Wednesday's Art Notes

_People pose with the 15.3 metre-tall 'Tetsujin 28-go', or 'Iron Man 28' at Wakamatsu Park in Kobe, Japan. The statue was built to commemorate its manga creator, Mitsuteru Yokoyama who born in Kobe. Photo by Toshifumi Kitamura/ AFP/ Getty Images_ * More than 40,000 tickets to the National September 11th Memorial were sold on the first day of sales, via "CNN":http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/07/12/new.york.memorial/. The museum opens to the public on September 12. * Despite protests, the Dutch government says it will make significant budget cuts to arts funding, via "The Art Newspaper":http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Dutch+government+refuses+to+back+down+over+huge+budget+cuts/24210. * The New York Times "looks at":http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/realestate/commercial/manhattan-artists-preserve-chelsea-by-buying-not-renting.html how arts organizations in the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea may withstand rising real estate prices because they bought real estate when it was cheap. * Christopher Knight of the Los Angeles Times "considers":http://www.latimes.com/la-ca-knight-notebook-20110710,0,2064699.story Andy Warhol's homages to soup.