Tuesday's Art Notes

_Wendy Whelen and Craig Hall perform at the 2011 Dance Against Cancer at the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center on April 25, 2011 in New York City. Photo by John Lamparski/ Getty Images_ * Archaeologists in Egypt announced the discovery of a massive statue of the 14th century B.C. pharaoh Amenhotep III, via "The Associated Press":http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iggG4CWclhZRzH4sL-KsRY3o5EDg?docId=ac0cbd2873ce46839df6d01399aa1794. * The Washington Post "profiled":http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/egypt-archaeologist-zahi-hawass-faces-criticisms-about-his-job-ties-to-mubarak/2011/04/15/AF9Hvf1D.html the off-again on-again Egyptian antiquities minister, Zahi Hawass. * A judge in Maine has upheld a directive by Maine's governor to take down a mural in the state Labor Department, via "ARTINFO":http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/37539/maine-judge-backs-controversial-mural-censorship-under-government-speech-doctrine/. * Revok, a Los Angeles graffiti tagger, was arrested at the airport for failure to repay victims of vandalism, via the "Los Angeles Times":http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/04/la-ragger-revok-arrested-at-lax.html?cid=6a00d8341c630a53ef01538e191e4f970b. * Marie France Pisier, "a star of French New Wave cinema":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpLHB-Pg90I&feature=related, has died at age 66, via "The Guardian":http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/apr/25/marie-france-pisier-obituary.