Wednesday's Art Notes

_An employee of art gallery 'Cokkie Snoei' sets up a stall for the International Art Fair for Modern and Contemporary Art in the RAI Amsterdam on May 25, 2010. The 26th edition of "'Art Amsterdam'":http://www.artamsterdam.nl/ takes place from May 26 thru May 30, 2010. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ AFP/ Getty Images_ * Filmmaker "Jafar Panahi":http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/may/26/jafar-panahi-released-iran has been released on bail after spending two months in an Iranian prison, via "BBC":http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10155119.stm. * The "Whitney Museum of American Art":http://whitney.org/ will move forward on plans to expand by building a new satellite location in downtown New York, via the "New York Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/arts/design/26plan.html. * Tina Fey will be the youngest recipient thus far of the "Mark Twain Prize for Humor":http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/specialevents/marktwain/ when it's handed to her this fall at the Kennedy Center, via the "Washington Post":http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/25/AR2010052502264.html. * The Times has an "update":http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article7136329.ece on the opera spending cuts that have provoked major labor protest strikes, and how the current crisis bodes badly for the longterm health of Italian opera. * AT&T added a disclaimer to a television commercial after objections that it closely resembled the "installation art works":http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/tg.shtml of "Christo and Jeanne-Claude":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/09/over-the-river.html, via the "New York Times":http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/art-or-advertising/?src=busln. Modern Art Notes "points to another example":http://blogs.artinfo.com/modernartnotes/article/more-advertising-hearts-art/ of current advertising mimicking recent fine art.