Wednesday’s Art Notes

A visitor takes a look at the sculpture ‘Passers-by’ (1998) by British artist Anthony Cragg during the press preview of the exhibition ‘Dinge im Kopf’ (Things on the mind) in the Museum Kueppersmuehle in Duisburg, western Germany on February 23, 2011. The museum showcases 60 sculptures by the British sculptor, together with drawings and graphic art from February 24 until June 13, 2011. Photo by Patrik Stollarz/ AFP/ Getty Images

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Italy has announced it will build its first museum dedicated to the history of the Holocaust, via Global Post.

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The Independent profiles Voina, the Russian art collective whose radical acts of subversive creativity have gotten them in trouble with the law.

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A series of murals created in the late 1930s for Talladega College in Alabama, depicting important historic moments in black history, will be restored and go on a national tour for the first time, via The New York Times’ ArtsBeat.

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The New York Times recounts a restoration effort in Haiti of a 1950s church mural, most of which was destroyed in the earthquake last year.

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The Detroit Free Press updates the debate in Michigan over tax incentives for film production, a provision that the governor has suggested cutting out in a budget proposal.

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In Corsica, a longtime museum guard stole four masterworks in order to extort a new place to live from authorities, only to have the paintings stolen from his car, via ARTINFO.

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The last film lab in the United Kingdom that processed 16mm motion picture film stock has discontinued developing, via The Guardian.