Good Morning,
Herbert Blomstedt, who led the San Francisco Symphony for ten years, died at 99 in Gothenburg, Sweden (NPR). He conducted in Detroit and Leipzig this year, in recent seasons from a piano bench.
The Crucible, a 27-year-old industrial arts school in West Oakland, closed without notice and told more than 150 staff and faculty to stop work, then laid them off (KQED). Its union says management ignored its cost-cutting proposals, weeks after the school received over $1.5 million in grants.
Only 9 percent of respondents to the American Alliance of Museums’ survey accept AI in exhibitions, and 43 percent expect humans to produce all museum content (ARTnews). The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art will use AI in a VR recreation of Whistler’s Peacock Room.
Vatican restorers conclude Michelangelo made his own brushes, some with ten heads spanning nearly six inches, to paint the Last Judgment’s parallel hatching the way his chisel cut stone (Artnet).
All of our stories below.