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NY’s Met Museum lets visitors climb to cloud 9

admin — Sun, 20 May 2012 04:49:52 +0000

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is big on bubbles.

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NY’s Met Museum lets visitors climb to cloud nine

admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 20:56:56 +0000

Go ahead. Poke your head in the clouds.

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Warsaw fires architect of planned art museum

admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 13:08:53 +0000

Officials have fired the Swiss architect tapped to design an ambitious museum of modern art in Poland's capital, throwing the whole project off track. View full post on Arts News Headlines - Yahoo! News

German baritone opera singer Fischer-Dieskau dead

admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 05:16:22 +0000

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the renowned German baritone who performed for more than five decades on stages in Berlin, Vienna, London and New York, died Friday. He was 86.

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Spirited singing fails to enliven Mozart opera

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 21:23:56 +0000

All the lovely singing fails to save the Vienna State Opera's new production of Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito." View full post on Arts News Headlines - Yahoo! News

Mattila withdraws from new Met Opera ‘Ballo’

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:36:05 +0000

Soprano Karita Mattila has withdrawn from the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball)." View full post on Arts News Headlines - Yahoo! News

Wayne Newton sued over Las Vegas home museum plans

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 05:43:00 +0000

Plans to turn Wayne Newton's sprawling Las Vegas estate into a celebrity museum have shifted into an ugly legal battle citing mismanagement, animal abuse and sexual harassment.

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Canada museum kills masturbation video after outcry

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:51:38 +0000

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's federal science museum has removed an animated video showing youth masturbating from an upcoming sex exhibit following a public outcry, a museum spokesman said. The Canada Science and Technology Museum will open the "Sex: A Tell-all Exhibition" on Thursday as planned despite strong criticism from Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore, who has called it an insult to taxpayers. ... View full post on Arts News Headlines - Yahoo! News

Book Talk: Museum conservator finds life in automaton

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:00:40 +0000

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A museum conservator and horologist loses her colleague and married lover of 13 years, forcing her to use the intricate restoration of a 19th century automaton and the diaries of the man who commissioned it as the means to cope with her grief. Set in London in 2010, "The Chemistry of Tears" is the 12th novel by Australian-born Peter Carey, winner of two Booker Prizes for "Oscar and Lucinda" and "True History of the Kelly Gang". ...

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Rodin Museum in Philadelphia to reopen in July

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:12:20 +0000

The Rodin Museum in Philadelphia is getting ready to reopen after three years of renovations.

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