Tuesday's Art Notes

_Fireworks illuminate the Soviet cruiser Mikhail Kutuzov, which was used as a stage for a patriotic rock concert during a bikers' festival in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk on August 29, 2011. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended the festival and described leather-clad bikers as brothers and boasted of the 'indivisible Russian nation' after roaring into a biking rally on a Harley Davidson. The Mikhail Kutuzov was part of the Soviet and then Russian Black Sea fleet from 1954 until 2000 and currently hosts a naval history museum. Photo by Ivan Sekretarev/ AFP/ Getty Images_ * UNESCO warns antiquities dealers and collectors to be on watch for artifacts from Libya, given the revolutionary turmoil and likelihood of looting, via "ARTINFO":http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/38479/libyas-cultural-heritage-at-risk-because-of-careless-dealers-warns-unesco/. ARTINFO "also rounds up":http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/38476/a-look-at-the-gaddafi-clans-dictator-aesthetic-from-a-golden-mermaid-chair-to-condolezza-rice-stalker-art/ coverage tracking the aesthetic peculiarities of the Gadhafi family. * Chinese artist Ai Weiwei "has penned an article":http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/08/28/ai-weiwei-on-beijing-s-nightmare-city.html for Newsweek on censorship and isolation in Beijing. * An art center in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood is closing due to rising property prices in the city, via "The Art Newspaper":http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Williamsburg+art+centre+forced+to+close/24437. But there's better news for the "Arkansas Arts Center":http://www.arkarts.com/ in Little Rock: it was able to find $4 million to cover a debt caused by a exhibition of Egyptian art, via "KUAR":http://www.kuar.org/kuarnews/33032-foundation-bails-out-ark-arts-center-after-pharaoh-fiasco.html. * David Honeyboy Edwards, likely the last remaining of the original Delta Blues men, has died in Chicago at age 96, via "The New York Times":http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/arts/music/david-honeyboy-edwards-delta-bluesman-dies-at-96.html. **In 2008, Edwards stopped by WBEZ for an interview and play his guitar:**