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Film Scheduled--The film "Frida," based on the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, opened the Venice International Film Festival and opens in New York and Los Angeles on October 25. Starring and produced by Salma Hayek, it also features Geoffrey Rush, Edward Norton, Ashley Judd and Antonio Banderas.

Restoration Planned--Michelangelo's "David" is set to get a 7-month-long "scrubbing" to the tune of $150,000. Visitors can view the process at the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence, Italy.

Mural Unveiled--"Roy Lichtenstein: Times Square Mural" has been installed at the Times Square station in New York City. Commissioned by the Metropolitan Transit Authority Arts for Transit program, the porcelain on enamel work is six feet high and 53 feet long.

Museum to Expand--The Indianapolis Museum of Art plans a $74-million construction project that will add 164,000 square feet to the museum and renovate 90,000 square feet of existing space. An Oval Entry Pavilion, Gallery Pavilion and Garden Pavilion, as well as below-ground parking garage and restaurants, are planned for completion in 2005.

New President-Elect Appointed--The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has named prize-winning poet and scholar Edward Hirsch as president-elect of the foundation. The foundation offers year-long fellowships to artists, scholars and scientists through a yearly competition.

Exhibitions:

Cleveland Museum of Art, OH -- Raphael and His Age: Drawings From the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille includes about 20 drawings by Raphael on loan from Lille and 20 other Renaissance drawings, including major sheets by Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, and Fra Bartolomeo. Through Nov. 3.

Milwaukee Art Museum, WI -- Leonardo de Vinci and the Splendor of Poland presents the story of Poland's most important public and private museum collections for the first time anywhere outside of Europe. The centerpiece of the collection of 77 paintings representing French, Italian, Dutch and German artists is da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine." Through Nov. 24.

High Museum, Atlanta, GA -- The Mystique of Magritte: Five Surrealist Paintings from The Menil Collection, Houston offers a brief glimpse at highlights from nearly four decades of the artist's career, on loan from one of the great repositories of his work. Through Dec. 1.

Kimbell Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX -- Mondrian 1892-1914--The Path to Abstraction features over 100 paintings and drawings and shows the "pure" abstraction of his well-known grid compositions, with their squares and rectangles of primary color, as a progressive refinement of imagery contained in his early, representational paintings. Through Dec. 8.

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