Friday's Art Notes

Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lanford Wilson has died at age 73. Spencer Michels talked to Wilson in 1999 "about a St. Louis production of his work _Book of Days_":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec99/ozark_10-7.html. Read more about his life from "The New York Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/theater/lanford-wilson-pulitzer-prize-winning-playwright-dies-at-73.html. **[Editor's Note: Director Marshall Mason's name was spelled incorrectly in the original 1999 segment above]** * An online update of the OED includes online abbreviations like OMG and LOL, as well as its first symbol, the heart, via "The Associated Press":http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5icdk-t2peXs8wYiTo7vitJAsCcmA?docId=c145b5ce20f64bfabf0209bf0328dace. * The Art Newspaper "reports on":http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/List+of+looted+antiquities+finally+released/23395 the official list of antiquities stolen during the Egyptian upheaval (which now totals 54 items), put out by the country's Supreme Council of Antiquities. * Broadway will dim the lights on Friday night to honor Elizabeth Taylor, via "Reuters":http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/24/us-elizabethtaylor-broadway-idUSTRE72N8F020110324. * Dorothy Young, stage assistant to magician Harry Houdini, has died at age 103, via "The New York Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/us/25young.html.