Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines

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-- Google Earth to unveil program to zoom in on fine details of masterpieces at Spain’s Prado museum, including Hieronymus Bosch’s 16th century triptych ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights,’ above.

-- Coosje van Bruggen, art historian and wife of Claes Oldenburg, dies at 66.

-- Getty researchers discover new way to date photographs.

-- James Gandolfini, left, to make his Broadway debut in Yasmina Reza’s ‘God of Carnage,’ with Jeff Daniels, Marcia Gay Haden and Hope Davis.

-- National Portrait Gallery acts to correct wall label on President Bush’s official portrait.

-- Tom O’Horgan, director of such Broadway hits as ‘Hair’ and ‘Jesus Christ Superstar,’ dies at 84.

-- France’s museums and monuments to offer free admission to visitors under 25.

-- Groundbreaking deadline looms for Grand Avenue project.

-- ‘We’re not deaccessioning because we have to pay some bill on another painting,’ says Michael Govan, Los Angeles County Museum of Art director, of plans to auction two artworks.

-- New York Philharmonic to perform in Hanoi, Abu Dhabi.

-- Another L.A. publication axes its theater arts critic and writer.

-- Settlement reached over last nude photos of Marilyn Monroe.

-- Lisa Fung

Photo credits: Top, Prado museum; bottom, Associated Press