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"\u2013&amp;nbsp;Philip Glass\u2019s Words of Hope for OWS: Last night, Occupy Wall Street hit Lincoln Center to hold a General Assembly outside the final performance of the Philip Glass opera \u201CSatyagraha,\u201D denouncing the venue for taking money from Bloomberg and the Koch Brothers while hosting the musical performance about&amp;nbsp;Gandhi's struggle&amp;nbsp;for justice.&amp;nbsp;And OWS had one very big supporter for its radical message: Philip Glass himself. The famed composer led a  human mic  \u2014 he was described as  quite adept  at the technique \u2014&amp;nbsp;and here are his words (like a true minimalist, he repeated his own speech three times):  Mic check! / When righteousness / Withers away / And evil / Rules the Land / We come into being / Age after age / And take visible shape / And move / A man among men / For the protection / Of good / Thrusting back evil / And setting virtue / On her seat again.  Rocker&amp;nbsp;Lou Reed also addressed the crowd, denouncing the police, and pledging his solidarity. (See video of both men speaking on IN THE AIR.) [The Nation]&amp;nbsp;\u2013&amp;nbsp;Tinterow Heads to Houston: Ending months of speculation following the death of veteran director Peter C. Marzio, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston has found a worthy replacement: Gary Tinterow, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s highly regarded chairman of the department of 19th-century, modern, and contemporary art. Tinterow has been behind some of the most notable moments at the Met, from \u201COrigins of Impressionism\u201D in 1994 to \u201CFrancis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective\u201D in 2009. [NYT]\u2013&amp;nbsp;Santa Fe Named \u201CMost Artistic City\u201D in US: A survey published by the&amp;nbsp;Atlantic&amp;nbsp;has placed Santa Fe, New Mexico at the top of the list of the country\u2019s most artistic cities. Culling data from the U.S. Census Bureau\u2019s&amp;nbsp;American Community Survey, the report based its hierarchy on an assigned \u201CLocation Quotient,\u201D a ratio of an area\u2019s concentration of artists relative to its population as a whole. [The Atlantic]\u2013 New African Art Curator for LACMA: Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts has been named as consulting curator of African Art at LACMA. Roberts, who will continue a full-time teaching gig at UCLA, is being brought in to help launch a program and establish a gallery dedicated to the arts of Africa at the L.A. museum, as part of a drive  to bring greater visibility to African arts in Southern California.  [Press Release]&amp;nbsp;\u2013 Free Admission Proves \u201CVery Successful\u201D: Ten years ago yesterday, Britain\u2019s Labour government moved to end admission fees to England\u2019s national museums. Who could have guessed \u2014the move proved popular! Government figures reflect an increase in visitors to museums by more than 150 percent.  Our free museums and galleries ensure that culture is for everyone, not just the lucky few,\u201D said culture secretary Jeremy Hunt. [BBC]\u2013 Fiat Settles Up With Graffiti Artists Over J.Lo Ad: A TV ad in which Jennifer Lopez drives in a Fiat car past a mural created by Bronx street art collective TATS Cru sparked an outcry earlier this week, since neither \u201CJenny From the Block\u201D nor the Italian company compensated the artists for using their work. A representative for Fiat has now reported a settlement between the two parties, the terms of which are confidential. [Gothamist]\u2013 John Liu\u2019s MoMA Appointment Under Fire: With his fundraising practices already under federal investigation, New York City comptroller John Liu is now drawing fire for appointing Chung Seto, a member of his campaign team, to the MoMA board. Critics of the choice say Seto lacks experience in the arts, fund-raising, or real estate, while her presence on the board may place her in inappropriate proximity to potential donors. [NYPost]\u2013&amp;nbsp;Nic Cage\u2019s Superman Comic Sells for $2.2 Million Online: A copy of the first issue of \u201CAction Comics,\u201D which introduced the world to Superman, sold online at ComicConnect.com this week for $2.2 million \u2014 twice its $1.1 million estimate. The copy once belonged to Nicolas Cage, but was stolen from his home in 2000 and rediscovered in an abandoned storage unit last April. [ITA]\u2013 Bose Pacia to Close: The New York gallery, which specialized in South Asian art, announced that it \u201Cwill discontinue exhibitions and artist representation at the end of 2011.\u201D [ITA][content:advertisement-center]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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