Thursday's Art Notes

_A work by American artist Matthew Day Jackson in his "exhibition at MAMbo":http://www.mambo-bologna.org/en/mostre/mostra-74/ (Modern Art Museum of Bologna) on January 26, 2011 in Bologna, Italy. Photo by Roberto Serra - Iguana Press/ Getty Images_ * Google and Israel's national Yad Veshem museum announced a new, more accessible (and searchable) "Holocaust photo database":http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/photos.html, via "Reuters":http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70P40I20110126. * California's "Coachella":http://www.coachella.com/ music festival sold out in just six days, a record for the 12-year-old outdoor concert series, via "AOL Music":http://www.theboombox.com/2011/01/27/coachella-sells-out-kanyes-fault/. * The New York Times "reports on":http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/arts/27iht-m27cbeirut.html how new urban development in Beirut that threatens to replace some of the city's oldest buildings. * The Los Angeles Times "reports on":http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-0124-arts-index-20110124,0,3313531.story the Monday release of the National Arts Index from Americans for the Arts, which considers a range of national data for audience attendance, arts spending and philanthropic donations to calculate how healthy our national arts are. * The Jersey City Museum, which has a collection of over 20,000 art works, has closed due to government budget cuts, via "WNYC":http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2011/jan/24/jersey-city-arts-treasure-closes/. * German film producer Bernd Eichinger, whose credits include _The NeverEnding Story_, _In the Name of the Rose_ and _The Baader Meinhof Complex_, died in Los Angeles at the age of 61, via "The New York Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/arts/26eichinger.html.