1. Playwright Ellsworth Schave did what many dream of being able to do: he left his day job to focus on honing his art full time. His play, Well-Traveled, but Not Well-Known, debuts tonight at the Bath House Cultural Center.

2. Erykah Badu continues to milk free publicity out of her naked Dealey Plaza stunt. The latest episode comes courtesy of the City of Dallas, which has charged the singer with disorderly conduct. Sure Badu’s strip-down saw around the world was probably a bit embarrassing for local law enforcers. But here’s some advice: ignore it, laugh it off, and it will all go away a lot more quickly.

3. Picasso’s “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust,” set a sales record yesterday when it sold for $106.5 million at Christie’s. That record has been smashed twice in four months, prompting The Art Newspaper to wonder why the recession doesn’t seem to impact super high end art buys:

Indeed, counter-intuitively, now may be a good time to put a masterpiece on the block. The uncertain economy means auction catalogues aren’t clogged with goods. Buyers can focus. A dearth of enticing offerings over the last couple of seasons means buyers are primed. . . . Both works [the Picasso and the Giacometti] are blue-chip, cerebral, classic—ultra-safe bets. Both are also, in a sense, serial works. . . . Looking back, plenty of 20th-century milestone sales occurred in lousy economic times. The wealthy remained wealthy and there was opportunistic buying. The difference was that record-setting works were either old masters or 19th-century pictures—that era’s rare, safe and desirable.