said you want to burn the book now because I said ‘liberry,’ I get it. Truly. Noted. ‘Library’ it is.” – The Wall Street […]Source: Theatre Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:03 An Architecture Critic Looks At The Yard, London’s New Theatre Built Out Of Scavenged And Repurposed Materials Oliver Wainwright: “It is a tour de force of how to do a lot with a little. It reads like a collage of its context: a shed clad with corrugated fibre-cement sheeting, rising from graffiti-covered warehouse walls on one side and framed by a new brick gable end on the other.” – The GuardianSource: Media Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:31 Could “You Can See Everything” Make Movie History? After less than two weeks in theaters, it’s already one of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time and, as it expanded into thousands of domestic theaters in its second weekend, came second only to a major studio comic-book movie.  – SlateSource: Theatre Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:15 Helping Actors Keep Their Medical Insurance For an actor to remain insured through SAG-AFTRA, they must typically make a minimum amount of money from on-screen work and residuals. Leveraging his Instagram following of almost 750,000, Cheyenne Jackson began posting headshots of performers, their biographies and how many dollars away each was from crossing that threshold, which this year is $28,090. – […]Source: Dance Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:01 Now That Choreographers Can Be Members Of SAG-AFTRA, What’s Changing For Them? Well, for a start, they have negotiable rates, along with the pension and health contributions and the protected working conditions (such as guaranteed breaks) that dancers working in film and TV have had since 1992. – Dance MagazineSource: Words Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:44 Claim: AI Is Ruining Big Publishing Multiple bestselling Big Five authors say they’ve gone to “war” with their publishers over AI and are considering abandoning traditional publishing altogether. – WiredSource: Ideas Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:31 Time To Let The Internet Die? To be online, many now admit, is to be endlessly manipulated and exploited. In December, Oxford University Press declared rage bait to be the word of the year, noting that use of the term had tripled over the previous 12 months. – WiredSource: Issues Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:15 Maine Banned Smartphones In Schools. It’s Changed Students’ Interactions Students are connecting with each other more in the time between classes, staff across the state said. And during lunch, staff are hearing louder and more lively conversation in the cafeteria — a stark contrast from previous years when phone use stifled talking. – WBURSource: Issues Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:02 Oakland Arts School The Crucible Suddenly Closes “The Crucible, a longtime West Oakland arts institution known for welding, blacksmithing, glassblowing and other hands-on classes as well as fire-related performances, has temporarily closed because of serious financial problems, leaving staff, faculty, students and artists uncertain about what comes next.” – San Francisco Chronicle (Yahoo!)Source: Media Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:34 Another Famous Documentary Filmmaker Has Footage Of Elizabeth Holmes In The Can Errol Morris directed some commercials for Theranos back when it was flying high, and he has two hours of unedited Q&A footage of Holmes from that period which he thinks would make a good before-and-after comparison with You Can See Everything. (He also has two very entertaining anecdotes about unmade commercials.) – VarietySource: Music Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:06 Joe Hisaishi Gets Another Composer-In-Residence Gig, This Time With The L.A. Phil The film composer, who has a large and devoted fan base, begins a five-year term next fall as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s composer-in-residence for the Hollywood Bowl and The Ford. Hisaishi just started a two-season term as composer-in-residence with the Philadelphia Orchestra. – Moto PerpetuoSource: