Meredith Corp. lost a major player at one of its publications today, but unlike most departures this year, Judy Nolte's exit from American Baby was voluntary. Meredith announced today that Nolte is retiring. Full Article at mediabistro.com

Musician Madonna attends 'The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion' Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2009 in New York City. Full Article at WETM 18 - NY

Kara Walker is, hands down, one of America’s most well-regarded living artists. Full Article at The Root

Robert Frank’s black-and-white photographs are now in a compact and chronological exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Full Article at The Daily Beast

This month kicks off the New York Philharmonic’s Contact! series. Concerts in December and April feature seven composers and seven premieres, played first at Symphony Space and then a day or two later at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Full Article at Net New Music

Jan Mitchell, a restaurateur and art collector who resuscitated the venerable New York restaurants Lüchow’s and Longchamps, and who built an important collection of pre-Columbian gold that he gave to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, died on Saturday at... Full Article at The New York Times

Microsoft on Wednesday enhanced its Bing search engine with several new capabilities, including a street-level view that takes users inside public buildings, like the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Full Article at PC Magazine

Microsoft launches redesigned map search with apps SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. is releasing an updated version of its mapping service with street-level views and new "apps" that tack on tweets, traffic and other location-specific data. Full Article at Simple Thoughts

A Velázquez has been caught hiding in plain sight at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is cause for celebration. The Met owns just a handful of works that can be attributed, with confidence, to Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599-1660). Full Article at The New York Times

Madonna and Child by Duccio di Buoninsegna at the Met will be shrouded to mark World AIDS Day. Photograph: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Full Article at Time Out New York

In her second annual performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday, Oct. 17, Patti Smith did not simply take the stage of the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium - she seized it. Full Article at The Trinity Tripod

Jan Mitchell, a restaurateur and art collector who resuscitated the venerable New York restaurants Lüchow’s and Longchamps, and who built an important collection of pre-Columbian gold that he gave to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, died Saturday at his... Full Article at The New York Times

Velázquez, "Portrait of a Man," ca. 1630, Metropolitan Museum of Art Did you think I was just kidding when I promised you a "comparative assessment of Velázquez noses"? Art-lings, would I kid you? Yes. But not in this instance. Full Article at ArtsJournal

The V&A apply the finshing touches to the Monument Of Marchese Spinetta Malaspina in its new £30 million Medieval & Renaissance Galleries. Full Article at The Telegraph

'A sad poem right out of America' ... Robert Frank's Funeral – St Helena, South Carolina, 1955. Photograph: © Robert Frank What makes a great photography exhibition? Full Article at Guardian Unlimited

sjunat55 said, 'But the coolest for me was an older version of Yankee Stadium, like you're looking at it from one of those hot air balloons during game broadcasts.' - hhanks, CNN iReport producer An entire city made out of wood, sticks, grass, straw... Full Article at CNN

A disabled Vietnam veteran who defied the city Parks Department by setting up a hot dog stand on prime real estate outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art was carted off in handcuffs yesterday. Full Article at Gothamist

San Francisco - America's charities have faced a tough 2009. By most accounts, 2010 will be worse. Donations are down and other sources of funding are drying up. Cultural institutions are among the hardest hit. Full Article at Christian Science Monitor

NEW YORK—All charges have been dropped against a young woman who stripped in the middle of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a photo shoot in August. Full Article at Art Info