Tuesday's Art Notes

_Smoke rises near the Sacre-Coeur de Montmartre basilica, on March 22, 2011, from the Elysee Montmartre music hall in Paris where a fire broke out this morning. The cabaret, created in the 18th century, is one of the birth places of the famous French can-can dance. Photo by Erin Feferberg/ AFP/ Getty Images_ Read more about the fire from the "Associated Press":http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=13192330. * Richard Prince, famous for the artistic appropriation of other people's images, has lost a copyright infringement lawsuit for a series of paintings and collages in which he used photographs by Patrick Cariou, via "The New York Times' ArtsBeat":http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/judge-rules-against-artist-richard-prince-in-copyright-case/. * Mississippi Delta Blues musician Pinetop Perkins, whose prolific career included collaboration with Muddy Waters, died in Austin, Tex., at the age of 97, via "The Associated Press":http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jMiS-vPl-Les2i3YWBvHvh4iwNVQ?docId=9fbf5505ca614faf985403bcbdfd8e58. * Spanish authorities published a list of art works they have recovered in hopes that they can return the items to their owners, via "The Guardian":http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/20/stolen-treasures-list-published-spanish-police.