Tuesday's Art Notes

_Snapshots from the [2010 Smithsonian Folklife Festival](http://www.festival.si.edu/), which this year features music, storytelling, food, crafts and folk arts from Mexico and Pacific Asia. Photos by Molly Finnegan_ * Activists poured out gallons of molasses during a summer party at the Tate Britain on Monday to protest the museum's 20-year alliance with BP, via [ARTINFO](http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/35068/protesters-splatter-tate-bp-gala-with-molasses/). * The state of California hopes to raise $40 million for arts programs by issuing special license plates, via the [Los Angeles Times](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/06/arnold-schwarzenegger-puts-celebrity-horsepower-behind-california-arts-license-playes.html). * Two Canadians were detained for stealing railroad spikes from the Holocaust memorial site at Auschwitz, via the [Associated Press](http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iFjHbcS-dlgyuRFqisWL9mLjvWBQ). * A painting by Caravaggio that was stolen two years ago from a Ukrainian museum was recovered in Berlin when authorities caught the theives trying to sell it, via [Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65S42D20100629). * In Oslo, a planned public art park that will "celebrate women" has caused some concern over the concept and the way women will be depicted, via the [Art Newspaper](http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Collector-plans-sculpture-park-to-celebrate-women%E2%80%9D%20/20923.). Meanwhile, a city-approved plan to erect a statue of Michael Jackson in a park in Prague is being protested by thousands of Czech citizens, via the [Associated Press](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ihimFpoteb7DszsS5yLS8WQsw2EwD9GKUOLG0).