Monday's Art Notes

_Artist Katrina Asfardi performs on stage at the Fenice Theatre during the exclusive Gran Ballo della Cavalchina on March 5, 2011 in Venice, Italy. Photo by Barbara Zanon/ Getty Images_ * Phil Collins has announced his retirement from music due to health problems that don't permit him to continue drumming, via "The Telegraph":http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/8360584/Phil-Collins-calls-time-on-music-career.html. Jeffrey Brown "talked to Collins":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2010/10/conversation-going-back-with-phil-collins.html back in October. * The inhabitants of an artists' community in Shanghai are using the theme of _The Wizard of Oz_ ("There's no place like home") to protest a city order to evict them, via "The Art Newspaper":http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Chinese+artists+fight+studio+eviction/23355. * _Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark_ received three more safety violations from the Labor Department on Friday, via "The Wall Street Journal":http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/03/04/spider-man-hit-with-more-safety-violations/. * Alberto Granado, an Argentine doctor who was also travel companion to Che Guevara across Latin America during the 1950s -- a journey that was made into the 2004 fiction film _The Motorcycle Diaries_ -- has died at age 88 in Cuba, via "The New York Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/world/americas/07granado.html.