Wednesday's Art Notes

_Professor Longhair performs "Tipitina," a song that will be added to the Library of Congress' historic registry._ The Library of Congress announced a list of 25 historic recordings chosen for preservation in 2011, including Tammy Wynette's "_Stand By Your Man_":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwBirf4BWew&feature=related, Al Green's "_Let's Stay Together_":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPHGp2DHqSI&feature=fvst, and De La Soul's 1989 album "_3 Feet High and Rising_":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0irL1M15DH8&NR=1, via "The Associated Press":http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i5D1tkkcRa6BUNfqTOnq-V_oHQSw?docId=e46671876a0e436dbe9e55b11527f469. The list also included recordings by Henry Mancini, Captain Beefheart and Ishi, the last Yahi Indian. * An editorial in China's state-run newspaper Global Times addressed the detainment of artist Ai Weiwei, but only to say that the government would not bow to Western pressure on the matter, via "Reuters":http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/06/us-china-dissident-artist-idUSTRE7340PX20110406. * Italian archaeologists plan to dig beneath a Florentine convent in order to locate the remains of a woman who may have been the model for the Mona Lisa, via "The Telegraph":http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8429968/Italian-archaeologists-to-dig-up-remains-of-Mona-Lisa-model.html. * Juliano Mer-Khamis, an actor, theater director and peace activist who started a drama camp for kids in the West Bank in 2006, was shot and killed on Monday in Jenin, via "TIME":http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/04/04/the-murder-of-juliano-mer-khamis-an-artist-caught-between-two-worlds/. * Iran has cut its ties with the Louvre in Paris over unhappiness with the handling of sharing and exhibition of antiquities, via the "Los Angeles Times":http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2011/04/iran-arts-and-culture-archeology-history-france-louvre.html. * Playwrights Athol Fugard and Eve Ensler will be honored with awards at this year's Tonys, via "The Associated Press":http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=13309114. * After turning her down more than 20 years ago, James Joyce's estate has granted literary-minded singer Kate Bush permission to record text from _Ulysess_ as lyrics on her new album, via "Rolling Stone":http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kate-bush-granted-permission-to-use-james-joyce-text-after-20-years-20110405.