At Washington’s National Museum of Women in the Arts, Joanna Koerten — dubbed the “Scissors Minerva” — proves that 17th‑century paper could rival Rembrandt’s paint (Artnet). In Arizona, Paolo Soleri’s dream community, Arcosanti, offers a dusty post‑mortem on what happens when utopia meets the desert sun (Bloomberg). The musical wars continue: Pitchfork is testing reader reviews (The Verge), while YouTube boasts of paying $8 billion to the music industry (TechCrunch). Architect Renzo Piano is building a shimmering new opera house for Hanoi (Dezeen), and The San Antonio Philharmonic hits pause — again (San Antonio Current). Finally, Francis Ford Coppola auctions his watch collection to recoup his “Megalopolis” losses (San Francisco Chronicle), and the Booker adds a new prize — for kids’ books (The Guardian).
These stories and more in today’s ArtsJournal.
