Above the Fold

A round-up of the latest news in the arts world.

A $27 million creation museum will open in Kentucky on May 28. Scenes include humans and dinosaurs cohabiting and Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Many of the exhibits were designed by Patrick Marsh, who also designed the “Jaws” and “King Kong” attractions at Universal Studios in Florida.

For those who don’t have the time to read “War and Peace”, a new website, dailylit.com, sends daily sections of classic literature to inboxes and hand-held devices for free (you can read Tolstoy’s classic in 675 parts). The website will soon expand to include recent works as well, and will likely then start charging. I wonder if comedian Sasha Baron Cohen’s new travel guides “Borat: Touristic Guidings To Minor Nation of U.S. and A.” and “Borat: Touristic Guidings To Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” will be included in the collection.

At the Lawson-Menzies Aboriginal Art Auction in Sydney, Australia, last night, the Aboriginal painting “Earth’s Creation” by Emily Kame Kngwarreye, sold for just over $1 million, the highest amount ever for a piece of indigenous Australian artwork.