Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/thursdays-art-notes-26 Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Thursday’s Art Notes Arts Jun 17, 2010 10:33 AM EST ’9-Part Self Portrait’, a collage of large-format Polapan prints by artist Chuck Close is displayed at Sotheby’s during a preview of The Polaroid Collection, in New York, June 16, 2010. The Polaroid Collection, which was started by Polaroid founder Edwin Land, will go on auction June 21-22. Photo by Emmanuel Dunand/ AFP/ Getty Images * A Piet Mondrian painting was stolen from a museum in the Netherlands, via CBC. * Paul McCartney has been commissioned to compose music for a new ballet, via BBC. * The experimental final film of Nicholas Ray, the director who made “Rebel Without a Cause,” will be released next year at the Venice Film Festival, via the New York Times. * Ceci n’est pas un cigare. A photo of Winston Church at a new British war museum was airbrushed to take out the cigar from an iconic photo of the former prime minister, via UPI. * A former Yugoslavian nuclear war bunker is being transformed into an underground art gallery, via the Associated Press. A free press is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy. Support trusted journalism and civil dialogue. Donate now
’9-Part Self Portrait’, a collage of large-format Polapan prints by artist Chuck Close is displayed at Sotheby’s during a preview of The Polaroid Collection, in New York, June 16, 2010. The Polaroid Collection, which was started by Polaroid founder Edwin Land, will go on auction June 21-22. Photo by Emmanuel Dunand/ AFP/ Getty Images * A Piet Mondrian painting was stolen from a museum in the Netherlands, via CBC. * Paul McCartney has been commissioned to compose music for a new ballet, via BBC. * The experimental final film of Nicholas Ray, the director who made “Rebel Without a Cause,” will be released next year at the Venice Film Festival, via the New York Times. * Ceci n’est pas un cigare. A photo of Winston Church at a new British war museum was airbrushed to take out the cigar from an iconic photo of the former prime minister, via UPI. * A former Yugoslavian nuclear war bunker is being transformed into an underground art gallery, via the Associated Press. A free press is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy. Support trusted journalism and civil dialogue. Donate now