Art news round-up

News stories from around the world:

French cultural traditionalists want to block Japanese artist from showing work in Versailles http://bit.ly/bw5DaF

Architecture as art, at the Venice Biennale http://nyti.ms/cM5AcM

World’s richest man to open an art museum in Mexico http://bit.ly/bpPDaB

Why Fisk University feels it has no choice but to sell the Collection http://bit.ly/cKom16

Museums to share UK funding pain http://bit.ly/alJXdc while youth worries its being pushed out of art by cuts http://bit.ly/bH89DF

Popular stories from the week:

The war artist – Leonardo da Vinci as you haven’t seen him before http://bit.ly/aJqIJP

Not exactly Kermit the Frog – Japanese pop artist produces balloons for Thanksgiving Day parade http://nyti.ms/bMMySI

Nostril-powered digital painting sound appealing? There’s that and more at Ars Electronica http://bit.ly/cxP2Ri

Another awesome time lapse video – this time, it’s earth, from space http://bit.ly/dqsTy9

Not really visual art – but it’s just such a fun idea that I had to include it: Composer devises new symphony – using London Bridge http://bbc.in/dkRmoN