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LA museum to unveil artist’s big rock work in June

A rockin’ good time is planned next month when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art pulls the covers off artist Michael Heizer’s latest creation — a 340-ton boulder positioned to appear as though it’s floating in mid-air.

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Canada museum kills masturbation video after outcry

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. …

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Police arrest artist setting up ‘I Love NY’ work

An artist setting up a public display featuring an “I Love New York” theme was arrested after someone called the bomb squad.

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Mattila withdraws from new Met Opera ‘Ballo’

Soprano Karita Mattila has withdrawn from the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball).”

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Warsaw fires architect of planned art museum

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.

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