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Wednesday’s Art Notes

In today's daily roundup of arts and culture news, the Metropolitan Opera broke a sales record, archaeologists in Afghanistan find an ancient Buddhist site and a new library honoring Kurt Vonnegut will open in Indianapolis.

Rosanne Cash Lists Influences, Including Famous Father’s, in New Memoir

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Tuesday on the NewsHour: Rosanne Cash

By Tom LeGro

Rosanne Cash is a songwriter, a bestselling performer and a chart-topping success. Her latest release is "The List," a compilation of songs her father held up as examples of "must know" music. And now she has written "Composed," her memoirs…

With Fame Rising, Ray LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs Release New Album

Ray LaMontagne's fourth studio album, "God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise" comes out today, and he says it's his best yet.

China’s War on Illegal Buildings

By Travis Daub

In an effort to rid the country of unsafe, illegal and aging structures, the Chinese Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development plans to demolish more than half of the country’s residential buildings in the next 20 years. Illegal structures…

Monday on the NewsHour: William Powers

By Tom LeGro

Williams Powers' book, "Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age," looks to what Powers calls the "best place to find sanity": the past.

Weekly Poem: ‘Ancestors’

By Molly Finnegan

Mary Ruefle is the author of, most recently, "Selected Poems" (Wave Books, 2010). She lives in Bennington, Vermont, and teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College.

Monday’s Art Notes

A roundup of arts and culture headlines.

Allen: Well Not Yet Killed, BP Will Move Forward With Relief Well

Updated 3:34 p.m. National Incident Commander Adm. Thad Allen said Friday that the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is not yet dead, and that BP will proceed with a relief well to permanently kill it.