Wednesday's Art Notes

_Elena Algado from the "Ballet Nacional de Espana":http://balletnacional.mcu.es/ perform 'Dualia & La Leyenda' flamenco in London, England. Photo by Ian Gavan/ Getty Images_ * For the first time, all of "Anne Frank's":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/10/conversation-francine-prose-discusses-her-new-book-about-anne-frank.html diaries will be on display at the "house-turned-museum":http://www.annefrank.org/ where the young girl hid with her family during World War II, via "USA Today":http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-04-28-anne-frank-diary_N.htm. * Two American museums reopen this weekend after long closures due to renovation. The "Oakland Museum of California":http://museumca.org/, which features exhibits on the art, history and natural environment of it home state and houses the archive of photographer "Dororthea Lange":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/11/monday-on-the-newshour-new-biography-brings-dorothea-langes-life-into-focus.html, reopens on Saturday, via "The Art Newspaper":http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Oakland%27s-%22museum-for-the-people%22-reopens-to-the-public/20667. And the "Virginia Museum of the Fine Arts'":http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/Default.aspx newly expanded space now makes it the tenth largest museum in the country, via the "Richmond Times-Dispatch":http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/entertainment/theatre_arts/article/VMFA241_20100423-233802/339744/. * A "new mural by Shepard Fairey":http://www.flickr.com/photos/37601286@N06/4554244198/ in New York has been vandalized, but the artist and "gallery":http://www.deitch.com/ say they understand its the nature of public art, via "ARTINFO":http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/34460/shepard-fairey-vandalism-not-a-problem-deitch-projects-says/. * Elizabeth Post, the granddaughter-in-law of manners maven Emily Post who revised and updated the family's famous "Etiquette" manual five times, has died at age 89 in Naples, Fla., via the "New York Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/us/28post.html.