Thursday’s Art Notes

An artwork entitled ‘Coloring Book’ by US artist Jeff Koons is unveiled in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts in central London. The brightly colored sculpture is one of over 1,200 works that will be displayed as part of this year’s annual Summer Exhibition. The Summer Exhibition 2011 will run at the Royal Academy of Arts from 7 June to 15 August 2011. Photo by Leon Neal/ AFP/ Getty Images

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Lars von Trier was expelled from the Cannes Film Festival after making offhanded comments about Hitler and Nazism at a press event, via The New York Times. The director later apologized and said he had no anti-semetic or racist feelings. Trier’s new film Melancholia remains in competition at the festival, but the director is no longer allowed to attend.

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The growing international audience for Hollywood movies has prompted the industry to think more globally and produce films that can be translated or tweaked for different cultures, via The Associated Press.

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And yet, while global film audiences become more diverse, diversity (measured in ethnicity, gender and age) among the people who wrote scripts for film and television in the U.S. seems either to have declined or stayed about the same in the last few years, via the Los Angeles Times.

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The Economist examines how behind the scenes deals going on at auction houses help keep Andy Warhol in a special, vaunted position on the art market.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer looks at a public fundraising campaign by the bankrupt Philadelphia Orchestra, which needs to raise more than $8 million by August.