Monday’s Art Notes

A visitor looks at a paintings by German artist Gerhard Richter at the ‘Galerie Neue Meister’ (New Masters Gallery) during the official re-opening ceremony of the Albertinum museum of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections) in Dresden. The Albertinum, which houses paintings and sculptures from the Romantic Period through to the present, re-opened to the public on June 20, 2010. The Albertinum has undergone an extensive renovation following the devastating floods of 2002, and museum officials managed to raise funds partially by auctioning off works by modern German artists including Richter and Georg Baselitz. Photo credit by Robert Michael/ AFP/ Getty Images

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Romantic music makes women feel more romantic, via AFP.

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Practice doesn’t help musicians get better at sight-reading, via Discovery.

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The New York Times writer Sam Tanenhaus spends three days in the archive of late writer John Updike.

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On Modern Art Notes, a conversation with photography scholar Weston J. Naef about whether Eadweard Muybridge passed off photographs taken by a colleague as his own, and whether some of those works are in the current Muybridge show at the Corcoran. (Watch an Art Beat profile of Muybridge and the Corcoran exhibit here).

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The Los Angeles Times looks at the Arena Stage’s American Voices New Play Institute, which commissions new dramatic works by well-known playwrights, and pays others a living wage for three years to work on new projects.