Wednesday's Art Notes

_A dancer performs in front of a giant screen during the first performance of "'Orphee'":http://www.theatre-chaillot.fr/spectacle.php?id=127&PHPSESSID=4ce940a4d237720c72fe421bf54b303b, choreographed by Jose Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu at the Theatre National de Chaillot in Paris. Performances run through June 19, 2010. Photo by Miguel Medina/ AFP/ Getty Images_ * Imprisoned since March, Iranian film director Jafar Panahi ("The White Balloon," "The Circle") says he now on a hunger strike to protest his captivity, via "BBC":http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10127322.stm. Colleagues like fellow filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, who is at the Cannes Film Festival, "have spoken out in support of Panahi":http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=10676267. * A D.C. theater has dropped a play about convicted felon "Bernie Madoff":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june09/madoff_03-12.html after "Elie Wiesel":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/04/conversation-elie-wiesel.html disputed her depiction of a fictional scene where the writer and Madoff have a conversation, via the "Washington Post":http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/18/AR2010051804934.html?hpid=sec-artsliving. * "Caffe Lena":http://www.caffelena.org/, the coffee shop and folk music institution where musicians like Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Arlo Guthrie and Ani DiFranco all got their start, celebrates its 50th anniversary, via "NPR":http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126900501. * On Wednesday, CBS will announce a new sitcom starring William Shatner, which was inspired by a young man's Twitter feed of funny (and often obscene) things his father says, via the "New York Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/arts/television/19shatner.html. * Wimbledon has appointed its very first poet to capture the scene at next week's tennis tournament, via "Reuters":http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLDE64I1DZ20100519. Recently, Britain's poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy "wrote an ode to soccer player David Beckham":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2010/03/weekly-poem-achilles.html. *