Friday's Art Notes

_Visitors to the 'sounding D train' listen to music in a carriage parked at the main train station in Berlin. The train will bring concerts and sound art to 16 German cities through September 12. Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images._ * You too can be a patron of the arts, "says Marketplace":http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/08/26/pm-you-too-can-be-a-patron-of-the-arts/. "Commissioning clubs let people contribute as much as they want -- from the equivalent of giving up one restaurant dinner a month to more than the cost of a European cruise." * "Slate has a look":http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/2010/08/26/copy-editing-the-culture-eat-pray-love.aspx at "Eat Pray Love and other punctuation atrocities in pop culture." * After dominating the home video rental business for more than a decade and struggling to survive against Netflix and Redbox, Blockbuster is preparing to file for bankruptcy next month, "via the Los Angeles Times":http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2010/08/blockbuster-tells-hollywood-studios-its-preparing-for-midseptember-bankruptcy.html. * The Emmy Awards are Sunday night, "and NPR says":http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/08/27/129470978/the-emmys-five-stories-to-watch there are five "developing stories that could make the whole thing worth watching."