Tuesday’s Art Notes

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Sony Walkman advertisement; via Asim Bijarani/Flickr.

RIP, Sony Walkman. Remembrances are here and here.

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A revolutionary mural by David Alfaro Siqueiros returns to Los Angeles after 80 years, via NPR.

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Elsewhere in Los Angeles, LACMA has partnered with the city’s department of cultural affairs to ensure the preservation of the Watts Towers, via ARTINFO.

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Booker prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy is facing the threat of arrest after claiming that the disputed territory of Kashmir is not an integral part of India, via the Guardian.

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“The Ghent Altarpiece” is the most wanted stolen art in history, via Marketplace.

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Television cartoonist Alexander Anderson Jr., creator of Rocky the flying squirrel and Bullwinkle the moose, has died. He was 90.

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