Culture Canvas

_A roundup of the week's arts and culture headlines._ _Click to enlarge._ An exhaustive show of Leonardo da Vinci's work at the "National Gallery":http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/ in London might be disrupted by strikes, via "The Guardian":http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/15/leonardo-national-gallerys-strikes. Workers at the museum are angry about cuts to security. In this photo, a woman admires da Vinci's "The Lady with an Ermine." Photo by Carl Court /AFP /Getty Images. * Internet companies "went on strike":http://sopastrike.com/ Wednesday to protest the "Stop Online Piracy Act":http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.03261: and the "Protect IP Act":http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s112-968. The bill, aimed at curbing internet piracy, "is angering critics":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june12/sopa_01-17.html who allege that the measures would amount to censorship. At "Slate":http://www.slate.com/articles/business/small_business/2012/01/sopa_stopping_online_piracy_would_be_a_social_and_economic_disaster_.html, Matthew Yglesias goes further, suggesting that the problem of piracy may not be that big of a problem after all. * Iconic film company Kodak filed for bankruptcy Thursday, "via the Associated Press":http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_KODAKS_LEGACY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT. The 132-year-old company hasn't had a profitable year since 2004. * "Fast Company":http://www.fastcompany.com/1807211/amazons-plagiarism-problem examines rampant plagiarism amongst Amazon's self-published e-books, many of them erotica. * A quotation on the side of the "Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/multimedia/mlkmemorial/index.html on the National Mall "will be corrected":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june12/mlk_01-16.html. The project has been mired in controversy since its "unveiling":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/remember/july-dec11/mlkmemorial_08-26.html this fall, via "CNN":http://articles.cnn.com/2012-01-13/us/us_mlk-memorial-inscription_1_lei-yixin-national-memorial-project-foundation-mlk-memorial?_s=PM:US. * "The Golden Globes":http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/ were held last weekend. The award for Best Picture went to "The Descendants":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWHNXJ1K4yA. * The "Tribeca Film Institute":http://www.tribecafilminstitute.org/ awarded a grant to a forthcoming biopic of artist Robert Mapplethorpe, via "ARTINFO":http://artinfo.com/news/story/756067/robert-mapplethorpe-biopic-starring-james-franco-set-to-lens-before-patti-smiths-just-kids. James Franco is slated to play the influential photographer.