Wednesday's Art Notes

_Workers build an 'air castle' with hundreds of inflatable mattresses at Biddinghuizen in the Netherlands. On this site, the three-day Lowlands Music Festival will run from August 20 to 22 2010. Photo by Marcel Antonisse/ AFP/ Getty Images_ * Battling against a potential foreclosure on the building that houses its collection, the "Chelsea Museum of Art":http://www.chelseaartmuseum.org/ in Manhattan announced it would close for the month of August, via "The Wall Street Journal":http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704868604575433902091135546.html?mod=googlenews_wsj. * Archaeologists have uncovered ancient Buddhist remains at an excavation site south of Kabul in Afghanistan, via "Reuters":http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE67G18T20100817. * The Metropolitan Opera broke a sales record on Sunday when tickets for the "new season":http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/season/index.aspx?nav=top were released, via "BBC":http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-10996825. "Watch":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec09/opera_12-07.html our 2009 profile of the Met on its endeavors to revitalize public interest in opera. * A "library memorializing author Kurt Vonnegut":http://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/ will open this fall in Indianapolis, via the "Associated Press":http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hLia6EZBZS0nTMJ8dNoiIo2LYW_gD9HLOEF00. * ARTINFO "talks":http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/35501/exclusive-gallerist-james-cohan-speaks-about-his-online-vip-art-fair/ to gallerist James Cohan about launching an online-only week-long art fair catering to exclusive collectors.