Wednesday’s Art Notes

Rescuers remove a Buddha statue from a destroyed Tibetan monastery in Jiegu, Yushu county, in China’s northwestern province of Qinghai on Tuesday. China declared a national day of mourning for victims of last week’s earthquake as rescuers battled altitude sickness and bad weather conditions in the Tibetan disaster zone. Photo by STR/AFP/Getty Images

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Picasso’s “Actor” has made a successful recovery and been returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a visitor fell and ripped the painting in January, via the New York Times.

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The Somali government has ordered radio stations to start playing music again, after an April 13 order from an islamist militant group called Hizbul Islam to cease, via Associated Press.

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Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano is wrecking travel plans, as well as art and entertainment events. Opera houses and concert halls in New York were without Europe-based headliners. Opera stars took a cab from Poland to London — a 1,000 mile fare. A French conductor had to cancel an appearance in San Diego. And scores of others have had to reschedule or cancel.

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The volcano has the Guardian’s Andrew McGahan wondering, “Where are the good volcano novels?”