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"\u2013&amp;nbsp;Rolling Stone Gets a Painting Show: Today, guitarist&amp;nbsp;Ronnie Wood, of&amp;nbsp;Rolling Stones&amp;nbsp;fame, unveils a new series of portraits picturing buddies like&amp;nbsp;Jack Nicholson&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;Slash&amp;nbsp;at&amp;nbsp;Broome Street Gallery&amp;nbsp;in SoHo (presented by luxury collectibles purveyor&amp;nbsp;Symbolic Collection).&amp;nbsp;Though his former bandmates are among his harshest critics ( They were kind of, 'Oh, you've overworked it, blah blah blah,'  said Wood), he now counts critic&amp;nbsp;Brian Sewell&amp;nbsp;and, yes,&amp;nbsp;Damien Hirst&amp;nbsp;among his fans. Indeed, only a Rolling Stone-turned-painter would be able to say that his studio is  all decked out with stuff that Damien Hirst got me when I came out of rehab.  [NYDN]\u2013&amp;nbsp;Activist-Artists Stuck for Occupy Stickers: The day after two&amp;nbsp;Occupy Wall Street&amp;nbsp;sympathizers&amp;nbsp;gave a too-candid TV interview about their mission to place stickers reading  Priority Seating for the 1 Percent  on New York City subway seats, they&amp;nbsp;were arrested by the NYPD. The men&amp;nbsp;had intended the cheeky street art gesture as a protest against the rising fees and increasingly debilitating service cuts. [NYT]\u2013&amp;nbsp;Muybridge Gets Doodled: In honor of photographer&amp;nbsp;Eadweard Muybridge's 182nd birthday, the ever-vigilant artist-birthday monitors over at&amp;nbsp;Google&amp;nbsp;have transformed their home page into an homage to the pioneering photographer. The designers have turned Muybridge's famous  The Horse in Motion  \u2014 originally created to prove that all four of a horse's hooves come off the ground simultaneously during a gallop \u2014 into a delightful animation. And if you're wondering what Muybridge ever did for Google, just remember: without him, there would be no GIF. [Google]\u2013&amp;nbsp;Will the Mob Mangle Major Pompeii Restoration Project?: Italian prime minister&amp;nbsp;Mario Monti&amp;nbsp;has announced a joint project between Italy and the European Union to secure the ash-smothered ancient city of&amp;nbsp;Pompeii&amp;nbsp;to the tune of \u20AC105 million ($137 million). Securing the entire city would require double that sum \u2014 and that's without taking into account mafia graft.  We want to ensure that this is accomplished through honest and capable workers and companies,  Monti said,  while keeping away the organized crime that is still strong in this area.  [BBC]\u2013 Autopsy Planned For Kinkade: The Santa Clara county coroner is planning an autopsy to determine the cause of death of&amp;nbsp; Painter of Light  Thomas Kinkade, who&amp;nbsp;passed away over the weekend at the notably young age of 54. Kinkade was known for his wholesome imagery, but also battled alcohol abuse in recent years. Meanwhile, his business, the Thomas Kinkade Co., sent a message to his many distributors to assure them that his business would continue, promising that Kinkade's  art and powerful message of inspiration will live on. &amp;nbsp;[LAT]\u2013&amp;nbsp;Watts House Project Pioneer Checks Out: Artist Edgar Arceneaux&amp;nbsp;has stepped down as executive director of&amp;nbsp;Los Angeles's&amp;nbsp;Watts House Project. Arceneaux, who founded the community-driven redevelopment project in 2009, left&amp;nbsp;two days after&amp;nbsp;a feature appeared in the L.A. Times&amp;nbsp;reporting major problems at the non-profit organization. [LAT]\u2013&amp;nbsp;Van Gogh Visits New York: One of the painter's most celebrated portraits,  Portrait of a Peasant,  will leave its home at the&amp;nbsp;Norton Simon Museum&amp;nbsp;in Pasadena for the first time in 40 years. From October 30 to January 20, it will be on view at New York's&amp;nbsp;Frick Collection. [HuffPo]&amp;nbsp;\u2013&amp;nbsp;Couple Ties the Knot With Art Project: British artists and partners&amp;nbsp;Deborah Curtis&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;Gavin Turk, whose  House of Fairy Tales  participatory funhouse art installation has been delighting art-lovers for over a year, will tie the knot at the end of April in its latest incarnation,  Mystery of the Hidden League and the Misplaced Museum,  at Hall Place in Bexley. Their latest project involves visitors taking up a challenge to complete 53 tasks, to which the artists will add a 54th: Saying  I do.  [TAN]\u2013&amp;nbsp; Mona Lisa  Snubs Google: The Louvre \u2014 the most visited museum in the world \u2014 and its most prized possession, Leonardo's  Mona Lisa,  are conspicuously absent from the latest expansion of the&amp;nbsp;Google Art Project. Meanwhile, while Google's online art initiative is having a real effect on public interest in art: The&amp;nbsp;Israel Museum's just-digitized&amp;nbsp;Dead Sea Scrolls&amp;nbsp;were visited by one million users in the first three days of appearing on the Google project. [Bloomberg]\u2013&amp;nbsp;Brutalist Buildings Incite Brutal Debate:&amp;nbsp;Are some buildings simply too ugly to survive? It's a question many towns must face now that Brutalist architecture is reaching middle age and beginning to show signs of wear. In Goshen, New York, a county government center designed by the celebrated Modernist architect&amp;nbsp;Paul Randolph&amp;nbsp;is facing demolition, despite protests from preservationists who seek to preserve its stark-itecture. [NYT]\u2013&amp;nbsp;RIP Mauricio Lasansky, Master Printmaker: The Argentine-born printmaker was as well known for his series  The Nazi Drawings,  which depicted the horrors of Nazism, as he was for his grand, vivid, and complex prints. He died last week at his home in Iowa City. He was 97. [NYT]ALSO ON ARTINFO:Sizing Up the Curious New William Eggleston Lawsuit: Can a Collector Really Stop Him From Making More Art?May's All-Star Auction Showdown: Munch and Lichtenstein at Sotheby's Versus Cezanne and Rothko at Christie's We Really Have Our Sh*t Together : Artist and Author Douglas Coupland on Canada's Place in the Art WorldPeeWee Goes to Woodstock: Take a Virtual Tour of Gary Panter and Joshua White's Trippy MCA Detroit ShowFlorence's Restored Silver Altar, Work of a Renaissance Dream Team, Is Unveiled to Surprisingly Little Fanfare22 Questions for Performance Art Star Liz Magic Laser[content:shareblock]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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