Monday's Art Notes

_A man wearing a horse mask walks past a fan dressed as manga character Pikachu at an anime, manga and video games festival, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images._ * Amid mounting calls by scientists for the Smithsonian Institution to cancel an exhibition of Chinese artifacts salvaged from a shipwreck, the institution will hold a meeting on Monday afternoon to hear from critics, via "the New York Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/arts/design/smithsonian-sunken-treasure-show-poses-ethics-questions.html. * Rap music is inspiring Libyan rebels to defeat Moammar Gadhafi, via "the Associated Press":http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_LIBYA_REVOLUTION_RAP?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-04-24-14-25-07. * More than a thousand protesters marched in Hong Kong demanding the release of detained Chinese artist and human rights activist "Ai Weiwei":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/jan-june11/china1_04-04.html, via "Reuters":http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/23/us-china-dissident-hongkong-idUSTRE73M18L20110423. * Chilean poet Gonzalo Rojas, who is regarded as one of Latin America's greatest modern writers, has died at the age of 93, via "the BBC":http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13187777. He won numerous literary prizes, including the 2003 Cervantes Prize, the top award for Spanish-language literature. * Norio Ohga, the former president of Sony who was credited with developing the compact disc, has at age 81, via "the Wall Street Journal":http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703567404576281072641200528.html.