Friday's Art Notes

_'Contrast of Forms' (Contraste de formes), a painting by Fernand Léger from 1913, is on show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, as part of "'The Great Upheaval: Modern Art from the Guggenheim Collection, 1910-1918'":http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/upcoming/the-great-upheaval through June 1, 2011. Photo © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris_ * The New York Philharmonic make their archives public, via "The New York Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/arts/music/04archive.html. * Lawyers for Jeff Koons have settled an intellectual property grievance made by the artist, concerning a San Francisco gallery's commercial sale of dog balloon bookends, via the "San Francisco Chronicle":http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F02%2F03%2FDDRN1HIDPL.DTL. * Italian artists hack Facebook and compile millions of profile images to create a mock dating site, via "ARTINFO":http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36909/antisocial-media-italian-art-duo-hijacks-1-million-facebook-profiles-for-subversive-dating-site/.