Tuesday's Art Notes

_Sony Walkman advertisement; via Asim Bijarani/Flickr._ RIP, Sony Walkman. Remembrances are "here":http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Sonys-Walkman-Disappears-With-a-Whimper-5521 and "here":http://www.slate.com/id/2272288/. * A revolutionary mural by David Alfaro Siqueiros returns to Los Angeles after 80 years, "via NPR":http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130519329. * Elsewhere in Los Angeles, LACMA has partnered with the city's department of cultural affairs to ensure the preservation of the Watts Towers, "via ARTINFO":http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36132/lacma-steps-in-to-preserve-las-leaning-tower-of-folk-art/. * Booker prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy is facing the threat of arrest after claiming that the disputed territory of Kashmir is not an integral part of India, "via the Guardian":http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/26/arundhati-roy-kashmir-india. * "The Ghent Altarpiece" is the most wanted stolen art in history, "via Marketplace":http://marketplace.publicradio.org/standard/display/slideshow.php?ftr_id=83068. * Television cartoonist Alexander Anderson Jr., creator of Rocky the flying squirrel and Bullwinkle the moose, "has died":http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-alexander-anderson-20101026,0,5114226.story. He was 90.