Forget Occupy Wall Street – Save The Surfing Madonna!

“She appeared on Good Friday [of 2011] beneath a railway bridge in the California beach town of Encinitas: the Virgin of Guadalupe calmly surfing a cobalt blue wave, her cloak pointing toward the words ‘SAVE THE OCEAN’.” For complicated reasons, the town government didn’t want the mosaic to stay, and it’s gone now – though it may soon reappear.

Lost Eugene O’Neill Play Published In New Yorker

“The one-act play, entitled Exorcism, was staged in March 1920 by the Provincetown Players, but, according to The New Yorker‘s theatre critic John Lahr, O’Neill destroyed what he believed to be every copy of the play in order to save his father, celebrated romantic actor James O’Neill, embarrassment after a stroke.” (Online, the play is behind The New Yorker‘s paywall.)

Artists Sue Christie’s And Sotheby’s For ‘Resale Royalties’

“What do New York painter Chuck Close, L.A. artist Laddie John Dill and the estate of L.A. sculptor Robert Graham have in common? They are lead plaintiffs in a pair of class-action lawsuits filed Tuesday against the New York operations of Sotheby’s and Christie’s, alleging that the auction houses violated the California Resale Royalty Act.”