Monster Mash: 9/11 museum considers charging $20 admission; Blair Underwood in ‘Streetcar’
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Paying the way?: The National September 11 Memorial & Museum is weighing a decision about whether to charge $20 admission. (Associated Press, via Wall Street Journal)
Leading man: Blair Underwood will make his Broadway debut in a revival of Tennessee Williams’ ‘A Streetcar Named Desire,’ playing the role of Stanley Kowalski. (Hollywood Reporter)
Show of support: Art by the imprisoned Ai Weiwei is being shown around Art Basel in Switzerland. (CNN)
On view: The Smithsonian will display remnants of the 9/11 attacks. (Reuters)
New hire: Critic Elvis Mitchell will head the film program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. (Los Angeles Times)
Discovery: An intern has found two previously unknown documents by Abraham Lincoln at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. (Associated Press, via Chicago Tribune)
Grass-roots effort: An online petition is seeking better pay for musicians at jazz festivals. (New York Times)
Critically acclaimed: ‘Other Desert Cities,’ by Jon Robin Baitz, will transfer to Broadway in the fall. (Playbill)
Haute couture: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has acquired work from the fashion house of Rodarte. (Art Info)
Musical: London 2012’s Cultural Olympiad will include an orchestral festival. (The Guardian)
Cutting back: The Austin Lyric Opera has announced new austerity plans, which include cutting one-fourth of its performances. (Austin American Statesman)
No thanks: Mesa State College has rejected a $12,300 painting purchased for it by the Colorado Creative Industries. (ABC 7 News)
Gargantuan: The world’s largest sculpture of a human body is being carved out of the British landscape and will depict a woman’s form. (Reuters)
Passing: New York architect Gerald Abramovitz has died after suffering injuries in a mugging. (New York Post)
Also in the L.A. Times: Music critic Mark Swed reviews ‘The Difficulty of Crossing a Field’ at Long Beach Opera, and a sneak preview of Cirque du Soliel’s ‘Iris,’ coming to the Kodak Theatre.
-- David Ng
