Monday's Art Notes

_The world's longest film, entitled 'Modern Times Forever (Stora Enso building, Helsinki)', is screened at Helsinki Market Square on March 24, 2011. The 240-hour film, created by a Danish art group called Superflex, shows the Stora Enso headquarters in Helsinki fall into a dilapitated state as time speeds into the future and past the extinction of the human race, leaving the building to be battered by time and the elements. The building -- built by iconic Finnish architect Alvar Aalto -- was chosen 'because it is a symbol of power, and it is in a central, almost monumental place', said Toppila. Photo by Heikki Saukkomaa/ AFP/ Getty Images_ * Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura is the winner of this year's Pritzker Prize, via the "Chicago Tribune":http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2011/03/portuguese-architect-wins-pritzker-architect-prize.html. * Self-publishing fantasy writer phenom Amanda Hocking has signed a two movie deal to adapt three of her novels for the screen, via "Variety":http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118034482. * The Associated Press "reports":http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gABmUegmZhUse19KX4xtU5i1wTEg?docId=6359578 on the persistent public vandalism of a tongue-in-cheek Texas art landmark. * The Smithsonian has withdrawn its offer to buy a series of historic murals that pay homage to early black settlers of California, via the "Los Angeles Times":http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/03/smithsonian-withdraws-offer-to-buy-endangered-la-murals.html. * Linda Yablonsky "writes for Artforum":http://www.artforum.com/diary/id=27840 about being in Japan for a (canceled) art fair at the time of the natural disasters.