Tuesday's Art Notes

_--A model globe in the shape of a piggy bank is part of an art installation entitled "Cool Globes" at the 12-day Copenhagen climate summit, "which opened yesterday":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/environment/july-dec09/copenhagen_12-07.html. (Photo by Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images)_ * Richard Wright "has won Britain's Turner Prize":http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/dec/07/turner-prize-winner-richard-wright for a meticulous, abstract, large-scale wall painting he created using traditional fresco techniques and gold leaf. * As the U.N. meets in Copenhagen to discuss global warming, "a three-story installation called 'The CO2 Cube'":http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/12/la-architect-christophe-cornuberts-carbondioxide-cube-debuts-in-copenhagen.html (designed by Los Angeles architect Christophe Cornubet) was unveiled Monday. Cornubet's concept was to create a structure that would hold one metric ton of carbon dioxide -- the amount of CO2 the average person living in an industrialized nation produces in a single month. * David Thomson "diagnoses the death of method acting":http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107104574571821619515590.html in American cinema. Last year "Jeff Brown talked to Thomson":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2008/12/conversation-david-thomson-on-film.html about his book "Have You Seen...?"