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 EDT ’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. We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! 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. We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now