Exit through the Apple store: A new iPhone application shows users where they can find street art created by Banksy. (Gizmodo [1] )
Save money. Live better: The Crystal Bridges Museum of Art will offer free admission to all thanks to a $20-million grant from Wal-Mart. (Arkansas Business [2] )
New role: Placido Domingo has been appointed chairman of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, an organization that fights music piracy. (NPR [3] )
Keeping busy: Actor James Franco is to be a guest lecturer at New York's Museum of Modern Art PS1. (E! Online [4] )
Homage: A musician has arranged Amy Winehouse's hit single "Rehab" for orchestra, in memory of the late singer. (CBS News [5] )
Money trouble: The Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art in Mississippi is facing serious financial challenges. (New York Times [6] )
New music: U2's Bono and The Edge join "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" star Reeve Carney for a music video of "Rise Above 1." ( Los Angeles Times )
Gift: The National September 11 Memorial and Museum is donating 40 trees to the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pa. (USA Today [7] )
Then and now: "Twilight: Los Angeles 1992" actress-playwright Anna Deavere Smith compares L.A. today with the L.A. after the 1992 riots. (Los Angeles Times [8] )
History buffs: Two men have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of stealing dozens of historical papers from museums in Maryland and New York. (CNN [9] )
Gone: Gold pieces worth an estimated $400,000 have been stolen from the Sterling Hill Mining Museum in New Jersey. (Newark Star-Ledger [10] )
And in the L.A. Times: Art critic Christopher Knight previews Charles Ray's " Boy with a Frog " at the Getty Center.
-- David Ng
Photo: The artist known as Banksy in the movie "Exit Through the Gift Shop." Credit: Paranoid Pictures
Links
- ^ Gizmodo (gizmodo.com)
- ^ Arkansas Business (www.arkansasbusiness.com)
- ^ NPR (www.npr.org)
- ^ E! Online (www.eonline.com)
- ^ CBS News (www.cbsnews.com)
- ^ New York Times (www.nytimes.com)
- ^ USA Today (travel.usatoday.com)
- ^ Los Angeles Times (www.latimes.com)
- ^ CNN (www.cnn.com)
- ^ Newark Star-Ledger (videos.nj.com)
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