Tuesday’s Art Notes

Austrian conductor Franz Welser-Most rehearses with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for the upcoming traditional New Years’ Concert on December 27, 2010 in Vienna. Photo by Dieter Nagl/ AFP/ Getty Images

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The Library of Congress rolls out its list of latest additions to the National Film Registry, which includes several popular Hollywood hits like The Exorcist, Saturday Night Fever, Airplane!, and The Pink Panther, as well as early, obscure or experimental films like Preservation of the Sign Language (1913) and Tarantella (1940), via The Washington Post.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber thinks The Wizard of Oz needs to be updated, via The New York Times’ Arts Beat.

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Spanish-speaking TV viewers in the U.S. have been watching a special new hybrid primetime soap opera: the bollywood telenovela, via the Los Angeles Times.

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John Warhola, the older brother of Andy Warhol who helped reer the artist and later helped to found an eponymous museum in Pittsburgh in his honor, has died at age 85, via The Washington Post.

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Roger Ebert nominates a film for the best short Academy Award (made just this week during the blizzard in New York).