Monday’s Art Notes

Kemane Warren dances in the street during Harlem Week’s 35th Anniversary ‘Harlem Day’ block party on the streets of Manhattan on August 21, 2011 in New York City. Photo by Andy Kropa/Getty Images

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The national memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington has opened to the public and will be officially dedicated this week. The Los Angeles Times looks at how the National Mall has evolved as a place for our country’s monuments.

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Raoul Ruiz, a renowned French-Chilean filmmaker and writer who was involved in political cinema and fled Chile in the 1970s to escape the Pinochet regime, has died at age 70 after battling cancer, via AFP.

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The house where a family of four was murdered in 1959, inspiring Truman Capote’s docu-novel, “In Cold Blood,” has been damaged in a fire, via The Associated Press.

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In Wyoming, some of the Japanese Americans who were forced to live in an internment camp during World War II returned to the opening of a new internment museum this weekend, via the Casper Star-Tribune.

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Editor’s Note: One of Art Beat’s reporters, Lauren Knapp, is moving on to study hip-hop culture in Mongolia. In particular, Lauren produced many excellent music reports for us, in addition to interviews with artists and filmmakers. We’ll miss her very much; we think you will, too. You can find an archive of her work here.