Monday's Art Notes

_A couple look at boxing legend Muhammad Ali Sculpture by Michael Kalish in Los Angeles on April 8. For this portrait of three-time heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, the artist Michael Kalish uses 1,300 punching bags, 6.5 miles of stainless steel cable, and 2,500 pounds of aluminum pipe to construct a 22-foot-high installation that took three years to complete. Photo by Gabriel Bouys/ AFP/ Getty Images_ * Sidney Lumet, the director whose classic films often centered around characters with a passionate sense of morality ("_12 Angry Men_":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grnd7LR9nZs&feature=related, "_Network_":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQUBbpvXk2A, "_Dog Day Afternoon_":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF1rtd8_pxA, "_Serpico_":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtTRYnsDH8Q), has died at the age of 86, via "The New York Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/movies/sidney-lumet-director-of-american-classics-dies-at-86.html. * The Detroit Symphony Orchestra officially ended their strike over the weekend, agreeing to a contract that would cut salaries by 23 percent, via the "Detroit Free Press":http://www.freep.com/article/20110408/ENT04/110408034/1025/features/DSO-strike-officially-over-musicians-ratify-pay-cut-contract?odyssey=nav|head. We'll have more about the strike tonight on the NewsHour. * Art museums protest for the release of Ai Weiwei through official statements, online petitions and public displays of condemnation, via "ARTINFO":http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/37442/leaders-of-the-tate-moma-the-guggenheim-and-other-top-museums-join-art-figures-in-demanding-that-china-release-ai-weiwei/. * In the wake of the popular uprising, Egypt ups the official tally of missing artifacts to around 1,000, via "TIME":http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/04/11/more-than-1000-relics-remain-missing-after-mass-egyptian-uprising/. * Cowboy poetry becomes an unexpected flash word in the congressional budget debate, via "The New York Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/us/politics/11cowboy.html.