Tuesday's Art Notes

_Visitors of the "Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2011":http://www.pq.cz/en/ paint on the walls of a Polish exposition at the Veletrzni Palace on June 24, 2011 in Prague. The event is the world's largest performance design event. Various projects explore scenography as a discipline existing in-between the visual and the performing arts. PQ 2011 is a competion presenting art from more than 60 countries. Photo by Michal Cizek/ AFP/Getty Images_ * On Monday, the Supreme Court overturned the California ban on violent video games for minors, via "NPR":http://www.npr.org/2011/06/27/137455181/supreme-court-overturns-calif-video-game-ban. * The Supreme Court won't hear a case on a state statute of limitations on Nazi art looting, involving the Norton Smith Museum in Pasadena, Ca. and the daughter of a prominent Jewish art dealer, via the "Los Angeles Times":http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/06/supreme-court-holocaust-norton-simon.html. * In Rome, artists and stage workers have moved into a revered state theater in protest of its potential privatization, via "The New York Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/theater/teatro-valle-in-rome-is-occupied-by-protesters.html. * The Chinese government has ordered Ai Weiwei to pay almost $2 million in taxes, via "The Wall Street Journal":http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304314404576413361843745844.html. * A Maine couple donates the walls of their house to a local museum as rare examples of early American folk art murals, via "The Boston Globe":http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2011/06/28/homeowners_donate_walls_with_folk_art_murals_to_museum/. * A Washington genealogist has discovered that Kate Middleton is a distant relative of the British novelist Jane Austen, via "The Washington Post":http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/celebritology/post/kate-middleton-and-jane-austen-theyre-family/2011/06/27/AGLXtaoH_blog.html?hpid=z11