Wednesday's Art Notes

_A visitor takes a look at the sculpture 'Passers-by' (1998) by British artist "Anthony Cragg":http://www.tony-cragg.com/ during the press preview of the exhibition 'Dinge im Kopf' (Things on the mind) in the Museum Kueppersmuehle in Duisburg, western Germany on February 23, 2011. The museum showcases 60 sculptures by the British sculptor, together with drawings and graphic art from February 24 until June 13, 2011. Photo by Patrik Stollarz/ AFP/ Getty Images_ * Italy has announced it will build its first museum dedicated to the history of the Holocaust, via "Global Post":http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/italy/110221/italy-holocaust-museum-rome. * The Independent "profiles":http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/the-artists-who-crossed-the-line-2222639.html Voina, the Russian art collective whose radical acts of subversive creativity have gotten them in trouble with the law. * A series of murals created in the late 1930s for Talladega College in Alabama, depicting important historic moments in black history, will be restored and go on a national tour for the first time, via "The New York Times' ArtsBeat":http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/historic-african-american-murals-to-be-restored/. * The New York Times "recounts":http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/world/americas/23haiti.html a restoration effort in Haiti of a 1950s church mural, most of which was destroyed in the earthquake last year. * The Detroit Free Press "updates the debate":http://www.freep.com/article/20110222/BUSINESS06/102220376/1063/SPORTS15/Fight-save-Michigan-s-film-tax-break-works in Michigan over tax incentives for film production, a provision that the governor has suggested cutting out in a budget proposal. * In Corsica, a longtime museum guard stole four masterworks in order to extort a new place to live from authorities, only to have the paintings stolen from his car, via "ARTINFO":http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/37046/desperate-museum-guard-holds-renaissance-masterpieces-for-ransom-only-to-have-them-stolen-from-his-car/. * The last film lab in the United Kingdom that processed 16mm motion picture film stock has discontinued developing, via "The Guardian":http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/feb/22/tacita-dean-16mm-film.