Monster Mash: Zaha Hadid’s Maxxi building in Rome; Glassell will is upheld in Texas; Ashlee Simpson on Broadway

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-- Unveiling: Reviews are coming in for architect Zaha Hadid’s National Museum of the XXI Century Arts in Rome, even though it is not quite finished. (Times Online)

-- Legally binding: A Texas jury has upheld the final will of philanthropist and oilman Alfred C. Glassell Jr. against his daughter’s attempt to invalidate it. (Houston Chronicle)

-- Cultural debate: Experts wonder if antiquities really belong to their country of origin. (New York Times)

-- Red ink: The bankrupt Toronto-based Ritchies Auctioneers has $8.5 million in debt. (The Globe and Mail)

-- Real-estate hitch: The sale of a $5.1-million upstate New York home belonging to indicted art dealer Lawrence Salander hits a snag. (Bloomberg)

-- Outright theft: A former employee at Delaware’s Winterthur Museum has turned himself in after spending more than $100,000 of the museum’s money. (The News Journal)

-- Reserving judgment: Pop star Ashlee Simpson-Wentz will join the cast of Broadway’s ‘Chicago’ beginning Nov. 30. (New York Daily News)

-- New downbeat: The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia has named Belgian conductor Dirk Brosse as its new music director. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

-- And in the L.A. Times: Art critic Christopher Knight reviews ‘Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years’; theater critic Charles McNulty reviews ‘Mary Poppins’ at the Ahmanson.

-- David Ng