Monster Mash: Shroud of Turin controversy; Green Day revisits hit single; new curator at Whitney

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-- Real or fake?: A researcher claims to have discovered text that authenticates the Shroud of Turin. (Forbes)

-- Back in the studio: The rock band Green Day is recording a new version of its hit song ’21 Guns’ with the cast of the stage musical ‘American Idiot.’ (Playbill)

-- New job: Scott Rothkopf will leave his position as senior editor of Artforum to become a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. (New York Times)

-- Tooting his horn: Composer Edward Elgar (‘Pomp and Circumstance’) was apparently a terrible trombone player. (The Independent)

-- High-tech: Two instruments that were aboard the Hubble Space Telescope go on display at the National Air and Space Museum and are scheduled to tour California. (BBC News)

-- Antitrust: Ambassador Theatre Group’s purchase of Live Nation’s UK theaters is being investigated by Britain’s Office of Fair Trading. (The Stage News)

-- For the kids: Oxford will be getting a new children’s museum dedicated to the art of storytelling. (The Guardian)

-- Art in motion: New York’s Metrocard becomes art, sort of. (New York Times)

-- And in the L.A. Times: Times music critic Mark Swed reviews Philip Glass’s latest opera; theater critic Charles McNulty reviews ‘Equivocation’ at the Geffen Playhouse.

-- David Ng