Friday's Art Notes

_A model presents a creation by Pakistan's School of Fine Art Design Gujranwala during the second day of_ "Islamabad Fashion Week":http://www.ifw.com.pk/. _Some 90 Pakistani male and female models, mostly newcomers, are participating in the four-day event, which aims to promote Pakistan's textile industry. Photo by Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images._ * In early January, a baby grand piano mysteriously appeared on a sand bar in Biscayne Bay. This week, 16-year-old aspiring art student Nicholas Harrington admitted it was his work. But before Harrington could haul it away (on order from the wildlife department), a musician had it picked up and towed to shore to give to his 10-year-old son, via "The Miami Herald":http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/27/2037957/state-orders-piano-removed-from.html. * "The tradition continues":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2010/02/fridays-art-notes-8.html: the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art have made a Super Bowl wager, via "Modern Art Notes":http://blogs.artinfo.com/modernartnotes/2011/01/we-have-a-super-bowl-bet/. Winner takes loser's impressionist painting (well, at least for a loan.) * Actor Charlie Sheen was hospitalized after laughing too much at a television show, which exacerbated his hernia, via "The New York Times' ArtsBeat":http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/sheen-hospitalization-said-to-be-caused-by-excessive-laughter/. * The late artist Dennis Oppenheim, who died this week in New York, leaves behind a few public art projects in process, including one in Pasadena (via the "Pasadena Star-News":http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_17220335) and another in Las Vegas (via "Las Vegas Weekly":http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2011/jan/24/artist-dennis-oppenheim-dies-leaving-unfinished-sc/). * R&B singer Gladys Horton, who founded the girl group the Marvelettes and scored the first #1 hit for Motown, died Thursday in Thousand Oaks, CA, via "The New York Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/arts/music/28horton.html.