Monster Mash: Breaking news and headlines

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-- Britain pays $71.3 million to keep Titian’s ‘Diana and Actaeon,’ right, in the country.

-- The Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky., picks Los Angeles-based wHY Architecture for expansion.

-- Whoops! Culver City officials accidentally dump public artwork.

-- What’s behind the huge deficit at Brandeis University, which plans to close its Rose Museum and perhaps sell its art collection.

-- British producer hopes to take Frank Loesser’s ‘Most Happy Fella,’ Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Sunset Boulevard’ and Neil LaBute’s ‘Fat Pig’ to Broadway.

-- Pasadena arts commissioner quitsover city’s refusal to install public art.

-- Picasso fever in Paris as lines form through the night for a last chance to see the exhibition at the Grand Palais

-- Event planned tonight in Los Angeles to mark the 50th anniversary of ‘Flower Drum Song.’

-- Smithsonian’s Museum of the American Indian plans to put its 800,000-object collection online.

-- Attendance is up at Chicago’s museums, but some galleries are closing.

-- Lisa Fung